2b ass

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>>286302369
A2 better, or should I say butter

everything I see about this anime makes it look like shit and less enjoyable than Towa no Yugure even though that was garbage

>>286301470
>Taro wanted 2B and 9S to have sex in the Anime but was denied.
>Now he”s got control of Evangelion

Rei Ayanami, ready your coochie.

>>286301470
>>286302383
Does this franchise have anything going for it other than plump butts?

I want to cum inside 9S's butt

>>286302720
You really think they'll let him jump on that landmine?

>>286302720
i need a quick rundown

>>286302992
what if shinji fucks both of them at the same time?

>>286303015
Yoko Taro is insane.

>>286303036
Then the eternal war continues over who he stuck it in first.

>>286303038
I know that, but what does that have to do with Eva?

>>286303058
Look at the sticky my dude

>>286303058
He's writing Eva?

im trying to make a point here

how "big" is kaine?

>>286302822
Yes. The asses ARE fat, but thats not what the game is about.
Yoko Taro's games and writing style are... unique. They are character action games with a strong story focus that have immaculate vibes. Really incredible music, cool boss fights, etc. And some absolutely batshit insane lore.

Nier Automata is something you can pick up dirt cheap these days, and its absolutely worth playing. Playing, not watching. The story of the game is designed in a format that really doesn't work well in anything other than a video game because the interactive component is important to it. It genuinely loses a lot if you turn it into a non-interactive medium.

>>286303164
Yeah. Its going to be wild, whatever the fuck it is. Personally I'm hoping for it to be a true Eva alt-universe spinoff with a cast of new characters entirely, not just a rehash of Shinji and the rest of the canon cast. Go the Gundam AU route and do something new and let Rebuild be the finale for Anno's characters, at least for a while.

If they are going to insist on making more Eva, they can't rely on Shinji/Asuka/Misato/the other one forever.

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>>286302720
>Rei
wrong gal

>>286303766
asuka won so reifags can have this one, they deserve it
misatobros will die of starvation however

>>286303940
>bimbo lips
ruined

>>286303015
Taro was denied once by someone who rightfully put their foot down and said no.

>>286303058
2B and Rei have the same hairstyle and are both demure and a bit surly, brood and think existential thoughts in their bedrooms.

>>286302720
is taro a Reibro

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>>286301470
I love when she's happy.

>>286301470
sex

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Replicant >>> Automata
I'm also hoping for a Replicant OVA of some sorts after the flashback in 1.1a

>>286306250
>Replicant >>> Automata
Opinion invalidated if only because of the cock.

>>286302992
What's the point of hiring Yoko Taro if you don't allow him to go all out?
Being unhinged as fuck is his specialty. Although i think he got inspired by Touka and Kaneki for 2B/9S which is why he wanted to portray them fucking too.

>>286302822
People say so but I don't really believe that

>>286301470
>>286304510
I don't know why, but 2B smiling makes me unbelievably erect.

>>286302822
theres also futa cock

Finally eva will be good.

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>>286302822
You need more?

To be fair i'd rather Taro/Okabe working on a high profile Eva series than anything short of a distinct AA/AAA drakenier in collaboration with a competent studio, and i think the later is unlikely given the current game industry and square enix

I love nier but a big appeal is how different each game is, even reincarnation felt too close to automata to my taste, i'm not really interested in a SE nier automata direct sequel cashgrab

>>286301470
I've never seen Yoko Taro doing something good, so I don't think it'll be a good ride

>>286303766
This. Yoko Taro *loves* angry women. They are always major, fan-favorite characters in his games. The idea that he would prioritize Rei over Asuka because they have kinda-sorta similar hair ignores the existence of Zero, Kaine, and A2.

>>286307266
C2

>>286302383
Stoic android wife with a huge ass that lets me fuck it, no emotions but has a relaxed voice asking me "Does my butt feel good, master?"

>>286307848
This isn't the comments section on a porn site, go away.

>>286307787
A2 isn't more popular than 2B

>>286307987
She should be

2B anal.

>>286301470
>smiling A2

>>286307987
>>286308092
She is in my heart

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Its so obvious that the people excited about this because of Yoko Taro's name haven't seen anything he's done after Automata

>>286308808
Kamierabi was good and would have been more popular if not for it's budget and cgi.

>>286308837
>Kamierabi was good
Lmao no it was trash

>>286301470
Reminder they gave a nigger ass to 2b and a2 in the anime and that garbage flopped and was like outside the top 30 in its own season in japan lmao

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>>286309177
Are you afraid of butts, /a/non?

>>286304339
You can't just turn some pg13 anime into a straight shota porno.

>>286308808
Taro was barely involved in this

>Still no Accord doing anything

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>>286301470
Feels good

>>286309619
Who are they?

>>286303015
>Taro wanted to have a scene with 2B and 9S fucking
>Director insists 9S wouldn't let her fuck him
>Taro agrees and backs off

>>286309849
A2's previous team before she dissapeared
Check Anemone at the left

I hate to be that guy, but I've only seen fanart of the character and all, I'm not at all into vidya, so I'm asking: Is this anime worth picking up? Is there a manga? From what I read of the thread, it seems like the game is the way to go, but I seriously can't into games anymore and I want to check what this guy is all about, since Anno's confident in him and all.

>>286311469
The story works far better as a game because it actually uses strengths of the medium. Thus said it's a very easy game in general.
You will not finish it until you've seen the ending E.

>>286307266
that's a man

>>286312206
That's even better

>>286312206
You're a man

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>>286312206
You wish

>>286307266
makes no sense, Rei and 2B have way more parallels and too many similarities to ignore.

I'll be disappointed if the new Eva series doesn't have the most complicated naming convention

>>286302822
I would say it has
>really nice asses
>great character writing
>interesting worldbuilding
>overrated as far as philosophical themes and overarching story goes
>deeply unbalanced gameplay which is strictly inferior to anything like sekiro/souls/stellar blade, but gets hard carried by the story and other elements to push you through

>>286302822
Sexy white haired shotas

>>286308808

I might have watched this if it wasn't CGshit.

>>286315348
>stellar blade
is it good? I didn't touch it because gookshit

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>>286308808
It was fun though. Production issues in S2 but they managed to stick the landing, concceptually a pretty rich show too

>>286302720
Why would robots fuck?

>>286317448
because they want to be human

>>286317448
secure data transfer, can't be intercepted since it's through a physical medium. no different from plugging usb ports, really
of course, the robots must feel pleasure in order to reward secure practices

>>286315772
would say it has the opposite problem of nier automata, story is so bad that it has to be carried by gameplay (which actually is really good, but unless you like sekiro style combat you might not like it)

>>286307936
I mean it kinda is

>>286309433
You should be able to.

>>286307266
Hideous shade of brown

>>286318846
>but unless you like sekiro style combat you might not like it
I really liked Sekiro as a matter of fact. I will check it out I guess, thank you anon

>>286318873
He was dealing with Square Enix, so yeah

Now he has free reign

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I tried

>>286320285
Asuka in Akihiko Yoshida's style?

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>>286306250
Counterpoint: Nier Gestalt = Nier Automata > Nier Replicant
Sorry kiddo, Papa Nier is simply too based for your twink shonen ass to fathom

So, did anyone find out what YoRHa meant?

>>286320460
you look like shit

>>286320476
YO Real Hot Androids

>>286320285
anon you need to upgrade your stuff, that's 2023 level ai

>>286301470
A2 a cute

>>286307114
That's not 2B though

>>286302720
>tv series
Never gonna happen with Japan’s draconian censorship

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>>286302720
pretty sure the sex is gonna be between shinji and kaworu

>>286320972
what's that, a fucking pony in 2026 lmao?

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>>286320410
yeah

>>286301470
It makes me a little sad seeing A2 happy, because we know that gets torn away from her.

>>286302879
>t. Red Girl

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>>286302720
Asukafags have been coping for 30 years, and now suddenly Rei's going to win in one fell swoop.

Thank you Mr Taro-sama sir.

>>286321793
I wish his design from Reincarnation had proper high quality adaptation in game or anime...

>>286302822
Nice lingerie, too

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>>286320460
Gestards think having an autistic senile old fuck in the role of a naive teenager is a good thing and doesn't out them as the autistic they truly are. Yoko Taro also hates Papa Nier because even he knows that he's an abomination. He's still a good father though and I respect his strength but Brother Nier is objectively better in terms of the lore, setting and he's just as good of a character and caretaker to Yonah as Papa .

The true list:

Story:
Drakengard 1/3 > Nier Replicant (1.22...)= Nier Gestalt > Nier Automata >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Drakengard 2

Gameplay:
Nier Automata > Nier Replicant 1.22... > Nier Replicant/Gestalt >>> Drakengard 2/3 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Drakengard

>>286307266
I always assumed Asuka and A2 had more in common. In fact, she has more in common with Kaine or Zero than 2B. Sexy cosplay though.

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HAHHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH SEXO

>>286302822
Worst things I can really say about Automata is the messages really hit you over the head multiple times when you get it already. And I wish there was a bit more to do around the map.

>>286327547
*oh yeah, and it's not really incorrect what people say about the difficulty. It goes from mobs that pose little threat, to everything being able to kill you in 1 or 2 hits.

>>286317448
1. they get disgusted when they see Machine life forms attempting to mimic it
2. they prefer combat anyway.
Good for whoever put their foot down and deemed it unnecessary.

>>286321817
No, i can make A2 happy, i will

>>286308808
>>286308863
I watched it, it was fun. Very clearly Taro's writing style. Not Taro's fault you got filtered.

>>286310071
>>286302720
>>286304339
>>286306750
>>286317448
That was just a joke in an interview. A very obvious joke. Moreover, they don't actually go as far as saying "sex" or "fucking" or anything, instead they say something like "a scene where 9S and 2B do ◯◯◯◯" with the censors and then they joke about it more.
Yoko Taro does a fuckload of Japanese interviews and virtually none of them get translated but occasionally retarded western "games journalists" will pick up a stray quote from one of those interviews and take it out of context.

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>>286320460
Yoko Taro planned the game with the brother character. The only reason we ended up with the father character in the west is because they wanted thought it would be a good idea to involve the localizers at the beginning. They had a big meeting with overseas staff in the US and the overseas staff refused to budge on having the brother character. They said it looked cartoonish and anime like and that Americans would hate it. Yoko Taro said that if they changed it so much he wouldn't want to make it so Saito ran the numbers and worked out that they could do both. In the same interview they talk about how it actually turned out to be an insane amount of work because they don't just swap the character model, they have to redo the camera work and change the lighting and make other changes.
In later interviews Yoko Taro notes that despite doing all this shit to pander to western staff, Gestalt still bombed really bad and that's why it's been completely abandoned and he's gone back to making games for a Japanese audience.
Also pic related is the head of the localization studio, 8-4, that worked on Gestalt. They also censored it and changed character's personalities, and shit. It's less butchered than DoD 1 at least.

>>286327547
>Worst things I can really say about Automata is the messages really hit you over the head multiple times when you get it already.
People who say shit like this commonly misinterpret the game to be about Nihilism or some other incorrect shit.

>>286309596
>expecting her actually doing something while knowing her role is being a Recorder

>>286309374
on a scale from gay to nigger this one's about a 2

>>286329892
Automata is just a lovestory and in this department it's brilliant.

>>286320460
Gestalt is nothing more than a literal Microsoft-mandated Western butcherjob localization, that ruins the game's original, superior premise, theme, story, characters and impact of it all.

The time skip literally has no purpose in Gestalt. All the main dungeons and side characters representing Nier's own tendencies and journey are completely lost on Papa version. And obviously, all resemblance of romance is totally nuked, as is Kaine going through literal sexual assaults as a kid.

>>286330829
>ignoring the opening and closing lines of the game
They even break the fourth wall and refer to the developers as "we" in quotes.

>>286330829
>Automata is just a lovestory
It's not. It's a literal Black Mirror episode, warning us, the living breathing humans, about the future we are building as we speak, unless we change our "programming".

>>286331066
And it is warning us through a prism of a nihilistic android who gazed into the abyss, got terrified by meaningless of the world, created a meaning for androids and doomed his future incarnations to die repeatedly, not knowing the answer for him is love.

>>286331144
No 9 isn't nihilistic. He found out he's actually a Machine and because the Androids are hyper racist against machines it made him crazy. He took Zinnia's plan to recreate the android's god and altered it so that it would kill all YoRHa at the end because they do not deserve to exist (because they are machines).
Yoko's writing doesn't have any nihilism in it at all. It's all Buddhist samsara stuff that gets misinterpreted as nihilism by gaijin.

>>286330928
Not to mention that papa nier makes no fucking sense as a character. Why is this grown ass man doing odd jobs instead of doing a normal job like everyone else in their society?

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>>286320476
No. The name predates Automata by a long time though. tl;dr:
>Yoko Taro is a massive otaku
>Idol culture is a big part of otaku culture in Japan. It had a big revival in the 2000s and saw massive growth in the 2010s with things like handshake events and fan engagement and stuff. Picrel is AKB48's popularity, a big idol agency with their own theater in Akihabara (and they later got more theaters).
>DEARSTAGE is both an idol agency and a bar+theater in Akihabara that manages various akiba-kei idol groups (there are literally many thousands of idols in Japan, of every type, and with every niche). Its theater is another "sacred site" among otaku idol fans and it also started gaining a lot of popularity in the 2010s.
>Sometime in the early 2010s, Yoko Taro decided to form his own idol group and went to DEERSTAGE and worked with them to form an idol group out of three undergound idols. He called this group YoRHa.
>The YoRHa idol group had their first performance in 2012 and Yoko Taro wrote their lore for their pamphlets and stuff.
>This idol group actually sang music for Drag-On Dragoon 3 and they are included in the credits as YoRHa.
>Later, in 2014 when NieR:Automata entered pre-production, Yoko Taro realized that the lore he created for the YoRHa idol group worked well as a setting for NieR Automata, so he began to work on a stage play for the lore (YoRHa stage play) and used it as the basis for the setting for NieR:Automata.
So all that is to say that its origins are old and it wasn't originally conceived of in the context of NieR but rather NieR:Automata was conceived of in the context of YoRHa. I wonder of maybe people knew the meaning at one point, maybe there's some old wotakus in Akiba who know the meaning.

>>286307787
A lot of that is just the localization altering characterizations and stuff.
>JP Zero is famously a completely different character from EN Zero. JP Zero is just straightforward and wants to get things over with because she understands how dangerous the flower is.
>Kaine curses a lot more in the EN localization, and you'll notice it if you turn on subs and actually listen to what she says. Sometimes she'll just say shit like "urusai" and the subtitles will be a huge string of swears. JP Kaine isn't cartoonishly over the top angry, she's just uncouth.
>JP 2B has a lot of grief, hesitation, and other complex emotions in her vocal performance. I have no idea why the fuck but the EN localization changed a ton of lines and made her super standoffish and completely erased all of her characterization to the point that western fans say she's a non-character and associate her with BDSM.
>A2 is actually really sweet and innocent in the stage play (as well as other adaptations of those events like the manga/anime/etc...). We see her super jaded in Automata specifically to contrast with her personality in the stage play, and her story arc parallels 9S by having her regain her humanity while 9S loses his. She's kind of the only one who is angry and it's specifically for plot and character development reasons.

>>286307114
That's A2 actually

>>286302822
Despite the fanart and designs, if you go into Automata expecting it to be about fat asses and fanservice, you'd be disappointed. Especially if you go into the rest of Nier and Drakengard. It's very story focused. Maybe a bit too much at points.

>>286320460
>>286329883
The papa Nier thing is very funny to me because the people who are still into that is one of the most clear examples I can think of of nostalgia bias. Could you imagine a JP company doing that today, being forced to change the character design of anybody because an American company demanded it against the creator's vision?

People throw a shitfit if a boob slider is removed

>>286306250
Kaine's voice actor died, so probably not happening

>>286320460
Replacing brother with father removes one of the sweetest and most tragic elements from the game which is bro-Nier being forced to take on a father's role and care for Yonah despite being a kid himself. Not to mention selling his femboy ass to old men to make ends meet

>>286306250
>Replicant >>> Automata
Opinion amplified thanks to the cock.

I don't give a single shit about Evangelion and its pretentious fanbase full of waifutards.

>>286330928
>All the main dungeons and side characters representing Nier's own tendencies and journey are completely lost on Papa version
I loved him being completely uninterested in all of the struggles and him basically staying an angry ape for the entire story.
It fell well into the revelation of it all when it is clear that he has just as much of "right" to his daughter as Gestalt Nier does, but he is just an angry ape wanting his daughter so he'll just kill Gestalt Nier without a second thought.
Yoko Taro loves showing what makes people capable of committing murder in his games. And in the case of Nier it shows Nier committing murder because he doesn't even believe in the humanity of the Shades he kills.

Having said all of that, maybe I'd be more open to Oni-Chan Nier if they didn't fuck up the OST so bad in the remaster.

>>286329883
This is funny because I very specifically wasn't interested in Nier back when it first came out because I didn't like the design of the main character.

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>>286332403
>I loved him being completely uninterested in all of the struggles and him basically staying an angry ape for the entire story.
That's exactly the Gestalt's biggest sin. It turns everything into a joke, and demolishes everything that's meant to make you think.
The drama's arch is gone, character development is nonexistent. Papa's just a Kratos-knockoff from start to finish, not a product of a dying, unfair world literally exploiting and misguiding children down a murderous path.

It's the American "Ring" vs the Japanese OG "Ringu", all over again.

>Having said all of that, maybe I'd be more open to Oni-Chan Nier if they didn't fuck up the OST so bad in the remaster.
The soundtrack is fine. Arguably an upgrade from the 5-second loops the PS3 version plays over and over again.
But, if you must have your loops, there's mods for it.

Or you could just play the original Japanese PS3 version, and have all the benefits with none of the Americunt censorship.

>>286331272
>>286332007
At the same time the theme of a mature old man's building feelings for Kaine adds extra spice to the story.

With hindsight, they probably should have adapted Replicant in Anime, while using the budget and teams of Replicant 1.22 on a console version of Re:In...

>>286306250
What's the point if it's not Atsuko Tanaka anymore?

>>286329563
Yeah, explain how you can bring her smile back.

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>>286332531
Papa Nier is still a product of the decaying, dying world, it's just that that development already happened (and with the time skip, you simply watch him way more stronger but way more fucked up, missing an eye and everything). All that's left is the inevitable character decay due to neverending suffering and inability to cure Yonah, which is of course present in both versions anyway
>the drama arch is gone
>a father missing a daughter is not drama
Now you're just making shit up
>nu soundtrack is fine, you just want muh loops
Perhaps, but the original PS3 was better and you know it
The one thing i can admit is missing from Gestalt is the relationship between Nier and Kaine. It's true, old man trying to appeal to the power of friendship sounded silly, and whatever Kaine feelings could have for grown up Teen Nier now looked somewhat out of place. But at the end of the day, despite Yoko Taro himself disliking it, i still believe it was a decent version on it's own

And btw, Ringu film series sucked major ass as well, don't try to paint it otherwise. USA Ring 1 was decent, but i admit the sequel was shit.

>>286301470
is the anime good?

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>>286333844
yeah, anime is great, you should watch some

>>286333844
It's probably the best anime from a video game that currently exists, the plot is the same but there's a lot of significant changes that make it very tasteful to experience for the first time. Don't be fooled by the first couple of episodes

>>286301470
>humans already extinct
>during the course of the game not even a single human is ever alive
God, how depressing. How do you guys cope

>>286302822
Cutest angry shotabot. But what's wrong fag, scared of a woman's butt?

>>286331934
Nowadays they just make it with burger values in mind in the first place and the "Japanese version" remains a hypothetical that never hits reality at all.

>>286331242
Buddhism looks inherently nihilistic from a humanist lens because it postulates that ego is an illusion and the end goal of nirvana is a state of non-self being one with the universe. The term is derived from "extinguish" and is antithetical to any form of individualism which is ultimately what saves the characters in Automata - so the pods choose in E. D is more or less the nirvana end.

>>286334681
>God, how depressing. How do you guys cope

It's not as depressing as it seems. In the game all the actions of androids and robots are juxtaposed with the human world. The human world is the point of reference. All of this gives us a picture that makes us think about what we have. To appreciate what we've been given. Except for one sentence that A2 says at the end this isn't stated explicitly anywhere. So the final message gives a hint of optimism and a glimmer of hope. And I honestly think that it is beautiful.

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>>286334681
In Automata we are not given a reason to care about them, and in Replicant drama CDs we only wish Caim and Angelus had gotten there sooner, humanity fucked up colossally. But hey there is a human in Automata

>>286302720
kek I will start the day by praising his name for rest of my life if he delivers that and lets me witness the unfathomable seethe it would cause.

>>286302822
Automata still hold up if you mod 2B into wearing grandma's panties, if that's what you're wondering, but sex is kinda pivotal to the more important plot moments, the ass is not there just for the players to fap.
I'd say it mixes shmup and hack'n'slash well enough, which makes for interesting bosses and levels sometimes (though it can feel repetitive, especially if you're finishing the game the "3 times" necessary for the true ending).
The plot is interesting if you like the more existential stories about ayy lmaos and AI, it has a touch of pinnochio, childhod's end, and several other sorts of existantial dread. The characters are likeable enough, in no small part because 9S makes them open up into being interesting.
Sex is used kinda like a sisyphean task, the robots can fuck but that's it, it's the search for purpose in a fruitless activity itself instead of the desirable result it should bring. It has all the gnostic/absurdist takes you can expect from other JRPGs like Xeno and SMT, but it dresses them more in sex (and not in the same way SMT does with all the gravitas and risk).
Replicant (and the earlier "murrican" Nier) is more boring, the protag's reason to fight is more defined so the vagueness of objective doesn't land until well into the game, and by then I was already bored of fetch quests (since traversing is nowhere near as pleasant as automata). The futa is hotter than 2B though, in no small part due to having Tanaka Atsuko's voice (rest in peace Major).

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For me, it's Fio

>>286334639
>It's probably the best anime from a video game that currently exists
Agreed. Gungrave being the only real competition, and that is an unfair comparison.

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She's definitely one of the creepier villains I've seen in anime (or video games). Doesn't help that if you pay really close attention throughout the anime, she's always there.

>>286329892
It's not about nihilism. But my point stands and I stick by it.

>>286334639
>best anime from a video game
IDK, I dropped it by ep 2. Maybe I stopped short of the good part, but it felt boring, worse than Obarislop like Fatal Fury, or Stret Fighter Victory.

>>286337082
>Maybe I stopped short of the good part
You actually did. And to be fair, there is no excuse for a show to be really boring at the start.

>>286337082
The first couple of episodes are not indicative of what this series becomes.

It's ironic how Nier Gestalt is for actual manchildren and Nier Replicant for adults

>>286337103
>>286337121
I gave bigger episode windows to worse stories, it's just that I had played the game already, and I started watching it with my wife, who was curious about the android butt game I had been playing and decided to give the anime a try (and wasn't amused).
How many episodes does it take to hit?

>>286337143
There's massive changes already in episode 3-4. Just finish the first season to understand what we are talking about

>>286337175
If it's about spoilers I played the game to completion (even lost my save). But sure, I'm not watching many shows this season, revisiting Nier might be good.

>>286337229
The point of the anime is being different from the game in many aspects. The plot is the same the events surrounding it not

>>286332531
>The soundtrack is fine. Arguably an upgrade from the 5-second loops the PS3 version plays over and over again.
What the fuck possessed you to think this. Do you just have terrible speakers?

>>286337938
The remake's OST is fine, it's like Blue Bird and Shadowlord that are noticeably worse

>>286337371
Oh, that's disheartening, I wanted same events but beautiful 2d animation. Is it like an alternate universe, or side-stories not told in the game? Does it clash with what happens in-game?

>>286301470
For me it's those lips.
Made for kissing

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>>286331934
Nah. My mother prefers papa Nier because she's not anime brained and simply does not believe the protective, obsessive relationship between an older brother and younger sister is anywhere near as believable as a father and his daughter.

>>286338126
and Dark Colossus, sorry, that one was bad.

>>286331934
I was kinda mad at the time about it, I didn't care about the story much besides the lore behind shades and the twins. I couldn't care much more for Nier-ni though, he looked like he added more to the plot but was more grating than papa Nier.

FRASHBACK DEH
FRASHBACK DEH

>>286338971
spaceship...

>>286302822
The soundtrack is incredible and the setting is relatively unique. It's not as deep as fans like to pretend but it's like, a very solid story by gaming standards, all things considered.

brack boxu

BRACK BOCKS DEH
BRACK BOCKS DEH
https://youtu.be/aGycnsHayoo?si=ho7e1JC8_zKXNcHy

>>286332782
Re[in]carnation's story really only works in a gacha. It's too complex and has too many parallel storylines with too many characters including multiple versions of the same character from alternate branches. It basically had all of its side content written directly into the game unlike every other Yoko Taro game.

>>286333844
Yes, but grab the blu-ray version because they redid all of the CGI scenes and stuff to massively improve quality.
It's a different branch from the game, so both the game and the anime are canon. Also, episode has two eyecatches with secret messages from Accord and the blu-ray box set's packaging also has messages that other fans have decoded.

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A2 my beloved...

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>>286335124
In Japanese Buddhism, Nirvana is the pure land of bliss and happiness that you are reborn into after death once you become a shinjin by accepting that you cannot save yourself through your own willpower alone. The true ending is achieved by everyone choosing to sacrifice themselves. Every single character chooses to sacrifice themselves for the greater good in the end (even 9S refuses to go with the machines). More importantly, the games and side materials and everything constantly hammer at you that you're trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth.
The game breaks the fourth wall twice, at the very beginning in the opening lines and at the very end. These lines also occur at the beginning and end of the anime, novelization, and other stuff. The version at the end is a little longer and includes two additional lines telling you what the devs ("we") believe.
>Everything that lives is designed to end.
>They are perpetually trapped...
>in a never-ending spiral of life and death.
>However...life is all about the struggle within this cycle.
>That is what "we" believe.
They also make it clear that even though the game has ended, they are still stuck in an even larger cycle because they've just reset things to the status quo before the YoRHa project was created.

>>286338332
NTA but in case you don't know, the NieR/DoD universe canonically has a lot of different parallel timelines (referred to as "branches" in DoD 3). A character named Accord (who is observing tons of branches across space and time for reasons) explains this in DoD 3 and side materials.
The anime has secret messages from Accord in the eyecatches (strings of numbers and letters that decode to Japanese sentences) that basically say this is a different branch from the game and seem to imply that it's an earlier branch as it's the first time that they observe many events happening.
In the games, each ending takes place in a different branch (so they're all canon). It is assumed that each version of each stage play and each adaptation (novelizations, manga, etc..) also takes place in different branches.
You should still watch the anime though, for one, it adapts all the content from the stage play (most people did not know they were supposed to watch the stage play before playing the game as it has the first half of A2's story arc).

>>286338554
They're literally orphans. Your mother must think really badly of you if they think you would let your sick sister fend for herself and die if you were both orphaned.

>>286339742
I love how the chorus is 9S asking 2B to "break me with those arms of yours".

>>286341002
Americans are weird, Nier brother is suddenly some massive incestfag just because he's doing everything he can to not let his sick sister, and only family, die. Gestalt makes no sense in narrative, why is Dad Nier doing fetch quests instead of having a proper job since he always worked so hard for the village. The story is not made for him, he looks and acts like an autist because he's acting a script made for a 15 year old character.

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>>286301470
A2 and 2B are lovers.

>>286341655
>why is Dad Nier doing fetch quests instead of having a proper job
Weird argument when even in universe Dad Nier becomes a lot more wealthy through his "autistic" stuff he does.
It makes sense for him to go out in search for something to cure Yonah, money alone won't ever do it.

>>286341002
The siblings connection makes little to no sense for westerners, their society has no familial love at all. for Asians it's easier to understand. Usually, the siblings care for each other because both parents work, and there's multiple cases of one of the parents dying from overwork in black companies, leaving one parent taking care of everything and leading the siblings to protect each other. Americans simply have no empathy at all

>>286341738
Go away yuritrash

>>286341738
no

>>286341754
Yes it makes sense for him to search alternatives for Yonah but makes little to no sense why Popola and Devola still treat him like a kid, even if they changed some of their likes, they always coddle adult Nier like he desperately needs them and doesn't know anything about their world.

>>286301470
>Yoko Taro
Kino
>More Evaslop
for fuck's sakerino

>>286339874
>Re[in]carnation's story really only works in a gacha
I know you said why you think this in your very post, but you're going to have to do more to convince anyone of this.
Why the fuck would any video game not be able to do the same thing a Gacha game does.

>>286340613
Pure Lands and nirvana are different concepts. Being "reborn" is inherently antithetical to nirvana because nirvana is a state of non-rebirth. Pure Lands are domains manifested by Buddhas to facilitate the passage of others out of samsara towards nirvana.
There is no greater good in Automata. The pods choose to be human in the end. To choose humanity is to choose samsara and all that entails. For everything wrong with humanity, it is still the ideal everyone struggles towards, androids, machines, YoRHa and all.

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>>286301470
>You now remember you forgot to watch the 2nd season when it aired
>2 years ago
What the fuck was I doing??

How much fanservice does the anime have? I already played the game so ass and titties might just be the only reason I would care to see the anime adaptation.

>>286341738
*A2 and Anemone

>>286342133
too brown

>>286341995
Its really really good and you should watch it for the new route

>>286341738
They are indeed my lovers

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>>286336551
For me it's Hina, but I also really like Levania.

>>286338554
>the protective, obsessive relationship between an older brother and younger sister is anywhere near as believable as a father and his daughter.
That's part of the point of Bro Nier's dilemma though, in that he secretly wants to move on from being Yonah's caretaker but can't out of duty and responsibility. It's why hanging out with Kaine, Weiss, and Emil was such a breath of fresh air for him.

>>286343002
That's why Replicant is the adult's game, for a brother it makes much more sense to feel like that. Anyone who was burdened to take care of their siblings knows how difficult it is. Papa Nier with this thought would make him look like a massive jerk who should just go and buy milk, if you get what I mean.

>>286342235
She's an android

>>286342133
A2 and Lily

>>286302720
It's about Kaworu and Shinji, but since Rei is together with them in the "suffering by destiny" trio she will get focus

>>286302822
Automata and everything he did after was mid so not really. Yoko Taro's strength laid in the weird and disturbing both of which he ditched when going mainstream and even then his storytelling was always mediocre.

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>>286342121
Not much, there are occasional gratuitous shots of 2B/Commander/A2, and A2 is always curvy, but it's a bit of a disappointment.

>>286344503
What was up with this show's production, anyway? I remember hearing when it was still airing that it sometimes took multiple weeks off because they couldn't get the episodes out on time.

>>286344503
They really upped the fanservice with A2.

>>286344578
Covid issues iirc, they couldn't finish the cour within the season and had to broadcast the last 3 episodes at once 4 months later.

>>286320460
you look like shit

the anime was whatever really, people made it sound that there's some legit new addition to the story compared to the game but it's mostly trivial.

>>286344578
>>286346269
loads of productions went absolutely tits up over covid, I think Isekai Ojisan did the same thing

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>>286306250
H-How many inch?

>>286302822
Can you guess?

>>286340958
Oh, good. I was aware there were different timelines with varying degrees of canon to each other (and Nier is the non-canon ending to DoD IIRC), but I didn't know Accord. I only played the original Drakengard in passing, and then Replicant and Automata, but I've never really looked out for the mobile games, novels and stage plays.

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>>286315348
>>deeply unbalanced gameplay which is strictly inferior to anything like sekiro/souls/stellar blade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr2DKNL3Gdo

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>>286347446
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAe4i5RnmuQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jESCfprmV_4

>>286347025
I love these trivial additions like the Resistance Camp members having actual personalities, more Androids around talking to each other, showed some other Yorha units doing their stuff, adapted one of the best quests in the game. The anime didn't make me feel super sad like when I finished Automata and Replicant, but I sure miss it.

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>>286347089
>>286344578
It happened to a whole bunch of anime, Automata, Ojisan, Maou Gakuin, and others I no longer remember. I think there was some big covid outbreak in a big Chinese studio and it brought everything to a halt.

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>>286347436
>and Nier is the non-canon ending to DoD IIRC
This is incorrect but lots of people in the EN fandom say it for some reason. In interviews, Yoko Taro explained that he planned that ending scene from the very start before he planned lots of other things. During development they told him at one point that they might not have enough time to make that ending and he shifted all of his work to only making that ending.
Initially he pitched the idea as having the idol Ayumi Hamasaki be the final boss because it would be this very jarring unexpected thing.
The localization totally distorted that ending by the way. There are lines in earlier chapters of the game that foreshadow the final boss as 聖母 (literally, "holy mother" but the term is used exclusively to refer to the Virgin Mary and Japanese-English dictionaries will translate it as "Virgin Mary") and everything that happens very much fits into the game's setting, down to Angel asking if this is "God's Kingdom" after being teleported to Tokyo.
>>286341903
They are different but there is overlap.
https://www.dharmawheel.net/viewtopic.php?t=26639
Either way, it doesn't sound like you fundamentally disagree that it deals with Shin Buddhist concepts, but rather what it says about those concepts.

>>286348947
>The localization totally distorted that ending by the way.
Is there any fan translation worth playing? Since I've played very little Drakengard it might be time for me to actually learn about the series and play it to completion.

>>286349098
I should clarify. The localization didn't really change lines of dialogue, but it censored a lot of terminology and introduced its own terminology to avoid offending Christians overseas.
God -> Gods
Angels -> Watchers
Church of Angels -> Cult of Watchers
Holy Mother -> Gaia
Enemies -> Grotesqueries
Large enemy -> Queen Beast
and so on.

You can find a copy of the Japanese script online and check what the original terminology was.
There's also a very rare script book of the game that includes additional information like early draft versions of scenes compared to what ended up in the game and additional discussion and stuff but it's basically impossible to find and the only person who had been translating any of it got driven out of the fan community for being a problematic fan of Leonard or something, so there's only a small amount of it translated somewhere. This script book does have a lot of stuff that was removed from the final game and it has led to a bunch of confusion in the fandom over what was removed in the localization.
The only other iffy thing in the localization (not having to do with terminology) was a line where Furiae uses a word that translates to "embrace" but is very commonly used to imply sexual intercourse with respect to her brother, and the localization translated it as "hug" or something.

Also, I forgot to mention. Accord is a big character in DoD 3 but she gets subtly referenced or hinted at in every other game. The timeline in general is
DoD 3 -> DoD 1 -> NieR Replicant -> YoRHa stage play -> NieR:Automata -> NieR Re[in]carnation
The other stage play and other stuff are side materials. The precise order of the timeline gets a bit more complicated with the revelations in Re[in]carnation but this is still basically the order.
You can ignore DoD 2 and even in a clip Accord says events after that have been stricken from the record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4w5brTbdJc

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>>286341889
Because you had the main story, but you also had a LOT of other stories being presented to you at the same time. These stories took place in different timelines at completely different points in time and involved multiple different versions of the same characters. You would unlock these other stories by leveling up characters or doing certain events or doing certain things.
You could try to just "give" players access to everything at the beginning but it would just be absolutely overwhelming. Re[in]carnation had an insane amount of story content and characters.
Just go look through the characters on this page
https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/NieR_Reincarnation#Characters
then pick one of the characters and scroll down to character stories, other stories, and so on. There's also a ton of lore hidden in character stories and weapon stories.

>>286349437
>uses a word that translates to "embrace" but is very commonly used to imply sexual intercourse with respect to her brother, and the localization translated it as "hug" or something.
"daku"? If there's an undub (is the game even fully voiced? I played it for like an hour 20 years ago) I might be able to get better context than playing with english voices.
>You can ignore DoD 2 and even in a clip Accord says events after that have been stricken from the record.
If the game is good I'll play, Taro is the sort of artist I like to just be along for the ride rather than anally obssessing over canon for (even though it clashes with what I said about my expectations of the anime).

>>286349661
There is an undub of DoD 1, you can even find lets plays of it on youtube. I don't remember the precise line, it's been a long time since I looked into this.
DoD 2 wasn't made by Yoko Taro. They had some other director take over. It's largely believed that this is the reason why Yoko Taro chose to continue with NieR and then made DoD 3 as a prequel.

God bless erovirus for revolutionizing nier lewds

>>286338554
Look at that swearing hussy...

>>286301470
Rei is my favorite Eva girl but I like A2 a bit more than 2B. Strange.

>>286348947
I can't exactly disagree when it paraphrases samsara. I suppose you could interpret 9S's literal deaths and rebirth as eternal recurrence but then you're running into ideology so diametrically opposed to Buddhism you can't help but use it as a reference point.

>>286308808
How come I never heard of this anime

>>286315772
i ended up uninstalling it for now because i expected something easier to pick up like nier's combat, but even the easy difficulty still made me frustrated.
not my kind of game.

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>>286333844
It's fun, specially the puppet play parts.

>>286303338
7 inch erect

They should have given it to Nanashi

>>286352089
There were threads here and it had some big names attached to it but it was purposely really weird so it didn't get a lot of mainstream attention.
https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2023-07-17/everything-is-a-lie-yoko-taro-hiroyuki-seshita-jin-and-atsushi-okubo-discuss-kamierabi-god.app-anime/.199776
https://www.ign.com/articles/kamierabi-godapp-why-the-team-behind-yoko-taros-new-anime-compares-it-to-a-california-roll
If you like Yoko Taro's writing then you should watch it, but it is also just really weird.

>>286329787
Classic

>>286311469
>Is there a manga
Only the YoRHa prequel about A2 has been adapted into manga a few years ago, and the anime does mostly adapt that manga through 2 episodes, otherwise nier automata proper only had a novelisation

>>286303782
>misatobros will die of starvation however
Saigado is our only hope.

>>286349739
Oh right, they released something with 2B and A2.

>>286302720
A New original anime series probably means a different cast

>Nier Automata DLC
>Breaks immersion and has you fight the CEOs of Square Enix and Platinum Games
>Yoko Taro hasn't had any of his work outside of some lost media nier gacha slop released for almost a decade
What did he mean by this?

>>286354626
>new cast
Well, we can be glad Taro is writing this first attempt at diversifying eva, because they certainly won't try that again after

>>286331616
Thanks for the context of he creation of that stage play.
btw since you seem to know your shit, what was Taro doing in the mid 2000s? After the dev of DOD1 and before Nier's? He was much less prolific than after.

>>286329883
The amount of disrespect localizers had towards Yoko Taro is out of this world, I wonder if those people are still in the industry.

>>286353911
Oh, I see. Guess I'll check the anime after all, or get a friend of mine drunk next month at a gathering and have him just explain/spoil it all, since he's a fan of the author.

>>286307114
She fells me with joy

>>286307114
That's not 2B, that's A2. But yes, it is nice seeing her smile for once.

>>286329883
>It's less butchered than DoD 1 at least
Wait? What's up with DoD 1? I played it more than a decade ago and I didn't notice anything seeming off, the voice acting was great.

>>286334681
the soul of humanity remains in the androids, if they figure it out

>>286360808
I think they'll be able to figure that out.

>>286339742
Escalate was better

>>286361880
I felt the same way at first, but it's not quite as catchy. It doesn't live rent free in my head the same way.

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>>286354671
Squeenix is ran by retards, which is objectively true.

>>286350993
Nah, you're not the only one who likes A2 more than 2B.

>>286354671
Neither companies have managed to equal Nier A since, so taro has the last laugh

>>286359417
It's pretty crazy but it was also the norm throughout the 2000s for the Western game industry to have outright contempt for Japanese devs and culture. Things didn't really start to change until the 2010s.
Check out old X-Play reviews on Japanese games. You can find more clips on youtube.
https://files.catbox.moe/ty30bi.mp4

>>286354671
There were two different gacha slops (SINoALICE and NieR Re[in]carnation). He also made the new version of Replicant after that. He does a lot of other shit in Japan though, like a bunch of stage play series which could also be connected to NieR.

>>286359819
I was referring mostly to the Christian censorship, like here >>286349437
>>286357565
I don't really know. He said in interviews that his dream was to direct a game and after he accomplished that he was happy to step back and relax and that it had been a lot of work. I know he continued working with Cavia and did video editing on DoD 2 and stuff and he probably worked on the cancelled Cry On game. I think he mostly came back to being active around the time he started working on NieR. Then after that he started doing tons of stuff all at once.

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Nice timing with this thread. I'm working on arranging a NieR song for string quartet.
https://voca.ro/16DRsbAw8J3P

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>>286301470
>local man ruins everything
kino

>>286347089
Hope the covid hiatus didn't kill interest in ojisan completely. The Manga is far enough for a season 2 and I feel the Anime doesn't get the Love it deserves. Probably too niche and aimed at Gen X and Y

>>286367320
Yeah covid fucked a lot of anime up, the Nier anime included.

>>286366561
This is good, anon

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giwtwm

>>286335594
>But hey there is a human in Automata
There is? Who?

>>286334681
Something something "The Androids are humanity now"

>>286370122
Wait I'm retarded, you're talking about Emil

>>286366561
That's pretty great

>>286333159
Congratulations for defending a localization fanfiction that even the creator doesn't care about, retard.

>>286329787
>blaming journalists for peoples retardation after everyone knowing that they're full of shit
lmao

>>286302822
notice how no one really talks about the game or the actual story and only really talk about yoko taro himself or like one character from one of the games

>>286337134
No one cares about Brother Nier, even if Papa Nier is Mystic Quest shenanigans.

>>286307987
A2 is not a bitch like asuka.

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>>286375130
But 2B is more popular than Asuka

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>>286373183
Meh, i'm no better than fags discussing Asuka vs Rei or how much the Rebuild sucks despite the fact that Anno himself grew up and left the franchise behind.
I like this thing, so i will enjoy it. Go have your way

>>286375427
Her design may be, i really doubt her character is

I can't belive this thread is still alive. I am deeply moved

>>286378104
move this
*unzips dick*

>>286366689
>ruins
Number 9's plan is the only reason the entire planet had a period of relative peace. Well, unforeseen consequences of his plan, but still.

>>286366689
>even male androids have risqué garments and dick-sucking glazed lips
what did YoRHa mean by this?

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>>286378186
>unzips
You have a removable penis ?

>>286378403
you think about sucking dicks way too much

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>>286378186
Anon, you're underestimating /a/.
We'll keep sucking it even after you cum. Even begging won't make us stop.

>>286378403
It means all androids are made with male pleasure in mind regardless of their gender.

>>286379623
He's an android, you can swap out the penis for repairs.

>>286380845
>almost 13 years ago
N-no.....that can't be right....

>>286381949
/a/ hasn't changed all that much since then.
It's just as g/a/y now as it was back then.

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>>286313853
>memepantnazis

>>286386377
Reminder that he still won in the rebuilds btw

>>286369399
Lucky bastard.

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>>286373401
Everything in the series is both spoilers and a massive rabbit hole. There's also a massive ongoing overarching story running throughout the series with many things we still don't understand. If all you've played is Automata then you've only scratched the surface of this overarching story.
Everything from Accord to Dragons to the Cataclysm to branches and cycles to Group B to other stuff is barely mentioned in Automata stuff via secrets and side materials.
I actually think we might be wrong about how branches work as a whole. There's a discussion in DoD3 Complete Works where the writers say they don't understand what Yoko Taro means by branches and they just write what he tells them to write. They notice a difference in the Japanese definition of Singularity and Branches (in DoD3) from the localized definition and point out events in DoD3 where it seems like characters actually have different pasts, implying they're actually "shifting" through timelines. Also noteworthy is that in the last SINoALICE novel, Dorothy refers to the timelines as "worldlines" (both in Japanese and the localization) a term used exclusively in this sense by Steins;Gate (it means something completely different in physics). There are other references to Steins;Gate in SINoALICE as well. All this is to say that I think the fandom might actually be wrong about how Singularities and Branches work and it might actually be more like Steins;Gate.

>>286389533
Whatever it is it all serves one purpose ... to make everything more complicated.

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>>286390532
No, it serves the core theme, which deals with the Buddhist notion of Samsara.

was the anime adaption any good?

>>286392469
You are just baiting not to let this thread die

>>286392508
I'm asking a genuine question you fucking schizo. I don't care if your faggot thread is about to die

>>286392469
read the thread

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>>286371975
Thanks anon. I always actually write my scores instead of using a DAW. So, in theory, if I had three other people, this could be played live.

>>286301470
good

>>286366116
I get what they were going for (basically saying 7th gen Western games are better than Japanese ones), but I think they overdid it with the Japan hate, especially considering how bad Western games got post-2009, which the West never really recovered from.

>>286392469
No, they baited us with hints that it would diverge a lot but in the end it was still the same story with small differences

>>286397016
If you mean 2B, 9S, and A2's story is largely unchanged then sure but killing off every single one of the side characters is pretty significant.

>>286396423
No dude, they were straight up saying that "anime" is for weird Japanophiles because that was the norm in the 2000s. They did the same thing with all Japanese games, even Devil May Cry. 7th Gen western games were not better at all either, it was all multiplayer online first person slop.

>>286392469
It's a different branch from the game with a bunch of changes and a ton of references to every NieR game and DoD 3. It also has two episodes adapting the stage play content that most players skipped even though it's literally half of A2's story arc.
The ending is a mix of C+D into E and it shows the the irl side of things in ending E (the game shows what's going on inside the pod network. Years ago the novelization explained that the pods are simultaneously fighting both irl and within the pod network during that scene. There's also a bunch of secret messages that tell us more about what Accord's up to and hints at future stuff.