NieR: Automata Stage Play and Musical Prequels Now on Amazon Japan’s Prime Video

The NieR: Automata prequel stage play and musical, YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 and YoRHa Musical Ver. 1.2, are now available on Amazon Japan’s Prime Video service. [Thanks, Famitsu.]

The performance of both plays originally took place in 2018, with both YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 and YoRHa Musical Ver. 1.2 being prequels of NieR: Automata. Both plays were penned by NieR and Drakengard series creator Yoko Taro.

YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0

YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 tells an untold tale of the YoRHa Experimental M Squadron. It features an all-male cast including the following:

• Naoki Saito as No. 9
• Hisashi Murata as No. 21
• Hiroki Terasaka as No.22
• Shinichiro Eda as No. 2
• Yuto Doi as No. 6
• Masato Shoji as No. 3
• Ryo Oguri as No. 4
• Inko-san as Cactus
• Tomoya Masuda as Lotus
• Toshiki Tanabe as Phlox
• Daisuke Kikuta as the Instructor

Check out the NieR: Automata prequel stage play YoRHa Boys Ver.1.0 on Amazon Japan’s Prime Video.

YoRHa Musical Ver. 1.2

On the other hand, YoRHa Musical Ver. 1.2 depicts a story about young girls thrown into the experimental squad, known as YoRHa, who meet up with Resistance members who continue to fight on Earth. It features an all-female cast of the following:

• Yui Ishikawa as No. 2
• Reina Tanaka as No. 4
• Chihara Mochida as No. 16
• Mio Hanana as No. 21
• Miyako Maikawa as the Commander
• Rinka Ishikawa as Futaba
• Ibuki Kaneda as Yotsuba
• Ui Hinagata as Rose
• An Tachibana as Anemone
• Mayumi Uchida as Dahlia
• Misako Kuroki as Lily
• Mayumi Nomura as Gerbera
• Rin Shimizu as Marguerite
• Momoko Suzuki as Team Alpha
• Manaka Arai as Team Beta
• Emi Evans – Vocal
• Marina Kawano – Vocal
• Takanori Goto – Guitar
• Emi Kawaji – Piano
• Hikari Shimada – Violin

Check out the NieR: Automata prequel YoRHa Musical Ver. 1.2 on Amazon Japan’s Prime Video.

Do keep in mind that both performances are available to watch for free, but “free” as in still requires an Amazon Japan Prime account.

NieR: Automata is available for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC via Steam. For those of you waiting on new NieR stuff, we’re getting a “decent amount of new info” in a NieR TGS 2020 special on September 24, 2020.