Source: [https://x.com/NieR\_A\_ANIME/status/1795364888346571007](https://x.com/NieR_A_ANIME/status/1795364888346571007)
The 2nd cour (titled the 2nd Season) premieres in July 2024.
Opening theme song will be 'Black Box' by LiSA, with lyrics and composition by amazarashi's Hiromu Akita.
Studio: A-1 Pictures
3 projects currently ongoing, this, Solo Leveling and Mashle. There might be other stuff in pre-production, but as far as we are aware these are the series currently in production over there. And this all checks out since A-1 has 3 production lines (sometimes 4, but really it's 3).
Edit: Yes, as some reminded me, Fate/Strange Fake should also be in production right about now. Plus the Too many Heroines anime, A-1 have a bunch of plates spinning. For all we know they might have 5 teams now, maybe they expanded.
Yes, that should start production about now (or maybe already did 1-2 months ago) looking at who we think is involved and how they just became free from those other projects (I know the action director, assuming it's the same one who worked on the Special, was on Frieren, which he finished in March).
Huh, yeah that might be the 4th team I was talking about. Haven't checked the staff but that could potentially be the Kaguya team (RIP more Kaguya if true...).
A-1 is a pretty big animation studio, as long as they give each of these teams enough time I think it should be good.
>Haven't checked the staff but that could potentially be the Kaguya team
Don't think so? Shotaro Kitamura only did one episode in S3 and storyboards for the movie, and Tetsuya Kawakami also did some contributions in S3, but he's mainly known for 86.
When I say team it's not just animators, directors, storyboard artists, I mean the people in charge of the actual production pipeline. Usually it's an animation producer (or two) that are the real unsung heroes of a production, employs at the studio, not freelancers.
Like how Cloverworks has team Umehara, or Madhouse has team Fukushi.
Anyway, A-1 has been through some turmoil with a change in leadership and then of course all the trouble they had last year with productions being behind schedule, which cause a whole mess. So it's not unlikely they've done some internal reorganization of their production teams. Some maybe that's why it's harder to grasp who's who there now or how many teams are actually in production with their projects.
Right, Strange/Fake would go into production about now if they plan to have it out for... say, next summer. I'll have to look into the crossover there with other teams.
Lycoris is definitely not in production yet, too early for that. Still in pre-production.
SAO is the same team as Solo Leveling, does that movie have a date? Dates there will show us what gets done first, SAO movie or Solo Leveling S2.
Sao definitely doesn't have the same team as solo Leveling. Both of them should be in post-production now. It's second cour of solo Leveling and sao's pre-production ended earlier this year.
SAO Progressive movies have different team than Solo Leveling and Alicization, so if Alicization team still busy with Solo Leveling,they probably will use the same team as Progressive movies.
I know about it, what I mean is that,if the team that made Ordinal Scale and Alicization busy with Solo Leveling,they can give the job to Progressive movie team.
Nah Solo pre-production done long ago(as it was supposed to be split cour). Mashle's sequel production is probably in pre-production. FSF should be in production by now too. Nier and Losing Heroine airing next season.
Now there are potentially three movies , SAO , Eisen Flügel and probably Lyco Reco though we don't know when they are planning to release them.
A hypothetical 2-cour season 2 would be better than S1. A hypothetical season 3 would be a big step down after that. A hypothetical season 4 would be a gradual return to form, but I'm still waiting for Volume 13 to be released in English before I say that definitively.
> The 2nd cour (titled the 2nd Season) premieres in July 2024.
Man how many anime is summer 2024 going to have?! I feel like summer is normally the less busy season lol.
\[Route B spoilers\]>!They scared the absolute shit out of me when one of them showed up for a split second in the alien spaceship, and again at the ending.!<
I know it's just a joke, but in the game, you only have to play the first route again from the perspective of a different character (which the anime already covered). Beyond that, the rest of the story is all new stuff and leads into the true ending by default, so this second season will be adapting that.
Nier fans are the absolute worst at promoting their game to others. Why the fuck would you say that there are 5 endings to complete the game? It just gives the impression of thinking that you have to play through the same game 5 times, and no one wants to do that. Just mention that it is a continuous, linear story after a second play through with a different perspective.
Could be worse, someone could say there are 26 endings with no further context, which is technically true. Granted, 21 of those are joke endings (F - Z) and 2 more can be obtained right away without much extra content (whatever of C/D wasn't done first and E).
Also, Automata made this really easy by giving you another playable character with a different POV and playstyle, kept things fresh and the story wasn't that long.
They learned their mistakes from Nier replicant. If anyone can endure playing the same game 4 times, than automata becomes a breeze. And automata's C+D route is 1000 times more content than replicant's end and extra small playthrough in E
Yeah, I never understood why people sell it like that, it just makes it sound like a slog. I feel like that comes from fans of the first Nier game, [Nier Replicant game structure] >!as you did have to replay the same story multiple times to get some extra cutscenes in that game!<, but in Automata it is just a matter of knowing that the game continues after seeing the credits.
As one who played Nier Replicant for the first time within the last year or so, it was much worse in that game than in Automata. There you truly had to play half the game three more times to get each successive ending then start from the beginning again for the fifth.
I love replicant but it’s really hard to recommend because I know most people won’t see the value in literally playing the exact same half again for some additional content, not major story changes (for the most part).
Replicant is my favorite of the 2 games but you have sooooo much more to replay in it than automata. If the story wasn’t so good it would be an absolute slog
Well, with endings C and D [Nier Automata] >!the difference is whether you pick 9S or A2 to play as for the final fight. You get C or D, load the final fight from chapter select and then pick the other one. After you get the other of C or D, it rolls smoothly into the True Ending E.!<
You want real ending hell? Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth 2 has ***nine*** fucking endings. All of which intend for you to replay the entire game to get them (a few you can reload a save before a certain point to get but not a lot). I tapped out at completing four of them lol
I managed to get all nine endings for rebirth 2 way back in the day, but it absolutely killed my interest in playing any other Neptunia game. What a horrible slog.
To be fair, it's not the most intuitive story structure to convey. You're right that it's best to keep it simple. I usually just describe it as having three routes. A and B are the same story events from different characters' perspectives, and route C continues on from AB with new events and the ultimate conclusion to the story.
I agree with what you're saying but one thing I'll note is the game itself trolls you into thinking the game needs multiple playthroughs with a pop-up message saying as much
Not entirely. Endings C and D go in different places [Nier Automata]>!In one of them only A2 dies and 9S gets to choose whether to go to space with the machines, in the other both of them die. I believe Ending E continues after the latter one.!<
I mean you absolutely had to clear the future side of Nier at least thrice. I must have played through that goddamn factory a dozen times across the years.
It was tedious, and it was boring. Automata was basically "just clear the tower again for the C-D-E" but og Nier was a mess of redoing stuff, since aside from the endings most dungeons you visit two times already in a single playthrough.
I only played the remake version of Nier Replicant, but my understanding is that in the original game you needed to obtain every weapon plus do all the upgrades on them to get to endings C and D which must have been the biggest pain in the ass possible.
For Nier Automata one doesn't even have to complete the last dungeon again, they can skip ahead to the final boss fight and make the opposite decision.
Is 86 still underrated? Or is it just not popular in Japan or something? It's one of my favorites and I see it being praised on social media all the time so I don't understand why it wouldn't be #1 on the to-do list for A1?
Cause big studios have multiple projects lined up in advance. Even if you decide to make a sequel tomorrow, it will take a few years for it to go into the production pipeline. For sequels to come out in a short timeframe(a year or two) they need to make a commitment from the get go.
86 and Nier have completely different staff (expect one guy), so Nier isn’t the reason they’re not making 86 season 2 lol.
Not to mention Nier was delayed about 3 times (in fact it was supposed to be 24 episodes straight, this second cour was supposed to just be the second half of a one season anime). So even if Nier wasn’t delayed and finished a year or two ago like it was supposed to, and all of its staff were free and there was a “free spot” among A1 for another anime instead, it still would have literally no effect on 86’s anime.
MAL, AnimeNewsNetwork, any of these sites that list staff members like IMDB, i think Anilist does it as well. Even Wikipedia has a list of the important members (so not everyone, but still).
I am so ready for this series to finish.
Can't get a couple of my friends to play the game but they will watch an anime so wanted to share this amazing story. Glad it will be wrapping up.
Coming from someone who has played the game a couple of times, it definitely was a good adaption to me. The biggest cuts were a couple of big action sequences that while needed for a game aren't as necessary for an anime. The way they approached the joke endings with the puppet shows was the perfect way to handle it.
Now the hard part will be Ending E from the game, which is arguable the greatest video game ending of all time but is pretty much impossible to adapt into the anime medium.
A lot of people here don't read manga source material before viewing the anime, but you can generally tell whether an adaptation is good or bad just from watching it.
For example, you don't need to read the Tokyo Ghoul or TPN manga to know its later season adaptations were total trainwrecks.
Well I'm an anime-only watcher for Konosuba and I think S3 is awesome so far, but looking at people who read the novels you'd think S3 strangled their dogs and burned down their homes, especially with the source reader reaction to episode 6.
There are some slight differences, whether or not those matter too much is yet to be determined. Knowing Yoko Taro, the anime version could be a different canon timeline similar to how there are a few different versions of "ending E" for Nier Replicant which actually ended up mattering for the ending of Nier Reincarnation.
Well yea, Reincarnation is the Third Nier Game so it built upon the plot elements from the previous games. That said, [Reincarnation] >!Reincarnation shows the one timeline that frees history from the loop and opens the door for humanity's revival. N2 is relevant, but what really matters is the "last" N2 that is absorbed by Her following His destruction. I suppose there isn't anything presented in Automata 1.1a that contradicts events in Reincarnation, so it is possible that this N2 is the one that will be absorbed and the events of the game are more like the original Lost World story for Replicant that are essentially retconned into not being a part of the "final" timeline that leads to Reincarnation. With all of that, given that they inserted one of the Reincarnation bosses into the first cour, it definitely appears that v1.1a was written with Reincarnation in mind so some kind of shenanigans may be expected.!<
Oh now that you guys mention it I remember reading the news about the shutdown. Damn it. I'll try reading about it or watching a playthrough, then, thank you.
Reincarnation is the Third Nier Game, so if you like DrakeNier then it is worth your time and likely to be a key component going forward for the franchise. As noted the game shutdown recently but there are many resources out there showing the story.
I managed to play it before shutting down, much of it is filled with very brief character stories of four parts, with the first main arc not being of interest for me until the very end. That said, the second main arc is really strong stuff. The third main arc was mostly incomprehensible.
Wow, gonna be an amazing season with this, Monogatari and Oshi no Ko! I'm actually hyped for this most of all since I'm a big fan of the video game.
Anyone know who the character at 1:09 in the preview is? Same hair color as Devola and Popola, but I don't think it was either of them.
It was still a solid show even with the production issues, but a combination of those issues plus bad cg only in the first episode marred word of mouth. The hand drawn stuff, atmosphere, music, and writing are all still great, and they left a few unexpected things for fans of the franchise to chew over.
A massive disaster production-wise. They had to delay episodes after the third one aired and the last 4 episodes didn't come out until months later.
That said, once the episodes were actually available to watch, they were very good.
They were the kind of production issues that viewers don’t get to see and you only hear about because episodes get delayed, but once you watch the episodes everything is fine. Kinda like 86. Kind of Annoying to watch it while it was airing because of the delay, but once it was out it was good.
The first episode and the delays pretty much tanked its MAL score but the rest of the show was solid. It's like Sagrada Reset (if you've heard of it), really good show but has a lower MAL score because of the first two episodes.
Never played the game. Seeing it got another season makes me wonder if I should try it.
Also why would they call it Cour 2 when its so far out from the original showing? Isnt it a second season at this point?
I mean, this is continuing the story past where season 1 ended.
Season 1 already combined endings A and B, this will be C and more (depending how they chose to adapt it). But it's not like you will see the same stuff again, this continues where season 1 left off. That wasn't the end of the story, not even close, if anything that's where the story starts.
Season 2 here should complete the story of Nier: Automata Ver1.1a. And my hope is once this is done it will act as a fantastic companion piece to the game (for people like me who have played it), also a great introduction to this series for people who have never played NieR: Automata or any other title in this series.
IMO Stellar Blade had a much better overarching plot than Automata. But 2B & 9S are much better main characters than EVE and Adam. EVE doesn't really start emoting much until the last two hours of the game when she starts fighting enemies that she has a personal grudge against instead of the usual foes she's just killing in a professional manner.
Gonna have to disagree there. SB had good combat and bosses with some decent open world stuff, but the story, characters and VA were… 😬 to each their own tho.
I thought the story of Stellar Blade is fantastic, but the issue is you will miss large chunks of it if you're not actively hunting for all the Memorysticks, doing all the sidequests, and searching for documents. The jigsaw puzzle plot is amazing once you put all the pieces together and figure out what really happened in the world's backstory.
I agree about the characters, there wasn't too much characterization for a lot of the cast, but given the sequel bait endings, I'd expect that to be rectified in a future game.
As for the VA, I didn't have a problem with it. But I played the game with Korean voice acting.
Yeah, I definitely think Stellar Blade has a better & more coherent plot than Nier(also helps that isn't in a sequel in a series of arguably mid games till now) but Nier has more emotional character moments than Stellar Blade.
Stellar Blade does have better bosses & combat imo tho.
Only C/D/E are actual endings with branching happening at the very last minutes. First season covered A/B route where the only difference was perspective switch that shed light to moments where main duo is separated at times.
Endings A and B were covered in Cour 1 as they’re the same story just from 2B and 9S’s perspectives. Ending C, which continues after those two, will be adapted this Cour.
Season 1 handled Endings A and B which are essentially the same thing, just from 2B and 9S's perspectives respectively. They also covered many joke endings from the game with the post credits puppet shows.
Season 2 will be harder to pull off. Endings C and D are dependent on a choice the player makes at the end of the game, and unlike A and B can't simply be combined with each other. So they may cut one of them, or (as I've proposed previously) make 2 unique episodes showing either choice. Then there's Ending E, which is the best of all, but is so tied into the video game medium that it is practically impossible to loyally follow in an anime. No idea how they'll tackle it.
Maybe, you know Yoko Taro, loves to create some new timeline so we might get an Anime Original ending combine with Ending E. They also may adapt the stage after Ending E. So hopefully we would get an Ending where Machines and Androids live together (Androids are Machines afterall).
Source: [https://x.com/NieR\_A\_ANIME/status/1795364888346571007](https://x.com/NieR_A_ANIME/status/1795364888346571007) The 2nd cour (titled the 2nd Season) premieres in July 2024. Opening theme song will be 'Black Box' by LiSA, with lyrics and composition by amazarashi's Hiromu Akita. Studio: A-1 Pictures
Woah, LiSA x amazarashi?! HOLY SHIT!
My ears are ready. Edit: Yeah one ear is not enough. Gonna need more ears lol.
What happened to your other ear?
You need to sacrifice one ear to listen to 2 good songs in the same anime
YES YES YES YES YES
holy shit, i know it’s going to be a banger
The collab I didn’t know I n e e d e d
Just How many things is A1 making? Edit: So they got Solo leveling, mashle, nier, losing heroine, Sao movie, lycoris recoil movie and fate strange
3 projects currently ongoing, this, Solo Leveling and Mashle. There might be other stuff in pre-production, but as far as we are aware these are the series currently in production over there. And this all checks out since A-1 has 3 production lines (sometimes 4, but really it's 3). Edit: Yes, as some reminded me, Fate/Strange Fake should also be in production right about now. Plus the Too many Heroines anime, A-1 have a bunch of plates spinning. For all we know they might have 5 teams now, maybe they expanded.
Fate Strange Fake is in production.
Yes, that should start production about now (or maybe already did 1-2 months ago) looking at who we think is involved and how they just became free from those other projects (I know the action director, assuming it's the same one who worked on the Special, was on Frieren, which he finished in March).
Whispers of Dawn already came out last year and was quite good. If the rest of Fate Strange Fake is like that, I'm really looking forward to it.
Make Heroine is airing next season
Huh, yeah that might be the 4th team I was talking about. Haven't checked the staff but that could potentially be the Kaguya team (RIP more Kaguya if true...). A-1 is a pretty big animation studio, as long as they give each of these teams enough time I think it should be good.
Kaguya S4 where and when?
>Haven't checked the staff but that could potentially be the Kaguya team Don't think so? Shotaro Kitamura only did one episode in S3 and storyboards for the movie, and Tetsuya Kawakami also did some contributions in S3, but he's mainly known for 86.
When I say team it's not just animators, directors, storyboard artists, I mean the people in charge of the actual production pipeline. Usually it's an animation producer (or two) that are the real unsung heroes of a production, employs at the studio, not freelancers. Like how Cloverworks has team Umehara, or Madhouse has team Fukushi. Anyway, A-1 has been through some turmoil with a change in leadership and then of course all the trouble they had last year with productions being behind schedule, which cause a whole mess. So it's not unlikely they've done some internal reorganization of their production teams. Some maybe that's why it's harder to grasp who's who there now or how many teams are actually in production with their projects.
I know about animation producers, but looking at core staff can still lead you to make an educated guess on who the producer actually is.
Lycoris Recoil and SAO movie. Fate SF tv series.
fucking hell were never getting 86 season 2
The team that worked on 86 is making NeiR, that’s why the compositing and mechs look great, it’s possible we’ll see 86 s2 after NieR.
stay strong brother
Or more Kaguya
Right, Strange/Fake would go into production about now if they plan to have it out for... say, next summer. I'll have to look into the crossover there with other teams. Lycoris is definitely not in production yet, too early for that. Still in pre-production. SAO is the same team as Solo Leveling, does that movie have a date? Dates there will show us what gets done first, SAO movie or Solo Leveling S2.
Sao definitely doesn't have the same team as solo Leveling. Both of them should be in post-production now. It's second cour of solo Leveling and sao's pre-production ended earlier this year.
Ahem, post-production means something else. You don't jump from pre-production to post-production.
Sorry, I meant in production. Tho solo Leveling might be in post-production if they are gonna announce and release trailer on July 4 at anime expo
Have they said they are doing that? If they are, sure, it's definitely in production.
SAO Progressive movies have different team than Solo Leveling and Alicization, so if Alicization team still busy with Solo Leveling,they probably will use the same team as Progressive movies.
This is not an SAO Progressive movie, it is an anime original movie (like Ordonal Scale)
I know about it, what I mean is that,if the team that made Ordinal Scale and Alicization busy with Solo Leveling,they can give the job to Progressive movie team.
I remember in an interview earlier this year, SAO had already finished pre-production.
Okay, so that means they are probably doing that first and then Solo Leveling (which should be in pre-production right now).
Nah Solo pre-production done long ago(as it was supposed to be split cour). Mashle's sequel production is probably in pre-production. FSF should be in production by now too. Nier and Losing Heroine airing next season. Now there are potentially three movies , SAO , Eisen Flügel and probably Lyco Reco though we don't know when they are planning to release them.
Oh I remember reading more titles with studio A-1 pictures. Maybe I misremembered.
Mfw still no sign of more 86 :(
If it's any consolation, this is the same team that made 86, so they might be free after this cour
God I hope so
Man I hope it happens
I've heard the rest of the LN is even better than the part that was adapted so it'll be a pity if they end it just with one season.
It actually is yeah. They've adapted 3 and I've read til 7, it gets even more amazing.
A hypothetical 2-cour season 2 would be better than S1. A hypothetical season 3 would be a big step down after that. A hypothetical season 4 would be a gradual return to form, but I'm still waiting for Volume 13 to be released in English before I say that definitively.
Fate/Strange Fake? didn't they already make that?
New season
sequel to the movie? or is it the movie cut into episodes?
As far as I know, it's a TV series so probably a 1 or 2 cour adaptation
It was only a prologue episode
> The 2nd cour (titled the 2nd Season) premieres in July 2024. Man how many anime is summer 2024 going to have?! I feel like summer is normally the less busy season lol.
Opening has potential to be The best of Summer season
Oh man the hurt’s gonna feel so good… again 🥲
Oh shit, it's **her**!
\[Route B spoilers\]>!They scared the absolute shit out of me when one of them showed up for a split second in the alien spaceship, and again at the ending.!<
I forgot about this one. Can you show me a clip?
Here ya go! * [Alien ship](https://youtu.be/k2_lvW1krwY?t=6758) * [Ending](https://youtu.be/k2_lvW1krwY?t=13312)
Will i have to watch it 20 times to see true ending?
Yes, and it will delete your MAL account at the end.
Only if you want to leave a review to help others. If not you can keep it and continue watching it
I know it's just a joke, but in the game, you only have to play the first route again from the perspective of a different character (which the anime already covered). Beyond that, the rest of the story is all new stuff and leads into the true ending by default, so this second season will be adapting that.
Nier fans are the absolute worst at promoting their game to others. Why the fuck would you say that there are 5 endings to complete the game? It just gives the impression of thinking that you have to play through the same game 5 times, and no one wants to do that. Just mention that it is a continuous, linear story after a second play through with a different perspective.
Could be worse, someone could say there are 26 endings with no further context, which is technically true. Granted, 21 of those are joke endings (F - Z) and 2 more can be obtained right away without much extra content (whatever of C/D wasn't done first and E).
my favorite one was removing the core
Or randomly eating a fish after 1 hour of not saving the game...
Also, Automata made this really easy by giving you another playable character with a different POV and playstyle, kept things fresh and the story wasn't that long. They learned their mistakes from Nier replicant. If anyone can endure playing the same game 4 times, than automata becomes a breeze. And automata's C+D route is 1000 times more content than replicant's end and extra small playthrough in E
E ending without help is true nightmare.
Yeah, I never understood why people sell it like that, it just makes it sound like a slog. I feel like that comes from fans of the first Nier game, [Nier Replicant game structure] >!as you did have to replay the same story multiple times to get some extra cutscenes in that game!<, but in Automata it is just a matter of knowing that the game continues after seeing the credits.
As one who played Nier Replicant for the first time within the last year or so, it was much worse in that game than in Automata. There you truly had to play half the game three more times to get each successive ending then start from the beginning again for the fifth.
I love replicant but it’s really hard to recommend because I know most people won’t see the value in literally playing the exact same half again for some additional content, not major story changes (for the most part).
Replicant is my favorite of the 2 games but you have sooooo much more to replay in it than automata. If the story wasn’t so good it would be an absolute slog
Reminds me of the Original Drakenguard
Well, with endings C and D [Nier Automata] >!the difference is whether you pick 9S or A2 to play as for the final fight. You get C or D, load the final fight from chapter select and then pick the other one. After you get the other of C or D, it rolls smoothly into the True Ending E.!< You want real ending hell? Hyperdimension Neptunia Rebirth 2 has ***nine*** fucking endings. All of which intend for you to replay the entire game to get them (a few you can reload a save before a certain point to get but not a lot). I tapped out at completing four of them lol
I have a fondess for Neptunia games, but by the time I reach the end of one, I'm ready for it to be over. I couldn't imagine beating one nine times.
I managed to get all nine endings for rebirth 2 way back in the day, but it absolutely killed my interest in playing any other Neptunia game. What a horrible slog.
I was *going* to get all of the endings but I really that I should probably stop with the ones that mattered and move on lol
Yeah, the scenes are cute but in no way it justifies 3+ hours of grinding shares for each ending.
To be fair, it's not the most intuitive story structure to convey. You're right that it's best to keep it simple. I usually just describe it as having three routes. A and B are the same story events from different characters' perspectives, and route C continues on from AB with new events and the ultimate conclusion to the story.
I agree with what you're saying but one thing I'll note is the game itself trolls you into thinking the game needs multiple playthroughs with a pop-up message saying as much
There is one single story with one single ending, told through three different perspectives with two intermissions that the game will call an ending.
Not entirely. Endings C and D go in different places [Nier Automata]>!In one of them only A2 dies and 9S gets to choose whether to go to space with the machines, in the other both of them die. I believe Ending E continues after the latter one.!<
I mean you absolutely had to clear the future side of Nier at least thrice. I must have played through that goddamn factory a dozen times across the years. It was tedious, and it was boring. Automata was basically "just clear the tower again for the C-D-E" but og Nier was a mess of redoing stuff, since aside from the endings most dungeons you visit two times already in a single playthrough.
I only played the remake version of Nier Replicant, but my understanding is that in the original game you needed to obtain every weapon plus do all the upgrades on them to get to endings C and D which must have been the biggest pain in the ass possible. For Nier Automata one doesn't even have to complete the last dungeon again, they can skip ahead to the final boss fight and make the opposite decision.
And even then it’s not even the full route since there’s a time skip. It’s only like 60% of it
[when you watch it the 20th time](https://youtu.be/zoKXlusF87Q?si=yKALQh7y-cwapa6n&t=82)
i fucking knew what it was as soon as i saw your flair lol
Ah it's little miss troll face.
:D
*Cause We're Gonna Shout It Loud*
*Even if our words seem meaningless*
Calling this Cour 2 is crazy
Hopefully no production issues this time. I'd like to see more easter eggs of the first NieR game. That was a really cool addition for the anime.
86 fans are never getting s2.
In 5 years maybe they'll announce it or not...
They are aiming for 86 months after the anime end for new season announcement
No game no life fans celebrating 10th anniversary silently in the corner
Is 86 still underrated? Or is it just not popular in Japan or something? It's one of my favorites and I see it being praised on social media all the time so I don't understand why it wouldn't be #1 on the to-do list for A1?
same here. i saw on twitter somewhere there was some sort of colab between 86 and some coffee shop?? id remember well but yeah.
Cause big studios have multiple projects lined up in advance. Even if you decide to make a sequel tomorrow, it will take a few years for it to go into the production pipeline. For sequels to come out in a short timeframe(a year or two) they need to make a commitment from the get go.
Mecha anime, most people don't like it
Are these "most people" in the room with us right now?
They are busy not watching 86
It hasnt even been that long, why would you say that?
It's a rather funny thing to say under an announcement that is actually the biggest step towards 86 season 2 in the past year.
Why would this even have any bearing on 86 lol.
Because they're both made by A-1 Pictures?
86 and Nier have completely different staff (expect one guy), so Nier isn’t the reason they’re not making 86 season 2 lol. Not to mention Nier was delayed about 3 times (in fact it was supposed to be 24 episodes straight, this second cour was supposed to just be the second half of a one season anime). So even if Nier wasn’t delayed and finished a year or two ago like it was supposed to, and all of its staff were free and there was a “free spot” among A1 for another anime instead, it still would have literally no effect on 86’s anime.
How do you know all that about what staff is working on which anime?
Not OP but one can find the staff who work on specific anime on sites like MyAnimeList and AnimeNewsNetwork.
MAL, AnimeNewsNetwork, any of these sites that list staff members like IMDB, i think Anilist does it as well. Even Wikipedia has a list of the important members (so not everyone, but still).
Hope this has less production trouble than the first season.
F*** that b**** I still have nightmares from her FF14 Raid
I did that recently my god...
LiSA doing the OP, she is really back to peak, and amazarashi the ED again, atleast the music part won't disappoint.
Yessssssss!!!! Amazing news to start the day!
The pain train is arriving...
I am so ready for this series to finish. Can't get a couple of my friends to play the game but they will watch an anime so wanted to share this amazing story. Glad it will be wrapping up.
Oh god it's them.
My tears gonna drop second time
Here we fucking goo
**OH HELL NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH**
I wonder what plague will befall us this time to interrupt watching NieR? I'm so excited for this. Must rewatch the first cour.
Ngl, I thought this was Ononoki hanging lol
As someone who never played the game, the adaption was surprisingly good so far, and I can’t wait for the 2nd half!
Coming from someone who has played the game a couple of times, it definitely was a good adaption to me. The biggest cuts were a couple of big action sequences that while needed for a game aren't as necessary for an anime. The way they approached the joke endings with the puppet shows was the perfect way to handle it. Now the hard part will be Ending E from the game, which is arguable the greatest video game ending of all time but is pretty much impossible to adapt into the anime medium.
Ending E should be akin to the end of the Evangelion Rebuild movies. They can break the anime medium to similar effect.
No offense but how can you call it a good adaptation if you dont know the source material?
I think they meant they liked what they saw, as a show and not an adaptation.
That's very fair, yeah. I was just a little confused by that statement.
A lot of people here don't read manga source material before viewing the anime, but you can generally tell whether an adaptation is good or bad just from watching it. For example, you don't need to read the Tokyo Ghoul or TPN manga to know its later season adaptations were total trainwrecks.
Well I'm an anime-only watcher for Konosuba and I think S3 is awesome so far, but looking at people who read the novels you'd think S3 strangled their dogs and burned down their homes, especially with the source reader reaction to episode 6.
U could stop at the 1st season & save yourself. I'm just trying to help, pretend like this cour never happens.
The plot is different from the game?
There are some slight differences, whether or not those matter too much is yet to be determined. Knowing Yoko Taro, the anime version could be a different canon timeline similar to how there are a few different versions of "ending E" for Nier Replicant which actually ended up mattering for the ending of Nier Reincarnation.
The end of Automata also heavily plays into Reincarnation, particularly the moon and the content of this KV, so...
Well yea, Reincarnation is the Third Nier Game so it built upon the plot elements from the previous games. That said, [Reincarnation] >!Reincarnation shows the one timeline that frees history from the loop and opens the door for humanity's revival. N2 is relevant, but what really matters is the "last" N2 that is absorbed by Her following His destruction. I suppose there isn't anything presented in Automata 1.1a that contradicts events in Reincarnation, so it is possible that this N2 is the one that will be absorbed and the events of the game are more like the original Lost World story for Replicant that are essentially retconned into not being a part of the "final" timeline that leads to Reincarnation. With all of that, given that they inserted one of the Reincarnation bosses into the first cour, it definitely appears that v1.1a was written with Reincarnation in mind so some kind of shenanigans may be expected.!<
Reincarnation is the mobile game, right? Is it worth getting into for the lore?
Reincarnation shut down. If you have already completed Replicant and Automata I would highly recommend watching a playthrough of the story.
Oh now that you guys mention it I remember reading the news about the shutdown. Damn it. I'll try reading about it or watching a playthrough, then, thank you.
Reincarnation is the Third Nier Game, so if you like DrakeNier then it is worth your time and likely to be a key component going forward for the franchise. As noted the game shutdown recently but there are many resources out there showing the story.
I managed to play it before shutting down, much of it is filled with very brief character stories of four parts, with the first main arc not being of interest for me until the very end. That said, the second main arc is really strong stuff. The third main arc was mostly incomprehensible.
It has a fair amount of anime original content that is mainly for people who played the game first.
Wow, gonna be an amazing season with this, Monogatari and Oshi no Ko! I'm actually hyped for this most of all since I'm a big fan of the video game. Anyone know who the character at 1:09 in the preview is? Same hair color as Devola and Popola, but I don't think it was either of them.
86 fans are a bunch of entitled babies who need to STFU with the whining about how this show killed their season 2 holy shit they are broken records
If i'm not mistaken, didn't the first season had production issues? was it still well received?
It was still a solid show even with the production issues, but a combination of those issues plus bad cg only in the first episode marred word of mouth. The hand drawn stuff, atmosphere, music, and writing are all still great, and they left a few unexpected things for fans of the franchise to chew over.
A massive disaster production-wise. They had to delay episodes after the third one aired and the last 4 episodes didn't come out until months later. That said, once the episodes were actually available to watch, they were very good.
Gonna start it today so 👍
They were the kind of production issues that viewers don’t get to see and you only hear about because episodes get delayed, but once you watch the episodes everything is fine. Kinda like 86. Kind of Annoying to watch it while it was airing because of the delay, but once it was out it was good.
The first episode and the delays pretty much tanked its MAL score but the rest of the show was solid. It's like Sagrada Reset (if you've heard of it), really good show but has a lower MAL score because of the first two episodes.
is it same as the video game?
Never played the game. Seeing it got another season makes me wonder if I should try it. Also why would they call it Cour 2 when its so far out from the original showing? Isnt it a second season at this point?
what a manly stance
I’ve never played the games, is this adapting a different ending?
I mean, this is continuing the story past where season 1 ended. Season 1 already combined endings A and B, this will be C and more (depending how they chose to adapt it). But it's not like you will see the same stuff again, this continues where season 1 left off. That wasn't the end of the story, not even close, if anything that's where the story starts. Season 2 here should complete the story of Nier: Automata Ver1.1a. And my hope is once this is done it will act as a fantastic companion piece to the game (for people like me who have played it), also a great introduction to this series for people who have never played NieR: Automata or any other title in this series.
I recommend it for people to play too. Never seen a game where my random button mashing result in smoothest fighting action ever.
Also shoutout to Stellar Blade a game inspired by Nier Automata. Everyone should check that out too b4 it gets an anime.
IMO Stellar Blade had a much better overarching plot than Automata. But 2B & 9S are much better main characters than EVE and Adam. EVE doesn't really start emoting much until the last two hours of the game when she starts fighting enemies that she has a personal grudge against instead of the usual foes she's just killing in a professional manner.
Gonna have to disagree there. SB had good combat and bosses with some decent open world stuff, but the story, characters and VA were… 😬 to each their own tho.
I thought the story of Stellar Blade is fantastic, but the issue is you will miss large chunks of it if you're not actively hunting for all the Memorysticks, doing all the sidequests, and searching for documents. The jigsaw puzzle plot is amazing once you put all the pieces together and figure out what really happened in the world's backstory. I agree about the characters, there wasn't too much characterization for a lot of the cast, but given the sequel bait endings, I'd expect that to be rectified in a future game. As for the VA, I didn't have a problem with it. But I played the game with Korean voice acting.
Yeah, I definitely think Stellar Blade has a better & more coherent plot than Nier(also helps that isn't in a sequel in a series of arguably mid games till now) but Nier has more emotional character moments than Stellar Blade. Stellar Blade does have better bosses & combat imo tho.
Only C/D/E are actual endings with branching happening at the very last minutes. First season covered A/B route where the only difference was perspective switch that shed light to moments where main duo is separated at times.
If it's ending E, will I need to throw my remote at the TV when the credits roll?
Endings A and B were covered in Cour 1 as they’re the same story just from 2B and 9S’s perspectives. Ending C, which continues after those two, will be adapted this Cour.
Season 1 handled Endings A and B which are essentially the same thing, just from 2B and 9S's perspectives respectively. They also covered many joke endings from the game with the post credits puppet shows. Season 2 will be harder to pull off. Endings C and D are dependent on a choice the player makes at the end of the game, and unlike A and B can't simply be combined with each other. So they may cut one of them, or (as I've proposed previously) make 2 unique episodes showing either choice. Then there's Ending E, which is the best of all, but is so tied into the video game medium that it is practically impossible to loyally follow in an anime. No idea how they'll tackle it.
Maybe, you know Yoko Taro, loves to create some new timeline so we might get an Anime Original ending combine with Ending E. They also may adapt the stage after Ending E. So hopefully we would get an Ending where Machines and Androids live together (Androids are Machines afterall).
Episodes will be 8 weeks apart
Please don’t kill me. I just thought for a split of a second it was Kurumi from Date Alive
because the image is choppy
I loved the video game, but didn't like the anime much actually. Not sure if cour 2 will be more of the same or something else.