When these boxes touch, they self-destruct in a massive explosion that consumes all of the Goliaths. It looks like it’s going to be Game Over, Man for both 2B and 9S, so after she thanks him for saving her, the two take out their Black Boxes. But then it wakes back up, and four other Goliaths awaken and rise, surrounding them. The good guys have seemingly prevailed and defeated the big level boss. She runs up the appendages of the Goliath and punctures its core with her katana. His hacking ends up being incomplete and he’s ejected from his mecha and seriously maimed, and Goliath is able to reboot and regain part of its autonomy.ĩS urges a suddenly very human-like 2B not to worry about him and complete the mission. This Goliath is a tough customer, but 9S has it handled: diving into its computer brain in a trippy hacking sequence that’s a nice change of pace from the external twisted metal and rust, and smoke. As for the Goliath, it appears as a massive oil platform-on-tracks, with a face resembling the boss from StarFox. But he also saves the “brute-force-first” 2B’s ass. 2B is less enthused, especially with 9S’ loquaciousness (she tells him not to call her “miss” and cuts his exposition short). She’s aided by a far more “human”-acting intelligence android, 9S, voiced by Hanae Natsuki as if he were an affable high school character.ĩS hasn’t spoken to anyone in a while, and is happy to be teamed up with someone, being a typically solo unit. She’s supported by a float “Pod” companion that keeps her informed about her surroundings and conditions.ĢB has a mission, and despite being the only one of her squad to make it to the factory where her Goliath-type target is located, she is determined to carry out the mission or die (or rather be destroyed) trying. At times I wondered if Yuuri and Chito from Girls’ Last Tour might come running through the mist. I also thought of early Vivy.ĢB has the baroque look of a late-stage Final Fantasy character, which contrasts nicely with the more bare-bolts industrial setting. Sporting a silver bob, eye mask, dark maid/knight outfit, katana, and slick-as-shit mecha, 2B is voiced by Ishikawa Yui, channeling Mikasa with an appropriately stiff, mechanical vocal performance. Our protagonist is YoRHa B-Gata H-Kei 2-gou B-gata, AKA 2B, which is super easy name to remember. The aliens use “machine lifeforms” (retro-looking robots) to fight sleeker (read: sexier) androids developed by humanity. With this adaptation, A-1 Pictures gives us a polished sci-fi action flick set in a bleak and gritty world decimated by alien invasion. Nier:Automata Ver 1.1a is an anime adaptation of a video game sequel to a spin-off of another video game series dating back to 2003, but for me it might as well be anime-original.
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