When asked by Game Informer editor Billy Berghammer if Midna would make a follow-up appearance to her role in Twilight Princess, Aonuma found it unlikely that she would return due to the game's ending, but added that if there were enough demand, the developers may consider it. In describing the character, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess director Eiji Aonuma called her " tsundere", which means a character who starts the story as snobbish and brash, but becomes gentler and kinder over time, a character archetype both he and Shigeru Miyamoto, co-creator of The Legend of Zelda series, are fond of. Eventually re-purposed for Twilight Princess, Midna was illustrated by Yusuke Nakano and voiced by Akiko Kōmoto. The concept of Midna came from another game Nintendo was working on before Twilight Princess, which was eventually abandoned. Ultimate, and is a playable character in Hyrule Warriors. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U, and Super Smash Bros. Midna makes minor appearances in Super Smash Bros. Her role in Twilight Princess has been compared to that of Navi, who accompanies Link in the 1998 game Ocarina of Time. Midna was generally well received by critics and gamers alike.
Midna's first appearance was in a trailer for Twilight Princess shown at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the time, her gender was unknown, leaving some journalists confused about it. She was designed by Yusuke Nakano and voiced by Akiko Kōmoto. While Midna appears as an imp-like creature in the majority of Twilight Princess, her actual form is humanoid.
She is a member of the magic-wielding Twili who joins forces with Link to prevent the kingdom of Hyrule from being enveloped by a corrupted parallel dimension known as the Twilight Realm. Midna ( Japanese: ミドナ, Hepburn: Midona) is a fictional character introduced as one of the main protagonists in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, a 2006 video game in Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda series.