The anime adaptation based on Square Enix and Platinum Games’ role-playing game that follows androids 2N, 9S, and A2 as they battle to reclaim Earth from alien mechanical beings, is set to release January 2023.
Ryouji Masuyama (The Secret World of Arrietty) directs, with A-1 Pictures (Sword Art Online) producing. The series is set to release January 2023.
The cast includes Chiaki Kano as Commander; Keiko Isobe as Operator 6O; Mary Hatsumi as Operator 21O; Yui Ishikawa as 2B; Natsuki Hanae as 9S; Hiroki Yasumoto as Pod 042; and Kaoru Akiyama as Pod 153.
Square Enix states the game 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.”
Jun Nakai serves as chief animation director and character designer. Musical composition by MONACA. A-1 Pictures is producing the animation.
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Whitney is a freelance writer focusing on VFX-driven fantasy film & TV as well as preschool animation.
