How many Japanese guides did The Wind Waker get?

The Wind Waker is the best documented pile up on the Japanese Zelda guide shelf: four licensed guides, all confirmed against Nintendo's official guidebook page. Two of them share a publication date, January 24, 2003, weeks after the game's Japanese launch.

Nintendo DREAM's book is the slim one at 144 pages, and its cover is a different composition altogether: a white cover with Toon Link at the centre surrounded by small character portraits. Sellers regularly mislabel it as the Shogakukan book, so the white cover is the identification point to remember. Shogakukan's own official guide followed on February 3 at 224 pages, and V Jump Books, from Shueisha, matched Nintendo DREAM's date at 214 pages.

Enterbrain closed the race in March 2003 with the Complete guide, 432 pages, the heavyweight of the four, under a plain cyan cover with a small cel shaded Link. Against all this, the American Nintendo Power guide's tan and gold two tone cover with the King of Red Lions belongs to a calmer market: one official book, not four.

The HD remaster added a single Shogakukan guide in November 2013, taking the Japanese Wind Waker shelf to five books across two console generations.