The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Himekawa)

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask manga is a manga by Akira Himekawa loosely based on the story of Majora's Mask. It was released in Japan in 2000 and made available in English through Viz Media in February 2009.

Skull Kid and the Demon Mask
The Skull Kid steals Majora’s Mask from The Happy Mask Salesman. Link goes to a knightly order for swordsman lessons where he is laughed at by the other students for being a kid but ends up beating them and holding his own against the master Osun. He then sets out on a quest to continue his training as a warrior and to find his friend and traveling companion Navi. While traveling Epona gets startled by Tatl and Tael throwing Link off and knocking him out. Skull Kid then steals the Ocarina of Time and when Link wakes up he catches him with it so Skull Kid jumps on Epona and rides off with her. Link chases after them following them into a cave where he falls down a hole onto a Deku Flower. The Skull Kid realizing Link is still following him transforms Link into a Deku Scrub.

Link the Deku Scrub
The Skull Kid takes off with Tael leaving Tatl behind with Link who she blames for it happening but after being threatened reveals that she thinks the Skull Kid would have gone to Clock Town. Tatl leads the way and Link falls again but this time through a lot of ticking clocks and lands in the Clock Tower. Link enters Clock Town and is confused by seeing familiar looking people in a town so far away. Link then gets chased by a dog, falls over and is helped by Anju from the Stockpot Inn who tells Link that he is in Termina. Link then learns that the Skull Kid is planning to bring the moon down on the day of the carnival, so he follows Skull Kid to the top of the Clock Tower.

The Happy Mask Shop
Tael tells Tatl to bring four people one each from the swamp, mountain, sea and valley. The Skull Kid brings the moon down but then time suddenly starts going backwards and all the damage is reversed, during this Skull Kid drops the Ocarina of Time and Link picks it up then plays the Song of Time on it although it turns into a Deku Scrub Tuba as soon as he uses it. This returns Link to inside the Clock Tower and to his normal form with the deku mask on the floor in front of him. There he meets the Happy Mask Salesman who tells him about Majora’s Mask and that the Skull Kid stole it from him. The Happy Mask Salesman then asks Link to get it back for him as he knows that he is capable of getting it. Link then exits the Clock Tower to realize that they have actually gone back in time and only him and Tatl remember the moon falling. Link and Tatl then head off to the swamp where the water is poisoned and makes Link sick.

Odolwa: God of Woodfall
Link passes out in the poisoned swamp water and is rescued by monkeys. In return the monkeys ask for Link to save the Deku Princess who was captured by a monster. Link first decides to go see the Deku King and is able to get into the palace by wearing the deku mask. Once inside he discovers that the Deku King is threatening to burn several animals at the stake as he believes they are responsible for the princess’s disappearance. Link frees the animals but is then tied up and the Deku King is about to burn him to death when the monster Odolwa who declares himself the God of Woodfall breaks into the palace and reveals that he took the princess as a sacrifice because the Deku King had been neglecting his tributes to him. Odolwa then begins to destroy the palace. The monkeys untie Link who then defeats Odolwa who had the Princess trapped in a bottle. All that is left of Odolwa is a mask which releases a giant who tells them to “call him” then leaves. The swamp water returns to normal and the Deku Princess is safely released from the bottle and tells her father off for blaming the wrong people. She then asks Link to put his mask back on and after seeing him runs off crying, the Deku Butler then tells Link that with the mask on he looks like his deceased son. Link and Tatl then head off to the mountain.

The Monster of Snowhead
On the mountain Link finds a dead Goron warrior with lingering regrets. The Goron warrior Darmani tells Link his story of how he went to try and stop the blizzard from Snowhead that threatens to destroy the Gorons and their village but he was defeated by Goht the masked mechanical monster of Snowhead. Darmani is also sad that he won’t see his nephew again who looked up to him greatly. Link says he can play the ocarina to calm the Goron baby who is crying loudly due to his uncle not returning. Darmani wants to hear Link play so Link plays the ocarina for him and the song eases Darmani’s aching heart, he tells Link to play it for his nephew then disappears leaving behind a Goron mask. Wearing Damani’s mask Link goes to the Goron Village to see the baby who thinks Link is actually Darmani, Link sings him the song and teaches him to be strong and not cry as he has to say goodbye and leave forever. Link then goes to face Goht on top of the mountain and with Darmani’s strength succeeds. The second Giant is released from Goht’s mask and the terrible blizzard stops with Spring returning to the Goron Village, Darmani is able to leave this world in peace.

The Great Bay
Link goes to the sea where he learns that a strange cloud has formed over Great Bay. Link then sees a pirate ship on which a fight is taking place and as he’s watching one of those involved falls from the ship, so Link rushes out to help them. Link drags the injured Zora ashore and learns that he is Mikau of the Indigo-go’s. Mikau informs Link that their vocalist Lulu had given birth to a strange egg and lost her voice when the pirates arrived and stole the egg. Mikau realizing he is to weak to go on asks Link to bring back her egg to which Link agrees so in return Mikau plays him a song. Link joins in on his ocarina then Mikau thinks of how he wishes he could play one more time with the Indigo-go’s before he disappears in a bright flash leaving behind a Zora mask. Link puts the mask on, which transforms him into Mikau and goes after the pirate ship. Once on the ship Link shoots down a beehive to clear the area where the pirates are keeping the egg then grabs it himself and attempts to get away but is confronted by one of the pirates who fights him for the egg. The ship is then rolled by a giant tortoise that has been awakened by the call of the egg. The tortoise takes Link to Gyorg the Gargantuan Masked Fish who he defeats with Mikau’s help. The third giant is freed and the sea returns to normal. The tortoise tells Link that Lulu’s voice will soon return and that Mikau may now rest in peace. Link goes to see Lulu with Mikau’s mask on and informs her that the egg is safe and then rehearses with the Indigo-go’s.

Original Side Story
These extra few pages describe the creation of Majora's Mask and the death of Majora. Majora is depicted as a large shaggy dragon wearing armor, magic armor that grants wishes. An unknown warrior appears before Majora one day and Majora is under the impression that the warrior wants his armor, so that he may have his heart's desire. The warrior attempts to convince Majora otherwise but Majora is not willing to believe this. The warrior then reveals a drum and begins to play it, Majora is immediately thrown into a trance and dances for three days straight. Upon the completion of the third day, Majora dies from exhaustion. The warrior then takes the armor, but contrary to what many greedy adventurers would have done, he does not make a wish, and instead, carves the Majora's Mask out of it. This is speculated to be the reason why Majora wishes to end the world in three days and also why his second form, Majora's Incarnation, dances.