Aniplex announced with a teaser trailer during the NieR Automata 5th anniversary live stream that Square Enix and Platinum Games’ NieR:Automata popular action role-playing game is getting an anime adaptation. Alongside this, a teaser trailer highlighting the intense story plot was revealed.
▍About NieR Automata
NieR: Automata is an action RPG produced by Square Enix and developed by Platinum Games. It tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.
Humanity has been driven from the Earth by mechanical beings from another world. In a final effort to take back the planet, the human resistance sends a force of android soldiers to destroy the invaders. Now, a war between machines and androids rages on… A war that could soon unveil a long-forgotten truth of the world.
The NieR:Automata sequel, NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139… shipped for the PS4 in Japan in February 23, 2017, followed by North America and Europe in March 2017. Square Enix also released the game on PC via Steam in March 2017, and on Xbox One in June 2018. The game has a combined shipments and digital download sales number of over 6 million.
