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laplacemail · 3 years

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"Rann!! Look at what I made! Isn't he cute?!" Well, cute was probably not the word that even the maiden herself would use. But she was proud of her work nonetheless! She carried a Tingle doll in her hands, swaying back and forth all cheerily. There was a cursed sense about the doll, anyone can see that. Anyone but her, of course, she was just happy she was able to replicate how it looked in the books she'd read about Tingle.

"Guess who I made it for too?" She points to him. Giving out gifts like this was something she always loved, unfortunately for Rann she decided to make something for him. "That's right! Allllll for you. So go on ahead, you can take him! He's not only cute but a good luck charm for finding money and other things too! I spent all night knitting him up so you better take him!" - @spiritmaiden

"You... are trying to curse me or something, huh?"

Of course he does not mean what he said. But it was still an odd gift... from an equally odd person. He smiles, and takes it kind of begrudgingly. It is the beady eyes. The weird smile. The magic words that Tingle created himself echoes in his head. The warning to not steal them. Whatever this 'kururinpa' means. And for what reason he can hear an annoying little voice echoing in his head. Most definitely a cursed object.

"I promise I will not set this on fire, but... money? Lost items? Sounds like a scam, even if you... well, even if you actually believe in it. That's what someone back in my place would try to sell you for an exorbitant amount then run away with it."

He pats Zelda's shoulder with more force than he needs to, pocketing the creepy doll without much further thought. Yeah, it might be weird. But he is not going to just turn her down, more so when she actually believes in it. There is an actual thing he wants to know, though.

"Uh... all things aside, what the hell is it supposed to be?"

#the wolf ; ran #spiritmaiden

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sakurasongbook · 3 years

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Mahou no Jumon (魔法の呪文)

From the Pachislot Sakura Taisen ~Atsuki Chishio ni~ OST (2018)

Lyrics by Hiroi Ouji, composition by Tanaka Kouhei, arrangement by —

Performed by Nishihara Kumiko (Iris)

Lyrics under the cut

Transcription/romanization by me. I’d appreciate credit if you repost them elsewhere. No reposting to lyric sites/wikis/etc., please.

*クルクルクルクルクルクルクルクル魔法の呪文クルリンパっ

Kurukuru kurukuru kurukuru kurukuru Mahou no jumon kururinpa

**元気出そうからだの中から元気だそうおもいきりジャンプ元気だそう山あり谷あり元気だそう泣いたってしょうがないそのうちいいことあるんじゃない

Genki dasou karada no naka kara Genki dasou omoikiri JANPU Genki dasou yama ari tani ari Genki dasou naitatte shou ga nai Sono uchi ii koto arun janai

泣きたいときはいつも思い出してねひとりじゃないいって空を見上げてきっと涙はとまる笑顔を見せてそれでもまだ悲しいときは魔法の呪文を唱えよう

Nakitai toki wa itsumo omoidashite ne Hitori janai itte Sora wo miagete kitto namida wa tomaru Egao wo Misete Sore demo mada kanashii toki wa Mahou no jumon wo tonae you

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誰かを好きになるとどきどきしちゃうのどが乾くし好きだよっていうことば言えないときは微笑んでみようそれでもまだ悩んでいたら魔法の呪文を唱えよう

Dareka wo suki ni naru to tokidoki shichau Nodo ga kawakushi Suki da yo tte iu kotoba ienai toki wa Hohoende miyou Sore demo mada nayande itara Mahou no jumon wo tonae you

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curlymads · 5 years

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todonintendos · 6 years

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The Lovely Story of Tingle

Try to think of as many Zelda characters as you can in just a few seconds. Tingle shouldn’t take too long to get to your mind. Love or hate him, that doesn’t matter, as he’s undoubtedly one of the most memorable Zelda characters in the entire franchise. Could it be because of how cheerful and nice his attitude towards Link is, or simply because of how much his weird design and nature contrast with the rest of the main characters? There are opinions of all shapes and sizes, so it’s really hard to tell.

The real question is... what made Tingle more popular than other main characters with the same amount of game appearances?

Tingle debuted in The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask, released for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. There, Tingle is introduced as just one more character that gives the player useful resources for advancing through the game, these being maps of the Termina region. He does these maps by deploying a balloon to suspend himself in mid-air and get the best possible view to draw the maps manually.

Majora’s Mask also allows the player to know certain smaller facts about Tingle’s personal life, such as his age, 35, and the identity of his father, who happens to be the man who runs the pictograph contest at the Swamp Tourist Center, also in Majora’s Mask. By talking to him, he reveals that he isn’t proud of him at all, but rather disappointed. Tingle skipped school to “pursue forest fairies” and is surprised that he still does this, and his characteristic green clothes don’t quite suit his father’s tastes.

Tingle’s magic words “Kooloo-Limpah” are a play on “kururinpa”, the Japanese word for Cuccos and to talk about a crazy person.

The other major appearance of Tingle was in The Wind Waker, released for the GameCube in 2003 (2002 in Japan). Tingle was present in Oracle of Ages, released in-between Majora’s Mask and The Wind Waker, but his role was rather insignificant as he just gives Link a map for one single location in the game, the Crescent Strait. Wind Waker might mark his most important role in any canonical Zelda game to date, as the game digs really deep on his personal life and his hobby of drawing maps, even providing a full backstory of Tingle as a secret in the Tower of the Gods.

In The Wind Waker, players first encounter Tingle jailed on Windfall Island for presumably stealing a Picto Box, which Link can obtain after freeing him. Short after, Tingle will give Link a special map with the locations of the Eight Triforce Charts, which he needs to decipher after finding them. Doing this is mandatory to complete the game (unless you’re a speedrunner, that is), as they show where to find each Triforce shard in the game. And you guessed it right, the Triforce happens to be a preeeeeeeety important item in the game.

All good things come with a price. The Triforce may be the key to beating the game, but Tingle won’t help you find it for free.

The Wind Waker also introduces us to Tingle’s brothers, who are identical in appearance, only distinguishable by the colour of their clothes. However, only Knuckle, the one dressed in blue, is a twin brother of Tingle. Ankle, the one dressed in pink, is a much younger brother and David Jr, the white one, is just an ordinary human rescued by Tingle in a shipwreck so, despite looking exactly like Tingle and his two brothers, he isn’t related to Tingle, so let’s just call him an “adoptive brother”. The opinion of Tingle’s brothers regarding him isn’t positive at all, as they state that he makes them work all-day while he just slacks on a side, but his attidude changes while Link is on the island with them.

Earlier I mentioned that Tingle’s backstory can be found hidden in the game. However, I did quite a bait there. This secret can’t be found in the remake as a Game Boy Advance is required, and what you get is a parody of The Wind Waker’s intro, stating that “the fairy saved the Hero of Time by handing him a map”. It doesn’t tell anything that we didn’t know from Majora’s Mask, but you can find it here if you’re interested on reading it.

Official art of Link and Tingle from The Wind Waker. What Link is holding is the Tingle Tuner, exclusive to the GameCube version.

However, from this point in time, Tingle’s presence in the core games doesn’t go much further. In Phantom Hourglass he appears on a wanted poster in the Milk Bar, in Spirit Tracks there are two statues of Tingle throughout the game and a picture of him in Ferrus’ home. In Four Swords Adventures, he’ll attempt to grab Force Gems left on the floor for too long before Link does, this being the only instance where he acts against the player. Finally, in Skyward Sword all we have is a Tingle doll in Zelda’s room, and a special suit for Link in Breath of the Wild.

While Tingle himself is nowhere to be seen in Twilight Princess, I wanted to talk briefly about Purlo, a character from the game whose design looks surprisingly similar to Tingle’s. Purlo hosts the STAR Game in Hyrule Castle Town, is a greedy man and has and obsession with rupees, just like Tingle. However, he has an unfriendly attitude, doesn’t draw maps or think he’s a fairy. It’s said that the design was indeed based on Tingle’s, as they liked to imagine how he’d look in a more realistic style, but this hasn’t been confirmed by Nintendo.

Concept art of Purlo from Hyrule Historia. It’s easy to tell how this design can remind us of Tingle.

After remembering Tingle’s history through the core games, we could ask ourselves, why did he end up getting an spin-off for the Nintendo DS and how did he make it to Hyrule Warriors? What’s next, seeing him in the Smash Bros roster? But most importantly... did he really deserve all of this? After all, he’s the only Zelda character, other than Link, to have games where he’s the main character, having Impa, Sheik, Ganon and even Zelda as possible candidates for an spin-off. Well... the truth might be, Tingle isn’t a character made for your tastes.

According to Eiji Aonuma, Tingle is that weird because a person who flies around in a giant balloon only to draw maps had to be a weird person. The entire character was based on Peter Pan, which is easy to understand not only because of his green clothing, but since he’s a 35-year-old man stuck in childhood who refuses to grow up. These weird characters are more common to see in Japanese media, as American and European creations like these tend to avoid these “creepy” characters, specially around the time Tingle was conceived. I’m pretty sure your parents think Japan is a place filled with crazy and weird people, and that makes them dislike or even reject that culture. That’s simply because they don’t understand or are used to creations such as Tingle, among others.

The fact that Tingle is such a weird character serves both as a reason to love him or hate him, depending on your tastes.

It’s likely that, earlier, when I mentioned that Tingle had an spin-off for the Nintendo DS, the first thing you thought was that other DS Tingle game I missed. Don’t worry, I haven’t forgotten about it. I was just only focusing on the only spin-off that was released out of Japan, Freshly-Picked Tingle’s Rosy Rupeeland. Europe was really lucky to get this title, as the American public didn’t even have a chance for unknown reasons, although I guess it’s because such a creepy character like Tingle in a world where money means everything and your sidekick is a female with a pretty revealing design wasn’t a concept made for the American player.

The other spin-off I didn’t mention is Ripened Tingle’s Balloon Trip of Love, a direct sequel to Rosy Rupeeland. If the main theme of its prequel was money, this time it’s women. Of course that’s going into a much more dangerous terrain, specially seeing what Tingle looks like, and they didn’t even consider bringing this game out of Japan. Fortunately, a group of fans released an English version of the game not long ago, which you can check out here!

This is an official art posted by Nintendo of Europe a few months ago, guess we’re getting used to Tingle by now!

There are two more games about Tingle for the Nintendo DS, though, a remake of Balloon Fight featuring Tingle himself that was given as a gift via Club Nintendo, and a DSiWare game containing many minigames featuring Tingle that was only released in Japan in order to promote Balloon Trip of Love. However, they’re much smaller and don’t really give stuff to talk about. Also, days ago we knew about a cancelled horror game featuring Tingle that never saw the light, because reasons.

In the recent years, Tingle has appeared as a character in Hyrule Warriors and as a trophy in Super Smash Bros, but his presence in the main games has been slowly fading away. Nonetheless, Tingle will never be forgotten, both because of the love he’s gotten and the hate he’s received. I also wanted to point out how non-playable characters in Breath of the Wild get scared when Link walks nearby with the Tingle suit... guess Nintendo really cares about Tingle haters, after all!

...and you reached the end of the article!

You’re free to like or dislike Tingle, but I believe it was worth going through his history as a videogame character. Hopefully you found this article interesting enough no matter what you think of him! Thanks for reading!

~TodoNintendoS, as part of Daily Nintendo Fact #200

#tingle #zelda #legend of zelda #the legend of zelda #wind waker #majoras mask #todonintendos #daily fact #200

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tsukipro-en · 7 years

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SQ Official Twitter: 7 July 2015 (Part 3)

translated by kodawarii @ tsukipro-en

From: 如月 To: Tsubasa

I’m always finding it hard to wake up early in the morning. If Tsubasa-kun cheers me on, then I think I’ll be able to resist the temptation of going back to sleep so I’m looking forward to it!

Tsubasa: It’s hard waking up early, isn’t it~. But as long as you don’t go back to sleep it’s okay! You can do it!

From: ゆか＊超低浮上＊ To: Tsubasa

I’m bad when it comes to arranging my hairstyle so I always skip out on it, but please encourage me so I can become better at it and increase my femininity 🙏🙏🙏

Tsubasa: A while back my stylist told me that the kururinpa-style is cute and easy to do so why not try that! You can do it!

From: 立花 To: Shiki

I graduated from university last year but I wanted to try doing things I wanted to do so I chose that path instead of finding work. I don’t regret it but lately whenever I see my friends working or hearing about them work, honestly, I feel impatient. If I could hear some words of encouragement? support? from Shiki-san, it would make me very happy.

Shiki: If you don’t regret it, then there’s no problem. Do whatever you want at your own pace, and do your best

[T/N: We couldn’t find the original tweet.]

Rikka: A month is pretty long but do your best. I’m sure you’ll overcome it

From: ❤︎ まきちゃん To: Shiki

Please teach me a way to remove my dislike for the rainy season, Shiki-kun _(:3」∠)_

Shiki: Staying indoors so you can stay dry, taking it easy and drinking some coffee while listening to music is pretty relaxing and doesn’t sound too bad

[T/N: We couldn’t find the original tweet.]

Dai: I was told that if you’re nervous, don’t look at the interviewer’s eyes and focus on the frame of their glasses instead. Also as long as you practice properly… that should give you a little more confidence. Do you best.

From: 鏡那 To: Shiki

I’m always so dramatically terrible when it comes to drinking medicine pills, so it takes a lot of work for me to take them. Please encourage me to take them even though I can avoid taking them. I’m looking forward to it!

Shiki: Maybe it’s because they’re pills that you can’t drink them. Lately there seems to be some sort of medicinal jelly so why not try that out

[T/N: We couldn’t find the original tweet.]

Shiki: If you drink coffee to wake yourself up it’ll be okay.

From: 由布院ひなつ＊ To: Dai-chan

I’ve been making a lot of little mistakes at work lately, so please give me some words so that I won’t mess up anymore!

Dai: As they say… “Failure teaches success”. If it happens again it’ll be better to make the best of it, don’t you think? Do your best

From: とも To: Dai-chan

I’m always completely exhausted from working the night shift so please give me some energy, Dai-chan!

Dai: Get lots of sleep so you’ll feel energized again. Good job

#tsukino talent production #tsukipro #sq #solids #takamura shiki #okui tsubasa #murase dai #twitter backlog #sqjul2015

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