The NieR: Automata anime adaptation, titled NieR: Automata Ver 1.1a, will premiere in January 2023. Two “Promotional File” trailers highlighting lead characters 2B and 9S respectively have been released.
Character trailers will be released in October.
A-1 Pictures is producing NieR: Automata Ver 1.1a with Ryouji Masuyama (Blend S, The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls assistant director) as director and co-series composer, the game’s creator Yoko Taro as co-series composer, Jun Nakai (Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note) as character designer and chief animation director, and MONACA (Assassin’s Pride) as music composer. Yui Ishikawa and Natsuki Hanae are reprising their roles as 2B and 9S from the game.
In an interview video, Yoko Taro noted that the “Ver 1.1a” affix was added as “the title NieR: Automata was a story we created to be a game, so copying it as is wouldn’t make an interesting story for an anime. So I brought up the idea of changing things around.” He added that he “was trying to destroy the original story, and the anime staff is desperately stopping that.”
NieR: Automata was developed by PlatinumGames and published by Square Enix. It was released in 2017 for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC as a sequel to 2010’s Nier. The game takes place in the distant future, thousands of years after its predecessor, and sees a group of androids battling to reclaim Earth from an army of alien-created machines. Like the first Nier, which was developed by the now-defunct Cavia, the gameplay married third-person hack-and-slash combat with shoot-em-up and side-scrolling elements.
Aside from the anime, NieR: Automata has inspired a variety of other media, including stage plays, novels, and manga.
Source: Aniplex YouTube channel
