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| I thought this start was pretty nice and I am excited to see more. I can tell things are going to get more serious and shits are gunna go down even harder later on especially since this is just introducing the setting and already the mood seems to be of despair. |
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| Decent intro ep. Love the suits and the plot is interesting. I personally don't care if the whole alien invasion/mobile suit thing has been overdone. That doesn't automatically make it bad for me. Also helps that I havn't read the VN. Then again I don't go out of my way to watch mecha anime so I'm not jaded. |
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| While the premise of bug like alien invaders has definitely been overused, but this series is handling the scenario very well. It is setting itself up to be one of the better telling of that scenario. I don’t really like the characters that much. They’re not bad, it is just that having school aged girls be the mech pilots just seems to clash with the very serious tone this anime is setting. The mechs look amazing, so the only question left is to see how the combat works. If the combat is good, and they’re willing to kill off many of the characters then this should turn out to be a very good series. |
| Loved it! It was so epic and full of action. Had me on my seat forever. Can't wait to see what happens next ! See my full review for this episode here: http://animeordie.blogspot.com/2012/07/muv-luv-alternative-total-eclipse-112.html |
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| This blew me away, this is really, really promising. The story seems to be great so far, I'm looking forward to more. |
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 I was surprised the main character had portraits of Class-A war criminals hanging at her house. This would be equivalent of hanging portraits of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels in a German house. I guess how Japanese Militarism is regarded in Japan differently from how Nazi Fascism is regarded in Germany (pretty much taboo over there) in the current age. Hmm.. |
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stevewiess01 said: I was surprised the main character had portraits of Class-A war criminals hanging at her house. This would be equivalent of hanging portraits of Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels in a German house. I guess how Japanese Militarism is regarded in Japan differently from how Nazi Fascism is regarded in Germany (pretty much taboo over there) in the current age. Hmm.. For some reason I'm starting to think that in this Parallel Universe, WWII ended quite differently. Unless someone who played the VN could expound on that, it's just the feeling I'm getting. Since the capital is in Imperial Kyoto, with a Shogunate instead of the capital being in Tokyo plus a Parliamentary system with a ceremonial Emperor born from Post-WWII MacArthur military government. |
kiralikkettle said: Netto_Azure said: For some reason I'm starting to think that in this Parallel Universe, WWII ended quite differently. Unless someone who played the VN could expound on that, it's just the feeling I'm getting. Since the capital is in Imperial Kyoto, with a Shogunate instead of the capital being in Tokyo plus a Parliamentary system with a ceremonial Emperor born from Post-WWII MacArthur military government. In VN's Japan accepted an unconditional surrender. The nukes dropped on Berlin. So Shogunate didn't fall. Ah now it all makes sense. |
| Well, was kind of boring to be honest, but I won't write it off just yet. I still see it's potential. |
| I was pleasantly surprised. I thought this was gonna be some silly anime just so it can show sexy girls in tight suits but it had quite the serious tone about it. Yeah animation etc weren't the best ever but the story and events where nicely portrayed giving an intense atmosphere. Hey it even has a believable background on why we are seeing young girls piloting those things. Because pretty much everyone else is already on the frond lines or dead. Also, seriously? Boring? WTF? People watch schoolgirls doing cute things and nothing much really and they got bored with this? What, it should start with crazy battles immediately? It's the first episode for fucking sakes. They need to explain shit so it won't seem stupid and badly written. And the events they showed went fast as hell, it was anything but boring. |
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| I guess it's okay. Things moved pretty fast though. I heard come episode 3 the director is different so I'll look forward to that. |
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| That's some suit they got here. |
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| I ike the story so far, but I think I would've liked this show more if the main characters weren't all girls. There aren't any male characters now where I can replace myself into. |
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| looks generic as fuck tbh... |
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| I'm coming into this after recently finishing both ML and MLA. I have no knowledge of what happens in TE. The pacing felt really off this first episode. If I hadn't known how dangerous the BETA are/the world they're in, I would have been really confused. They breezed through scenes of the girls' training and I didn't get a feeling for how determined they are or how they've been living up until now. Maybe they'll flashback to it later but we're thrown into a huge battle from the start and I guess I'll have to wait and see if that is for the best. Some of the BGM was pretty good while some wasn't. |
| -Nothing can stay unchanged. Even so, can you still keep on loving this place? -Be still my soul; when change and tears are past, all safe and blessed we shall meet at last. |
| How much time has passed in the first episode? Lol. It was okay but not a fan of the time jumping around. I will see how this goes. |
| Honobono Log - best slice of life short -------------------------------------------- most kawaii loli overlord ---------------------------- Donquixote Doflamingo AMV - Control |
| Not too bad. |
| I like the mech designs for this. Looks like another series where the world is screwed. Though I like the lunar landing twist tie in. |
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| This show kicks Attack on Titan. |
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| Watching this a few days after completing the Muv-Luv: Alternative visual novel. Initial impressions of this show is quite... underwhelming. Mostly due to the pacing for everything, and how character interactions and bonding felt confusing at some points, especially surrounding Yui and Kazusa's relationship in this episode with bonding happening too quickly for its own good after what was initially teased. Felt a bit jarring. I really hope that the Alternative anime releasing at the end of the year does not suffer from pacing like this cause if so, that anime is doomed. Didn't mind the mechas though, even if CG animated. Also like how stiff they are with movement, especially considering the developments surrounding them when I read the MLA visual novel for particular reasons I won't go into. Nice contrast of sorts there. |
| This episode still haunts me til this day even back then |
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