Archival Scans of The Wind Waker 4koma by Futabasha

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.

A 4koma manga for The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker
Find the full English translation by Anime Council here.
Find the first chapter in English by Anastasia here.

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Link's 4koma Voyage Records / The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: Link's 4koma Nautical Logbook
By Oyster
Published by Futabasha and Action Comics on November 28, 2003
ISBN4-575-93858-0 / C9979

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.


Other Keywords: Zeruda no Densetsu Kaze no Takuto, The Legend of Zelda: Baton of Wind, tLoZ, LoZ, WW, 600ppi, RAW, RAWS, scan, scans, high res, high rez, high resolution, manga, comics, 4-koma, Yonkoma, 4コマ漫画,

Indie Zelda and Louisa's Comics!

Blast from the past: If you use to visit History of Hyrule back in the day you probably remember IndieZelda.com, or Independent Zelda, the fan comic site run by one of my best Zelda & artist friends, Louisa Roy. You may know her as SomeGirl or Om Nom Berries too. She is an awesome fanartist and person, and ran an incredible forum where a bunch of Zelda webmasters hid out... hung out? ..probably both. She fuled a lot of our creativity and humor and helped keep me sane. I've known her for about as long as I've known anyone on the internet. We met on one of the first forums I ever joined.

Anyway, I adore her, she's still around doing her thing, making comics, and she sent me these Zelda doujinshi she created back then so I could preserve them on the web! I am so excited about this! So I got 4 series of hers, of vastly varying length, posted on archive.org last night. 

Be sure to check out her new stuff. She has a lot of other incredible Zelda comics and is doing Star Wars and other original comics as well. That link goes to her link tree.

The Legend of Zelda: The Dark Mirror is a 5 part comic for Ocarina of Time

A Space for Us Among the Clouds is a roughly 36 page comic for Skyward Sword

Her Twilight Princess Series is 5 parts, just under 130 pages, and features the stories: Beautiful Midnight, Hello Time Bomb, Symbolistic White Walls, and Alert Status Red

And this volume was made for the 25th anniversary of the series, it features stories for A Legend of Zelda fan comic for The Legend of Zelda, A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess.

Love ya, Louisa!

No Clip: Amazing resource for screen captures, textures, and art reference.

I'm late to the party and am mostly just posting this here so I don't forget about it again- because it's too amazing. If you need to see a level, or reference a texture, from any of the earlier 3D zelda games, check out noclip.website. It really is a museum. So far it has Skyward Sword, Twilight Princess, Windwaker, Majora's Mask 3D, Ocarina of Time 3D, and Ocarina of Time N64. Thank you so much for creating this, Jasper! I needed to remember a detail on a level in Skyward Sword, a game I can't play because the motion controls cause nerve damage in my arms, and it allowed me to get right to it!

Whole levels

Direct texture download

Screenshot from inside Zelda's room

Wind Waker: Zelda Box Translations and Concept Art

Glitterberri is back from working as an official member of the Hyrule Historia localization team, and she's already graciously tackled a few pages from The Zelda Box. Which is wonderful because I've been hoping that someone would do that for a long time now. For anyone who felt disappointed that Hyrule Histoira didn't cover enough of the Wind Waker (Not that I was but I saw a few mentions of it) all you need to do is go back in time and check out the Zelda Box: a semi-rare collector's item, of game information and concept art (It's a book very much like Hyrule Historia) that showed up with the original release of that game. How is that possible, you say? Well, I scanned it ages ago when it went out of print. The art can be found in our temporary gallery, you can download the whole thing from Zelda Legends, or you can find it in a page reader on our main site in the publication's section: but I want to save the server from too many visits at once, so I'll leave it to you to seek it out if you want the downloadable zips.

Enjoy guys! And thanks to GenGAME & Zelda Dungeon for alerting me to the update.

A few page samples from the download:

New Doujinshi Added: Hyrule Symphony

Hyrule Symphony is the most recent doujinshi posted, yet it has stories from almost all of the games by some of the best Doujinka around. This 75 page anthology has work by Honey Bee Tea, Rio Akisaki, Densetsu Gaiden, DogEar, Manju, as well as many others. Check it out and enjoy!

Wind Waker Tetra and Princess Zelda Concept Art

As requested, here is concept art for Tetra/Princess Zelda from the Wind Waker! Most of these come from Hyrule Historia, but I also included two that are from the Zelda Box artbook that were not reprinted in the more recent collection. Enjoy!

Any other requests?

Links to Other Official Concept Art Posts

Link us if you find more!

via Deepwood Shrine:
Windaker:
Rito, Koroks, and Link

Twilight Princess:
Midna, Link, Link, Link, Link, Link, Midna, Wolf Link and Midna, Wolf Link and Midna, Midna, Midna, Midna, Midna, Wolf Link, True Form Midna, Midna, Midna, Midna, Link Zora Armor, Midna, Link, Minda, Midna.

Skyward Sword:
Shields, Link, Zelda, Zelda, Zelda, Skyloft, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Phi, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Ghirahim, Villain , Villain, Villain, Villain, Villain, Villain, Villain, Imprisoned, Imprisoned, Demise, Demon Sword, Sheikah, Sheikah, Sheikah, Sheikah, Sheikah, Sheikah, Batreaux, Link jumping from Skyloft, Instructor Owlan and Horwell, Water Dragon, Fire Dragon, Thunder Dragon, Pipit, Skyloft Knights, Levias, Levias, Groose, Gorons, Kikwi, Groose, Zelda, Cawlin, Loftwings, Zelda, Gaepora, Parella, Zora, Mogma, Silent Realm Guardians, Moblin, Mokoblin, Ancient Cistern

via tumblr's The Imprisoned:
Skyward Sword:
Phi, Karane, Pipit, Groose, Fledge