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Manhandla

For The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

From the manual

A big plant with hands spread four ways. It moves faster as it loses its hands.

Translated from the Japanese manual.

Enemy

Manhandla

KindBoss
Japanese nameテスチタート

Official art

Manhandla, official art from ゼルダの伝説 取扱説明書
Manhandla. ゼルダの伝説 取扱説明書 (任天堂, 1986), p. 36

From the official guides

A big Piranha Plant with hands in four directions. It moves faster each time it loses a hand. Its attack is somewhat strong.

ゼルダの伝説 取扱説明書 (任天堂, 1986), p. 36, 101Leafy's translation

A big Piranha Plant with hands in four directions. It moves faster each time it loses a hand. Its attack is somewhat strong.

ゼルダの伝説1 取扱説明書 (任天堂, 1994), p. 30, 101Leafy's translation

A large man-eating flower with hands sticking out in all four directions. It moves faster as it loses its hands. It's pretty mean. So, watch out!

The Legend of Zelda Instruction Booklet (Nintendo of America, 1987), p. 37

Giant flowers which have hands sticking out in four directions. A Manhandla's offensive power is rather strong, and it's very troublesome because as it loses hands, it moves more quickly. So what you must do is to attack all four hands together rather than attack it's hands one by one. Can you think of any strategies to do that?

The Legend of Zelda Tips and Tactics (Tokuma Shoten Publishing for Nintendo of America, 1987), p. 25

A man-eating plant with four tentacles. The hands are its weak point. Removing them one by one with the sword or arrows works, but bombs are the most effective, and with luck one bomb beats it.

ゼルダの伝説 (二見書房, 1986), p. 73, 101Leafy's translation

A biting flower that fires beams in four directions. Each time it loses a hand it moves faster, until your head spins. Try to beat it in one go if you can.

ゼルダの伝説 必勝攻略ガイド (新星出版社, 1986), p. 35, 101Leafy's translation

The strongest enemy in the Manji Labyrinth (Level 3). Get rid of its four petal-shaped hands and it is beaten, but the fewer hands it has, the faster it moves. It fires beam after beam at you too.

ファミリーコンピュータ攻略ガイドブック1 ゼルダの伝説 (曙出版, 1986), p. 33, 101Leafy's translation

A monster with four hands. Each time it loses a hand, it moves faster.

ファミリーコンピュータ必勝シリーズ1 ゼルダの伝説 (ミリオン出版, 1986), p. 42, 101Leafy's translation

A giant biting flower. It attacks by spitting beams from its four mouths. With fewer mouths it speeds up, and when they are all gone it disappears. Fighting with both the sword and bombs is best! Arrows work too.

ファミコン マル勝DXシリーズ1 ゼルダの伝説 (角川書店, 1986), p. 53, 101Leafy's translation

A giant Piranha Plant with hands pointing in four directions. Each time it loses a hand, it moves faster. Its attacks are fairly strong too, so don't let your guard down. Bombs work well against it.

ゼルダの伝説 (秋田書店, 1986), p. 52, 101Leafy's translation

A monster carnivorous plant with big claws on four sides. Each time it loses a claw, it moves faster.

ゼルダの伝説 (双葉社, 1986), p. 20, 101Leafy's translation

A big Piranha Plant with sharp hands pointing four ways: up, down, left, and right. It moves faster each time it loses a hand. Its attack is fairly strong, but it is weak to bombs.

ケイブンシャの大百科別冊 ゼルダの伝説1 (勁文社, 1994), p. 28, 101Leafy's translation

It flies around snapping its four hands. Aim for the hands, but watch out, because it speeds up each time one is gone. If you hit the middle of its body with a Bomb, one is enough to beat it... but that is hard to aim.

ゼルダブック (ファミコン必勝本 1986年6月号付録) (JICC出版局, 1986), p. 75, 101Leafy's translation

A big Piranha Plant with hands in four directions. Its attack is only somewhat strong, but it gets faster with each hand it loses, which makes it a pain to deal with.

わんぱっくコミック増刊 ゼルダの伝説 必勝ヒント本 (徳間書店, 1986), p. 14, 101Leafy's translation

Numbers

Hits to beat it

Hearts lost per touch

No ringBlue RingRed Ring
10.50.25

What it throws

No shield stops it.

Damage calculator for every enemy

Where it appears

Labyrinths, First Quest

Level 3

  • Room 77: 1 at once

Level 4

  • Room 16: 1 at once

Level 8

  • Room 46: 1 at once
  • Room 110: 1 at once
  • Room 125: 1 at once

Labyrinths, Second Quest

Level 3

  • Room 25: 1 at once

Level 4

  • Room 50: 1 at once

Level 6

  • Room 54: 1 at once

Level 8

  • Room 60: 1 at once
  • Room 125: 1 at once

Red: rooms it is in. Green: the entrance.