The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Himekawa)

The Phantom Hourglass game-to-manga adaptation first appeared in Shougakukan Magazine in Japan, and was then collected into one volume and released separately in March, 2009. It is one of the many Zelda mangas by Akira Himekawa. The story follows the main framework of the game, but is shortened and simplified after clearing the Ghost Ship in the middle of the game. The main characters starring in the manga are truthful to the game; Link, the main protagonist, Linebeck, Ciela, Oshus, Tetra, and Bellum, the antagonist. Viz Media has been releasing English versions of Akira Himekawa's Zelda mangas into English, and an official English translation will join Himekawa's other works in North America this September.

There are several notable differences in the manga and the actual game. The manga goes on expanding more on the Ghost Ship, saying Linebeck was a part of a group of pirates who found the ghost ship and the treasure, but were cursed and taken the life out of them. Only Linebeck survived by escaping on the pirates ship, leaving everyone to die. When Link, Linebeck, and Ciela reach there, Linebeck refuses to get on board but eventually does so. They find one of the Cubus Sisters and Linebeck merely laughs and asks her how many sailors has she said the same story to. The Cubus Sisters then attack and strike out at Link, but one of them attacks and strikes out at Tetra. Princess Zelda's spirit comes out of the stone and strikes out at the Cubus sister to save Link. Link manages to defeat the last one by merely slashing it with his sword.

Another difference is that Link doesn't even collect the Pure Metals needed for the Phantom Sword and Jolene herself asks Zauz for his aid. He accepts and forms the sword, but it's unknown if he had already had the metals to begin with. Meanwhile, while Jolene was getting the blade, Link was busy fighting with the Bellum possessed Linebeck not on the Ghost ship, but the final floor in the Temple of the Ocean King where in game, Link fights only Bellum. Linebeck gets back in control for a moment and tries to commit suicide in order to save Link, saying he wouldn't forgive himself if he hurt Link anymore. However this doesn't happen as the Phantom Hourglass suddenly activates and freezes time, allowing Link to defeat Bellum and remove him from Linebeck.

It seems all is right and Oshus's reverts back to his own form again, but Bellum is still not dead. Bellum attacks the whale. Jolene then returns gives Link the Phantom Sword needed to slay Bellum and Tetra then directs the ship and they start to attack Bellum with the Cannon. They manage to free Oshus from Bellum and Link slays Bellum by preforming a super spin attack (otherwise known as the Great Spin Attack), finally slaying the evil beast. Oshus then says his good byes and Linebeck makes a wish. Link and Tetra then wake up back on the Ghost Ship and everything seems to be a dream, but Link sees Linebeck on the horizon, noticing his wish was to be in the same world as Link.