If there’s a game that’s felt like it needed a full anime adaptation over the past decade more it’s the NieR: Automata game. The property was announced for one back in February 2022 from Square Enix and Platinum Games with an anime TV series adaptation.
The series was formally named NieR:Automata Ver1.1a and it saw a January 7th, 2023 debut. With Crunchyroll having made their pickup for it and the simulcast underway, the show has had problems with production related to COVID-19 with some stop-and-start times previously. We learned back in March 2023 that episodes nine onward had been indefinitely postponed due to COVId-19 related production issues once again.
That’s finally getting some attention and it’s being laid out about as we expected. With it being so far into the run a rebroadcast wasn’t in the cards but finding the right solution for everyone on the committee takes time. The remaining four episodes were recently scheduled with them coming at once on July 23rd, 2023 at 7pm JST on Tokyo MX. More networks will schedule based on that in the coming days as they flex their schedules and local coverage events. With that in mind, the official site has now put out a new promo to highlight the upcoming debut.
Ryouji Masuyama directed it and worked on the series composition alongside Yoko Taro from the game. Jun Nakai is working on the character designs with A-1 Pictures handling the animation production.
The Japanese cast includes Yui Ishikawa as 2B, Natsuki Hanae as 9S, Hiroki Yasumoto as Pod 042, Kaoru Akiyama as Pod 153, Chiaki Kanou as Commander, Keiko Isobe as Operator 60, Meari Hatsumi as Operator 210, Aoi Yuki as Pascal, Daisuke Namikawa as Adam, Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Eve, and Ayaka Suwa as A2.
The English cast includes Kira Buckland as 2B, Kyle McCarley as 9S, Cherami Leigh as A2, D. C. Douglas as Pod 042, Abby Trott as Pod 153, Greg Chun as Adam, Ray Chase as Eve, Alexis Tipton as Pascal, Colleen O’Shaughnessey as Commander, Cassandra Lee Morris as Operator 6O, Connor Kelly-Eiding as Operator 21O, and Erica Mendez as Lily.
Aimer is handling the opening with “escalate” while amazarashi is performing the ending theme song “Antinomy.”
Check out the official site and Twitter.
Game Concept: NieR:Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Humanity has been driven from the Earth by mechanical beings from another world. In a final effort to take back the planet, the human resistance sends a force of android soldiers to destroy the invaders. Now, a war between machines and androids rages on… A war that could soon unveil a long-forgotten truth of the world.
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