During the Aniplex Online Fest 2022, which took place in the past few hours, the time had come announced Also NieR: Automata Ver 1.1aan anime based on the video game Nier: Automata in collaboration with Square Enix and produced by the renowned studio A-1 Pictures.
NieR: Automata Ver 1.1a will air in 2023 and will be revealed in more detail over the coming months, but in the meantime we can see the first presentation trailerdedicated mainly to the characters of 2B and 9S, obviously also protagonists of this new story in animated form.
Additionally, both will count on their original voice actors, namely Yui Ishikawa and Natsuki Hanae.
The corresponding pods also return, namely 42 and 153, also voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto and Kaoru Akiyama. The anime is produced by A-1 Pictures and it was to be a production of some caliber, with the team that previously made Solo Leveling Lycoris Recoil, Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, and Sword Art Online: Alicization.
The series is directed by Ryoji Masuyama and supervised by Yoko Taro in person, while character design is by Jun Sakai, with Studio MONACA’s Keiichi Okabe taking on the role of soundtrack director as in the video game. Speaking of the latter, we remind you that NieR: Automata – The End of YoRHa Edition is coming to Nintendo Switch.