Editor: Not Credited. Authors: Toh EnJoe, Gakuto Mikumo, Kafka Asagiri, Yoshinobu Akita, Tow Ubukata First Published: 2017 Rating: Good. Neither a utopia nor a dystopia, it’s still a world of nations at strife, as dominated by corporations as ever. Technology hasn’t made humans nearly obsolete, but rather bettered us, if you will, attaching to our bodies and even brains as enhancements—for those who can afford…
By Jun Eishima & Yoko Taro First Published: 2020 Based on the stage drama “Project YoRHa,” YoRHA Boys recounts events that occurred before the beginning of the post-apocalyptic action role-playing game NieR:Automata. Written by bestselling novelist Jun Eishima, supervised by NieR:Automata Director Yoko Taro, and featuring artwork by acclaimed Final Fantasy illustrator Toshiyuki Itahana, this is the previously untold tale of the formation of YoRHa…
By Jun Eishima & Yoko Taro First Published: 2017 When alien forces invade with an army of Machines, the remnants of humanity must depend on Androids of their own design—the placid 2B and the excitable 9S—to survive. From: Pod 153, To: Fans of NieR Automata [ref &NieR: Automata: a Short Story Long] Question: What is a fiction collection? Affirmative: It is hypothesized that this book…
By Junichi Fujisaku First Published: 2006 The year is 2030. Advances in robotics and cyberbrain technology have transformed the world into a miraculous place where almost anything is possible – even the melding of humans and machines. In this not-too-distant future, the crimes of flesh and metal are investigated by Section 9, an elite counterterrorist squad headed by Chief Aramaki and his cyborg sidekick, Major…
By Junichi Fujisaku First Published: 2006 2030 Tokyo: While patrolling Tokyo’s post-World War III refugee zones Togusa, the newest member of Section 9, discovers that one of the most powerful cyber-criminals his squad has ever faced has plans to kill their leader, Section 9 Chief Daisuke Aramaki, in one of three stories in this collection, and it will take all of the members of Section…
By Junichi Fujisaku First Published: 2006 Since being formed as a shadow peacekeeping organization, Section 9 has faced almost countless adversaries both in the real world and in cyberspace, but none like “The Awakened,” a group of terrorists who seem to have the ability to take over the minds and bodies of almost anyone and use them to commit crimes against the state, leaving their…
By Shingo Fujisaki First Published: 2012 It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe,…
By Shingo Fujisaki First Published: 1999 It is 2071, and Mars is being slowly terraformed by many nations often cooperating in an uneasy truce that reflects tensions back on Earth. The water of the polar ice cap, the most important resource for all the Mars colonies, is jointly controlled by the US, China, Japan and Russia, and doled out to the second-tier colonizing groups (Europe,…
Hiroshi Sakurazaka First Published: 2004 Rating: Excellent “There’s one thing worse than dying. It’s coming back to do it again and again…” When the alien Mimics invade, Keiji Kiriya is just one of many recruits shoved into a suit of battle armor called a Jacket and sent out to kill. Keiji dies on the battlefield, only to be reborn each morning to fight and die…