Note: Work in Progress
About
Zelda Response To is a six-pane reaction based exploitable using six incarnations of Princess Zelda, from the Nintendo video game series The Legend of Zelda. The reactions are based on the mood given to them in their games.
Origins
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The original image was uploaded was to the Japanese art sharing site Pixiv[1] on January 31, 2012. The image (shown below) featured six incarnations of Princess Zelda from various Legend of Zelda games given their reactions to being told “I love you”. It was submitted as one out of over 150 responses[3] to a template, created by Pixiv user leopard[2] on January 2010.
Precursor
The image can be seen as an example of illustration fad called “Expression Practice,” which it’s to help out amateur artist to keep a consistent character while trying to fill out the given expressions. Since originating on Pixiv, the exploitable fad had since spread into deviantArt, giving out over 8,000 results under "Expression Meme[5] as of November 2012.
Spread
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The image was then uploaded to the art sharing Safebooru[4] on February 2012. On March 28, 2012, Tumblr user Joouheika[6] uploaded the earliest translated version of the image to his page.
Notable Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] Pixiv – ゼルダ様が好きだ!と言われた時の表情&セリフ
[2] Pixiv – 彼･彼女から好きだ!と言われた時の表情&セリフ
[3] Pixiv – 彼･彼女から好きだ!と言われた時の表情&セリフ にイメージレスポンスしている作品
[4] deviantArt – Search results for “Expression Meme”