Archival scans of the 1993 Link to the Past manga by Junko Taguchi

Here are the 600dpi scans posted on archive.org


If you downloaded this before February 21, 2022 then you will want to re-download the new larger, cleaner, files I've uploaded

The Legend of Zelda
The Legend of Zalda [sic]
A manga for A Link to the Past
by Junko Taguchi
Published by Hippon Super!
ISBN4-7966-0741-2
First Published Date: November 20, 1993
Approx Length: 192 pages


My old upload of it was here: historyofhyrule.com/publications/manga_lttp_zalda

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High-resolution scans of the elusive pink-haired female Link from 1986

Thanks to Ikhana's hawk eyes at auction I was finally able to get my hands on the May 1986 issue of Monthly Shonen Captain, that was first posted about on Twitter by KazzyKazy. There was an absurd bidding war but thankfully I was able to win it and I'm now happy to be able to being everyone 2400dpi scans. I have both the edited, patched up versions, as well as the un-touched raws, uploaded in the gallery starting here. In this issue there are 6 images total. 5 of Link, or Zelda as the protagonist, and one of a fairy. We do not know the original artist's name, we can't find anything that even implies it in the issue. If you would like the link to my original post on Twitter, you can find it here.

We know there are probably 2 more images because of this video, also thanks to KazzyKazy's research. Me and a few other people have been trying to track down where they can be found with no avail. They do not appear to be in any of the other regular monthly issues of Shonen Captain from that year. I know because I've bought most of them and other people have checked their issues for me and confirmed it. Someone I was talking to even asked the Youtuber if he remembered where the cut-outs were from and unfortunately the font from the magazine he thought it might be from (below) doesn't seem likely because the page number fonts don't match up. The only hints we have are that fairy and other drawing are overlaid on the last dungeon/room in a walkthrough and appear on page 33 and 36, they are color but not on glossy pages, and we are not finding issues with a Zelda feature on those pages either. If you find it, or have any thoughts, please let me know and I will spend the money to get it and then make good scans of it too. melorasworld@gmail.com

random113: この雑誌を覚えていますか?

hijiQuish channel: なんだっけなぁ😂ファミマガではない。ファミマガは、切り取らなかったから。 全くわからんなぁ。1986年ですよねぇ。 ハイスコアという雑誌かなぁ🤔

random113 : ありがとうございます。私はそれを探し続けます

The amount of fan art that this piece has generated has also been incredible. I think pretty much every single one of my favorite artists has made something inspired by it over on Twitter. It's been mind blowing. You may be able to find them searching under Linka (a new fan name for this one that really caught on) or Plink (though Plink has been used for male pink-haired LttP Link for ages.) They really took off when Aeyga_X made a post about it and you can find a lot of them, though not even close to all of them, linked to from there.

New English Translation: Oath of Lilto Volume 1

Ammon contacted me a while back to express interest in translating something and, long story short, he ended up translating the highly requested Oath of Lilto. He did a wonderful job! This funky little Dragon Ball Z style Link to the Past manga was done by Furusawa Jun'ya (古澤純也) of Dragon Ball fame, and spans 4 volumes. You can find the 600dpi scans and the translation text document over on archive.org

If anyone would be interested in page cleaning and typesetting this, please do. This translation is not a scanlation, it's just a text document, I'm swamped in other projects and don't have time to be able to do that myself right now. 

Rare Art: New High Resolution Scans of the Haruhiko Mikimoto Zelda Linework

Update: Here's 1200dpi scans of the whole artbook

Here's the 1200dpi linework for the amazing Haruhiko Mikimoto, 美樹本 晴彦, Link and Zelda, pieces. These are for The Legend of Zelda: The Hyrule Fantasy, 1986, from his Cellu Works artbook, February 28, 1989,  ISBN4-19-669607-4. Scans of the full publication are currently in the works and I *think* I may have the right Newtype purchased and on the way to me so that I can finally get better scans of the finished versions online too. 

Find them all in the gallery starting here

I must thank Anim'Archive for originally posting about these and where they could be found. You can check out the original post, here: https://animarchive.tumblr.com/post/178281392068/link-and-zelda-by-haruhiko-mikimoto-cellu-works

As well as Old Newtype, https://oldtypenewtype.tumblr.com/post/32887883467/another-awesome-haruhiko-mikimoto-illustration-of and https://oldtypenewtype.tumblr.com/post/32887378137/very-cool-illustration-of-link-by-haruhiko where I first found out that there was anything like this. I cleaned up his scans and those versions have been circulating the internet for a while. 

New High Resolution Scans of the Ocarina of Time 4koma by Enix

 Here are the 600dpi scans posted on archive.org

I've started scanning the 26ish volumes of Legend of Zelda 4-Koma and I'm actually going to post large versions of it, which I usually don't do, but it's only because I think the chances of it having a market to be republished are pretty slim. I'm trying to make sure I support publishers but, also, it's a shame something disappears because it's been unavailable for decades so I'm trying to figure out the balance there.


Title: The Legend of Zelda 4Koma Magic Theater
Artist or Circle: Anthology
Publisher: Enix
ISBN 4-7575-0008-4
First Published Date: April 16, 1999
Approx Length: 123 pages

Any translations will be posted to this Flickr album for now.

I am super sad these never got popular. They're so awesome! I've had small scans of most of the pages on historyofhyrule.com since 2002-2004 and I haven't even seen so much as a meme from them. And they are so meme worthy! Only 1 out of roughly 26 Zelda 4komas have been translated so, if you would like to translate this, even just sections of it, please go ahead and let me know!


If you use these pages please always link back to the main website though, so people can find more information and rare materials, or even help me find more!

Here are examples and info on the other 4koma, they're for the games LttP, LA, OoT, MM, WW, OoA, and OoS. I will be scanning them all in the coming weeks: Here's what you can expect to see.


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