NieR's merchandise and licensing slate is active while the YoRHa stage line is dormant between the 2020 Shojo YoRHa Ver 1.1a production and a restaging of Shonen YoRHa ver 1.2 set for 2027. Square Enix continues to bundle the games with their soundtracks on Steam and to license hardware and figure releases tied to the series' 15th anniversary.
The stories published since May 2026 treat NieR less as a game release cycle and more as a licensing and collaboration engine. Square Enix has kept the back catalog in motion: it bundled NieR:Automata and NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... with their soundtracks on Steam on September 19, and the 15th anniversary is being marked through hardware, from a Pixio gaming monitor with an illustration by D.K to a Kaine-themed chair using Seki Furniture's Contieaks frame. Figures recur across the run, including a re-release of the FORMISM 2B, 9S, and A2 set starting June 7 and POP UP PARADE L size figures of 2B and A2 announced in August with no release date or price.
The biggest live item is a Dead by Daylight crossover with NieR:Automata, launched by Behaviour Interactive on October 6. The 2B costume goes to Feng Min and the A2 costume to Yui Kimura, with a Very Rare Emil-inspired outfit for The Legion. Behaviour later said it will adjust the 2B skin after fix requests centred on the body type, with no release date set.
The stage line is being revived after a gap: Kyodo Medias will restage Shonen YoRHa ver 1.2 in 2027, with Yoko Taro on original work and script, Matsuta Ichidai directing, and Okabe Keiichi composing. Auditions close October 18. Yoko Taro also appeared at The Tenth Mosaic in Tokyo in September and produced an Evangelion visual for The Weeknd's Japan concerts, pointing to a busy cross-property schedule rather than a new NieR game.
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The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom anime announced four more cast members on Thursday, all voicing the royal family of the Country of Long Nights. Naomi Shindo plays Queen Hyrokkin, Atsushi Ono plays her prince consort Rollo, Ai Kayano plays heir presumptive Birgitta, and Yurie Funato plays Birgitta's daughter Kastehelmi. The arc starts in episode 4. The anime premiered on NHK Educational on October 3.
Volks is taking made-to-order pre-orders on two Dollfie Dream dolls drawn from the NieR series, with the window closing on November 29, 2026. The pair are "Dollfie Dream Dynamite 2B (YoRHa No.2 Type B) 2.0," based on NieR:Automata, and "Dollfie Dream Dynamite Kaine," based on NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139.... Each doll costs 110,000 yen including tax and is scheduled to ship in autumn 2027. Both use the DDdy Base Body 2.0 (DD-f3) in semi-white skin, with 18mm resin eyes and original-style DD-size wigs. The 2B doll reworks its overall balance and head size for the new body, revises costume details, and adds a newly sculpted Virtuous Contract sword. The Kaine doll carries dual saw-toothed swords and a hair ornament of the Lunar Tear flower. Orders are handled through the Dollfie Online Store, Volks stores nationwide, and overseas DD Friend Shops, with some stores excluded.
At Machi Asobi vol.31 in Tokushima, the Aurin booth sold NieR series hardware: a Kaine-inspired gaming chair with an Emil cushion, a Pixio gaming monitor with WQHD 180Hz specs and D.K. artwork on the back, and an H5 Flow PC case with Kaine on the clear panel. Three PC cases were stocked and had sold out by 13:30 on October 17, 2026. Buying 3,300 yen or more of NieR items earns a ticket to the October 18 autograph session with Yoko Taro and Yosuke Saito.
The Art of Manga exhibition, which debuted at the de Young Museum in San Francisco last year, opens at the Brooklyn Museum with 658 works, most of them the same selection. Brooklyn curator Joan Cummins says the hard part was hanging 658 pieces in the right order in a circa 1900 room with columns and two ceiling heights. Brooklyn adds pages from Jiro Taniguchi's Hundred Year Lineage; the de Young's full-scale printing press is now a video installation.
The television anime of Nao Iwamoto's The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom manga has cast Shoya Ishige as Johann, a noble house's son from Marronnier's western territory and vice captain of the Marronnier knights. Johann heads to the Country of Long Nights with Insomniac on a diplomatic mission and appears in the third episode on Saturday. The anime premiered on NHK Educational on October 3, with Amazon Prime Video streaming.
Behaviour Interactive plans to adjust the "2B" Legendary Skin from Dead by Daylight's NieR:Automata Collection, Mandy, the Lead Community Manager, said in a response on the official forum. The collection arrived in October 2026 with Legendary Skins for "2B" and "A2" plus "Emil's Purpose" for the Killer "The Legion." Requests to fix "2B" came from Japan and overseas, centered on the body type. No release date is set for the adjustments.
At The Tenth Mosaic, held September 22 and 23 at the Tokyo French Institute, Yoko Taro opened the festival in conversation with Keisuke Okabe, director of ENDER LILIES. Okabe said he came to games from doujin manga, was hired by Neverland Company, drew and wrote for a mobile project, and grew into directing. ENDER LILIES began as a Slack proposal, reached a three-month mockup, and shipped after three to four years with roughly 500 million yen.
The premiere introduces seven brother knights sent as goodwill ambassadors to neighboring kingdoms, each bound for a land that matches his name. Lady General Baribara commands the knights and is revered by Eleonora, a swordswoman shown defeating male knights. Princess Brunhild disguises herself as the margrave Lord Bruno to hunt acorns for her pet squirrel, accompanied by the knight Chilly when her usual guard falls ill.
Behaviour Interactive launched a Dead by Daylight collaboration with NieR:Automata on Tuesday. The Legendary Outfits are a 2B costume for Feng Min and an A2 costume for Yui Kimura. Killer players get a Very Rare Outfit inspired by Emil for The Legion. Dead by Daylight first teased the crossover on Saturday with the line "The fight for humanity continues in The Fog" and a promotional video.
The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom premieres on NHK E TV on October 3 at 6:25 p.m., with Amazon Prime Video streaming it worldwide the next day, October 4, at midnight. J.C.STAFF handles animation. The series adapts Nao Iwamoto's manga about the seven sons of a female general who travel to seven countries as envoys. NHK ONE carries a same-day and catch-up stream.
Kyodo Medias announced that Shonen YoRHa ver 1.2, a stage play sharing a worldview with NieR:Automata, will be restaged in 2027. Yoko Taro handles original work and script, Matsuta Ichidai directs, and Okabe Keiichi composes. Tokyo performances run November 28 to December 5, 2027 at Theater G-Rosso; Osaka runs December 16 to December 19 at Cool Japan Park Osaka TT Hall. Auditions close October 18.
Dead by Daylight's official social media accounts posted a teaser image on October 2 reading, "It looks like our comms have been breached. Please wait for further instructions!" The image appears to contain text in the angelic script used in the NieR series. The post drew comments asking whether a NieR collaboration is coming, with some mentioning the character 2B. Developer Behaviour Interactive has not confirmed anything further.
Yoko Taro, director of NieR:Automata, and Keisuke Okabe, director of ENDER LILIES and ENDER MAGNOLIA, held a one-hour talk session at The Tenth Mosaic, a game culture event at the Institut francais de Tokyo in Tokyo on September 22 and 23, 2026. Taro served as MC and drew out Okabe on the making of the ENDER series. Okabe described a method he calls "stress-driven development": when envy of a strong game sets in, he plays a Steam title with Mixed user reviews to rebuild his confidence, then studies its missteps for his own work. He said he picks such games when the store page pitch reads well but the ratings do not. Taro said he never feels envy and described his own role as filling gaps no one else has covered.
Max Factory is re-releasing the figma of 2B (YoRHa No.2 Type B) from the anime NieR:Automata Ver1.1a, with pre-orders open on Amazon.co.jp as of October 2, 2026. The painted posable figure is non-scale, stands about 160mm tall including its dedicated stand, and sells for 11,865 yen with tax. Its scheduled release date is July 31, 2027. The figure comes with four expression parts: Normal with goggles, Screaming with goggles, Glancing, and Virus Contamination. Optional accessories include Pod 042, the swords Virtuous Contract and Virtuous Treaty, and a Black Box. The sculpting is credited to POLY-TOYS and Max Factory (Maeda), with production cooperation from Masaki Apsy, painting by Shin'ya Suzuki, and publishing by Max Factory. Amazon notes that the listing reflects stock and pricing at the time of writing and that both may change after publication.
Viz Media announced on Thursday that it is publishing Nao Iwamoto's The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom manga in English. The company uploaded the first two chapters digitally the same day. The fantasy romance centers on seven brothers who are knights of the Marronnier Kingdom. The kingdom sits at the center of eight kingdoms, and each brother is dispatched to a different one as an ambassador on a quest to find his fated partner. The manga launched in Shogakukan's Flowers magazine in 2016, and Shogakukan shipped the 11th compiled volume on June 10. It topped the list of manga for female readers in the 2018 edition of Takarajimasha's Kono Manga ga Sugoi! guidebook. A television anime adaptation debuted on October 3 on the NHK Educational channel at 6:25 p.m. JST, and Amazon Prime Video added the series on the same day with English subtitles and an English dub.
The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn Tour presented a visual piece produced by NieR:Automata director Yoko Taro and singer Yoko Takahashi. It ran during the September 19 show at Saitama's Belluna Dome and uses clips from Neon Genesis Evangelion, samples of Takahashi's "A Cruel Angel's Thesis," and Evangelion-style imagery. Cast and staff shared photos and video afterward.
The official NieR and Evangelion X accounts announced a video collaboration between NieR:Automata and Neon Genesis Evangelion, presented as a special live production during The Weeknd's After Hours Til Dawn Tour shows in Japan. The concerts run September 19 and 20, 2026 at Belluna Dome. Creepy Nuts appear as special guest both days, with YOUSUKE YUKIMATSU joining on September 20.
Square Enix released two NieR soundtrack bundles on Steam on September 19, 2026: the NieR:Automata & Soundtrack Bundle and the NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... & Soundtrack Bundle. A launch sale tied to the bundles runs until around 2:00 on October 9, 2026, and SQUARE ENIX MUSIC releases on Steam are 10 percent off until around 2:00 on October 2, 2026.
COSPA has announced new merchandise for the anime NieR:Automata Ver1.1a. The lineup includes a YoRHa Unit Heavyweight T-Shirt at 3,520 yen and a YoRHa Unit M-51 Jacket at 16,500 yen, plus a 2B Full Graphic T-Shirt at 6,930 yen and 2B and 9S cleaner cloths at 660 yen each. Pre-orders run until October 12, 2026, with general sales in mid-December 2026.
The Tokyo French Institute in Shinjuku will hold The Tenth Mosaic, a game culture festival, on September 22 and 23. Planning and curation come from Archipel. The program includes a dialogue between Fumito Ueda and Eric Chahi, a horror roundtable with Frederic Raynal, Keiichiro Toyama, Makoto Shibata and Kono Hifumi, and a Rez 25th anniversary talk with Tetsuya Mizuguchi.
The television anime of Nao Iwamoto's The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom manga has revealed a second trailer, new cast members, and its opening theme. Miyuki Sakurai, Natsumi Fujiwara, Takehito Koyasu, Kazuyuki Okitsu, and Daisuke Namikawa join the cast, and yama performs the opening song "Sayonara wa Iwanai." The anime premieres on October 3.
Prime Video will distribute the anime Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom worldwide exclusively on its platform. Streaming begins October 4 at midnight Japan time, with new episodes every Sunday. A new PV reveals the opening theme Sayonara wa Iwanai by yama and showcases the voices of the seven brothers.
Fashion brand MAYLA has released a blouse inspired by 2B from the TV anime NieR:Automata Ver1.1a. Available in Cruel Black and Virtuous White, the blouse features ribbons with embroidered YoRHa unit emblems and a chest-inspired cut. Pre-orders run until October 5 at 5:00 PM.
Hamee Co., Ltd. announced on August 24 that its gaming accessory brand Pixio will begin accepting orders for a collaborative gaming monitor commemorating the 15th anniversary of Square Enix's NieR series. The Pixio Gaming Monitor NieR 15th Anniversary Model is priced at 49,800 yen including tax, with an order period running from August 27 to September 30. The product is made to order, with shipping scheduled within 2026, and no additional production or sales are planned after the order period ends. The monitor features a white chassis with a newly drawn illustration of 2B from NieR:Automata and Kainé from NieR Replicant on the back, created by D.K, the character designer for NieR Replicant/Gestalt. The NieR series 15th anniversary logo appears on both the back and front. Specifications include a 27-inch WQHD (2560x1440) Fast IPS panel with a 180Hz refresh rate and 1ms (GTG) response time, designed to handle e-sports and creative work. A purchaser bonus of an acrylic mouse stand using the same D.K illustration is included. The monitor is scheduled to be exhibited at the Pixio (Hamee) and Aulin Co., Ltd. booths at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held from September 17 to 21.
Good Smile Company announced on August 21, 2026 that 2B and A2 from NieR:Automata will be made into figures in the POP UP PARADE L size line. The announcement came from Kahotan, a member of Good Smile Company's planning department, via the official X account @gsc_kahotan. Colored samples of both figures have been revealed and are scheduled to be displayed at Good Smile Fest 2026 Osaka, an event taking place on August 22 and 23, 2026 at Umeda Crystal Hall in Osaka. The POP UP PARADE series is known for its rich lineup and diverse specifications, and the L size variant offers a larger format. According to the sources, the 2B figure strikes a cool battle-ready pose with a glimpse of her thighs, while the A2 figure features sculpting that highlights her sleek body lines. No release dates or prices for the figures have been announced yet. Further details are expected to follow from official channels, with the colored samples at the upcoming event serving as the next update point for fans.
The television anime of Nao Iwamoto's Marronnier Okoku no Shichinin no Kishi manga revealed its first promotional video, main visual, cast, and October 3 premiere on NHK Educational. Kengo Takanashi, Makoto Tanikawa, Haruki Ishiya, Satoshi Inomata, Kiyoto Mizuno, Taishi Murata, and Reiji Kawashima voice the seven knight brothers. Kiyoko Sayama directs at J.C. Staff.
Sony Interactive Entertainment launched the PlayStation Store SUMMER SALE on July 15, 2026, immediately following the end of the July Bargain Sale. The new sale runs through August 12 and offers discounts of up to 80% on select PS5 and PS4 titles. The event is split into two phases: the first runs from July 15 to July 29, and the second from July 27 to August 12, with some titles changing between phases. Featured discounts include Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice at 50% off (4,180 yen), Hogwarts Legacy at 85% off (1,481 yen for PS5), and Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon at 50% off (4,345 yen). The Nintendo eShop is also running concurrent sales, with titles like Triangle Strategy at 60% off (3,072 yen) and the Nier bundle (Nier: Automata and Nier Replicant) at 60% off (4,840 yen) available until July 15. Several titles, including Metaphor: ReFantazio and the Caligula series, have reached their lowest recorded prices on the PlayStation Store during this promotion.
An official live broadcast commemorating the collaboration between Azur Lane and NieR:Automata will stream on July 11 at 20:00 JST on YouTube. The program will feature MC Mafia Kajita, Yostar staff member Dai Mirokugi, and special guest Ayaka Suwa, the voice of A2, who will announce details of the crossover.
Yostar announced a livestream on July 11 at 20:00 JST to commemorate the Azur Lane and NieR:Automata collaboration. The program will feature MC Mafia Kajita, special guest Ayaka Suwa (voice of A2), and Yostar staff Dai Miki. Details on the collaboration will be revealed, and an SNS campaign offering autographed colored paper will run during the broadcast.
Square Enix's officially licensed permanent cafe and shop, 'Officially Licensed SQUARE ENIX Cafe & Shop SHINJUKU,' opened June 12 in Tokyo's Shinjuku district. The three-floor venue features themed menus and merchandise for Dragon Quest, Final Fantasy, NieR:Automata, and Fullmetal Alchemist series, with a reservation-priority cafe and a ground-floor shop open to all.
Square Enix will re-release three FORMISM series figures from NieR:Automata starting June 7, 2026. The 2B and 9S figures ship on June 7, while the A2 figure follows on June 27. Each is priced at 4,950 yen. The 2B figure uses the goggles-on version of the character.
Haelwenn Monnier, developer of the BadWolf browser, reported that Cloudflare Turnstile's authentication enters an infinite loop on WebKitGTK-based browsers when WebGL fingerprinting is blocked. Turnstile uses WebGL renderer data as a signal to distinguish humans from bots, but browsers that generalize or hide that data for privacy reasons are flagged as suspicious, causing a conflict between privacy protection and bot detection.
Nao Iwamoto's manga "The Seven Knights of the Marronnier Kingdom" will be adapted into a TV anime that airs on NHK E-Tele starting October 2026. The announcement was made on June 1 alongside a teaser visual and a special video. The manga has been serialized in Shogakukan's Monthly Flowers since 2016 and has ten volumes released as of June 1. It ranked first in the women's category of Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2018. The story follows seven brothers who serve as knights and are dispatched as ambassadors to seven different countries from the Marronnier Kingdom, a nation at the center of eight countries. The anime marks the tenth anniversary of the manga's serialization. Seiko Sayama, director of To Your Eternity, is directing the series. Shinzo Fujita handles series composition and script, Yuriko Maeda designs the characters, and J.C.STAFF produces the animation. The teaser visual shows the seven brothers walking on a grassland with marronnier flowers. A special announcement video will be released on the anime's official website.
Ask Co. opened pre-orders on May 29 for the NieR 15th Anniv. Gaming Chair, a limited model themed after Kaine from NieR Replicant. The chair uses Seki Furniture's Contieaks frame and costs about 70,000 yen. Pre-orders run through June 14, with shipments starting in early September.
Ask Corporation opened preorders on May 29 for the NieR 15th Anniv. Gaming Chair, a Seki Furniture collaboration model inspired by Kainé from NieR Replicant. The chair features Emil and Lunar Tear embroidery, a 175-degree recline, and 4D armrests. Preorders run through June 14, with shipments starting in early September 2026 at an estimated price of 70,000 yen.
A new official symphonic concert tour, NieR:Orchestra Concert 12026 [YoRHa], has been announced. The tour features a full orchestra and chorus, original vocalists J'Nique Nicole and Emi Evans, a giant screen, and a new narrated story set before NieR:Automata. Creator Yoko Taro and composer Keiichi Okabe will attend the Seattle show. Anime News Network is giving away two pairs of tickets.
Square Enix launched a NieR: Automata collaboration for its early access murder mystery action game Killer Inn on Steam, offering paid 2B and 9S skins and free items. A free demo with three playable characters and a 75% off sale are also now live.