My girl is hurting for another dog friend who can play since her brother has passed (actual littermate) so we're adopting this sweet anxiety riddled girl this weekend. Apparently the vet couldn't even get bloodwork bc she was so scared so I hope my, & my current dog's, skills can help her with that

I didn't realize I hadn't cleaned and uploaded the individual illustrations for Chapter 3 of the #Zelda #LttP feature in the June 1992 issue of Shogaku Magazine. So the 2400dpi cleaned art is now in the downloads section here: archive.org/details/zine...

I got the last chapter for Shogaku Magazine's 1992 #Zelda #LttP feature scanned, cleaned, and uploaded. This is a magazine for first graders but the art is super amazing. It's where the badass image of Ganon comes from. September, Part 6: archive.org/details/zine...

OMG I finally finished cleaning this piece! There was so much text over it. It's far from perfect but at least it's not horribly distracting any more. I really love it- cool fight to have a good illustration for. I'll get the chapter and a zip with the cleaned art uploaded soon #zelda #lttp

I thought I'd highlight some stuff for new followers. Here's my scans of the 2019 The Legend of #Zelda: Link's Awakening "Dreamer" Artbook, which has a ton of cute concept art for the Switch version. Normally I don't scan new publications but this was a limited release archive.org/details/link...

I was going to get around to scanning all my AoL material now that I'm closer to done with the Z1 publications, I think I'll try to make a thread/collection of how the healer was interpreted. Feel free to add art you've found in the past! Yuu Minazuki 1987: archive.org/details/comi...

youtu.be/FA97vVPPYiw?... It was "Venus" in the Japanese version too. The Japanese version also used English, but some terms were different like priest, town, and ocarina.

Speaking of this, I always assumed the Great Fairy from OoT was based on Uma Thurman's Poison Ivy. Before OoT came out I had a life-sized window decal of her. It was there when we played OoT in the dorm. Her "throne" here is also so much like BotW's Great Fairies youtu.be/UIxwyNULzdk?... Then--

In Zelda 2, a woman appears in each town, beckoning Link into her home. They disappear inside and Link's health begins to refill. One reddit user recently asked if this scene was *intentionally* suggestive. While that seems very unlikely, I thought I'd look into it.

Fun fact but in the early 2000's tl;dr: when I would try to add stuff to wikis back then, or people would try to talk about a bunch of this on Western sites and forums, they were told "it's not real Zelda content" and deleted. Like my site was literally blacklisted for not being "a real Zelda site"

Books, artworks, and other spin-off media that are so rare, they're archeological treasures to analyze for Zelda fans. And give us a glimpse as to how The Legend of Zelda was seen at the time. It tells us more about the history of Zelda than Hyrule Historia itself. For real.

I know I posted this cleaned image before but I just re-cleaned it from my own scans. More editing than it looks. Anyway, worth it, because it's incredibly epic. #Zelda Link to the Past, Junichiro Saito, Shogaku Ichinensei Magazine, Sept. 1992

Here's chapter 4 of the #Zelda Link to the Past short stories by Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎 The July 1992 issue of Shogaku Ichinensei. (Sorry I scanned them out of order) archive.org/details/zine... The cleaned art is at 2400dpi in its own download zip.

Alright everyone! Here is the ever beautiful #Zelda Link to the Past work by Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎 in the May 1992 issue of Shogaku Ichinensei. I scanned the issues in order of ease- so this is Chapter 2 archive.org/details/zine... The cleaned art is at 2400dpi in its own download zip.

I had some time today to sit down and edit and clean more of Junichiro Saito's / 斎藤純一郎 Link to the Past #zelda art from the 1992 Shogaku Ichinensei short story chapters. I love this epic piece of Link fighting the Armos Knights.

My spouse almost set his coffee mug down on my scanning desk amid a pile of books, I gasped, stopped him, & I slapped my computer desk & said "this one's fine, this is where I take risks!" which lol I meant drinks but it sounds so douchy-Linkedin. We cracked up I *just* noticed he made these 😆

I just uploaded the re-scanned the Shogaku Ichinensei, part 1, April 1992, #Zelda illustrated short story at 2400dpi. There's also a zip with just the art- including the patched cover piece I posted yesterday. Artist Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎 archive.org/details/zine...

I cleaned this art from the first page, first chapter, of the 1992 Shogaku Ichinensei #Zelda Link to the Past short story by Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎. I should have the 5 pages from this that I re-scanned uploaded at 2400dpi tomorrow but for now you can find them here: archive.org/details/zine...

I re-did and re-uploaded the Shogaku Ichinensei 1992 August chapter for #Zelda Link to the Past. This one has some of the best art out of all of them and I feel like that's saying something. I cleaned it and put it in its own folder at 2400dpi archive.org/details/zine...

I got the June chapter of this #Zelda Link to the Past short story from Shogaku Ichinensei scanned & uploaded. The art is in a zip at 2400dpi & has never been online before! archive.org/details/zine... Artist: Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎 The other chapters can be found here: archive.org/details/zine...

I've been wanting to see a good version of this forever and now we have an incredible scan at 1200dpi thanks to @dendesnail.bsky.social I can't thank them enough! It's by #Nintendo #Zelda artists Yusuke Nakano 中野祐輔 & Satoru Takizawa 滝澤 智 from the 2017 Japan Expo www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

Don't mind me over here hyperventilating with excitement!

The last 4yrs have been traumatic to say the least, I do Zelda stuff as a way to chill. That said, bc things have been hectic: I'm slow. There's SO MUCH Zelda manga that's never been translated: From the first one, short one-offs, to a 4 vol series etc. If you're at all interested please let me know

I was able to find the last issue that we didn't have of this beautifully illustrated #Zelda LttP short story. I believe this June 1992 Shogaku Ichinensei issue completes the set between @abelmunizjr.bsky.social & I. Here's one of the pieces that's new to the internet Artist Junichiro Saito / 斎藤純一郎

Alright! Woo! Another rare treat! For the first time that I know of here are full scans of the Nintendo Space World '97 Official Guidebook: archive.org/details/zine... I'm getting 2400dpi scans of the art done right now but everything else is uploaded #nintendo #zelda #pokemon #mario

New scans incoming soon but this is fun, this is the event layout for Space World '97 #nintendo #zelda #pokemon #ocarinaoftime

Most of the art for the 1986 #zelda Bandai boardgame has finally been added to the gallery cleaned at 2400dpi. (I was relying on someone else's smaller cleaned scans before.) I'm sill working on some of the bigger pieces like the front and back as a whole and the map www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

Link and Zelda holding up the Triforces from the ridiculously cute 1986 #zelda Bandai boardgame. I went ahead and faked the top half of the black background and sparkles because it was just fun to have it as a full piece instead of cut off a little: archive.org/details/merc...

I cleaned up this great fight scene of Link & Ganon's end battle from my 2400dpi scans of the 1986 Bandai boardgame archive.org/details/merc... I should have the whole set done soon- except the map, which is so much work. I'm going to rely on Alberto's edit that's already in the gallery #zelda

Some absolutely great, and incredibly varied, early Ganon artwork for #zelda 1 #nintendo #famicom Find it in the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

I've added some seriously great (and very non-typical) super high res and cleaned scans of #Zelda 1 fairies to the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

"It's not that Link is mugging this merchant, it's that he's Yiga coded and Link is acting in preemptive self-defense" Just another #zelda piece from this guide that I'm currently working on cleaning for the gallery: archive.org/details/guid...

I'm kinda in love with this goofy little 70's looking Link. There's a funky little #zelda 1 manga in this guide too. My full scans here: archive.org/details/guid...

I cleaned and added the small handful of pieces of #zelda 1 art from the 2400dpi scans I made of the 1986 "Nagaoka Bookstore" strategy guide. This one is fun because it's yet another early Pink-haired Link! www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

I got 6 #zelda cover pieces for the Japanese "Central Hobby" jigsaw puzzles uploaded! These are super rare. Some were scans sent in by the collectors Ikhana & Blue, & I had to use the dimension & skew on an auction photo to have anything for the last one: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

I got this rare Japanese envelope art of Link for #zelda 1 cleaned and uploaded to the gallery. 3 were physically gifted & sent to me by @linksliltri4ce.bsky.social (who is always beyond amazing!) & the flute one was scanned for me by Ikhana www.ikhanakingdom.com (who is also always beyond amazing!)

I cleaned up the small handful of Zelda drawings by Daisuke Shigoto しごと大介 from this little book: archive.org/details/book... & added them to the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo... There's actually way more art & comics for early Nintendo Famicom series like Mario & Valkyrie no Bōken though!

This took a really long time but I was finally able to stitch together all the scans for this 1987 #Nintendo Famicom calendar with rare art for #Mario, #Zelda, #Metroid, Murasame Castle, and the Mario Anime. The cleaned 2400dpi files are uploaded with RAWS incoming: archive.org/details/1987...

I just made this a more standalone image by taking out the logo, the statue on the side, and the lanmola at the bottom. From a 1987 wall calendar I scanned this is likely the first official art actually showing Ganon's face. I think it was maybe done by Minoru Maeda: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

A few days ago I re-uploaded 2400dpi cleaned versions of this incredible #zelda 1986 guide art by Soft Bank/Beep: archive.org/details/zeld... This style is mostly just for the enemies so you can find them in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

New* article! A history of Ocarina of Time's development, with a specific focus on the new game design problems presented by 3D, and how they solved them. *I wrote this a few years ago for a magazine. I figure it's been long enough, so on my blog now! Edited by @paigeedits.bsky.social! #Zelda

I did some light cleaning and got the 10 #Zelda art pieces from the miniature playing card set from Wanpakku Comics' Feb 1987 issue uploaded to the gallery: www.flickr.com/photos/histo... & the original sheet, RAWs, & edited uploaded to IA: archive.org/details/zine... Have a cute chibi Ganon!

Cleaning the text, folds, & damage off of this boardgame map is... going to be... a bit of work. The giant horizontal crease across the whole thing, right on the map line, is special kind of art-patching nightmare. It's a gorgeous #zelda map though so totally worth it: archive.org/details/merc...

Question: While cleaning this I couldn't really tell what was happening below the monster's chin. I guessed, based on the traces of lines sticking out from the text, was a scroll with RPG written on it and a sword sticking through it. & I guess those are chin spikes too? Does this seem ok enough?

There are much more exciting #Zelda 1 maps to come BUT at least these are cleaned & done. If you want the RAWS, or 2400dpi files that were often too large for Flickr to handle, there should be links with each file to the Internet Archive pages with the download zips: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

The early moblin art for #zelda 1 is really fun. So grumpy! I'm still slowly chipping away at updating all the art in the gallery for the first game from the new 2400dpi scans I made of everything. www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

I will neither confirm nor deny altering this #zelda strategy guide art. archive.org/details/guid...

I've been slowly re-cleaning and re-uploading the best Zelda 1 art versions available. There's still a long way to go but I got a couple of guides redone there in the past few weeks. This time I'm grouping them into albums for maps/characters/items/enemies: www.flickr.com/photos/histo...

I finally uploaded the 2400dpi scans I just made a little while ago of a mini playing card set that was an insert in Wanpakku Comic's 1987 February issue. It features art from most of their series, including #Mario #Zelda #MursameCastle #Metroid #Layla and more: archive.org/details/zine...

It turns out that the magic ring was actually neon pink!