The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Vol. 2 (2)

The Good:+ Beautifully drawn+ Deeper look inside the world of Hyrule during the events of Twilight Princess+ Link has a slightly more aggressive personality as a wolf+ Minda retains her sassy personality from the gameThe Bad:- Chapters 14, 15, 16, and 17 probably could have been consolidated down to 2 or 3 chapters- Some parts of the manga has black text on dark backgrounds...The Ugly:I'm flying though these chapters and the wait for the next volumes is borderline torture.What is it?Put simply this is a Legend of Zelda manga based on the the Twilight Princess Story. There are some changes and additives to the story for character development a well as to fill out the story.Story:Volume 2 picks up directly where volume 1 left off. Link awakens bound in a cell within the Twilight Realm. He encounter a mysterious imp Minda who reveals to him that he is a Wolf. Soon after Link and Minda meets up with princess Zelda where she reveals to Link what happened to Hyrule. Overall the Story in this volume is good but the pacing feels a bit off in comparison to the previous volume. Its also feels like they spent too much time developing characters that didn't need much development.Art Style:Man oh man, I loved the art style from volume 1 and Vol.2 seem to improve on that.Replay:A lot has happened in this volume and so I actually had to read it twice to get a better understanding. Actually reading this volume made me go back and read Volume 1 as well. I will probably read them both again while I yearn for volume 3.Value:There is no excuse, If you loved the Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess game you should pick up the manga for $10 once every couple of months. Here is a tip... If you have Amazon Prime it will be even cheaper than that.ThoughtsI love this, and there is only a few things that can make this better. 1. they can release volumes more frequently, and more importantly they can make an Anime adaption of this Viz Media can take my paycheck now =D. Regardless I highly recommend this Manga to both Zelda, and Manga fans.

This volume covers the span of the story from Link waking up as a wolf in Hyrule Castle to the defeat of the first boss and acquisition of the first Fused Shadow. Midna was the most prominent feature of this book, being Link’s sole companion for most of the time he’s transformed as a wolf. She’s perfectly represented; simultaneously cute and creepy as hell, and often very funny. Like in the game, she begins as a domineering and self-centered jerk, openly declaring that she doesn’t care in the slightest about the world of light and that she wouldn’t even flinch at killing Link, who she’s made her “pet” while in wolf form to assist her in finding the Fused Shadow she needs to take down Zant, who usurped her throne.This volume also sees us introduced to Princess Zelda, who only made a brief appearance in the last book without playing any real role. She’s absolutely gorgeously drawn, and the pages showing the backstory of the fall of Hyrule Castle to Zant and his shadow beasts vividly reminds us how dark and severe this story can be, when Zelda’s will to fight Zant is broken by witnessing her soldiers mercilessly slaughtered.Wolf Link, in the manga, is capable of speaking with Midna and Zelda (as well as other animals, but that was true in the game too), which is a decision I understand but don’t very much like. It doesn’t really bother me, but I don’t like it either. But it would have been much harder to tell the story without Link being able to converse with Midna, and being able to do so gave us some great moments, so I don’t object much at all.The art and writing all around is just fantastic. The linework and shading is beautiful, the writing is compelling (though Link’s line as he finished off the Boss should have been cooler). Zelda is beautiful and tragic, Midna is a striking in her juxtaposition between adorable and terrifying, and Link both as a wolf and a sword-wielding hero is so cool and inspiring. At first I was worried that the story’s pacing was going far too slow, as by the end of this book we’ve only just cleared the first dungeon of the game and Twilight Princess is a _long_ game, but a quick dive into Google revealed that the manga is going to have four volumes, when I had only thought there would be three! That was a great relief; not only will the story have room to finish properly now, but also that’s an entire extra book I didn’t think we’d get! But it’s also a little frustrating, because now I have to wait who knows how long for that last volume to release!

I've loved the Legend of Zelda series since the original game, which I played as a kid. The Twilight Princess game was a great gritty and realistic (or as realistic as a fantasy game can get) telling of a Legend of Zelda game. This manga is a great retelling of that game. It gives a bit of back story to each of the characters that was missing from the game and provides Link a bit of depth that is lost in the game due to his being a silent character (that's right Link finally found his voice). While I'm sure that the game's story writers didn't originally see the story in this way (while I'm sure they approved after seeing this view), I'm sure that they would change it to be more like this. I strongly suggest this series for any Legend of Zelda fan.

I love this author’s work on the Zelda manga series. The thing that makes Twilight Princess stand apart from the rest of the manga series is it’s a 12 volume entry instead of just single books, therefore it is a more fleshed out narrative to explore in literature form. The classic mangas are great but I really appreciated they took more time to highlight the grittiness and lore of Twilight Princess.

While the other series of Legend of Zelda books (such as The Minish Cap and Oracle of Seasons) are so wonderfully amazing and kind of cute adventures, the Twilight Princess series is not truly aimed for younger audiences, and that is fine. They are fantastic books, and we adore them. The book series is very well done and we enjoy reading it!

Grandson loved the book