NieR:Automata Ver.1.1a Anime Season 2 Ending Theme, “Hai to Inori”
Performed by: GEMS COMPANY
Lyrics by: Yoko Taro
Composed by Keiichi Okabe (MONACA)
YoRHa Stage Play Theme Song, “Normandy” and “Guadalcanal”
Lyrics by: YoRHa Headquarters
Composed by: Keiichi Okabe
The First Limited Edition includes a large shikishi-sized postercard of the GEMS COMPANY version key visual. Inside the CD insert, there is a really nice illustration of the partially destroyed moon with an interesting tower rising up to meet it.
Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2024 – 4:30pm (JST)
Preparations for this year’s Tokyo Game Show is well underway! The three NieR dudes won’t stop their huge stock of NieR Orchestral Arrangement Special Edition boxs are signed!
This will be a light-hearted livestream as they are effectively locked inside the SQEX building and forced to sign their autographs over and over again! While they’re busy signing, they’ll be discussing some highlights of their work, some behind-the-scenes stories, and other fun talk. It will be interesting to see if they’re able to finish signing everything by the end of the livestream…
Saito and the gang will be hanging up their annual Santa Saito’s Christmas specials with this year’s final installment. This year’s show will be “A laid-back Christmas night, talking about the previous Santa Saito’s Christmas specials as well as the NieR Fan event last month.” There were many things they weren’t able to discuss at the NieR:Automata Fan Festival 12022, so they’ll be touching more on those topics. And since it’s Christmas, the special will also feature giveaway and variety segments!
The special will feature the following individuals:
The special is free to watch on NicoNico, but will likely contain a paid-only segment at the end as usual. It’s usually during that segment that some hot news is revealed.
I assume they will be advertising the Bakuken 2 play like they did last year. Unfortunately, the play had to conclude with less than half of the performances completed due to an overabundance of caution regarding COVID. The play was also scheduled to be broadcast live on NicoNico, but the first cancelled performance was for the live broadcast. That is likely one of the reasons they’re bringing the play back one more time so a DVD/Blu-ray can also be released eventually.
This has been an annual show for the past 10 years, first beginning in 2013! You can read my old recaps below. Some of the specials are still available to watch on NicoNico Douga as well.
The first five years of the special mainly focused on Dragon Quest X, but you can spot several Yoko related guests throughout:
2013: Dragon Quest X TV – Special Guests by SaitoV, Yasumoto Hiroki, Hatsumi Meari (Operator 21O), KENN, etc. 2014: Dragon Quest X TV – Special Guests by SaitoV, Hatsumi Meari (Operator 21O), Isobe Keiko (Operator 6O), etc. 2015: Dragon Quest X TV – Special Guests by SaitoV, Hatsumi Meari (Operator 21O), Isobe Keiko (Operator 6O), etc. 2016: Dragon Quest X TV – Special Guests by SaitoV, Hatsumi Meari (Operator 21O), Isobe Keiko (Operator 6O), Inko-san (Cactus in YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0),etc. 2017: SUPER Dragon Quest X TV – Assistant MC by SaitoV with guests by Hatsumi Meari (Operator 21O), Isobe Keiko (Operator 6O), Inko-san (Cactus in YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0), Takano Kohei (Kurenai in Kimi Shi ni Tamou Koto Nakare -ZERO-), etc.
The much anticipated Revised Edition of the 2010 Grimoire NieR complete guide as well as the first of the two-part NieR Replicant Recollections novels are scheduled to be released officially in English in 2023 by Square Enix’s very own Manga & Books brand!
THANK GOD!!! It’s so hard to get good translations done when the work is outsourced to companies simply translate what’s written on the page without any deeper understanding of the context…
Here are the official announcements by the Square Enix Manga & Books Twitter account:
We are very pleased to announce that Grimoire NieR: Revised Edition is coming in April 2023! The ultimate guide to the critically acclaimed game NieR Replicant, this hardcover tome is packed with art, strategy, information, and lore! https://t.co/11UDmqYceDpic.twitter.com/oILRmjTXQP
— Square Enix Manga & Books (@SquareEnixBooks) July 22, 2022
New novel announcement! NieR Replicant ver. 1.22… Project Gestalt Recollections File 01 coming in April 2023! From director YOKO TARO and writer Jun Eishima comes this novel expanding upon the world of the critically acclaimed game NieR Replicant! https://t.co/BGbKPIwmITpic.twitter.com/fyWO9Zloci
— Square Enix Manga & Books (@SquareEnixBooks) July 22, 2022
And here are the quick links to the item pages on the Square Enix Manga & Books site:
I’ve previously written in detail about these novels, but I’ve removed my personal translations of various passages to respect the official release later next year. Please note that there are two novels in this series, Project Gestalt Recollections File 1 and File 2, which means the release of File 2 will likely come a few months after the first… maybe summer or fall 2023!
The Revised Edition of Grimoire NieR is largely the same as the 2010 version that’s been updated with assets and information from Replicant Ver.1.22… If you’ve seen a great big fan translation of the original book floating around, please delete it and purchase the official English translation when it’s released! Since it’s being released by SQEX themselves, I have no doubt that it will be of the utmost quality! I’m super excited to see it!
The game is somewhat of an Indies title that will be download only (there might be a special package release at some point)
In later broadcasts (I need to relocate what broadcast this was stated), we were also told that Okabe Keiichi (MONACA) will be on board as composer.
We were also told that the game will be download only for non-mobile devices (so I’m assuming PS4/5, Xbox, Steam…) but they will think about a physical release sometime if the game is well received.
Excerpt from the idobata kaigi program, December 2020:
Saito: There are many things I still can’t talk about, but… I mean, we’re doing NieR— Replicant and Re[in]carnation— then there’s Babylon (Babylon’s Fall) as well. There’s also talk about doing the next Automata, so when I was talking with Yoko about what we should do next, Yoko talked about something he really wants to do, but I told him I absolutely don’t want to do it. I was like, if you really want to do it, then you put up the money for it! But he presented it to me like I had never seen him do before. So, then he was like, “Okay, I have time tomorrow.” But that was a Sunday. Oh, wait. We talked on a Friday evening, so he was like, “Let’s talk tomorrow,” but I told him I couldn’t. So, he ended up showing me an hour-long presentation on Sunday. After that, we went out to eat and 3 bottles of wine later, I told him “let’s do it.” So, that’s what I regret, even now. He won me over with wine. I want to quit right now if I could.
Yoko: This was the first time that I actually said what I wanted to do.
Saito: If it’s something Yoko wants to do, then I want to let him do it, to try out various different things. But I was entirely against it when he first brought it up.
Saito V: Is it a ways off yet?
Saito: Yes, it’ll be a while, but I hope you look forward to it.
Harada: About how long ago did you have this discussion?
Saito: It’s about a year or so ago.
Yoko: It was more than a year ago. It was quite a while ago.
Harada: Oh, then it’s proceeding pretty well.
Yoko: Not so much…
Saito: It’s progressing gradually.
Saito V: The comments are asking if it’s a game or something else.
Saito: It’s a game.
Yoko: Are we really announcing something like this on Idobata Kaigi??
Saito: It’s an absolutely INSANE game.
Saito: I see this in the comments, but it’s not a rhythm/music game.
Yoko: I dunno, man, maybe we’ll make it into one.
Saito: It’s not a casual game.
Yoko: Ahh, I don’t know about that… Maybe it’ll become casual…
UPDATE: 2021.09.09
Today, Square Enix officially announced the new game by Yoko Taro, which was previously leaked here.
VOICE OF CARDS: THE ISLE DRAGON ROARS, A NEW RPG BUILT OF CARDS
