Zelda manga in English: the Himekawa bibliography

Zelda manga in English is, with two exceptions, the work of one creative team: Akira Himekawa, the pen name of two artists whose adaptations Viz Media published as a ten volume run between 2008 and 2010. The run in Viz series order is: Ocarina of Time volumes 1 and 2, 9781421523279 and 9781421523286; Majora's Mask, 9781421523293; Oracle of Seasons, 9781421523309; Oracle of Ages, 9781421523316; Four Swords parts 1 and 2, 9781421523323 and 9781421523330; The Minish Cap, 9781421523347; A Link to the Past, 9781421523354; and Phantom Hourglass, 9781421537245.

That last number carries the bibliography's famous trap. Phantom Hourglass, Viz volume 10, is 9781421537245 and NOT the 9781421523361 the volumes 1 to 9 sequence would predict. The census verified it from multiple distributor and catalogue listings against the sequence's suggestion. A buyer completing the run should expect the sequence to break at the final volume, because it does.

The whole Himekawa run was then recollected as five Legendary Editions, covered in full on their own page: Ocarina of Time at 9781421589596, Oracle at 9781421589602, Majora's Mask with A Link to the Past at 9781421589619, Minish Cap with Phantom Hourglass at 9781421589626 and Four Swords at 9781421589633, plus the Legendary Edition Box Set at 9781974718191. Japanese volume one ISBNs for the originals are verified across the run from Shogakukan, beginning with Ocarina of Time at 9784091496010.

Beyond Himekawa stand three more works. Twilight Princess, Himekawa's eleven volume return, runs from 9781421593470 to 9781974736508. Shotaro Ishinomori's A Link to the Past, the 1992 Nintendo Power comic, stands at 9781421575414 as a wholly separate work from Himekawa's volume of the same name. And the Skyward Sword prequel manga, a 32 page one shot, has no standalone edition in English or Japanese at all: its only publication is inside Hyrule Historia, English 9781616550417 and Japanese 9784092271593.

This hub is the map of this Library's Zelda manga cluster: one page per work or natural pair, a buying guide page for the Legendary Editions, and a page for the Skyward Sword absence, because in a verified bibliography an absence with evidence is as much a record as a book.