Singapore is getting one of the most coveted gaming concerts of 2026 — and it is the only Asian date on the entire tour. NieR:Orchestra Concert 12026 [YoRHa] arrives at The Star Performing Arts Centre on 28 November 2026, bringing a full orchestra, choir, and newly commissioned story content to NieR fans across the region.
What Is NieR:Orchestra Concert 12026 [YoRHa]?
Produced by AWR Music Productions and Square Enix, the 12026 tour is a brand-new evolution of the acclaimed NieR:Orchestra Concert 12024 [the end of data]. Rather than a straight revival, it introduces an entirely new narrative thread: episodes drawn from the Pearl Harbor Descent Operation, a prequel to NieR:Automata. The story is told through recorded recitations voiced by the original Japanese cast — Yui Ishikawa (2B / No.2), Reina Tanaka (No.4), Mio Hanana (No.21), and Chihira Mochida (No.16) — woven into the live orchestral performance.
Image courtesy of NieR Concerts / AWR Music Productions
What to Expect on the Night
The Singapore performance runs from 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM (two hours fifteen minutes) at The Star Performing Arts Centre, 1 Vista Exchange Green. Leading the show is conductor Eric Roth, with the Resound Collective Orchestra and the ACJC Alumni Choir performing live. Original NieR vocalists Emi Evans and J’Nique Nicole join on stage for iconic tracks spanning the series.
Making the Singapore night especially rare: game director Yoko Taro and composer Keiichi Okabe will be in attendance as special guests — the creative duo who built the entire NieR universe from the ground up.
Image courtesy of NieR Concerts / AWR Music Productions
Official Trailer
NieR: Orchestra Concert — Official Trailer, via IGN on YouTube
Tickets, VIP and How to Book
Tickets are on sale now via SISTIC. The standard VIP Meet & Greet packages are already sold out — they included post-concert access to Yoko Taro, Keiichi Okabe, Eric Roth, Emi Evans, and J’Nique Nicole for photos and autographs. A limited number of VIP tickets may return to sale, so it is worth monitoring the SISTIC listing. General admission seats are still available.
This is the only NieR:Orchestra Concert stop in Asia on the entire 12026 world tour, which runs from August 2026 through March 2027 across North America and Europe before landing in Singapore. If you are a NieR or NieR:Automata fan in the region, this is your one shot. Grab the date — 28 November 2026, The Star Performing Arts Centre — and check out other upcoming gaming and anime events on GameTrader for the full picture.
Imagine sitting in a room where the full Persona 3/4/5 creative team is on stage together for the first time since Persona 5, while across the hall Yoko Taro is discussing NieR with his longtime composer, and later that afternoon Fumito Ueda — the reclusive creator of ICO and Shadow of the Colossus — is in conversation with Eric Chahi, the Frenchman who made Another World. That is not a fantasy: it is what is happening at The Tenth Mosaic in Tokyo this September.
The two-day gaming culture festival takes place on 22–23 September 2026 at the Institut français de Tokyo (Institut franco-japonais de Tokyo), 15 Ichigaya Funagawaramachi, Shinjuku. Both days fall on Japanese national holidays, making them ideal for SG gamers already planning a September Japan trip. The event celebrates video games as “le dixième art” — the tenth art — and was just announced this week via Famitsu (Japanese).
What Is The Tenth Mosaic?
The Tenth Mosaic is billed as a celebration of game culture — not a trade show, not a consumer expo, but a curated arts-and-ideas festival in the spirit of a European cultural institution. Think TED talks crossed with a game-music concert crossed with a living museum, for about ¥2,000 a day (roughly S$19) as a base entry. Individual talk sessions require a separate ¥3,000 ticket (~S$28) due to limited capacity of 100 seats each.
The lineup is, frankly, remarkable.
The Creator Talks
Persona 30th Anniversary — the Full Team Together
Image courtesy of Atlus
This is the session Persona fans will clear their September calendars for. Katsura Hashino (director of Persona 3, 4 and 5), Shigenori Soejima (the series’ art director) and Shoji Meguro (composer of Persona 3’s “Burn My Dread,” P4’s “Reach Out to the Truth,” and P5’s “Life Will Change”) are appearing together to mark 30 years of the franchise. They rarely appear together outside Japan. With Persona 6 now confirmed as an Xbox exclusive, expect candid reflection on the series’ evolution and where it goes next.
Yoko Taro and Keisuke Okabe on NieR and Ender Lilies
Image courtesy of Square Enix
Yoko Taro and his regular composer Keisuke Okabe take the stage to discuss the interconnected universes of NieR, ENDER LILIES and ENDER MAGNOLIA. Yoko Taro rarely travels, so his appearance alone makes this an event worth flying to Tokyo for. Expect the mask, expect the misdirection, and if his past public appearances are any guide, expect something unexpectedly moving buried inside an apparently chaotic conversation.
The Horror Game Legends Panel
Four genre-defining horror game creators share a single stage: Frédérick Raynal (Alone in the Dark, 1992), Keiichiro Toyama (Silent Hill, 1999; Gravity Rush), Makoto Shibata (Fatal Frame series) and Hifumi Kono (Clock Tower, 1995). For fans of psychological horror in games, this is a once-in-a-generation gathering. Singapore gamers who grew up terrified by the original Silent Hill or Fatal Frame on PS2 will find this especially resonant.
Kazutaka Kodaka and Masafumi Takada on Danganronpa
Image courtesy of Spike Chunsoft
Kazutaka Kodaka (creator of Danganronpa and The Hundred Line) and Masafumi Takada (the series’ distinctive composer) discuss the world they built and what comes next. With The Hundred Line — Last Defense Academy having recently launched, there is plenty of fresh material to dig into.
Eric Chahi × Fumito Ueda
This might be the most quietly astonishing session of the two days. Eric Chahi, creator of Another World (1991), and Fumito Ueda, creator of ICO, Shadow of the Colossus and The Last Guardian, are two of the most influential minimalists in game history. Both are reclusive. Both shaped the medium’s sense of loneliness and wonder. Hearing them in conversation — apparently for the first time publicly — is not something that happens at a typical gaming convention.
Tetsuya Mizuguchi Masterclass: Rez Turns 25
2026 marks 25 years since Rez arrived on Dreamcast and PlayStation 2, defying every genre expectation and inventing what Tetsuya Mizuguchi called “synesthesia gaming.” Mizuguchi leads a masterclass exploring the game’s origins, its VR evolution in Rez Infinite, and his ongoing experiments with sound, light and motion. If you have ever played Rez in VR — or want to understand why it still matters — this session is unmissable.
Rez Infinite PC Launch Trailer — via Enhance Experience on YouTube
Music, Live Drawing, and More
Beyond the talks, the base ¥2,000 entry covers a live game music concert featuring legendary composers Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage, Actraiser, Etrian Odyssey) and Saori Kobayashi (Panzer Dragoon series), performing works including the complete Rez and Enemy Zero soundtracks. There is also a live illustration session by Katsuya Terada spanning both days, an Indie Legacy Showcase curated by former Sony PlayStation Worldwide Studios president Shuhei Yoshida, and special exhibitions covering gaming hardware history and an Enemy Zero 30th anniversary tribute.
Tickets and Getting There
Tickets are on sale now at thetenthmosaic.peatix.com. Entry is ¥2,000 per day (~S$19) for the exhibitions, concerts, indie area and live drawing. Individual talk sessions are ¥3,000 each (~S$28) with capacity capped at 100 per session — they are expected to sell out fast given the lineup. The Institut français de Tokyo is in Shinjuku, well-served by train.
September 22–23 falls during Japan’s autumn holiday cluster, so SG travellers who pair this with a week in Tokyo are not going out of their way. Budget Singapore Airlines and Scoot both fly direct to Tokyo Narita. For Singapore fans of Persona, NieR, Danganronpa, ICO, or any of the franchises represented here, The Tenth Mosaic is probably the most remarkable gathering of game creators that money can buy — and the price is genuinely low.
Commanders, this one is big. Yostar has officially confirmed the Azur Lane × NieR: Automata collaboration, and in a move that has the global player community genuinely excited: both crossover units — 2B and A2 — will be free. The event is set to go live in mid-July 2026, following a full reveal at Anime Expo 2026 in Los Angeles earlier this month.
2B Joins as a Free Light Cruiser
Image courtesy of Yostar / SQUARE ENIX
YoRHa No.2 Type B — better known simply as 2B — arrives in Azur Lane as a 6-star Super Rare Light Cruiser, voiced by Yui Ishikawa reprising her iconic role. She brings her twin blades and the iconic blindfold into the Azur Lane world in an art style that blends the game’s signature ship-girl aesthetic with the mechanical, overgrown ruins of NieR’s post-apocalyptic setting.
The character art leans heavily into the NieR: Automata visual language — ruined cityscapes, trailing cables, oversized combat rigs — which Azur Lane fans in Singapore have pointed out looks stunning in the game’s gallery mode. 2B can be obtained for free through the event, meaning no premium currency is required to add her to your fleet.
A2 Joins as a Free Heavy Cruiser
Image courtesy of Yostar / SQUARE ENIX
Joining her counterpart is A2 (YoRHa Type A No.2), slotting in as a 6-star Super Rare Heavy Cruiser, voiced by Ayaka Suwa. Where 2B leans into the sleek, blade-forward combat look, A2’s card art is more imposing — heavier gear, a battle-worn posture, and an air of barely contained danger that matches the character perfectly. Both ships are tuned for the frontline.
What makes this especially valuable for Singapore players is that free 6-star SR units in Azur Lane are rare. Most crossover collaborations lock at least one major character behind limited-time gacha banners or premium event currency. Getting both 2B and A2 as earnable rewards is an unusually generous setup.
When Does the Azur Lane × NieR Collab Start?
The collaboration is set to begin in mid-July 2026; the exact in-game launch date is to be confirmed via the official @AzurLane_EN account on X. Yostar first teased the crossover in May 2026 before formally revealing both characters during Anime Expo 2026 (July 2–5). Event duration and any additional collaboration rewards — support ships, furniture sets, or limited-time story stages — have not yet been officially detailed.
It’s not a drill: Studio Khara has confirmed a brand-new Evangelion anime series is in production, and the director attached to it is none other than Yoko Taro — the enigmatic auteur behind NieR:Automata, Drakengard, and some of the most emotionally devastating stories in gaming. The English version of the confirmation trailer dropped on 5 July, and the anime world hasn’t been able to stop talking about it since.
Why This Announcement Is a Big Deal
Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara — the house that brought us the Rebuild of Evangelion tetralogy — is backing this new series, but the creative direction is being handed to Yoko Taro. That combination is genuinely unprecedented. Anno built Evangelion as a deeply personal psychological excavation; Taro is known for post-apocalyptic nihilism wrapped in subversive game design. The crossover potential for their shared obsessions — existential dread, broken protagonists, humanity’s self-destructive impulses — is enormous.
The new series imagery leans into Evangelion’s iconic mech design with a striking new colour palette. (Image: Studio Khara)
The trailer itself is deliberately sparse — a piano score plays over imagery of post-apocalyptic ruins, with the title card reading “EVANGELION BRAND NEW SERIES PRODUCTION INITIATED”. No character reveals, no story details, no air date. That’s classic Anno/Khara restraint. The decision to release an English version simultaneously (rather than a delayed localisation) suggests a more internationally-focused rollout than some past entries.
What We Know (and Don’t Know)
Details are thin by design, but here’s what’s been officially confirmed so far:
This is a new series — not a sequel to Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 and not a remake of the original 1995 TV series
Yoko Taro is directing, under Khara’s production umbrella
Studio Khara is producing — so expect the same visual quality as the Rebuild films
The English confirmation trailer was uploaded to Khara’s official YouTube channel on 5 July 2026
What we don’t yet know: release window, episode count, whether it’s a streaming-first title or theatrical, and which platform(s) will carry it. Given Netflix’s recent track record with high-profile anime acquisitions (and Taro’s existing relationship with the streaming giant via the NieR:Automata Ver1.1a anime), Netflix is an obvious candidate — but that’s speculation at this stage.
The original Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995) redefined anime. The new series has enormous shoes to fill. (Image: Studio Khara)
Why Singapore Fans Should Pay Attention
Evangelion merchandise and events have always had a strong footprint in Singapore — the franchise reliably sells out at Animate Singapore, Kinokuniya Orchard, and Anime Festival Asia every year. A new series from Studio Khara will almost certainly trigger a fresh wave of figures, apparel, and collaborations. If past Rebuild film releases are anything to go by, local distributors will be quick to secure screening or streaming rights.
For fans of Yoko Taro’s work specifically, this feels like the creative pairing the internet manifested into existence through sheer force of will. His games consistently feature unreliable narrators, multiple-playthrough revelations, and the kind of gut-punch endings that stick with you for years. Applied to Evangelion — a franchise already built on those exact qualities — the results could be genuinely extraordinary.
We’ll be tracking every development as it comes. Watch this space, and keep an eye on Studio Khara’s official YouTube for the next update.
