The Legend of Zelda is Nintendo's action-adventure series, and YouTube interest for the keyword zelda printed 45 the week of November 7 2026. Same-day get_growth on youtube, pulled November 10 2026, reads +125.0% over 7 days (20 to 45) and +164.71% over 30 days (17 to 45). The 261-week get_time_series on that source runs from November 13 2021 through November 7 2026 and last hit 100 on May 20 2023. Same-week 2025 printed 15. Year-over-year change from that 15 is +200.0%. Google Search for zelda is 32 on October 31, which also clears the mover bar, so the quieter YouTube curve is the watch story for the Switch 2 remake that launched November 5.
About zelda
The Legend of Zelda is Nintendo's action-adventure franchise, and YouTube interest for the keyword zelda printed 45 the week of November 7 2026, 125 percent above the 20 print on October 31 on the 261-week youtube series after the Switch 2 remake launch.
Wikipedia dates the first game to February 21 1986, credits Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka as creators, and puts cumulative series sales above 150 million copies as of September 2024 across 21 main entries. Ocarina of Time shipped on Nintendo 64 in November 1998. Nintendo's September 8 2026 40th Anniversary Direct, covered that day by BusinessWire, had series producer Eiji Aonuma show Switch 2 gameplay and set a November 5 launch. Nintendo's own news post describes overhauled visuals, fully voiced cutscenes, expanded dialogue, and full orchestral music. Google Trends by Category Games, as of 2026-11-04T05:01:40Z, ranked zelda at 1. Nintendo tracks the parent hardware cart on this site.
What the time series shows
YouTube interest for zelda printed 45 on November 7 2026 on a 261-week series that opened at 16 on November 13 2021 and last hit 100 on May 20 2023, leaving this week's print 55 percent under that high and 1,267 days after it.
Last eight weekly prints are 26, 21, 19, 17, 20, 18, 20, and 45. Closest 30-day point is 17 on October 10 (+164.71%). Closest 90-day point is 16 on August 8 (+181.25%). Same-week 2025 printed 15, so this 45 sits above that Saturday. 2026's own high is 48 on September 12, then 26, 21, 19, and 17 as the Direct spike cooled. The 2026 floor is 13 on March 7. A smaller June 13 print of 25 faded to 14 by May 23. The recent 30-day absolute change is 28 points (17 to 45) against a prior 30-day change of 2 points (15 on September 5 to 17). The chart window starts November 9 2024 at 14.
Why the page charts YouTube
A remake people watch should be tracked on a video source first, and YouTube for zelda is the quieter series that still clears +20% over 7 days, +25% over 30 days, and +15% over 1 year while Google Shopping for the same keyword is a noisier cart spike.
Google Shopping for zelda is 96 on November 7, up 71.43% from 56 on October 31, up 380.0% versus 20 on October 10, and up 1,100.0% from 8 on November 8 2025. That cart print is the current shopping peak. Week-to-week population standard deviation on shopping is 37.29% on non-zero-baseline changes, against 21.21% on YouTube. Google Search for zelda is 32 on October 31, up 52.38% over 7 days, 45.45% over 30 days, and 146.15% over 1 year, with estimated weekly volume of 673,000. Search also clears. YouTube is the watch curve: 20 to 45 over 7 days, 17 to 45 in 30 days, 15 to 45 in 1 year (+200.0%), 261 weekly points, no zeros. Same-day get_growth on youtube, 30-day window, puts switch 2 at 36 (+63.64% from 22), gta 6 at 7 (+40.0% from 5), fortnite at 23 (+27.78% from 18), nintendo at 26 (+8.33% from 24), xbox at 42 (+2.44% from 41), and pokemon at 40 (-4.76% from 42). Fortnite tracks the other games cart on this site. Source context: YouTube search data.
get_time_series with source youtube and keyword zelda is the call behind the chart. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D, 30D, and 1Y, is the headline math: 20 to 45 (+125.0%), 17 to 45 (+164.71%), and 15 to 45 (+200.0%). Mixing the Shopping 96 with the YouTube 45 would invent a story the APIs do not tell.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="youtube" keyword="zelda"
get_growth source="youtube" keyword="zelda" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.