The Nier Automata anime has a trailer and release date, will be 'changing things'

pcgamer.com:

An anime adaptation of the open world philosophical-robot genre-mash Nier Automata was announced in February, and now we finally have some details about it. The anime, which will be called Nier Automata Ver 1.1a, is being directed by Ryoji Masuyama (director of Blend S, key animator on Arietty), and will see the return of voice actors Yui Ishikawa and Natsuki Hanae as 2B and 9S. It'll be released in January, 2023.

An eight-and-a-half-minute video was shown as part of Aniplex Online Fest, containing character trailers for both 2B and 9S, footage of the voice actors discussing the anime (seeing them react to their characters in anime form on first seeing them is cute), as well as a conversation between Masuyama and original game director Yoko Taro. Taro explains the adaptation's name by saying, «The anime title has the affix 'Ver 1.1a' because the title 'NieR:Automata' was a story we created to be a game, so copying it as is wouldn't make an interesting story for an anime. So I brought up the idea of changing things around.» 

Masuyama is quick to downplay changes in the adaptation, and later says that, «The game movies themselves are very beautiful and complete as is, so there was a part of me that didn't want to change it up that much. So it's not exactly porting it into anime plus filling in the gaps so to say, but to get it close to the movie scenes including all the places where we made changes…»

Taro, meanwhile, is happy to lightly troll fans by summing up the behind-the-scenes process as, «The original creator was trying to destroy the original story, and the anime staff is desperately stopping that…» Eventually he explains that, despite changes being made to the anime version, he hopes that players of the game watch