“Nier: automata” creator talks about connection to “Evangelion”

For the 15th anniversary of the “Nier” series, the heads behind the cult franchise give exciting insights into the creative origins of “Nier: Automata”-and also spoke about the connection to “Neon Genesis Evangelion”.

“Evangelion” as inspiration

In an interview that was led by the publisher Square Enix, creative director Yoko Taro and producer Yosuke Saito answered numerous questions – including the source of inspiration during development.

Yoko said that “Neon Genesis Evangelion” had had a great influence on “nier: automata”-and confirmed what many fans already suspected: the existential mood, the examination of identity, empty, loneliness and struggle in a posthuman world goes back to the narrative heritage of Hideaki Anno’s successful anime series.

This revelation actually does not represent a real news, because last year Yoko had already described the story of “Nier: Automata” as a reinterpretation of “Neon Genesis Evangelion”.

He also revealed that the concept of the struggle between androids and robots in “Nier: Automata” had arisen from the need to tell a story without people: “When we worked on” nier “, we decided to settle the game in a world in which people were already dead, so we were forced to think of a story in which it has not existed.”