On February 12, the official website for NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a announced that the anime’s episode will air on February 18. The anime has been on hiatus since January 18.
The anime’s production committee cited the impact of the increase in COVID-19 infections on its production schedule as the reason for the delay. In lieu of the new episodes, the anime instead aired the first three episodes again starting on January 28.
Ryouji Masuyama is directing the anime at A-1 Pictures, with Masuyama in charge of series composition alongside the original game’s Yokō Tarō. Jun Nakai is slated to be character designer and chief animation director. MONACA is handling the music composition.
The game the anime is based on tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim their land from powerful machines. The story is set in a machine-driven dystopia where humanity has been driven from the Earth and humans must fight take back their planet.
The story documents how the human resistance sends forces of android soldiers to destroy their invaders and a ceaseless war between the machines and androids rages on. The plot of NieR:Automata is an action-packed adventure.
The anime premiered on the Tokyo MX, Tochigi TV, Gunma TV, and BS11 channels on January 7, 2023. The anime also began streaming on Crunchyroll, DMM TV and dAnime store.
The NieR:Automata game launched for PlayStation 4 in Japan in February 2017. Square Enix also released the game on PC via Steam in March 2017, and on Xbox One in June 2018.
About NieR: Automata Ver1.1a
NieR: Automata Ver1.1a is the anime adaptation of the popular 2017 action-fantasy RPG game NieR: Automata. A-1 Pictures will be producing the series. The first season will air on January 8, 2023.
The game tells the story of androids 2B, 9S, and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines. Humanity is on the brink of extinction, with few having fled to the moon.
Source: NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a Anime Official Website
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