Nier Creator’s SINoALICE is Getting a Manga Adaptation

Square Enix Books has announced that it will publish the manga adaptation of Nier director Yoko Taro's SINoALICE mobile game.

Square Enix Books is the print publishing division of Square Enix, the video game company that has developed and released most of Yoko Taro's games, including cult classic Drakengard, the critically acclaimed Nier Automata and the recently released remake Nier Replicant ver.1.22474487139.... The company confirmed on Twitter that it will localize and release the SINoALICE manga in North America on Feb. 8, 2022. In addition to crediting Yoko Taro, the manga also features the work of writer Takuto Aoki, as well as artists Himiko and Jino.

SINoALICE was a mobile RPG released in Japan in 2017 by Square Enix. An international release was originally planned by South Korean games publisher Nexon, but was delayed due to localization issues. Developer Pokelabo eventually self-published the game worldwide on both iOS and Android devices in 2020. While most of Taro's games take place within the same sprawling, interconnected continuity, SINoALICE is a standalone work with no connections to the Nier or Drakengard universes. Characters from the original Nier, such as Kaine and Emil, did however make cameo appearances in the game during a limited-time collaboration event held earlier this year.

Square describes the story of SINoALICE as:

Everything about Alice—her family, her friends, her life, even her crush—is ordinary, no Wonderland to see here. But lately, her dreams have been anything but ordinary. While asleep, she finds herself interrogated by two creepy marionettes, their glass eyes peering into the darkest corners of her heart.

“What is it you desire?”“What is it you wish to visit upon the world?”

Try as she might to ignore the dreams, Alice is drawn into their violent, twisted universe. As greed and desire begin to warp the ordinary reality she knows, Alice is thrust into a dark game of slaughter made for fairy-tale heroines who’ll stop at nothing to bring their creators back to life!

Yoko Taro's next game, Nier Reincarnation, will be released for mobile devices outside of Japan on July 28. The game features character designs by Nier series designer and Final Fantasy XIV artist Akihiko Yoshida. While the game is set in the same world as Nier and its sequel, Taro says that it is a standalone story meant to be welcoming to newcomers to the series.

Source: Twitter