Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse Episode 6 Discussion

Catastrophic said:


same as rosario+vampire, way to go.

heeroyuy117 said:
Well, looking at the original novels, this chapter /was/ part of the story. Thing is, originally Total Eclipse was planned to be a very short sidestory novel series since they didn't know if it'd be very popular at all, but when it turned out to be a huge success, they decided to turn it into a bigger story. Problem was, since it was a serialization, they needed to buy time while they fleshed out the larger story and figure out what they wanted to do. As a result, we got this filler beach arc, and in the novels they even blatantly titled them "Intermission".

heeroyuy117 said:
Fight? As in the Railgun test they're doing in the next episode? Well, I'd rather not spoil stuff for people who want to watch it that way, but basically 90% of the story is already written with the light novels so it's pretty set in stone at this point.

So far it's sticking to the plot of the novels well enough for a first time franchise adaptation, but they're certainly cutting out a lot of the smaller stuff that sometimes made the novels interesting. For example in the anime Yuuya comes across as being just a bit snooty for no reason towards Yui besides her heritage, but there are plenty of scenes where Yui proves to be incredibly narrow-minded too that the anime has left out. For instance, when she's being introduced for the first time to the Flight by Ibrahim, Ibrahim says her name 'western-style' with given first and family after. She insists on correcting it though and reintroduces herself family name first, and this ends up rubbing the whole group all the wrong ways (makes them feel as though she thinks she's superior insisting on Japanese formalities despite being on a UN base abroad).

I realize a show means that they have to cut stuff here and there, but some of the stuff they've added in it's place is just kinda.... (the entire cosplay restaurant scene was new to the anime... though Chobi's nekomimi meido made for good screenshots)

The manga finished with 3 volumes, but the light novels are up to volume 5, and I'm pretty sure I've read somewhere they're planning on finishing the light novel series by using the Visual Novel that's supposed to come out at the end of the year. I've only read good chunks of the first four novels and whatever bits and pieces were in the TSF Cross Operations Artbooks, so I'm not sure how it'll end at least. They're definitely going to have to pick up the pace if they want to finish some of the main arcs in 24 episodes though.

heeroyuy117 said:
Ummm... that'll totally depend on the way the animation staff wants to go with it. The first two episodes of the series flat out weren't in the novels (though the main details of Yui's background and such are mentioned still in passing), sooo.... it'll be totally up to them. If gorn's not your thing though, Crunchyroll's been censoring most of it so I'd watch it through them. Otherwise, if you've ever played the main Muvluv/Muvluv Alternative visual novels, I'd just say

tl;dr Gorn. Lots of delicious gorn.