The NieR:Automata 1st Anniversary Official Livestream on NicoNico has just completed its first 4-hour segment! They are currently on a 5 minute break, so I have just that much time to update things here!

Related: Check here for the tentative time schedule and cast members who will make appearances.

エミールヘッドマスクmark.3
無事にお披露目する事が出来ました。
合体、分離、収納、お面化などのギミックのほうが目立ってはいますが、造形や塗装もアップデートしているのでそのあたりも見比べていただけると嬉しいです！
試行錯誤が多くて完成まで本当にギリギリだったので間に合ってよかった！！ pic.twitter.com/V8HJt9C4Gd

— yoshi (@Yoshi6054) March 3, 2018

1代目との比較。
唇の造形の流れをより自然にしたり、
目の淵をより調整、目や口は艶あり、他はマットにするなど質感の違いを再現したり、本体に暖色系の色味を織り込んで見たりと色々チャレンジしてみました。 pic.twitter.com/Ub6tS8CopI

— yoshi (@Yoshi6054) March 3, 2018

◼ New Announcements!

▲ Adam & Eve LINE stamps! If these sell well… they may make more…!

▲ Merchandise sold at the YoRHa Boys Stage Play and YoRHa Musical will soon be available for purchase online from DearStage! Check out the link here!

▲ Both the YoRHa Boys Stage Play and the YoRHa Musical will be released on blu-ray. NOTE: This is *not* the direct footage from the NicoNico Live Broadcast.

▲ Follow the official YoRHa Stage Twitter account to stay up-to-date with new announcements!

◼ Segment 1 – 7:00pm-11:00pm
Creators & Development Team

• Ishikawa Yui’s playing the game
• There will be no patch, they can’t fix anything. Taura just said, “It would be difficult…”   Yoko: “Okay, then there shall be no additional patch for the rest of eternity.”
• Matsushita made the models for Engels and the flight units
• Taura: Black Box 乾杯・完敗
  Taura: Black Box kanpai
  乾杯 = kanpai a toast, cheers
  完敗 = kanpaicomplete defeat
• Ending U
• Anemone’s met 2B many times prior to the start of the game, following the end of the YoRHa Musical
• Yamazaki-san did the voice for the male trader in the Desert Camp. He also was the motion actor for Adam/Eve
• Ishikawa’s time is almost up on the show
• THIS CANNOT CONTINUE – Ishikawa-san’s at the birth of Adam & Eve
  • Watch Count: 401,251
  • Comments: 27,978
• Yoko said that he wasn’t sure if SQEX would okay the amusement park because it resembles Tokyo Disneyland in Maihama a lot…. It really doesn’t resemble it exactly lol but apparently, “the road leading up to it” does
• Saito went to a convenience store to pick up drinks and snacks lol
• Taura died during the battle with Beauvoir. He said it was because he needs to go to the toilet.
  • Watch Count: 549,170
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• Taura killed the poor machine that leads the way to Pascal’s village… He said, “It’s a trap.” and another machine appears quickly thereafter to lead the way lol
  • Watch Count: 589,640
  • Comments: 43,017
• Apparently there are a ton of leftover coasters from the SQEX Cafe events in Akiba & Osaka… Takano doesn’t know what to do with them all. Saito suggested that he pass them out in front of the East Shinjuku Station like tissues lol
• Ending H
  • Watch Count: 639,154
  • Comments: 46,643.
• Saito wants us to comment more and make it up to 50,000 comments. So he suggested a way to get people to comment more is to offer signed goods… or have one person over to Yoko’s place for dinner. Yoko said that his house is like 40-some years old and the dining area is just enough for 2 people, so he supposes one person could come over. If two extra people come, it’ll be packed. lol They are totally joking.
  • Watch Count: 719,187
  • Comments: 50,706

◼ Segment 2 – 11:00pm-3:00am
Team YoRHa Musical

• 11:56pm – Hanae Natsuki joined the broadcast! He’s going to try to retrieve the Cypres Stick. → He got it the hard way!!
• 12:00am – The YoRHa Musical girls left on a break, leaving Hanae playing the game along with Saito… and Yoko joined the conversation.
• Ending K
  • Watch Count: 1,191,293
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• Taura Takahisa re-joined the team during the Sunken City boss battle.
• 12:47am – Hanae couldn’t stay for very long because he had to go to his cousin’s wedding in the morning…! So, he left and the YoRHa Musical girls came back on…

◼ Segment 3 – 3:00am-7:00am
Team YoRHa Boys

◼ Segment 4 – 7:00am-11:00am
Team Let’s Players

• Matsushima Hatsune (talent)
• Sugihara Takahiro (Famitsu)
• Matsushita Yoshihide (Platinum Games)
• Matsudaira Hito (Platinum Games)
• 10:00am – We’re in the segment with 4 talent members (yoshi is back) and Yoko just popped in to make occasional comments! He’ll be on for an hour. They did a bit with the Lunar Tears in Emil’s sub-quest and are currently in the Sunken City in Route B.
• They mentioned how stupid Eve sounds but during the recording, and Yoko said that he actually sounded even more stupid. The voice actor had to tone it down a little bit.
• They mentioned that 2B seemed bored during Emil’s talk in his Lunar Tear camp.
• Sugihara Takahiro (Famitsu) said that there will be a 14-page special on NieR:Automata this week!
• Endings: AHKTU
• Watch Count: 2,353,511
• Comments: 155,204

◼ Segment 5 – 11:00am-3:00pm
Development Team

• Saito Yosuke (Producer)
• Ushizawa (Game Let’s Player)
• 12:30pm – We’re reaching the end of Route B… The ending movie is playing now.
  • Watch Count: 2,823,315
  • Comments: 176,144

◼ Segment 6 – 3:00pm-7:00pm
Creators & Development Team

• Tadatsugu (Dengeki)
• Yasumoto Hiroki (Pod042 / Council of Humanity)
• Takahisa Taura (Platinum Games)
• 3:50pm – Yasumoto Hiroki is playing on Hard mode.
• Tadatsugu just mentioned that the machine voice that talks when you enter the Soul Box etc. sounds like the introduction of the original YoRHa CD track “Normandy”
  • Watch Count: 3,312,795
  • Comments: 216,609
• It was suggested that the next boys stage play should be “中年ヨルハ” aka “middle-aged YoRHa”. lol
• 5:15pm – Kadowaki Mai, the voice of Emil, just showed up. xD She was getting emotional after talking about being part of NieR…and it reminded her of working on Replicant. She’s very sweet!
  • Watch Count: 3,347,688
  • Comments: 227,768
• 6:10pm – They’re doing more sub-quests in A2’s segment of the game. A2 just got the call from Pascal to hurry to the village… the villagers are… ahhhhh!!
• 6:50pm – DOD1 will be streamed live next week Sunday since it’s being used in a collaboration with another smartphone game. xD
  • Watch Count: 3,371,957
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◼ Segment 7 – 7:00pm-10:46pm
Creators & Development Team

• Saito Yosuke (Producer)
• Yoko Taro (Director)
• Okabe Keiichi (Composer)
• Taura Takahisa (Platinum Games)
• Okabe first started playing the game then Taura took over.
• 8:26pm – It’s likely they’re going to clear through Ending E with Yoko playing the end credits segment.
  • Watch Count: 2,297,902
  • Comments: 270,951
• 8:52pm – Yoko’s playing the game himself off screen!! Because Taura needed to use the bathroom…hahaha
  • Watch Count: 3,403,033
  • Comments: 277,274