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 Japanese manga volume published in Japan on December 10, 2001, four months after 's August 1, 2001 Japanese release date. It was part of a series of 4-koma manga focusing on videogame franchises, the Hinotama Game Comic Series (火の玉ゲームコミックシリーズ), published by Kōbunsha.

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, 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.