Those two episodes are the height of what this series should be achieving, and is never replicated again, either in its series or in this one.įirst of all, don't be tricked by VN-only readers who can't even stand the design being changed partially on just on the hair design and not even care to see the goddamn good later part of this season. My recommendation to anyone considering this is to watch the first two episodes of Muv-Luv: Total Eclipse and stop there. It fails to deliver a positive experience for both fans of the original source material and first-time viewers of the Muv-Luv franchise. Overall, this series has repeated every mistake that was previously made in adapting the spin-off Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, and is even worse than it overall. This seemed like a tick box exercise of getting scenes from the visual novel and putting it into anime form, there was no concern in making scenes more interesting and suitable for the anime medium. The animation is bad, with minimal movement and characters often looking off model. The production values being as low as they are also hurt considerably, and likely explain their decisions in choosing what to adapt. In the original medium this probably had a lot more weight, but in the anime it just feels like filler. But you cannot just try and set up a situation like this without making the stakes seem meaningful. The situation itself was actually fairly well written, and the politics were grounded (if not seeming to promote nationalism). The questions I kept asking myself when watching it was “why does this matter?” and “why should I care?”. What should have been the climatic arc of this cour felt unnecessary. It doesn’t help that the voice acting is often mediocre. The reason why we care about stopping Alternative V should be that we care about the characters being saved, but the way they are characterised is generic and bland. The other reason the politics and mystery in this series fails is that the characters, the reasons we should care about what’s happening, are weak. It seems that the pacing took a hit so they could stretch this section of the story to 12 episodes. The show takes often far too long expositing simple things, but fails to cover the information anime only viewers will have missed. The issue with this is that starting half way through the story robs us of context. Instead, what this series should be about is politics and mystery. The issue this brings is that this means that Takeru knows when and where the BETA will attack, which means that within this series, the BETA, the central antagonists and threat of calamity, are entirely trivialised and barely appear in the series at all. This time he will strive to change things. Takeru, the protagonist, has already experienced this timeline once, but failed to prevent calamity. This series starts part way through the story. The choice of part is the main reason why this show is so incredibly boring. source was far too long to be adapted into one series, so only part of it could be adapted. Muv-Luv Alternative is an adaptation of a spin-off of a standard school romance visual novel, where the protagonist from the main game finds himself in an alternate universe where BETA (giant monster aliens) are trying to exterminate the human race. However, the biggest failure of this series is managing to make a story taking place in a world on the brink of annihilation so utterly tiresome. It is a failure across the board The animation is bad, the art is bland, the characters come across as flat and generic, and the pacing is atrocious. Muv-Luv Alternative is a disaster, and not even an entertaining one.
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