Last week Square Enix dropped their schedule for the completely online Tokyo Game Show (TGS) this year, but there were several time slots that remained empty. This usually their way of keeping some things a secret for a while just for the hype!

And by-golly, have we got some HYPE now!

Here’s the current schedule:

Thursday, September 24, 10:00pm (JST)
NieR TGS 2020 Special Programming
The “We Have a Decent Amount of New Info” Special
Japanese Audio / English Subtitles

• NieR Automata – 3rd Anniversary
• NieR Replicant Ver.1.22…
• NieR Re[in]carnation
  • YouTube

Other likely topics of discussion related to NieR may include:

• NieR Theatrical Orchestra 12020 Blu-ray
• YoRHa Ver.1.3aa Stage Play Blu-ray

Friday, September 25, 7:30pm (JST) – SINoALICE

SINoALICE will be featured in a presentation on Friday, September 25 at 7:30pm. Guests include Aoki Tact (writer) and Himiko (illustrator/mangaka). This will be discussing some “secret” stories and highlights about the SINoALICE comic that will be released through SQEX’s Manga & Books label on the Manga Up app.

• YouTube
• NicoNico Douga
• Twitch

Saturday, September 26, 10:00pm (JST)

There will also be a talk show type of panel with NieR related folks, discussing “almost no new information” apparently, according to the title.

Those who will be appearing at this panel include:

• Saito Yosuke (NieR Series Producer, SQEX)
• Yoko Taro (NieR Series Creative Director)
• Okabe Keiichi (NieR Series Composer, MONACA)
• Itou Saki (NieR Replicant Ver.1.22… Director, Toylogic)
• Matsukawa Daichi (NieR Re[in]carnation Director, Applibot)
• Taura Takahisa (NieR:Automata Game Designer, Platinum Games)

• YouTube
• NicoNico

Sunday, September 27, 8:30pm (JST) – FFXIV

The FFXIV panel about YoRHa:Dark Apocalypse will likely be similar to the event last year. Yoko Taro, Saito Yosuke, Yoshida Naoki, and Murouchi Toshio will be in attendance. The presentation is scheduled for Sunday, September 27 at 8:30pm (All times are in JST).

• YouTube
• NicoNico Douga
• Twitch

Any further updates will be posted here!

There are lots of announcements from the beginning hour or so of the NieR 10th Anniversary, so let’s take a quick look at everything!

• NieR Replicant Ver.1.22474487139…
• Produced by: Square Enix
• Developed by: Toylogic
• Official Site

NieR Replicant Ver.1.22474487139… will be released on PS4, Steam, and Xbox. This is neither a remaster or a remake, but rather a “Version Up”, according to Yoko-san. But if you were to choose one or the other, it may be appropriate to call this a remaster. It will include complete FULL VOICE that has been newly recorded and with additional new scenes. This time, the role of Weiss, originally portrayed by PETER, will be performed by Yasumoto Hiroki, aka Pod042.

And we have new concept art by Koda Kazuma! Look at this gorgeous stuff!! He is amazing!

• The new NieR Replicant is neither a remaster or a remake, but rather a “version up”. This is the same sort of thing that they’ve been doing for all the newer versions of the YoRHa stage plays as well. Generally speaking, the story remains the same, but little bits here and there are touched up and maybe fleshed out with additional scenes. If you need to call it one or the other, then perhaps “remaster” would be the closest thing.
• All dialogue will be spoken by the voice cast.
• Yasumoto Hiroki, voice of Pod042, will be portraying Weiss instead of Peter since he is currently “on break”.
• Various aspects from the original game will be added in the new version.
• The soundtrack will be re-recorded, plus there will be some new tracks as well.
• There will be a new character.
• Ishikawa Yui (2B), Hanae Natsuki (9S), and Suwa Ayaka (A2) will appear in the game, but not as their respective characters from Automata.
• There may be a new ending…? We know the novella “The Lost World” is generally considered Ending E, so it’s also possible for this to appear in some shape or form.
• That being said, I can’t help but be reminded of the blurb in Grimoire NIER in which Yoko discusses the possibility of a second Original Gestalt. You can read more about that here.

Below is an example of some of the new NieR merch that is currently available from the SQEX e-STORE!

Next up is Yoko’s New Project, “NieR Reincarnation,” which will be a smartphone game developed by Applibot with character designs by the great CyDesignation, who collaborated with Automata, such as the lead character designer, Yoshida Akihiko, and sub character designer Nagai Yuya.

• NieR Reincarnation
• Produced by: Square Enix
• Developed by: Applibot
• Character Design by: CyDesignation
• Official Site
• Twitter

And here are some more juicy bits that we learned in the very final Premium section of the livestream:

• Accord is ALWAYS a female android. He is male in the YoRHa Ver.1.3a/aa stage plays because the cast is all male; she is actually female.
• Accord’s origins begin in the Kingdom of Night during the war with aliens. If you’re curious about this, I wrote a bunch about this here.
• Accord was created by humans.
• Since her creation, Accord has been multiplying, but Yoko won’t reveal why or for what purpose. For example, Emil creates many copies of himself to fight the aliens, but Yoko wouldn’t say why Accord is basically doing the same thing. Which means, like Emil, there must be an Original Accord as well. Saito asked for more information about this, but Yoko refused to answer because it would be bad. Perhaps we WILL get some sort of story that takes place during this time/location.
• All androids were installed with false memories, but A2 was the final android to have false memories. All other YoRHa after her were not installed with these memories because they often caused problems.
• The planet became tidally locked sometime after the 6.12 and before the time of Replicant.

This is all breaking news, so more information will likely become known later. Please expect this page to be further updated once more information is released.