Kzinssie
(she/her)
LINK'S AWAKENING MANGA (1994) - CHAPTER 1
This covers from the beginning of the game through Tail Cave, ending right after Link defeats the boss and prepares to enter the instrument chamber. It's a pretty straightforward adaptation, though Marin introduces the concept of the Wind Fish being atop Mt. Tamaranch and causing some sort of calamity way earlier, giving Link that conflict from the start. It's impressively faithful in terms of what to include - Bow Wow, Gordos, and that weird thing in Tail Cave that pushes a spiked rod around are all represented pretty faithfully. (Goombas also aren't present, but I assume that's because they're waiting to give them a proper scene later in the manga - it's not like there's any shortage of the things.) The bit about untransforming Tarin is gone, though, presumably for time - Link just finds and rescues him the old-fashioned way. As another note, the scanlation I found is pretty bad - there's a ton of awkward wording, at least one hilarious typo at a crucial moment, and a part where it read a がっ sound effect as "gatsu" and included a dictionary definition of "gatsu" as a T/N despite it having nothing to do with anything. It's what I've got, though - I'm not quite willing to bust out the kanji dictionary for this one.
Incidentally, this isn't by the artist who made all the later manga starting with Ocarina (Akira Himekawa), but it is very much in the same style. When their manga comes around, would there be any objections to reading them along with their accompanying games (for the ones that came out around the same time, which is the majority of them) and sort of rolling them in with those posts?
This covers from the beginning of the game through Tail Cave, ending right after Link defeats the boss and prepares to enter the instrument chamber. It's a pretty straightforward adaptation, though Marin introduces the concept of the Wind Fish being atop Mt. Tamaranch and causing some sort of calamity way earlier, giving Link that conflict from the start. It's impressively faithful in terms of what to include - Bow Wow, Gordos, and that weird thing in Tail Cave that pushes a spiked rod around are all represented pretty faithfully. (Goombas also aren't present, but I assume that's because they're waiting to give them a proper scene later in the manga - it's not like there's any shortage of the things.) The bit about untransforming Tarin is gone, though, presumably for time - Link just finds and rescues him the old-fashioned way. As another note, the scanlation I found is pretty bad - there's a ton of awkward wording, at least one hilarious typo at a crucial moment, and a part where it read a がっ sound effect as "gatsu" and included a dictionary definition of "gatsu" as a T/N despite it having nothing to do with anything. It's what I've got, though - I'm not quite willing to bust out the kanji dictionary for this one.
Incidentally, this isn't by the artist who made all the later manga starting with Ocarina (Akira Himekawa), but it is very much in the same style. When their manga comes around, would there be any objections to reading them along with their accompanying games (for the ones that came out around the same time, which is the majority of them) and sort of rolling them in with those posts?
