Manga ELDEN RING Tōki Hazama no Monogatari tells short “what if” stories about NPCs in the game
Famitsu.com's special portal site for Bandai Namco and FromSoftware's Elden Ring game announced a new comedy manga based on the game titled ELDEN RING Tōki Hazama no Monogatari (ELDEN RING Distant Stories from The Lands Between), by manga author Haruichi (comic series Star Wars: Visions, Star Wars Leia, Princess of Alderaan). The manga will launch on July 4 on Kadokawa's Comic Hu manga website.
Image via Famitsu Special Portal Site of the game Elden Ring
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The touching comic series is a collection of short stories with “what if” scenarios that could take place in the Lands Between, featuring NPCs (non-player characters) who appear. appears in the game. The manga's first story will be about a broken-hearted girl named Roderika.
Kadokawa launched Nikiichi Tobita's Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree (Elden Ring: Ōgonki e no Michi) manga on the free manga website ComicWalker in September 2022. The manga has a simulpub in 11 languages including including English, Traditional Chinese, Korean, French and Italian, among many others. Kadokawa will publish the manga's sixth compiled book volume in Japan on July 4. Yen Press publishes the manga in English and will release the fourth compiled book volume on October 15.
FromSoftware launched Elden Ring for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series 3 in 2022 and surpassed Call of Duty: Vanguard to become the best-selling game in the United States. in the past 12 months ending April 2022.
The game's latest DLC expansion Shadow of the Erdtree launches on June 21 for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC via Steam.
Hidetaka Miyazaki (Dark Souls, Dark Souls III, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice) and author George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones) collaborated on the game's world.
The game won Game of the Year at the DICE Awards, The Game Awards, and the Golden Joystick Awards. The game also won the Grand Prize at the PlayStation Partner Awards in December 2022. Miyazaki won the Nebula Award for Best Game Writer last year for his work on the game.
Source: Famitsu Special Portal of Elden Ring game website
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