Elden Ring fan-made anime director reckons Sony’s deal with FromSoftware’s parent company shouldn’t chuck up any surprise DMCA boss battles ahead of summer 2025 release

As the project releases a fresh teaser offering a behind-the-scenes look at stuff coming together.

Image credit:Stein Alter

The fan-made Elden Ring anime that’s been in the works for a little while now has just put out a fresh teaser confirming that it’s still on track for a summer 2025 release, and it sounds like the team behind it isn’t expecting last year’s deal between Sony and FromSoft’s parent company to throw up any unexpected obstacles.

This fan project is the work of a team led by YouTuber Steins Alter, who have realsed a couple of interesting teasers for it so far, with the one in November last year coming alongside the news the release date for the full thing had been pushed back to its current window.

Now, another teaser has dropped, offering a bit of a behind-the-scenes look at the animation coming together and confirming that a summer 2025 release is still the plan as of right now.

Steins Alter told VG247 last year that this revised target had been decided on “because the scope of the project grew beyond what I planned and to help accommodate the team’s schedule”, so it’s nice to see things have seemingly been progressing as hoped since that point.

As you can see above, this latest teaser includes work-in-progress glimpses at a bunch of the kinds of fast-paced boss battle you’d expect from an ER anime, with the likes of Malenia and Mogh being spottable as the attacks whirl and swords swing. There’s also a dragon breating some fire at one point, which is cool.

However, it seems like Steins Alter isn’t too worried, responding: “We should be good”.

We’ll have to see what happens, but it’d be a shame to see hard work possibly get waterfowl danced into oblivion if some lawyers deemed it necessary to do a thing.

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