During Yoko Taro’s appearance on the 27-hour broadcast marathon on NicoNico to promote the PS4 release of Gravity Daze, he promoted his up-coming game NieR: Automata that is currently in the works, developed by Platinum Games.

He also showed a new PV for the first time to promote his manga series “Thou Shalt Not Die // Kimi Shi ni Tamou Koto Nakare”, illustrated by Moriyama Daisuke.

I’m still getting some very good vibes that we will see much more of this series in the future… <3

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This is the first time that I’m using new software to record live video and edit the footage, so I’m pretty happy with it thus far. The audio problems in this clip are due to the fluctuating buffer rate in the original NicoNico broadcast.

The image that I used for the thumbnail of this video was an image that I scanned of the manga cover. You can purchase the first two volumes of the manga on Amazon here:

Vol. 1 – http://amzn.to/1hTi4JI
Vol. 2 – http://amzn.to/1O7S7lo

NicoNico Broadcast URL

Here are a couple important dates to put on your calendar!

The first book volume (Tankoubon) of the Thou Shalt Not Die // Kimi Shi ni Tamou Koto Nakare manga will be released on October 24th. View more information on this release on Amazon Japan.

Now that I’ve finished working on my translation of the first chapter, it was suggested that I write a review of it as well. So, here we go! (The following notes and speculation might be a little disjointed.)

** Please beware of spoilers! If you haven’t read the manga or played through the Drakengard and Nier series, please read with caution! **

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