New English translation for the doujinshi "Twilight no Gaki Daishou"

Translated by Rinael, Edited by JayEye, Localized by Cavalier, Scanned by Me, and with some back-up translation help from Brigette: "Twilight no Gaki Daishou" (The Bully of Twilight) is a cute, comical, and short doujinshi for Twilight Princess. Be sure to check it out! And, if you want to leave a comment on any of the publications, it would be awesome of you to utilize the forum for that! Thanks guys, and Enjoy!

And sorry for the lack of updates: my cold came back and I had a sick pet that needed hand-feeding. After that, of course I had to watch Mass Effect 3 from start to finish ;) BUT, I did get a lot scanned while watching that being played, so at least there should be a lot of new content in the coming days.

New Doujinshi Added: Hyrule Fantasy

It's actually one of the oldest doujinshi I've ever found, but an awesome one too. It's for Ocarina of Time, Link's Awakening, and A Link to the Past (There's even a page for LoZ and one for AoL.) It's really rare to find doujinshi for those last four. Check it out and enjoy! I know I did.

And, can anyone tell me who the artists are so I can list it properly? I have a guess for one of them, and it seems to say who all of them are~ I just can't read it.

Akira Himekawa's Animal Artbook

I knew about this thanks to Saphine helping me translate parts of Akira Himekawa's blog a while back, but I never thought about looking for it. Anyway, I finally looked, and here's the info on it! I was assuming it's an art book, but it sounds like it may just be illustrated short stories or even a manga. It's still for sale too, I'm just trying to save money right now. If anyone gets this, please think of us.. and maybe send a few pictures of the inside! ~Thanks!

Japanese Title:
シートン動物記 (小学館　学習まんがシリーズ) [単行本]

Seton Animal Chronicles series Shogakukan Manga learning
/ E · T · Seaton Original Akira Himekawa / Manga

Origainl Japanese Product Description:
内容説明
迫力あるタッチで描かれる感動物語

シートンによる名作がまんがで読める、楽しめる！　姫川明氏の迫力あるタッチで描かれる動物たちに思いっきり感情移入できる作品です。「ロボ　オオカミの王」、「サンドヒルのオジカ」｢スプリングフィールドのキツネ｣｢白いトナカイ｣の４作品を収録。登場する動物についてのコラム、シートンに関する記事も収録しています。

【編集担当からのおすすめ情報】
巻頭の姫川氏による動物カラーイラストもお楽しみに！

Original Japanese Product Details:
単行本: 150 pages
Publisher: 小学館 (2012/2/10)
Language: 日本語
ISBN-10: 4092966032
ISBN-13: 978-4092966031
Release Date: 2012/2/10
Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.9 x 0.6 inches

Amazing Zelda T-Shirts and Books by Amazing Independent Artists

I was browsing around artist's galleries and found these, I love them!

First, we have some shirts from Fangamer, which also has other zelda items~ little buttons and such.

 

 

 

 

 

The site that started it was Cory Schmitz's flickr, he has a ton of cute zelda stuff tucked away in there. I knew I knew his art when I saw this Zine of his that is for sale. He has 2 right now, but he's promised a 3rd to complete the set.

He also has this kick-ass poster and this other book, which is just amazing looking, both of which are a part of his kickstarter campaign.

 

Enjoy! That's it for me for the night!

100 Zelda Doujinshi: Fully Scanned and Readable!

I can't believe there's already 100 scanned Zelda doujinshi posted, ...with more to come! Many are in English and other languages by the way. You can browse by things like language and artist.

Edit: January 23, 2024: I forgot to add this here but if you are 18+ years or older then I do have an archive site for pornographic adult doujinshi: https://zeldaporncomics.blogspot.com/ You could always find the link off of the main site but I buried it and made it hard to find on purpose. It's NSFW but the main page is pretty mellow and there's no pop-up or anything, it's just another ad-less blogger page like this one. 

I've been meaning to do this for a while, to make it easier for a broader range of people to browse what's readable on the site. Choose what works best for you:
. Find the flickr album here
. Or go to the Main Site

Publication's Section Highlights:
. help wanted
. all the zelda doujinshi we have
. . . doujinshi by language
. . . doujinshi by artist
. . . all the zelda doujinshi we don't have
. all the zelda comics I know of
(well, I have more web-comics to add)
. all the zelda 4koma I know of
. all the zelda books and novels I know of
. all the zelda manga I know of
. . . manga by language
. . . manga by artist
. . . manga by game
. miscellaneous zelda publications
. a list of every manga, comic, and doujinshi artist I know of


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End of Day Links for March 1st

Zelda Dungeon:
★ Eiji Aonuma Comments on Zelda Collaborations
★ HD Zelda confirmed for Zelda Wii-U
★ The Legend of Pony: Navi Pie

Zelda Universe:
★ Wii U patent reveals manipulation of objects in 3D with controller

Zelda Europe:
★ Zelda: Skyward Sword Epic Trailer

(Man, I really need to make an image with that moon and a bunch of "Links")

Server Outage

The main site is down, but at least it's got nothing to do with us this time. It's just the host: a typical glitch and nothing to worry about. They just have to get their servers running again and it will be back up.

In other news, I've been trying to get organized and to get back to people over the past 2 days. Will probably use tomorrow for that as well. I have a bunch of info to update on the main site too. So, until I have time for more, please check out the official art I've started to add to the temporary official art gallery on flickr, and go enjoy our tumblr! I queue up a bunch of art so there's always a steady stream of goodies to follow :) and then there are always more great stuff on our Facebook page!

And feel free to ask questions or make suggestions about what you would like to see!

Hyrule Historia is for sale again!

But only from the publisher's site as far as I can tell. It's not for sale on amazon.jp unless you buy it from an individual seller, so this may just be a box of books they had shipped back from them from somewhere. I doubt the publisher ships to individuals internationally: but a Japanese proxy, or a bookstore like Kinokuniya, might be able to order this for you. (Call the latter during business hours, it's faster than email. The ones in big cities may also be more of a sure thing than the smaller area locations.) A brick-and-mortar bookstore may not charge international shipping fees either, only in country shipping if you can't pick it up. I use to buy a lot of things that way, (especially when I lived in NYC) it really was a solid and safe way to purchase. Not to mention cheaper than all the other options.

Here's the link to purchase the book on the publisher's site:
http://www.bookshop-ps.com/bsp/bsp_detail?isbn=9784092271593

Also, I should be giving a few copies of this away in a fanart contest soon. I hope :) Check out my last post for info on that.

And join this Facebook group if you haven't! "Please bring us Hyrule Historia in English" Nearly 6,000 of us already agree, we want it in English! But we need more people~ The more people, the more likely they'll hear us and do it!

I'm back... again *heh*

Hey guys!
Sorry for the February absence, I had some health matters to attend to. Then I got sick, so I was only able to get back on the computer today. Back on track now though! I have a ton of email to answer, and I'll be updating with new English and Spanish versions of manga and doujinshi over the next few days thanks to the hard workign contributor's out there~ Then I'll be adding more official art to our temporary gallery over on flickr. In the meantime, check out what's there now: flickr.com/photos/historyofhyrule/sets

Fanart Contest:
I also still want to do the fanart calendar contest this year, for a 2013 calendar, but I have to make sure I have the energy (and money) for it. Last years was a huge hit. The main calendar was downloaded by over 1000 people before megaupload went down. The customizable calendar didn't have a tracker on it, but that page was accessed a lot, so I'm assuming the number for it was very high as well.

I started discussing the theme for it here though- so if you want to do the idea even without knowing if it's "officially on" yet, you can! It would still be awesome to play around with, it should go well with all the timeline excitement: melorasworld.com/zelda/theforest/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=802

One of the other hold-ups is I'm making sure the prizes I had already ordered got here. That will be a huge determing factor. Basically, my hope is that 4 copies of Hyrule Historia will be showing up as prizes for this contest in the next few days. :)

Every Piece of Hyrule Historia Concept Art in High-Res

I just finished cropping and cleaning the Spirit Tracks art, which means that I'm finally done with this art! I don't need to tell you it's awesome, go here to view all the sets. It's all close to 600 dpi and from completely flat images.

Again, if you clean any of the images, (so they have transparent backgrounds,) or if you just make anything fun with these images, please send them to me so I can share them with others on the site! I also always appreciate credit going to historyofhyrule.com if you add these as-is to another site, tumblr, or gallery. Thanks guys! I'll have more art, from a ton of other things, to add later!

All the High-Res Twilight Princess Concept Art from Hyrule Historia

All the concept art for Twilight Princess from Hyrule Historia has been added now: slightly cleaned up and everything is  close to 600dpi from flat scans. Head over to our Flickr gallery to check it out. You'll also find the other art from the publication there. All that is left to do is Spirit Tracks! I'll get started right away. Once I'm done with that I have a chapter or two of manga to edit, and then I'll be adding more official art from other sources. Just so you know, the flickr gallery is where I'm uploading everything I have until I have time to build the official art gallery on the main site.

Oh! And if you clean any of the images, (so they have transparent backgrounds,) or if you just make anything fun with these images, please send them to me so I can share them with others on the site! I also always appreciate credit going to historyofhyrule.com if you add these as-is to another site, tumblr, or gallery. Thanks guys! Off I go to work some more.

I'm back~! Let the art parade begin

Sorry, I had to be elsewhere for a few days, but now I'm back and am adding more high-res official art to the flickr gallery collection, before I start adding it to the main site. I'll finish up with the near 600dpi art from Hyrule Historia and the Zelda Box made from flat scans, and then I'll move on to other publications and art!

The Cagiva Link to the Past manga continued in English!

First, a note: If you could help with translating into other languages, or would like to help translate doujinshi from Japanese to English, please contact me!

Knights of Hyrule is also looking for Spanish and French translators to help get Hyrule Historia from English into these other languages~ If you could help them with that, you'd be making a lot of fans very happy!

Okay~ on to the Link to the Past manga by Ataru Cagiva. Some of you have been waiting years for this. Well... we may take a while, but we never give up! Chapter 1 of Volume 2 is finished, and the rest are on the way. There's a lot of people to thank for this happening: Mariam, Beno, Cavalier, JayEye, Fox Lee, Michi and myself all worked on it. Beno also made all these awesome "English" covers that you see below. (Don't worry, the Japanese versions still use the Japanese covers) So, continue on... to finally continue on!

This has been in English for years. It was one of the first Zelda manga ever on the web, and one of the first translated thanks to Beno. He's back with us and we're going to update all of the volumes of this Link to the Past series! This one will be redone after the others are completed.

After years of waiting, the first chapter is now in English with more to come shortly! Feri-san is translating it into Spanish, and another friend is translating it into German. :)

This is currently only in Japanese, but it is actually fully translated, as in: we have the English script for it. We just have to work through volume 2 before we get to the localization and editing for it.

This has been translated for years. Though... I was an awful editor 10 years ago so I'm actually in the process of redoing the text I originally did so it will look much nicer than it has. Malu CLBS is also in the process of translating and editing this into Spanish!

This has been translated for years, and Beno did a great job on it. Malu CLBS is translating and editing this into Spanish as well!

If you'd like to see what other translated works we have on the site, you can sort by language: Head here for Manga, here for Doujinshi, and check the rest of the publication sections out for all the other rare and amazing content.

Terada Great Fairy Art

historyofhyrule.com/publications/artbook_terada

Here's something you don't see in the Terada collections floating around; the Great Fairy from one of his actual artbooks. He's seriously awesome & his books are very worth buying. /Just your friendly neighborhood reminder to check out all the rare stuff on the site! ;)

Hyrule's Miss Manners: Your Guide to Concert Etiquette

So, I've been seeing in some comment sections that a lot of people aren't sure how they should act, or what the cues are for applause, in classical concerts. I grew up around the Ballet, let me pass this along, because feeling out of place and even possibly disrespectful to performers can be the absolute worst. Symphony of the Goddesses would be considered a classical concert: so here you go!

Concert etiquette is particularly strong at concerts featuring music from the Classical tradition, especially those featuring an unamplified orchestra. Such audiences have come to expect quiet, and disapprove of fellow members making any kind of noise louder than light breathing. Unavoidable noise such as coughs or sneezes should be delayed until a loud passage if possible, and muffled with a handkerchief, which is most effective placed at the inner elbow joint with the entire arm then pressed over the mouth. Mobile phones should be turned off for the duration of the concert, and it is increasingly common for an announcement to this effect to be made by venue management before the commencement of the concert.

Concert-goers are expected to arrive and take their seats before the performance commences. The audience waiting for a concert or opera to begin may talk freely until the end of the applause greeting the entrance of the conductor (or the concertmaster if the orchestra tunes on stage). Dress requirements have become less formal in recent decades, corresponding to a general "casualisation" of Western social standards. Some expect that the audience will at least meet "smart casual" standards, but some performance companies and theatres explicitly tell audiences to wear whatever makes them comfortable. Hats are not tolerated as they block the view of the stage.

During the 20th century, applause even between movements of a symphony became regarded as a distraction from its momentum and unity, and is now considered a gaffe or faux pas, though usually tolerated as a well-meaning one; most audiences applaud after the third movement of Tchaikovsky's Sixth Symphony Pathétique and conductors seem resigned to this fact. As most concert goers are considerate enough to restrain themselves while the musicians are playing, a rise in audience noise may be heard between movements, as people shift in their seats, stretch their legs, release pent-up coughs, blow their noses, pass comments to their neighbours, and enter or leave the hall. The musicians will wait for this noise to die down before continuing the performance.

Audience members who are too eager to applaud at the end of a piece are sometimes resented, particularly in the case of a quiet finale such as Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. The conductor always signals the end of the performance by lowering his or her hands to his or her sides. Sometimes this is prolonged past the cutoff of the orchestra, with hands held in the air or slowly lowered over several seconds, in the hope of allowing the audience to stay joined with the artistic creation even for just a brief moment after its sounds have ceased.

Upon conclusion of concert performances of substantial dolorous works, particularly sacred vocal works such as settings of the requiem, Passion or mass but also secular works of comparable gravity, it is common for audiences and performers to reflect in a moment of respectful silence or even silent prayer before applauding. Applauding as soon as the instruments and/or singing fall silent is thus frowned upon.

If, in fact, they are telling people at the concerts that they can applaud between pieces, then by all means do! They've probably come to accept that this would be the norm anyway.

Fanfiction Contest Winners!

Last year we hosted a Fanfic contest to complement the fanart contest. It's taken me a while to announce the winners, but here they are and MAN are they worth checking out. They're all also short stories, 2000 words or less, so they don't take a lot of time if you want to dive right in! All 3 winners are very different, and if you enjoy even some of them: be sure to read the rest. Everything was pretty great! Comments for the authors would also be amazing! Everyone loves to know their work was read.

1st place: Ghost Dance by Cavalier
A beautifully told dark tale about the Sheikah.

2nd place: RETURN of the SWORDSMAN by Hero of Geeks
An incredibly fun cross-over.

3rd place: The Rain Festival by Forlorn Rain.
A romantic tale that will certainly draw you in.

The other wonderful entries:
The Return of the Gourmet Festival by Lunitari
Skull Kid's Music Festival by Aktwitch
The Festival of Flight by Zelidnia
The Greatest Gift by Ray-Kat-Hollows
TriFestival by XxSassersxX
The Dance of Skyloft Riders by FadingChild
The Wind Festival by Forlorn Rain
A Fantastic Day by Jessie
Forest Haven Celebration by A Fish
Peach Blossum by Kitkatkelly

Nintendo expects a net loss of 65 billion yen.

Not so great news. Though, given, I believe this is the first year they've been the red. Profit loss and net loss are very different things. (edit: I messed up the headline and left off three zero's: it's billion not million. That translates to roughly $847,678,664)

Nintendo has re-forecasted it’s earnings for the full year, which ends in March 31st, 2012. Anticipating a larger than expected loss, Nintendo has also reduced shipments across the board including; Nintendo 3DS units, Nintendo Wii consoles and software titles.


The original forecast was a net loss of 20,000 million yen. Now Nintendo has stated that is expecting a net loss of 65,000 million yen, more than three times the original estimate.

A strong Yen against foreign currencies account for some of the adjustment, almost 79% of Nintendo’s earnings came from outside Japan. This caused a loss of almost 54 billion yen in exchange. Other factors are the early price-drop for the Nintendo 3DS handheld and a price-cut for the Wii hardware this year.

In the aftermath of the new forecast, Nintendo has adjusted 3DS sales goals from 16 million to 14 million units. The Wii console is now expected to sell 10 million units instead of the original forecast of 12 million.

On the software side, the Nintendo 3DS takes the largest reduction in expected sales. Originally anticipated to sell 50 million titles, the Nintendo 3DS is now expected to sell only 38 million. DS hardware and software goals are relatively unchanged in this forecast; hardware sales were lowered to 5.5 million from 6 million and software sales are expected to sell 59 million units, down from 62 million.

Source: Nintendo Investor Relations via Game Examiner

Read more: Joystiq: Nintendo profits fall 66% in fiscal year, 3DS sells 3.61 million
"Nintendo's net income dropped to ¥77.6 billion ($946 million) for its fiscal year ending in March, marking the company's third year of profit declines"

Skyward Sword Remlit Art

Gah, they're cute.

Nooo!

Ocarina of Time's Ganon Concept Art