About

Elden Ring Anime Comparisons refer to a series of TikToks that compare spells and fighting styles in FromSoftware's 2022 RPG Elden Ring to various anime moments and series. The trend was popularized in late February 2022 shortly after the game's release.

Origin

On February 26th, 2022, the day after Elden Ring's release, TikToker minstora^[1] posted a clip of his gameplay edited to feature music from Black Clover in the first known use of the trend online. The video gained over 255,000 likes in roughly two weeks (shown below).

Spread

Minstora's initial post proved instrumental in helping Elden Ring comparisons to anime spread on TikTok, as he posted several more videos overlaying anime soundtracks over specific character actions. For example, on February 28th, 2022, he posted a second video comparing the game to Black Clover, gaining over 141,000 likes (shown below, left).^[2] On March 2nd, he posted a similar video comparing the game to Fairy Tail, gaining over 1.9 million views and 192,000 ikes (shown below, right).

Others showed videos of themselves cosplaying as various anime characters in-game. For example, on February 28th, user senpai.gabe^[3] posted a video comparing their character to a character in Demon Slayer, gaining over 21,000 likes in two weeks (shown below, left). On March 4th, user drtopazz^[4] posted a clip comparing their character to a character in One Piece, gaining over 55,000 likes in 12 days (shown below, right).

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