Yoko Taro’s NieR: Automata—An Existential Journey through the Absurd

• Authors: Pęcak, Martyna

Abstracts

EN

The focus of this article is Yoko Taro’s NieR: Automata in general and its four main characters—androids 2B and 9S as well as machines Adam and Eve—in particular. Following their evolution in the game, I intend to show that they serve its author as a tool with which to propose that the sense of absurd, and the sense of life’s meaninglessness around which their world is created, can be fought with selflessness.

Keywords

EN

Yoko Taro; absurd; machines; androids; Camus; Sisyphus

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Bielsko-Bialski
• Journal: Świat i Słowo
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 36(1)
• Pages: 211-227

Dates

published

2021-03-10

Contributors

author

Pęcak, Martyna