{"id":7451,"date":"2022-09-26T10:19:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/26\/nier-automata-anime-will-not-follow-the-games-story-says-director\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:19:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:19:04","slug":"nier-automata-anime-will-not-follow-the-games-story-says-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/26\/nier-automata-anime-will-not-follow-the-games-story-says-director\/","title":{"rendered":"NieR: Automata Anime Will Not Follow The Game&#8217;s Story, Says Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8216;I brought up the idea of changing things around&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was way back in February of this year that we learnt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nierautomata_the_end_of_yorha_edition\">NieR: Automata<\/a> would be getting its own anime series. As a sword-swinging action JRPG set in a dystopian future, this decision made a lot of sense. After seven long months of silence on the project, however, this weekend&#8217;s Aniplex Online Fest provided us with some brand new details on the series, including what we can expect from its story and setting its release date for <strong>January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement trailer (found above) features interviews with the original game director Yoko Taro and the series director, Ryoji Mausyama, as well as the anime&#8217;s two lead cast members, Yui Ishikawa and Natsuke Hanae. The former of these conversations is particularly interesting in respect to the anime&#8217;s relationship to the game&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/nier-automata-anime-will-not-follow-the-games-story-says-director\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]NieR: Automata Anime Will Not Follow The Game&#8217;s Story, Says Director<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8216;I brought up the idea of changing things around&#8217;.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It was way back in February of this year that we learnt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/nierautomata_the_end_of_yorha_edition\">NieR: Automata<\/a> would be getting its own anime series. As a sword-swinging action JRPG set in a dystopian future, this decision made a lot of sense. After seven long months of silence on the project, however, this weekend&#8217;s Aniplex Online Fest provided us with some brand new details on the series, including what we can expect from its story and setting its release date for <strong>January 2023<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement trailer (found above) features interviews with the original game director Yoko Taro and the series director, Ryoji Mausyama, as well as the anime&#8217;s two lead cast members, Yui Ishikawa and Natsuke Hanae. The former of these conversations is particularly interesting in respect to the anime&#8217;s relationship to the game&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/nier-automata-anime-will-not-follow-the-games-story-says-director\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}