Zelda Fans Are Going Wild After Rediscovering Link and Midna's Surprise Kiss

Many The Legend of Zelda fans (shippers in particular) are beside themselves after finding out that Link and Midna kissed in an official manga of Twilight Princess.

May 3, 2024 - 00:45

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Zelda Fans Are Going Wild After Rediscovering Link and Midna's Surprise Kiss

The Legend of Zelda fans who have long pondered when Link would finally share a kiss with Zelda have discovered that the hero of Hyrule already smooched someone in an official manga. What’s more, it wasn’t with Zelda, but with his faithful Twilight Princess companion, Midna.

The kiss in question comes from Viz Media’s The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess series. The 11-volume manga was written and drawn by a duo of female Japanese mangaka A. Honda and S. Nagano under the pseudonym Akira Himekawa. The pair is most famously known for their manga adaptations of The Legend of Zelda franchise, which go beyond simply retelling the events of games like Ocarina of Time and Majora’s Mask by providing backstory to its MacGuffins and remixing storylines.

We should note that Himekawa's Twilight Princess Manga isn't new; in fact, its first volume was published in English in 2017 and will receive a complete series box set in September. However, a lot of diehard Zelda fans are just now discovering its existence and they're beside themselves over a manga panel from its final volume — which many took for a well-drawn Link x Midna fan art circulating on X/Twitter — where the two engage in a passionate kiss.

Whereas 2006’s Twilight Princess heavily implied that Midna harbored romantic feelings for Link, Himekawa’s manga took things a step further by having her kiss the Hyrulean warrior before returning to the Twilight Realm. To make matters all the more awkward, the heartfelt kiss happened in front of Zelda.