Yeah. The difference in SS is that you can really tell that Link cares about Zelda. I mean, you can tell he cares about Midna and Ilia in TP, but in SS it's like...well! It almost made me cry! If other people hadn't been around I would have. :( lol But yeah, people don't seem to pay attention. They ship Link with a rock.
I remember there was manga at Books-A-Million that my brother told me about and I NEVER got around to buying it! I was so mad I never did cause I don't see it there now. I wanted to read it though. :( Even more annoying, though not Zelda related, is that Pokemon Adventures is finally there, but after I'm done with my obsession with it. Thaaaaaaaanks ViZ...