From director Yoko Taro and writer Jun Eishima comes this novel expanding upon the world of the
critically acclaimed game NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... In the distant future humanity
struggles for survival against the threat of creatures called Shades. A boy named Nier lives
with his little sister Yonah in one small village scraping by on the goodwill of neighbors and
friends. When a terrible illness assails Yonah Nier's life begins to change at a dizzying
pace. Lunar Tears. The Black Scrawl. The Song of the Ancients. The Shadowlord. Petrification.
These things and more will turn his world upside-down—and change it forever. This is the first
volume of NieR Replicant ver.1.22474487139... Project Gestalt Recollections detailing the
events leading from Nier's boyhood to his coming of age.