NieR:Automata Ver1.1a TV Anime Creditless Opening by Aimer Released

Image via official Twitter account

 

Following the premiere of the first episode of the highly anticipated TV anime adaptation of the NieR:Automata video game in NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, the anime’s official accounts released the creditless opening theme “escalate” performed by Aimer.

 

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a Opening “escalate” 

 

The anime’s staff and cast include:

 

• Director: Ryoji Matsuyama (Blend-S)
• Series Composition: YOKO TARO, Ryoji Matsuyama
• Character Design, Chief Animation Director: Jun Nakai (GATE)
• Music: MONACA (Aikatsu! series)
• Animation Production: A-1 Pictures

 

• 2B voiced by Yui Ishikawa
• 9S voiced by Natsuki Hanae
• A2 voiced by Ayaka Suwa
• Pod 042 voiced by Hiroki Yasumoto
• Pod 153 voiced by Kaoru Akiyama
• Adam voiced by Daisuke Namikawa
• Eve voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki
• Pascal voiced by Aoi Yuki
• Commander voiced by Chiaki Kano
• Operator 60 voiced by Keiko Isobe
• Operator 210 voiced by Mary Hatsumi
• Lily voiced by Atsumi Tanezaki

 

Crunchyroll streams the anime every Saturday as it airs. The anime’s official website describes the story:

 

The distant future, 5012.

 

The sudden aerial invasion of Earth by and their creations led mankind to the brink of extinction. 

 

The surviving number of humans who took refuge on the moon to organize a counterattack using soldiers to recapture Earth. 

 

However, the war reaches a stalemate as the continue to multiply infinitely. 

 

In turn, humanity deploys a new unit of android soldiers as an ultimate weapon: YoRHa.

 

Newly dispatched to Earth 2B joins 9S, the analyst currently stationed there, where amid their mission, they encounter a myriad of mysterious phenomena…

 

This is the story of these lifeless and their endless fight for the sake of mankind.

 

Source: Official Twitter, Aniplex Youtube channel