4-Koma Gag Battle

The Golden Sun 4-Koma Gag Battle (黄金の太陽 開かれし封印 4コマギャグバトル, Golden Sun: The Broken Seal 4-Koma Gag Battle) is a self-published Japanese manga volume (doujinshi) published in Japan on December 10, 2001, four months after Golden Sun's August 1, 2001 Japanese release date. It was featured in the video game-centric comic publication Hi no Tama, which is published by Kōbunsha.

As a doujinshi, this is a non-professional work depicting Camelot-owned Golden Sun characters and properties that is published and sold by its authors for profit despite it not being formally endorsed by Camelot Software Planning. From a Western standpoint, the illegality at play would assuredly prompt legal action from the copyright-holders towards the authors, but in Japan, it is uncommon for copyright-holding companies to pursue legal action because the doujin industry is widespread enough to be passively accepted, and therefore overlooked.

As a Yonkoma Manga (literally "4-Cell Manga"), this volume is composed of a collection of four-cell strips authored and illustrated by various artists. A total of eighteen artists contributed to the manga, almost all of which contributed a color page and between five and six pages in monochrome. The volume contains a total of 126 pages, most of which feature two four-panel strips that each involve humor and comedy. As this was published ten months prior to the Japanese release of Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the manga does not feature characters or scenarios exclusive to games released after the first, and thus Piers, Karst, and Agatio are noticeably absent.

The Golden Sun fan community had enacted separate fan-translation projects for the 4-Koma Gag Battle in the years following the international release of The Lost Age, but had experienced multiple delays until they eventually became unofficially discontinued, such as a scanlation project by the fansite Golden Sun Realm. A separate project carried out by a community member pen-named Sora G. Silverwind had remained defunct all the way until early 2015, when the project was restarted and executed from beginning to end. The final scanlated image was posted on Tumblr on April 20th, 2015.

The following tables chart and describe each individual page and strip in a detailed manner, derived from Silverwind's completed work.

Colored strips
This first group of pages of the manga are in color, unlike the rest of the product.