On Monday, a Twitter user posted photos of their office's automated security system after the robot apparently committed suicide via a dunk in local wishing fountain. Social media responded with a collective (paraphrasing) "oh ****!!, that's some Nier: Automata business!" And, this came to the attention of the game's director/scenario writer, who responded (paraphrasing) "oh ****!!, that's some Nier: Automata business!"

Actually, Yoko Taro passed along that what comes to mind is "kami ni naru," as in "minna shinde kami ni naru," "we will all die and become gods."

Our D.C. office building got a security robot. It drowned itself.



We were promised flying cars, instead we got suicidal robots. pic.twitter.com/rGLTAWZMjn — Bilal Farooqui (@bilalfarooqui) July 17, 2017



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.