NieR 10th Anniversary – Cancellations and Reparations

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April 22, 2020 marks the 10th Anniversary of the NieR series.

The year 2020 was supposed to be an amazing 10th Anniversary year for the NieR series, but it’s turning out to be much more of the “curse” Yoko originally said it was.

First the Tokyo performances of the NieR:Theatrical Orchestra 12020 (March 28-29) were cancelled. Then the YoRHa Ver.1.3aᵃ performances (March 12-15) were cancelled. Now we’re left with very little to celebrate about…

Because of this, Saito has stated an interest in doing something on March 29 to sort of smooth things over and still manage to celebrate something for the 10th anniversary, which actually later on April 22.

“We’re going to do something on March 29. Worse comes to worst, just me and Yoko will do something. It’s the 10th Anniversary after all, so let’s go 10 hours.”

Of course, he is likely joking about the 10 hour thing, but it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for long livestreams that they’ve done in the past.

Here was Yoko’s response:

“Let’s do it!”

Other members related to NieR and the YoRHa stage plays also voiced interest in doing something.

“I’m coming!!! (haha)”
Akiyama Kaoru performs the voice of Pod153 in NieR:Automata and the voice of SS in the YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 stage play.
“Shall I bring my acoustic guitar and a beer…?”
Takanori Goto has performed the guitar for multiple NieR related series, including the most recent YoRHa Ver.1.3a with violist Shirasu Kon and drummer Takashi Fukuoka.
“I’ll bring a cajón and a beer!”
Fukuoka Takashi did the percussion at the YoRHa Ver.1.3a stage play.
“If you do Mahjong, I can play!”
Inko (Rita Jay) played the role of Cactus in the YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 stage play.

Regarding the cancellation of the YoRHa Ver.1.3aᵃ stage play, the cast and crew are still going to practice. Plans are currently being considered to livestream the show. The whole point of having this “rerun” version of the play was because the Blu-ray recording fell through at the previous show, so this was their “comeback” second chance at getting a physical release of the play. It’s likely that since the play has been cancelled, they are still practicing if just to complete a recording to later release on Blu-ray.

The cast has already had their character photo shoots, so plans are also under way to still release new Ver.1.3aᵃ merch.

Also something somewhat amusing regarding the actual announcement stating the cancellation of the YoRHa Ver.1.3aᵃ from the YoRHa Stage official twitter, managed by Sekiya Makoto, apparently the announcement was made at roughly 3:30am (JST). Sekiya later apologized for it, but at the time, it was unclear what he was apologizing for.

“I guess I shouldn’t use the schedule function if I’m not used to it. Sorry for the inconvenience.”

But then Yoko commented, stating the real reason for the weird timing of that tweet.

“Anyway, according to Sekiya-P, his reason for making the announcement at the weird time of 3:30am was “I scheduled it to post at 10am but it blew up.”

So, it’s super sad that so many of these events have been cancelled, but there’s really nothing anyone can do about it. We just need to be sure to return our tickets & get our money back!