The 2009 week, the state Twitter for that NieR Automata Ver1.1a anime adaptation announced that because of COVID-19, the production is going to be placed on hold. Although this has happened formerly along with other anime previously, there leaves speculation around the validity.
Fumio Kishida, the present Pm of Japan lately indicted intends to lower the categorical threat of COVID-19 towards the common flu. Which means this begs the issue, Could it be really COVID? Obviously, this does not negate this that COVID-19 exists being an illness which should not be treated seriously which is feasible for a whole studio to get sick at the same time, given how rapidly herpes spreads. But hopefully this is actually a bluff, and never a real demonstration of full of COVID infection. It’s really no fun being sick. Besides, Yoko Taro is renowned for messing together with your mind, in the end.
The “Announcement”
First let us check out the announcement itself, see anything familiar? If you are unfamiliar with Japanese, the underside is signed, “The Council of Humanity”. This might just be an enjoyable reference, but considering Japan’s current reaction to COVID and also the setting of NieR Automata, possibly this may be implications of another thing. Furthermore, Yoko Taro retweeted the first announcement with, 「そして実は４話以降は、例のアレがアレしたせいで、しばらく先になってしまうそうです……」, meaning, “It appears it will likely be some time before the fourth episode, for that reason factor….”. What’s that “factor”, exactly? And when not COVID, this would not be the very first time he’s tricked the crowd having a vague message, and shocked all of them with a reveal.
One observation we ought to make, is the fact that within the original game, the best choice from the Resistance is Anemone, however this time, it’s Lily. Anemone is nowhere found, either. Something might have happened previously to cause this transformation – and users are theorizing this may be certainly one of Accord’s timelines that they visits.
The Planet Beyond NieR
For individuals not really acquainted with Accord, she’s a period and dimension traveling android, accountable for observing every and all sorts of outcomes within the world. She’s first experienced in Drakengard 3 and it is implied to possess visited Nier’s more youthful sister, Yonah during her travels. Another point worth mentioning is when the NieR world takes inspiration from real life occasions. NieR Replicant‘s plot was inspired through the occasions of 9/11, for instance. Possibly an identical factor is going on in NieR Automata‘s adaptation. However this time, it’s COVID-19.
Yoko Taro’s works usually have had underlying messages and styles from the human experience, not to mention society itself. As seen with NieR Re[in]carnation, the majority of the tales are told through two separate perspectives – and generally, the possible lack of communication and empathy results in tragedy. The newest divide humanity has already established with is the subject of COVID-19. World leaders, the press, peers, the web all play a adding step to the divide. But thinking logically, there does not have to be. Yet everybody thinks their perspective is the most appropriate one, their actions are simply. And what’s happening within the anime to date? Othering. The machines have started to embrace humanistic concepts, but YoRHa stays with the “us versus them” rhetoric.
Humanity’s Fate
Right from the start, both YoRHa and also the viewer are told that the rest of humanity fled towards the moon. Veteran gamers knows that isn’t true, as they have lengthy since been extinct. Possibly within this different timeline, it had not been the failure from the Gestalt project that wiped out off humanity, but COVID-19? In the end, the entire story of NieR began due to a disease that plagued humanity.
This may be a genuine-world message, but we will not know until The month of january 28th, whenever a “rerun” of episode 1 is scheduled. But could it be a “true” rerun, or will it be considered a different “episode 1”?
