NieR: Automata anime’s second season slots in for July premiere

A new trailer for the second season of NieR: Automata Ver1.1a just dropped, bringing exciting new information about the second course of NieR: Automata‘s beautiful but beleaguered anime adaptation to the series’ fans. Among these new tidbits was an estimated release window of July 2024.

Carrying the weight of the world

According to the trailer, which premiered simultaneously on X and Aniplex’s official YouTube page, the second season of NieR: Automata Ver1.1a will premiere sometime in July of this year. If the first season of NieR: Automata Ver1.1a is anything to go off of, the second season will feature a total of twelve episodes, meaning that its run will probably wrap up in either August or September, depending on when in July it premieres.

While the second season is currently set to be released in the summer, NieR: Automata Ver1.1a developed a reputation for its production schedule. The first season was infamously marred with COVID-related production issues that caused it to be delayed twice, so NieR fans have a right to be a little skeptical about the schedule for the second phase of 2B and 9S’s adventures.

The first season of NieR: Automata Ver1.1a adapted a version of the game’s story through Endings A and B, which are only two of the five endings that players need to arrive at to gain a complete understanding of NieR‘s events. Given what we see in the trailer, the second cour will likely adapt Endings C through E, which completely flip the story of NieR: Automata on its head and turn what appears to be a story of humanoid androids warring against robots into something a bit more complicated.