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Yoko Taro Featured in This Week’s Issue of Famitsu Magazine

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There will be a whopping 22-page article featuring Yoko Taro in this week’s issue of Famitsu Magazine (the 8/2 issue, 7/19 publishing date). The article will touch on multiple Yokoverse topics, including the NieR and Drakengard series, SINoALICE, his stage plays, manga, and much more!

We’ll get a closer look at his history and who he really is, his quirks for game development, as well as a mash-up of various interviews, questionnaires, comments he’s made in the past. If you are a Yoko Taro fan, this is an issue you won’t want to miss!!

Images courtesy of Famitsu. The 1st image below may have actually inspired the most recent loading screen in SINoALICE. Additionally, the headline on the 2nd image says, “Yoko Taro and the Path of 48 Years” (Please note here that Yoko Taro just turned 48 years old this past June 6th).

Tickets to the YoRHa Stage Plays Blu-ray Special Screening Available Tomorrow!

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Tickets to the special two-day blu-ray screening event on July 21 and 22 open tomorrow! Here’s to hoping they don’t get sold out right away to scalpers!!

More info about this will be released later tonight.

 

-> EDIT: 7:48pm

Tickets will go on sale tomorrow from 10:00am! Good luck to all! <3 Tickets are 4,000 yen a piece and you are able to reserve up to 4 tickets per show.

Here’s the screening schedule for both Saturday and Sunday.

Saturday, July 21

  • YoRHa Musicial Ver.1.2 Blu-ray Screening
    Open: 11:00am, Start: 11:30am
  • YoRHa Boys Stage Play Ver.1.0 Blu-ray Screening
    Open: 3:30pm, Start: 4:00pm

Sunday, July 22

  • YoRHa Boys Stage Play Ver.1.0 Blu-ray Screening
    Open: 10:30am, Start: 11:00am
  • YoRHa Musical Ver.1.2 Blu-ray Screening
    Open: 3:00pm, Start: 3:30pm

ACCESS TO THE VENUE

The best way to get to the UDX Theater is probably by taking JR to Akihabara. It’s a 2 minute walk from the Denkigai exit.

YoRHa Musical/YoRHa Boys Blu-ray does NOT have English Subtitles

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A fellow user on Twitter recently asked the official account for the YoRHa stage plays whether or not the up-coming Blu-ray release will have English subtitles, and here was their reply:

Unfortunate for sure but not entirely unforeseen. I have yet witnessed a release by DearStage that includes any subtitles whatsoever. Then again, my only experience is with the initial DVD release of the YoRHa Ver.1.0 stage play, which was strictly a barebones release with not special extras. The video itself was horribly rendered with interlacing codecs that made it sort of ugly to even watch. *sigh* Here’s to hoping at least the production quality of this release will be better…

There could still be hope for an international release that includes English subtitles (and maybe others as well), depending on how well this first release does.

Lastly, if you look closely at the image that they posted, you can see that the region encoding of the Blu-ray is “region free”… which would make this playable internationally. That’s at least one small step that they took to make at the very least importing it more plausible…

I also tweeted the following information:

It amused me that the official YoRHa Twitter account liked it. lol

YoRHa Musical & YoRHa Boys Blu-ray Screening on July 21 and 22 in Akihabara

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This just announced, the special two-day screening event of the YoRHa Musical Ver.1.2 and the YoRHa Boys Stage Play Ver.1.0 will be held at the UDX Theater in Akihabara on Saturday and Sunday, July 21 and 22. This is about a week before the official release of the blu-ray sets on July 27.

Ticket information for these special screening events will be announced via Twitter in the days to come! Aside from merely screening the blu-ray, they will also have a talk event with the cast members!

Recap from Yoko’s Birthday Livestream by Famitsu

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＊ This is going to be a brief post for right now, but I intend on adding more to it soon!
Updated: June 7, 2018 – 7:24am

We heard about a couple new NieR goodies that will be released later this year. Here’s a quick look at what to expect!

  • NieR Music Concert – Memory of Dolls – Premium Musical Notes
    This was originally available earlier this past February, I believe, but only for a limited time. This time around, however, will be unlimited. They didn’t state whether the same login bonus that gave you the special NieR:Automata PS4 avatars would be made available again. It ought to be available now, but unfortunately, I can’t find it yet…
  • NieR:Orchestra Concert 12018
    A fully orchestrated NieR concert will be held at Pacifico Yokohama on September 17 for afternoon and evening performances. Finally a concert that I can actually WALK TO from my house!! <3

     

▲ The key visual for the concert was illustrated by Koda Kazuma yet again!! He does some amazing work!! Here’s a high res version, although I don’t think the quality is very good.