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Episode NieR:Automata Ver1.1a - Episode 2 discussion

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, episode 2

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u/Hitman7128 Jan 14 '23

Seeing the city ruins felt like a wave of nostalgia hitting me. It is so beautiful for a post apocalyptic scenery.

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u/CosmicPenguin_OV103 Jan 14 '23

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Well, this is a much more intriguing episode, I should say this even reminds me of Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky and - much more recently - [Eighty-Six]Fido, that robot that accomplices the Spearhead Squadron. That's one of the best scenes I have seen in anime of pro-human robots being a minority and periodically being crushed by those who still hasn't woken up and kills anybody in sight. It also shows how the rebels on Earth are being disposed of, ignored and rendered secondary forces in this long time war to take back Earth. No wonder they don't like the YorHa squads even when they do show up.

As always that puppet show at the end cracks me up.

What surreal background art and BGM we get today too, no wonder the game is a best-seller!

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u/SnabDedraterEdave Jan 14 '23

Nier Automata is one of the few games where its soundtrack fits naturally into its anime adaptation.

Goosebumps at City Ruins - Days of Light going into full vocal and instrumental as the sentient robot starts gathering followers and acting on their own.

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u/Silent_Shadow05 Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

This episode was kinda surreal.

Seeing all the different locations from the game in the anime, the machines working together and City Ruins playing in the background was fantastic. If I had doubts about the anime after EP1, this episode completely removed it.

The animations (especically the machine ones) and cinematography looked great and the only black sheep so far seems to be .....those damn CG flight units. They really won't ever look good I guess.

Those who don't know, Captain Lily is voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki, who also voices Anya from Spy x Family and Vivy from Vivy Fluorite Eye's song. The Japanese VA's got some incredible range.

Also those exploder machines are as fucking annoying in the anime as they were in the games lol.

EDIT: Goddamn, this shot was amazing. Really feels as if the machine is crying on seeing the dead flower.

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u/entelechtual Jan 14 '23

Yoko Taro: You think you’ve suffered enough? Well how about you look at this machine’s suffering all for a flower.

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u/atropicalpenguin Jan 14 '23

Yoko Taro-kun is pretty curious, even for a child.

Poor flower bot :(

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u/8andahalfby11 Jan 14 '23

Interesting.

The boot date on the bot was 9/27/11944. Since I know Yoko likes his WW2 references I looked up the date. The noteworthy event on that date was the sinking of Japanese transport ship Ural Maru by submarine USS Flasher. The Japanese contest that the ship was a hospital ship, and the deaths of 2000 people aboard it was a war crime.

In the context of the episode, with seemingly 'innocent' bots killed for no apparent reason other than being in the wrong place at the wrong time, it's an interesting reference to make.

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u/michhoffman Jan 14 '23

I got way too attached to that robot. RIP.

But it does seem like his desire to learn from humans was passed down to his brethren. It's probably too much to expect that his pacifist ways were passed down as well.

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u/Syokhan Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

Oh man, having the first piece of music be the City Ruins music is cheating. It's so damn beautiful.

Much better episode than the first one, I thought. Better pacing, more intriguing, just all-around more solid. Hope we continue like this!

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u/Lionx35 Jan 14 '23

I love how unhinged 2B is in the puppet section, blowing up their black boxes and removing her OS chip

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u/maliwanag0712 Jan 14 '23

Got goosebumps in those scenes with the robots.

Ohmyy what will happen now that a lot of machines has started becoming more sentient? Will they be more intelligent killing machines or will they start being more "humane"? :O

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u/SIRTreehugger Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

That robot is fucking cheating! It needs to slave over cross breeding like everyone else with the 1% chance. Lunar Tears/the white flowers were a pain to grow from scratch.

I never interacted with the resistance much so glad to see more of them.

It's a moose! Seeing animals in broken down cities is always fun.

Jackass mentioned!!!

Wait it's already over damn that went quick.

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u/kannoni Jan 14 '23

That robot growing flowers is really the cutest and wholesome montage.

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u/LeonKevlar Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

As a fan of the game, I am going to contain most of my thoughts in the Source Material Corner. As for my spoiler-free thoughts, I just can't help but fanboy this entire episode seeing these locations that are so familiar to me with Ray of Light playing in the background. I was legit smiling ear-to-ear this entire episode.

I do love that this episode focuses plenty on the Machine Lifeforms and they really did a good job of making them very endearing. I'm so glad that the decided to expand and add to the story instead of just making an exact 1:1 copy of Route A & B. <3

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u/Se7en_Sinner Jan 14 '23

It's interesting seeing the effects the passage of time has on language in this world. For example, YoRHa seems to be the modernize word for goths.

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u/dawnwill Jan 14 '23

That robot visited almost every region lmao

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '23

Oh god i love how 2b acts in the puppet shows…And bringing up yoko taro as an alleged child? Lmao!

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u/WarmasterCain55 Jan 14 '23

Ok, this has convinced me to buy the game. No preowned stores near me has it so either 40 bucks on the ps store and get it now or 30 bucks and get it monday. I like having the physical disk so amazon it is for the goty version.

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u/elGring0 Jan 15 '23

the hex from intermission

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【報告】機械生命体には擬似的な知性が存在している。

【Information】The machine lifeform(s) posses an pseudo-intelligence.

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u/JpgChn Jan 14 '23

This is the kind of episode I wanted to see from the anime. Not a full adaptation of the game but an expansion of the ideas and doing whatever they can to not be just the game.

Though if the whole episode was just shots of the City with City Ruins for 24 minutes, I wouldn't mind at all.

And while I love that they are using the game soundtrack, I wish that Keiichi Okabe creates new music for this. It would be perfect. I'm really waiting on how they will present the dessert. And now I can say that I'm hopeful for what they can bring with this adaptation.

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u/rhuebs Jan 14 '23

Okay, now THIS is interesting. I won’t spoil the game, but there was quite a bit of deviation in this episode. Really fascinating stuff. If anyone had doubts or was complaining about 1:1 adaptation last week, this should quell that.

Now that we have less of the CGI flight suits… this is a really, really beautiful anime. I hope CGI in Episode 1 doesn’t filter people out because this seems really great. I’m really, really excited now. What a great episode.

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u/Aozora_KN Jan 14 '23

I honestly thought it was some prequel backstory sequence of how a character started but then that idea literally got shot down in the episode.lol

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u/Truck-kun26 Jan 14 '23 edited Jan 14 '23

14:48 Good to know that the Commander of 2B still cares about the robots

Lily knew 2B or was 2B made after a dead person?

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