#Automata Ver 1.1a Reveals New Trailer, Visual, OP Info, July Premiere

The upcoming second cour of NieR: Automata Ver 1.1a has received its third visual and a new trailer, as well as a July 2024 premiere window.

It was also announced that LiSA is performing the new opening song, “Black Box.”

NieR: Automata Ver 1.1a is inspired by the 2017 open world action-RPG NieR: Automata, where androids and alien-manufactured machines fight over a desolate Earth in the distant future. Its first cour started in January 2023 but concluded after the Winter 2023 anime season as a result of various delays. Episodes 9 to 12 were released together on July 23. Crunchyroll and Bilibili streamed the show overseas.

The PlatinumGames-developed video game has inspired other media like stage plays, novels, and manga. Lily, a character from the YoRHa prequel stage play and its manga adaptation, appears in the anime.

• Director: Ryoji Masuyama (Blend S, The Idolmaster: Cinderella Girls assistant director)
• Series composer: Ryoji Masuyama
• Series composer: Yoko Taro (NieR: Automata creator)
• Character designer and chief animation director: Jun Nakai (Lord El-Melloi II’s Case Files {Rail Zeppelin} Grace note)
• Action director and prop designer: Shun Tachibana
• Music composer: MONACA (Assassin’s Pride)
• Animation production: A-1 Pictures

Cast

• Yui Ishikawa as 2B
• Natsuki Hanae as 9S
• Chiaki Kano as YoRHa’s commander
• Keiko Isobe as Operator 6O
• Meari Hatsumi as Operator 21O
• Aoi Yuuki as Pascal
• Daisuke Namikawa as Adam
• Tatsuhisa Suzuki as Eve
• Atsumi Tanezaki as Lily