Nier: Automata Ver1.1a, the anime adaptation of the 2017 motion role-playing recreation Nier: Automata, is on indefinite hiatus as of Jan. 21 as a consequence of manufacturing issues attributed to COVID-19. For those who’re having hassle ready for the subsequent episode on this reprise of the epic post-apocalyptic story about blindfolded android troopers wearing gothic lolita high fashion, to not fear: Nier: Automata’s director Yoko Taro went and made you a puppet present to tide you over within the meantime.
Based mostly on “Antinomy,” which is the ending credit track of Nier: Automata Ver1.1a written and carried out by the Japanese rock band Amazarashi, the 15-minute “non-credits” music video depicts a puppet present reenacting the story of Nier: Automata.
Nevertheless, that is no “Life in Technicolor ii.” Instructed from the attitude of the sport’s antagonists: “machine lifeforms” resembling rudimentary wind-up toys, the play depicts the machines as analogous to baby troopers, positioned in a violent wrestle past their understanding by their mysterious creators “Father” and “Mom,” two authentic characters created and written by Yoko Taro particularly for the music video.
Ultimately, the machines are urged to maintain combating whereas averting their eyes from the horrors of the conflict itself, donning blindfolds just like these worn by 2B and 9S, the protagonists of Nier: Automata. This sample continues, because the machines are compelled to relinquish their means to listen to, to talk, and even really feel as they’re — as 2B places it in her opening monologue originally of Nier: Automata — perpetually trapped in a unending spiral of life and loss of life.
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Picture: Amazarashi
Ultimately, the machines activate their creators, killing them in a flurry of gunfire earlier than breaking the fourth wall to disclose that not solely is that this not the primary time that this has occurred, however the machines have been recreating their creators a whole lot of occasions with the intention to take revenge on behalf of their previous abuse and neglect. The scene then pulls out to disclose a room of useless, blindfolded our bodies and toppled folding chairs located within the depths of an industrial landfill.
It’s an interesting (and fairly disturbing) music video, particularly for these already acquainted with the lore of Nier: Automata’s universe. Produced and written by Yoko Taro, the video is the second time Taro has collaborated with Amazarashi, having beforehand launched the 2017 music video “Deserving of Life” in celebration of Nier: Automata’s launch.
In an article printed final Friday on the Japanese web site Recreation Watch, Taro shares that the motif of the music video’s script is impressed by the works of Kenji Miyazawa, the well-known Japanese writer identified for such novels as “Night time on the Galactic Railroad” and “Gauche the Cellist,” and that the characters of “Father” and “Mom” are meant as analogs for “unscrupulous capitalists.”
“I believe “Antinomy” is a track of hope,” Taro says within the article. “It’s a narrative that continues. It depicts a sort of sense of loss in a world with out dad and mom. The theme of this puppet present is easy methods to cope with that feeling of insecurity, and from there it results in Mr. Akita’s gentle of hope. We aimed for content material that may solely come true when the music continued after the puppet present.”
Nier: Automata Ver1.1a is accessible to stream on Crunchyroll.