#official nier art

[turtle-gatcha]

YoRHa boys book illustrations

[grimalkinscribbles]

Falling down the stairs on purpose just to see this man

[highland-onsen]

Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising - 2B (by Hideo Minaba)

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[my-anime-goods]

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a - Don Quijote collaboration featuring goods with new illustrations from 13 July 2024 at Don Quijote shops in Japan while stocks last.

[tetrix-anime]

NieR:Automata Ver1.1a scans

[croholz]

Hi I’m Croholz (Or Fin :3) and

I MAKE BUTTONS!!!

Like the art I make for these fandoms?

YOU’LL PROBABLY LIKE THESE COOL ASS BUTTONS THEN

Look I took these high effort photos too

If you like my work and think a certain design/character would be cool in my style, let me know because I am having so much fun designing these buttons.

Some of these I look back on and I’m like “O.O how did I do that” because I really went out and experimented with colors.

Anyways, check em’ out, even if you don’t buy anything, I appreciate any traffic to the shop profile that’ll help me in the algorithm <33

[renposter]

[revenantghost]

An illustration to celebrate the release of episode one of NieR: Automata Ver1.1a, by animator @K_TUGUMU_0213

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Illustrations from the NieR: Automata pop up store at Loft Shibuya

[katrinavalentina]

Dragon Dragoon: The Materials Artbook

For most major games, the art-books are one of rare windows into the process behind the creation of the game; I was under the impression that the Drakengard 1 art-book in entirety was stored in image form archive.org. However, because of firstly noticing the usage of storyboards in this lets play archive for Drakengard 1, and the presence of some other artwork which wasn't included in the archive.org file, this unboxing video of The Materials art-book confirmed that there was a major amount of it missing.

Below are a few of the pieces missing from the archive.org file; I'm most interested in the storyboards and the concept art for more minor details, like the cyclops, as these are not as prolific in the Drakengard fandom.

All the missing pages are, of course, available on the Accord Library, which I highly recommend checking out if you're a fan of the 'Yokoverse' as they put it.

I'm not really sure the point of this post, so I guess just take it as an "if you want to find out some of the additional materials for any of Yoko's games (and DOD2), go to the Accord Library"; a lot of other websites seem to have incomplete or half-baked knowledge. If Accord has anything wrong, or you'd like to help contribute to the library, I'd recommend their discord, too.

[mysticdragon3md3]

I really love all this minimalist chibi art that videogame companies are doing lately.

For reference, here's that Capcom Cafe official art from last year: https://twitter.com/TokyoOtakuMode/status/1449412321491636229 https://twitter.com/TokyoOtakuMode/status/1402455815139643392

[satoshi-mochida]

Clock Tower: Rewind launches October 29 in the west - Gematsu

Clock Tower: Rewind will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC via Steam on October 29 in the Americas and Europe, developer WayForward announced. The game will support English, Japanese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Korean, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese language options.

In Japan, Clock Tower: Rewind will launch a few days later on October 31.

“This fall is shaping up to be one of the most thrilling and action-packed periods in WayForward’s history,” said WayForward Tyrannical Overlord Voldi Way in a press release. “Just in time for spooky season, Clock Tower: Rewind will allow horror fans to finally experience an acclaimed 16-bit classic.”

Here is an overview of the game, via WayForward:

Clock Tower: Rewind is the resurrection of the 1995 Super Famicom game, Clock Tower, officially translated and released outside of Japan for the first time. Featuring the original graphics, sound, and gameplay of the classic release, the groundbreaking title challenges players to escape the terrifying Barrows family manor, where they’ll be pursued by the relentless, murderous, shears-wielding Scissorman. The game also includes Rewind Mode, which adds extra content and quality-of-life improvements, along with numerous extra features including a new animated intro, vocal songs by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (Silent Hill series) and Emi Evans (NieR series), motion comics with voiceovers, an art gallery, save states, a rewind function, a music player, and other bonuses.

Watch an old gameplay trailer below.

Gameplay Trailer

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[ririya-translates]

Mitsuki Shirota's Short Story

On the official Japanese Jack Jeanne website, there's a page of full of concept art and short stories for each major character (as well as stories for every character + Kisa). They were written by Shin Towada (primary writer of the game and Ishida's sister) and the art is by Ronin (also did concept art for Nier, Pokemon, Fire Emblem).

I thought it would be cute to post translations on each character's birthday. Since they were written as promo material, spoilers are quite minimal (mostly around the first performance). I tried to keep the original notebook aesthetic and dialogue colour-coding to post on Twitter, but I'm posting a regular text version here for better accessibility.

As if he were observing the ever-fluctuating world through a pane of glass, he always kept his distance. "It's already been a year since we were on stage at the Newcomer's Performance, huh?" He heard those words while in class at the beginning of lunch period. It wasn't that big a deal. The topic should have ended with that one disruptive statement, but it captured the attention of the Univeil Drama School second-year students. Voices of shared nostalgia all piled on top of each other.

"A lot has changed since then, huh? For us and for the ones in other classes too." "I didn't think Sugachi would become the Al Jeanne of Onyx. He's so reserved." "And in Rhodonite, Minorikawa is likely their Jack Ace yeah? It's probably tough being a Jack Ace over there." People always brought up the same names to represent the second-year class.

"Shirota became a tresor like we all expected too." The moment that name was said, the Quartz second years turned their eyes to him. They're so annoying.

Sitting in a chair, chin in his hands, Mitsuki Shirota looked over his sheet music. He remembered something even more clamorous than the noisy stares of a crowd. Shirota was a second-year Quartz student, same as them. The term 'tresor' was reserved only for Jeannes with strong vocal talent. Combined with his unmistakably Jeanne-like facial features, he drew notice from people around him. But their unrestrained gaze was not something he enjoyed.

Shirota raised his head and looked directly at them to catch their stares. His calm expression suddenly turned sharp. Crumbling under the impact, the students hurriedly averted their eyes. "W-well, our grade sure has a lot of talented people, huh?" Avoiding the topic of this interaction, they resumed their conversation. But Shirota knew this discussion would be pointless. He took his sheet music in hand and stood up.

"But y'know… it's because 'that guy' is here." The end of these conversations was always the same. "The moment I saw that guy on stage at last year's Newcomer's Performance, I lost all hope." The cheery atmosphere immediately turned and a heavy air permeated the classroom. "As long as that guy is here, us in the 77th class are…" Shirota and the other second-years were part of the 77th class year in the history of Univeil Drama School. And in that 77th class, everyone had been cursed by the existence of just one person. This doesn't just apply to our class though, does it? It affected the third-years in the 76th class and the first-years in the 78th class too.

Leaving the classroom, he closed the door as if to shut out everything. It's pointless

He fled the group's vortex and went to the terrace next to the Univeil school building. This place, covered in vibrant plants mixed with the smell of flowers, enveloped him in a peaceful atmosphere Siiigh Shirota released a big breath from deep in his lungs, sat on the bench, and opened his sheet music. The Newcomer's Performance vocal section. It was a performance for the newly enrolled first-years to be in lead roles, but Shirota and the other older students would be on stage as well. The duty to support the first-years seemed burdensome to him. Staring at his music sheet, he began to play the song in his head to see the shape of it. Huh?

Suddenly the song was scrambled by noisy footsteps in the distance. Going this way and that, the sound started moving towards Shirota. "Oh, it's Shirota! Working hard today!" Echoing even louder than the footsteps, that clear voice penetrated the ears he was trying to cover. The one who came to greet him with the sunny face to match his personality was the brand new Jack of Quartz, Suzu Orimaki. He had barely just enrolled and was in Shirota's class. "Shut up." "O-oh! My bad!" After being smacked with this unreasonable anger, Suzu sincerely apologized. He didn't avert his eyes the way the students in Shirota's grade did. Shirota's eyes relaxed. "What are you looking around for? The other ones in your grade?" "Whoa, how did you know bro?!" "You're being too loud." "Oh, my bad!" Seeing Suzu quickly cover his mouth, Shirota let out a breath. "I knew because you were wandering all over the place. You're probably looking for Yonaga." Suzu nodded and opened his mouth, "I promised to run lines with those guys on the terrace." He took care to lower his tone of voice a bit, although strangely his voice still reverberated. "…You're with the other first-years a lot huh?" In competition for the good roles with others in their grade, there was often a lot of friction early in the school year. A friction that continued all the way up until graduation in some cases. Images of students in his year flashed in the back of Shirota's mind. "Yeah, they're great guys," Suzu answered with a smile that showed no trace of conflict. "Hmm," Shirota responded vaguely. "Well, sorry for bugging you! I'll be going now!" Suzu gave a short nod and ran off.

As his footsteps faded into the distance, the quiet returned. "…He sure is an energetic one eh?" As if waiting for the right moment, another presence appeared. "Fumi." "Yo." How long had he been there? Without disturbing the quiet, Sarafumi Takashina, the Al Jeanne of Quartz, showed himself. As Shirota was a Jeanne himself, this was the person directly above him. "Kuro would get so excited seeing you talking to the younger students." "Please stop…" The person Fumi called 'Kuro' was the leader of Quartz, Kokuto Neji. He fit in with the rest of those prodigy guys, but to Shirota he was just a bothersome senior. Seeing Shirota make an upset face from deep in his heart, Fumi chuckled. He stood next to Shirota and looked in the direction where Suzu ran off. "Orimaki seems like the type to be friendly with everybody huh?" "No matter what I say, he doesn't back down." "Wherever he goes, the place becomes brighter." "Even just his presence is loud." As soon as Shirota said this, in the distance he could hear, "There you guys are!" It seemed like Suzu had rejoined his classmates. Even with him not present, he was such a loud man. It would probably get even noisier as they started running lines. Or so he thought. Miraculously, Suzu's voice faded and he could no longer hear it. Maybe they changed locations. "Orimaki isn't the only one you've talked to right?" "Hmm, well…" Shirota had an unapproachable energy. While many of his juniors kept their distance to avoid upsetting him, there was one other first-year who approached him like Suzu did. There was this first year with a gentle face whose name kept coming up over and over, from the time he enrolled until being nominated as a Jeanne. This student was always hanging out with Suzu and Yonaga, even the other first-years too sometimes. Maybe those guys changed locations because Orimaki told them I'm here. When he had unpleasant thoughts towards others, all he had to do was reject them. But, if he wasn't like this, how should he be instead? Thinking about it made him a bit tired.

"…Well, Mitsu, it's good to take baby steps," Fumi said in a slow relaxed voice. He spoke as if seeing a future not visible to Shirota himself.

As if surrendering himself to the idea, he quietly replied, "Yeah, we'll see."

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NieR:Automata Ver1.1a - Blu-ray Disc Box Vol.2 Bonus Illustrations