Game just released in Japan and haven't seen much art of 9S unfortunately.
I love 9s!
>best boy
>literally suffers for eternity
as much as I love 9S, Emil is still the best.
>>3087584
I hope Automata's popularity backwashes some back to Nier. I loved that whole cast and would kill for more fanart.
>>3087584
Fug, I just went and read Emil-related spoilers. It's not fair.
>>3087584
>his level of suffering just gets worse
>it's so bad the EN version tones it down
[spoiler]I'm not sure if it's better or worse that the Emil we meet could just be a clone, and not the original. Or the fact that there's still likely a great many of them around he world, suffering for eternity.[/spoiler]
listen to this and cheer up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xb46dieCIg
>>3087831
[spoiler]it's still up for debate whether or not Emil is the original or the clone. He claims the latter, but some of his final dialogue's make it seem as if he's the original.[/spoiler]
That said, even after Nier: Automata, there's likely a large number of Emil's alive worldwide.
Brother Nier is a qt
I also like him more since it's less creepy, what with how Emil is canonically homosex for him
>>3087901
plus, if memory serves, brother Nier has a side quest where he has gay sex for money.
>>3087908
>side quest where he has gay sex for money
lmao I wish it was a sidequest
It was one of the short stories
I accept it as canon for Papa Nier too desu
>>3088573
It doesn't make as much sense for Papa Nier.
>>3088592
Boner don't need no sense
>>3088624
Well, you got me there.
>>3087584
>Emil will never be your blushing bride
He's so perfect it's almost painful that he isn't real ;_;
>tfw the self-destruct trick works with 9S
[spoiler]It takes off his pants btw [/spoiler]
>>3090741
Image pls
(shitty) drawfag here will take requests about any boys from NieR and Automata
>>3090942
9s being cute
>>3091083
What are they going to do to him? :(
>>3090944
what kind of cute anon
>>3088573
do you remember which short story it was?
>>3091673
http://nier.wikia.com/wiki/The_Red_and_the_Black
>>3091092
Wholesome non-sexual things.
>>3091830
>Ever since he frequented Seafront, he hated people touching his hair. Not only that - he couldn't stand his own hair touching his shoulders. He can't help but remember. How the man roughly grabbed his hair, and what he was forced into after that. He tried to forget, but those experiences seem to have been deeply engraved within his five senses, and would revive at the most inopportune times to torment Nier.
muh dick
>>3090942
9s wearing shorter slutty boy shorts and thigh highs pls, bonus for him being super embarrassed or being forced to do a v sign pose
>>3090942
9s' ass with a bulge would be nice
>>3092610
This
>>3087584
To be fair OG Emil (Or at least the one you're primarily interacting with) seems much more well-adjusted than the clones in the desert.
Poor man's Emil desu
>>3092995
>sample
Any Eve x 9S? lol
>>3093361
>implying Eve has room in his heart/brain for anything that isn't his brother
>>3093397
I mean... he could hate fuck 9S, but yeah you're right.
>>3090821
https://youtu.be/JSvclLDpbw4
>>3093399
I like the way you think, anon.
>>3092790
Pretty sure it's not OG. He says he doesn't know where the original is.
All the clones can also self replicate. They're clones of clones, infinite replication in the war vs the aliens, until too many of them mind broke from the despair to really continue.
>>3087831
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msLR0grCKpw
I cry every time. Taro is too cruel to shotas.
Cropped Emil because original is too lewd.
There's actually dudes in this game?
>>3094425
14 hours in, I've seen 5 named males so far; that includes irrelevant NPCs from fetch sidequests and almost literal buckets of bolts.
They exist, but the male-female ratio is dating VN tier skewed.
Anyone else disappointed by Dito being such an unlikable prick? Waste of a cute character design desu.
>>3094817
>not wanting a sadistic shota desu
Have a cent
>>3094825
The only thing I liked about him were the implications that he got raped daily by Five since he came into existence.
And thank you, Cent a cute.
>>3094817
I liked him. He was different from all the bland innocent shotas that plague JRPGs.
>>3093421
He's got a nice pair of hips hidden under those shorts.
>>3094425
You literally play half the game as 9S. The bait and switch they did is hilarious.
>>3094817
The best part about Taro boys is that they're all a bit broken. Although admittedly "unhinged necrophile" is a little more broken than the rest.
>>3095576
>literally 2B's route with like three low-budget extra cutscenes
>half the game
9S's scenario is the definition of shitty video game padding.
>>3095600
It is a bait and switch. 9S and A2 are far more fleshed out and pivotal characters than 2B. Hell, I've seen a lot of complaints from neckbeards about 2B being made irrelevant and flat when she was advertised as the main character in all promotional material.
>shitty video game padding.
Is this your first Taro game
>>3095600
You're forgetting route c/d
>>3095576
>Although admittedly "unhinged necrophile" is a little more broken than the rest.
Still not quite as broken or disturbing as everything to do with Leonard.
>making the pedophile and the perma-shota friends
Taro is an absolute madman.
>>3093397
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZzOO4pmpBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkHCg1Xth0Q
>can we play together for a bit?
>can we go out and play?
What did he mean by this?
Also dumping some wincest.
>>3095752
>torn between thinking Eve is pure! PURE!!! and wanting porn of them
An awful feeling.
>>3095677
It's not "bait and switch"; it's just bad writing, bad game design, and terrible characterization. 2B is literally Lightning from FFXIII (except even flatter), while 9S doesn't even get proper gameplay.
>Is this your first Taro game
I bought Drakengard 1 at launch, so obviously not. The difference is, back then the fans weren't so deluded to make excuses for shitty game design because muh Taro.
>>3095781
Blog about it on your tumblr, captain buzzkill.
>>3095773
Their love is pure and lewd.
>>3087908
>>3088573
>>3091830
>>3092077
>tfw you've been playing as a prostitute this whole time
Kinda wish this and Emil's crush on Nier were more overt in the actual game.
>>3095991
Eastern games are often times either downplay certain themes, or it gets lost in translation. While western games are very blatant about it but never develop it.
>>3096018
HNNNNNNNGGGG
9s is less qt when you realise the VA for him is a neet looking 20 something year old
>>3097283
To be fair, most voice actors are ugly. It's why they aren't real actors.
>>3097302
True. Im not really surprised desu
>>3097283
Kyle is a sweetheart, please don't say mean things
>>3097283
Why would you care how a voice actor looks like? Especially since most characters have multiple voice actors depending on the language
>>3097283
Either way, his VA did a fantastic job. This is actually one of those instances where I prefer the dub to the sub, his Jap VA went too hard on chewing the scenery.
>>3097332
He still looks like a neet
And his group of friends seem annoying af
what did 9S ever do to Yoko Taro to deserve all that suffering
>>3097441
9S a shit. He pretty much ruined Route C with his endless whining and angsting.
>>3097441
He'll do better next time
>>3097507
i know that it's a joke but i can't stop myself from hoping that there's at least a tiny bit of truth in this
>>3097302
This pretty much
Mercer is the only remotely attractive looking dude in the realm of "western nerd shit industry", it's really disheartening.
>>3097507
Goddamnit, if Square could put out a game staring a man wearing chaps and baring a large portion of his ass in 2000, Yoko Taro can do it in the year of our lord 201X.
>>3097673
From the Drakengard series, technical prequels.
>>3097673
They're from Drakengard 3 (which is the prequel to the very first Drakengard game), which is in the Nier universe. It's very long and convoluted, but the gist of it is that ending E in the first Drakengard is what lead to literally all the shit that happened in Nier.
Also known as Drag-on Dragoon
>>3097675
>Drakengard 3 is the prequel to the very first Drakengard game
>"Yoko Taro mentions in an interview with Aoi Eir in the DOD3 Complete Guide that none of the endings in the game--A, B, C, or D--actually lead into DOD1; however, with that said, he also comments that there *is* a timeline that directly connects DOD3 with the original DOD1. Simply, whatever timeline that is and what circumstances occurred to give us the original DOD1 is unknown."
>>3097732
There's a novel adaptation of 3 that leads into 1
>>3097732
>not being aware of the novels or all the shit that brother One gets up to
>>3097456
I know you're baiting but boy Im triggered.
I can't believe that I'm rooting for het shit but 9S is precious and didn't deserve all that pain and so I hope that after ending E he gets to be happy together with 2B.
Also there's no named male characters present to ship him with anyways.
>>3098111
Stay triggered. The only half-decent characters in N:A were A2, Pascal, and the pods and all of them were terribly underutilized.
>>3098553
>Pods
>good characters
They were literally emotionless talking machine guns until about 5 minutes before the game ended.
9s is my spirit animal
>>3098553
Whatever you say salty anon
>>3099225
9S is my fav. Wish there was some cuntboy art of him, though.
>>3097507
>>3097564