Nier: Automata Ver1.1a Anime Teases Opening Theme

A live-streamed special for NieR:Automata Ver 1.1a, the television anime of Square Enix and Platinum Games‘ NieR:Automata action role-playing game, debuted a new “Promotion File 009” video on Wednesday. The video announces and previews Aimer‘s opening theme song “escalate” and amazarashi‘s “Antinomy.”

Square Enix describes the game’s story:

NieR:Automata tells the story of androids 2B, 9S and A2 and their battle to reclaim the machine-driven dystopia overrun by powerful machines.Humanity has been driven from the Earth by mechanical beings from another world. In a final effort to take back the planet, the human resistance sends a force of android soldiers to destroy the invaders. Now, a war between machines and androids rages on… A war that could soon unveil a long-forgotten truth of the world.