Seems that midweek is going to be fairly lacking, all the new titles appear to be clustered towards the end of the week.  Anyway today I present boobtacular mecha, bishie Mafioso and cheesy historical romances………….Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse, La Storia della Arcana Famiglia and Chouyaku Hyakunin Isshu: Uta Koi. Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Well this [...]
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Muv-Luv ranked in the Top Ten of the Summer Compendium. Trollkastel, Naru, and AwesomeCurry decide whether it was worthy praise, or too much hope.
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Apparently without the benefit or hindrance of watching the original, he pans it: Muv-Luv Alternative looks clumsy and amateurish after Tari Tari’s sophisticated plotting. Scenes often end with awkward pauses and you wonder why they’re in there in the first place. What we got is some nasty aliens called BETA who are set on wiping out [...]
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Watching continuing shows while the new ones are showing off their bright, shiny faces for the first time can be difficult. This is, in fact, the reason why I’m dropping Eureka Seven Ao. I found it hard, after a week, to maintain any enthusiasm for it, and when the new shows appeared the backlog got [...]
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Even though my compatriot Shinmaru has already covered it, I feel that I have plenty more to say regarding the first episode of Muv-Luv Total Eclipse. The fact that it’s the only opening episode that I’ve watched sober thus far this season has absolutely nothing to do with it. My experiences with Muv-Luv over the [...]
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Yeah, I liked the first episode of Muv-Luv Total Eclipse Whatevertherestofthetitleis for the same reasons why I liked the first episode of Zetman. It’s all about the pacing. The first episode of Muv-Luv just tosses you into this convoluted alternate history and makes you piece it together as you go. The moon landing happens at [...]
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Now that’s some hot samurai robot action. I’m not into the whole visual novel scene, so I was ignorant to Muv-Luv before I saw Total Eclipse on the ol’ summer preview chart and heard about the convoluted origin of this part of Muv-Luv from some pals of mine. Apparently Muv-Luv is the generic romance/harem portion [...]
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Mankind makes first contact with a hostile extra-terrestrial race classified as “BETA” in 1967. Thirty years later, Earth has been invaded, and Japan is one of the last countries not directly under siege. Still, the enemy is coming, and shogun vasssal Takamura Yui and her classmates are being quickly trained for battle. One year later, [...]
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From the dere-moe Project The dere-moe Project - An all-Filipino blog on Japanese Pop CultureFor my First Impressions of Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse, I honestly don’t expect that I’d be seeing you again, Satelight. I’m now used to your character designs lacking sharpening. Your Mouretsu Pirates adaptation was superb, but you honestly have to work out those animation and character designs! Despite my dismay about your visuals, your Total [...]The post First Impressions: Muv-Luv Alternative Total Eclipse appeared first on The dere-moe Project.
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My thought process: Ooh, dead people on the moon! Giant robots! This could be pretty cool! Ten seconds later, a gusts of wind blows up the skirts of a gaggle of girls: Never mind. Several minutes later: Ugh. If they’re going to … Continue reading →
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「帝都燃ゆ (前編)」 (Teito Moyu (Zenpen)) "The Imperial Capital Burns, Part 1" As first episodes go, this was undeniably one of the more... for lack of a better word, 'varied.'
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A room filled with clothes all over the place. Strange liquids are on the floor. TROLLKASTEL is waking up on stage left, looking at the mess. Hair preferably messy. HOMERUN-CHAN is sleeping at downstage, barely clothed. She is blushing and drooling. COMMANDER OBVIOUS is smoking grass at center stage. RANCE is naked (again) at downstage [...]
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Initial impression – a solid introduction Summer 2012 (?? episodes) (more info) Ok, so Muv-Luv is your standard story about a young pilot in training who is going to have to grow up fast in order to fight back against the alien invaders (at least that’s my impression about how these things usually develop).  Fine, [...]
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  All that technology, and still can’t invent decent underwear. Impressions: I have no idea why a healthy chunk of this episode even exists. If they wanted something exciting to hook the audience, they should’ve gone right from the introductory segment to the BETA invasion at the end. Instead, we got what basically amounted to a [...]
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Tracer now out of the equation, Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse is doing a lot more than "looking good" - the visuals are stunning, yet its perhaps the instrumental background theme which truly shines in this PV.
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I like to talk about Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse‘s character designs that has been making headlines in the anime and figurine world. Maybe you’ve heard about the scandal of Muv-Luv’s artist’s sloppy tracing problems, but as any contributor of Going Commando on Anime shows: we all have radically different opinions from the majority. In my [...]
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With the adaptation of Muv-Luv Alternative spinoff Total Eclipse on the horizon, there's just no better time to discuss the previous chapters of the Muv-Luv universe (Extra, Unlimited, and Alternative). Note: This is a spoiler-free, dual post by both Moomba and Zephyr.
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Even after the offending artist was dropped from his position, the impact of traced imagery continues to sully the "Muv-Luv" series - the latest showing that an artwork and matching figure are copies of a photograph.
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Ao Miyata, who was serving as an artist for Muv-Luv, has been fired from his position at animation production start-up "Ixtl" after having been caught tracing in two separate occasions - only a single day apart.
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Further tarnishing the "Muv-Luv" name, it seems an artist for the series has possibly been tracing more than artworks - a dakimakura of a Muv-Luv character looks a replica of one featuring Polyphonica's heroine.
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