It’s a new comic scanlation! This one is not from a special edition, but from the regular print run of the magazine. It’s actually two separate comics, printed in issue 5 and 6 in 1998. They form a somewhat cohesive whole though, together with the two part comic in Special Edition #9, which has already been translated and can be found here.
They are called The Gate of Time (6 pages) and The Sleep of the Righteous (4 pages). The first is a weird story that involves Adult Link, Navi, and Sheik telling Child Link about all the stuff he’ll have to do, before he even speaks to the Deku Tree! It’s not really 100% consistent with many actual gameplay mechanisms, and feels like it’s breaking the 4th wall somehow. The second is more straightforward, and retells the beginning of the game pretty much, up to meeting Zelda. They can be seen as following each other, and the Special Edition comics are a prologue so it all works if you read it like that.
Unlike the previous Club Nintendo offering, I don’t know who wrote this one. But it was also drawn by Work House Co, from Tokyo. Again, big thanks to Caramelman who did the German translation, which was so good I didn’t have to do much to it. The original was a bit wordy in some parts, but I tried to preserve as much of the content as I could, since this comic was more about the dialogue and plot, especially part 2. Some of the speech bubbles are a bit squished as a consequence.
This one also had a lot less jokes and stuff, so the main draw here is just Zelda fandom. I was surprised to find this hadn’t been done already actually, as the translation community is fairly busy over there. Check out the History of Hyrule site for a ton of manga and other comics (although it’s a bit hard to navigate).
I also realise I’m stepping a little on Opentrain’s toes with this, as they have pledged to translate all the regular issue comics eventually. They’re being slow right now though, and this is the very last one before the lower-quality N-Gang shorts start up. I thought this was more important too, since it is quite close to the game, and a bit of an outlier really in the whole Club Nintendo canon, being fairly serious and true to the game (early Special Editions are like this too).
Anyway, for this comic I used a new technique which made my previous method look like the wild scramblings of a gibbering idiot. Basically, my new image editing program, Pixelmator, has a “magic eraser” tool that made blanking speech bubbles an absolute breeze. More accurate and so much quicker. It also has a good text manipulation mode, so I only needed the one program for the whole process. And I’m happy with how it turned out, I’ve learned a lot about fixing little things to make the text look better.
So that’s it. I’ve decided to just do one version of this, it’s jpegs, but the highest quality. It’s a little janky up close but I’m just a perfectionist, I’m sure it’s fine for most people. Enjoy, and share and whatever!
Download .cbz (to read .cbz, I recommend Simple Comic for Mac and CDisplay for Windows)
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