Square Enix just dropped the NieR 15th Anniversary PV on YouTube like it's another gacha banner nobody asked for but everyone pulled on anyway. The footage, first shown at the 2025 Ikebukuro exhibition 'Unerasable Records,' is a slick recap of the series' existential pain from the original to Automata, ending the anniversary cycle with zero new game announcements. Yosuke Saito's been teasing "a little something" for Automata fans all year after it hit 10 million copies, but this one's pure nostalgia bait — no fresh sequel reveal, just the same cryptic void we've been staring into since Re[in]carnation shut down.

Meanwhile, Capcom's over here actually delivering on the double anniversary special. Okami turns 20 on April 20, 2026, and they're prepping events, merch, a concert, and more teases for the already-announced sequel co-developed with Hideki Kamiya's crew at Machine Head Works and Clovers. Fans on Reddit are hyped for Amaterasu's return while NieR whales are coping hard in r/nier threads, praying this PV somehow means NieR 3 or Automata 2 is coming before another 7-year drought.

Typical Square move — celebrate by reminding us how peak the games were while giving F2P plebs nothing but a trailer to watch. At least the waifus still look expensive. Sources confirm the exhibition video hit YouTube April 21 with an explicit 'no new info' disclaimer, so pull your 10-pull on hope if you want, but the rates are dogshit as usual.