Why did Nintendo give the anime rights to draw the official Zelda manga to two literal whos?
They didn't even play any of the games.
also BOTW manga when?
Why did Nintendo give the anime rights to draw the official Zelda manga to two literal whos?
Wyatt Thompson
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Dylan Long
Those are some cute boys user
Christian Nguyen
They are actually two women.
They did not play the games so the stories are completely different and the artstyle is nothing to brag about either.
Baffling.
Xavier Lopez
>They didn't even play any of the games.
that's great. I love when I hear that a property is being made into something and the director of the project isn't familiar with the source material. It creates the opportunity for new ideas and for the artist to express themselves more honestly. I can't think of anything worse than a franchise being appropriated to a different media and it being 100% faithful to the source material.
Nathaniel Diaz
I'm saying all the links on the xovers are cute boys
James Foster
weak
Evan Walker
Oh shit, they did a Twilight Princess one? I have those coloured trade paperbacks of the other stuff Viz put out a few years ago and really enjoyed them.
MY LINK FIGMA HAS BEEN STUCK IN CUSTOMS FOR A WEEK, AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Jacob Barnes
explain why you think so, cartman
Jason Smith
Have they not done Links Awakening?
Jackson Gray
Yeah and it's the only manga they did with a continious story that follows the game.
6 tanks so far in nippon
Gabriel Foster
Nobody else wanted to do it.
Eli Bell
Nope
As if there is big money in that shit.
The strange thing is the two women aka "Akira Himekawa" were asked to draw OOT.
Juan Lee
They did play the games, read their comments and afterwords. It's impossible to directly adapt Zelda games with Link being silent, the little amount of plot and active side characters and the focus on dungeons. Still, some of their manga suck while some are alright.
Also, there were Zelda manga by other authors in the past, including Link's Awakening by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Oliver Gutierrez
Remember when Katsuya Terada had a period doing work for Nintendo in the early '90s?
Brody Morales
>They did play the games
They played "some" of OOT and did not even finish it.
Imagine if Jackson read "some" of The Lord of the Rings before making his movies.
Ethan Turner
No but holy shit does this look great
Christopher Wright
Chase Rogers
That's just not true.
Maybe for the earlier ones, but they've played TP.
A: shelves with reference material
C: Honda's work desk
D: Nagano's work desk
room in the bottom middle: game room
Jaxson Hall
Yeah, it was the height of Zelda art.
Zachary Jones
And there's plenty of non-Himekawa Zelda mangas, they've just not been translated
Tyler Fisher
No wonder TP is their best one by far.
OOT sucked.
Colton Cooper
Tokyopop is still around?
Joshua Scott
Their previous ones were used by Nintendo as mere marketing for the respective games, so they only paid for one or two volumes each and they ended up being rushed and underwhelming. Nowadays the Zelda manga have a big following worldwide so they can afford standing as their own product and be considerably longer, even without the game they're adapting being new.
Nicholas Perry
Link's Awakening is the best Zelda manga if we aren't counting the Windwaker 4komas. The main problem with the various manga is that they're too damn short for a decent adaptation, meanwhile LA of all series gets two full volumes to flesh itself out.
Ian Wood
He also did artwork for stuff like Secret of Mana, and it's pretty funny to see Mana's protagonist rendered in full Conan the Barbarian style. Zelda ended up being the best fit for his style.
Ryder Torres
Dude looks more like Simon Belmont with that square jaw.
Ian Gomez
Ryder Jenkins
In germany
It's a separate company from Tokypop US, so they didn't go bankrupt
John Nelson
Oh. I thought they had unfucked their own shit up somehow and there'd be the possibility of a GTO manga rerelease and a rerelease of the dub cause my copies are fucked
Nolan Morales
>Why did Nintendo give the anime rights to draw the official Zelda manga to two literal whos?
Because most big name artists want to work on their own stuff, not a licensed propriety. This isn't the comics industry. Most tie-in manga to games are done by unknown people nowadays.
>Also, there were Zelda manga by other authors in the past, including Link's Awakening by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Licensed manga by bigger authors actually used to be more common up to the early 90s since there were many author who constantly worked in multiple short series one after another so it was easier to fit an adaptation like that in their schedule.
Nathaniel Williams
this is funny because it's pretty obvious that fueda would be a great director for the series
Eli Sullivan
I'd actually like to see him have a stab at some Castlevania stuff.
For God's sake Dark Horse, reprint his Monkey King manga already!