By Akira Himekawa
The Ocarina of Time video game retold as a black-and-white manga, with a Link who finally gets to think out loud.
Link is the only boy in a forest full of fairy children who doesn't have a fairy, and the others won't let him forget it. Then the Great Deku Tree calls him in, gives him a fairy named Navi, and tells him something is rotting the forest from the inside. Link goes in with a small sword and comes back out with a much bigger job: find three Spiritual Stones before a man named Ganondorf can, and keep him out of the Sacred Realm.
A child who already knows this world from the controller arrives knowing the map, the names, and who Ganondorf is, so the pages turn on recognition instead of effort. That can be a real help for a reader who tends to stall out on prose. Himekawa also gives Link an inner voice the game never could. He's lonely, he's scared, and here you actually get to hear it.