Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeVolume 5 of Elden Ring: The Road to the Erdtree marks the series' full narrative pivot into Caelid — FromSoftware's most visually hostile biome — which is a meaningful structural milestone for an adaptation that had spent its first four volumes in Limgrave and Liurnia. It also delivers the manga debut of Millicent, one of the game's most emotionally resonant NPCs, weaving her Scarlet Rot questline into Tobita's comedic register without losing the character's essential pathos. As the first official comic adaptation of Elden Ring, the broader series represents a landmark moment for video-game manga tie-ins: Tobita's choice to reframe one of the decade's most atmospheric action RPGs as a pure gag manga — with FromSoftware's blessing — was an audacious creative gamble that paid off in a long-running, multi-volume run now past nine collected volumes. Volume 5 sits at the dramatic hinge where Aseo must confront his first truly non-negotiable boss encounter (Radahn's festival looming at volume's end), signaling the series' gradual shift from pure slapstick toward something with higher narrative stakes.
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The manga began serialization on September 4, 2022 via COMIC Hu (Kadokawa's free web magazine platform), making it the first-ever officially licensed Elden Ring comic — launched while the game was still a cultural phenomenon with over 16.6 million copies shipped. Nikiichi Tobita, previously known for the gag manga A Cursed Sword's Daily Life and Monster x Monster, was selected as artist-author; he has noted that FromSoftware approved the comedy approach but reserved the right to rein in gags that went too far. Yen Press handled the English-language collected edition, with John Neal as translator and Greg Deng and Phil Christie sharing lettering duties; Volume 5 was released in English on January 28, 2025, following a steady quarterly-to-biannual localization cadence that had begun with the first English volume in May 2023.
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- Published January 28, 2025 by Yen Press (ISBN 9798855410945); 164 pages, black-and-white, rated OT (Older Teen), in the standard manga trim of 5" x 7.5".
- Story credit: FromSoftware, Inc. Art and cover: Nikiichi Tobita. Translation: John Neal. Lettering: Greg Deng and Phil Christie.
- The volume marks the manga debut of Millicent, the Scarlet Rot-afflicted NPC whose multi-stage questline across Caelid and beyond is considered one of Elden Ring's most emotionally complex side stories.
- Aseo enters Caelid for the first time in this volume, taking the narrative into the game's infamous rot-blighted region — a geographic and tonal first for the series.
- Key story beats include Aseo's encounter with the sage Gowry, the battle against Commander O'Neil to retrieve the Unalloyed Gold Needle, and delivering it to Millicent so she can recover her senses.
- The volume closes with Aseo arriving at Redmane Castle in preparation for the Radahn Festival — the series' first build-up to a full-scale, named demigod boss encounter.
- Characters appearing in or introduced during this volume include: Aseo, Melina, Torrent, Gowry, Millicent, Commander O'Neil, Alexander (the Warrior Jar), Blaidd, Rogier, Edgar, and Darian.
- The series was serialized digitally on COMIC Hu (later ComicWalker) beginning September 4, 2022, and has been localized into at least 12 languages; the English run is published exclusively by Yen Press and is also available in digital/Kindle format.
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