Elden Ring is getting a five-minute fan-made anime adaptation later this year, and you can watch a sneak peek trailer right now.
The production's lead, SteinsAlter on Twitter, revealed the brief teaser trailer for the forthcoming Elden Ring anime adaptation earlier today. The trailer sort of plays out as a greatest hits collection of in-game bosses, showing off the likes of Malenia, Mohg, Radigon, and Maliketh, the Black Blade, while even teasing DLC bosses like Messmer.
Elden Ring Anime TEASER TRAILER 🔥Full production will be 5 minutesby my team Steins Alter ProductionsBetter quality Trailer on our YouTube-Steins Alter and where the final release will be FOR THIS FALLSUPPORT the PATREON too to help (Link Below)!#ELDENRING #indieanime pic.twitter.com/taaghlWzHfJuly 8, 2024
The anime's director also reveals that the full anime adaptation will be five minutes in total. Yes, that's admittedly not long, and cramming Elden Ring into five minutes is a herculean task, but even with a full development team working on the animation, putting out five minutes of an animation of this quality is incredibly tough, demanding work.
SteinsAlter also adds in another tweet that the teaser trailer isn't reflective of the final product. "Nothing is at the level I aimed for," the director writes of the teaser trailer's quality, adding that he's something of a "perfectionist." Perhaps that's another indicator of why the animation team behind this is keeping the entire adaptation to just five minutes.
Oddly, this all comes after talk of a potential Elden Ring movie adaptation last month in June. FromSoftware studio president and Elden Ring game director Hidetaka Miyazaki said that he would be interested in an adaptation of the huge RPG, but only if he's not heavily involved, because no one at the studio has "the knowledge or ability."
If you're still playing through Elden Ring's new DLC expansion, you'll want to read our full Shadow of the Erdtree questlines guide for where to begin every NPC story.
