At the beginning of the year Square Enix left us with the surprise that they already had an anime based on ‘NieR: Automata‘ along with Aniplex. A few months have passed and the production has continued its course and given a lot, because it seems that it will arrive much sooner than we expected.
Two for one in trailers
We are living in a small golden age for video game inspired animeand very soon ‘NieR: Automata’ automata will also enter the bag and we will have to see how it works as an adaptation.
It has been confirmed that the official title of the series will be ‘NieR: Automata Ver1. 1a’, and during the Aniplex Online Fest two small trailers have also been revealed, each one focused on a character.
Yui Ishikawa will play 2B and Natsuki Hanae at 9S, with Hiroki Yasumoto as Pod 042 and kaoru akiyama as Pod 153. Ryouji Masuyama is directing the anime of ‘NieR: Automata’ from A-1 Pictures and is also in charge of the scripts along with Yoko Tarōthe creative director behind the original video games.
“The anime has the suffix ‘Ver1.1a’ because the title ‘NieR: Automata’ was a story created to be a game, so copying it wouldn’t make an interesting story for an anime. So we decided to change a few things,” Taro said about the anime.
Still, the anime’s director didn’t want to disappoint fans by making too many changes, so it seems a deal was struck to even out the amount of original content it will have.NieR: Automata Ver1. 1a’.
We were aiming for a more distant date, but it seems that NieR: Automata Ver1. 1a’ will finally premiere next Januarywithin the winter season of 2023. The day remains to be specified, but we will have to wait much less than expected and for now the animation looks quite promising.