Yoko Taro is the creative director behind the Nier and Drakengard series, and he has released a lot of supplemental material across a variety of mediums over the years in Japan. Accord’s Library is a site that is dedicated to finding this material, archiving it, and translating it.

Today, in Accord’s Library Discord, they announced that they received a Cease and Desist from Square-Enix, and on Oct 31, the Library and Gallery sections of the site will be closed and taken offline.

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Dearest Recorders and Observers of Accord’s Library.

These past few years have been a pleasure, but we regret to inform you all that we’ve been contacted by the Square Enix Legal Team. And after some private communications, based on the outlined requirements we have come to the conclusion that Accord’s Library must close its doors by the end of the month. While we are sad to have to go, we also must respect the wishes of the Legal Team.

The Library and Gallery will remain opened for the next 2 weeks and will be officially closed on Oct 31.

We hope to continue spending time with you all, and other fans in the future through our Discord Server, which we plan to keep opened.

On behalf of the entire Council for Accord’s Library, we sincerely thank you for your support and friendship over the years. We hope that you will continue to use the discord, though we understand if this is where we part ways.

From the very bottom of our hearts, we will be forever grateful to everyone who’s volunteered their time to help build Accord’s Library into what it was. Thank you to all of our Transcribers, Translators, and most of all, all of you for sticking with us.

Take care of yourselves out there. Glory to Mankind.

  • The Accord’s Library Council

If anyone is skilled with backing up sites, any assistance would be appreciated. Even if it’s just to point at the right tool for the job (been almost a decade since I’ve backed up part of a site).

Shoutout to !helloharu@lemmy.world making the original post.