reckless bra[V]ery is the thirteenth episode of the NieR:Automata Ver1.1a anime series.
Summary[]
2B and 9S are paired together again for a scouting mission, but 9S insists they help a Resistance soldier look for her lost friend, who is apparently a YoRHa android. They manage to find the YoRHa soldier's corpse and the Resistance soldier regains her memory, revealing that she is an E-type "Executioner" android designed to assassinate other androids suspected of betraying YoRHa. Feeling guilt over the countless androids she has killed, the executioner voluntarily falls off the side of a building to her death. 2B and 9S continue their scouting mission to a nearby shrine, where 2B calls off the mission before 9S can discover an android corpse identical to him. Later, at a shopping mall, the pair destroy a machine and encounter a talking head which runs away when they consider attacking it. 2B then suddenly attacks and kills 9S, revealing that her true designation is 2E, an executioner unit as well. At the Bunker, the Commander, who ordered 2B to kill 9S for hacking the Bunker, hopes that this will be the last time 2B has to kill him, revealing she has killed 9S multiple times in the past. The Commander then organizes YoRHa's forces in preparation for their final assault against the machines.
Alternate Ending: 9S tries to get 2B to call him "Nines", but keeps getting interrupted by machines until he loses his temper and wipes them all out, preventing any peace between the two sides.
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Staff[]
- Screenplay: Ryoji Masuyama
- Storyboard: Ryoji Masuyama
- Direction: Yoshiyuki Kumeda
- Chief animation director: Jun Nakai
- Animation directors: Yugo Ohashi, Miyako Morino, Yurika Someya, Yuichi Sugyu, Akira Matsui
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