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I didn't have the same reaction to Benio as Paul did though. I found her oddball interactions awkward yet still very funny and loved watching her duplicity between home and school.

consider this rumours if you wish, what I remember was that: the series was originally planned to be just one coeur, it was just an add to sell models of the franchise's robot as well as the vn ports to the ps3 generation of hardware; something happened during production, so the budget got increased or something , so they increased it to 2 coeurs, they also decided to change directors (originally it was a very green one and they put someone more experienced in charge instead) and had to rewrite several parts of the show so they had time to actually make something decentinstead of super rushing (though animation quality wise, the rushing still shows).

Barbobot wrote:

I didn't have the same reaction to Benio as Paul did though. I found her oddball interactions awkward yet still very funny and loved watching her duplicity between home and school.

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For me, it was like... 70/30 for what I could and couldn't handle as far as Benio was concerned. I think if we mostly got Mashiro's reactions, I would've been less weirded out by it, because we'd have the voice of reason as the primary response. But Kobeni's complacency with everything just... I mean, I get it, that's the joke, but it just gave me the creepies.

ANN_Bamboo wrote:

Barbobot wrote: I didn't have the same reaction to Benio as Paul did though. I found her oddball interactions awkward yet still very funny and loved watching her duplicity between home and school. [...] For me, it was like... 70/30 for what I could and couldn't handle as far as Benio was concerned. I think if we mostly got Mashiro's reactions, I would've been less weirded out by it, because we'd have the voice of reason as the primary response. But Kobeni's complacency with everything just... I mean, I get it, that's the joke, but it just gave me the creepies.

Good heavens; I can only imagine what your reaction to Koi Kaze is.*

*My intent is not to be negative; I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from -- the user ratings are surprisingly good (for both series).

Good heavens; I can only imagine what your reaction to Koi Kaze is.*

*My intent is not to be negative; I'm just trying to figure out where you're coming from -- the user ratings are surprisingly good (for both series).

I loved the series (enough to make it my #5-ranked series for the year) because I thought it was a smart reversal of the normal "surprise fiancee" pattern and had more cleverness to it than it initially looked like it would have. The big secret lingering in the background also shakes things up quite nicely and it has a great pair of opener and closer.

I feel that they added the fan-service scenes since the VN was an eroge and they tried to "keep true" on that part

I will still probably recommend Muv-Luv Alternative:Total Eclipse since when they got to the military aspects of the show and the battles it was pretty entertaining IMO

EDIT:Also I didn't even knew that Rumbling Hearts was sort of related to Muv-Luv so thanks for including that in your review.I'll put it on my watch-list since it'll be nice to see what it's about.

Seiru wrote:

Speaking about the game it's been months since I did research on it but from what I remember there is so much material for the other Muv-Luv series that I'm hoping that one day they can animate them because from what I remember the development and tragedy were pretty interesting to read.

I just started playing Muv-Luv Extra, and considering I know what's coming in Unlimited and Alternative — no point avoiding spoilers in something 10 years old — the bipolar nature of this series is really a thing to behold. Extra plays at being dippy, in sharp contrast to the angsty Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (aka, Rumbling Hearts), to which it is a direct sequel, while what it's really doing is a head-fake for the alien apocalypse that it will suddenly become.

That said, with two beach episodes, a hot springs episode, and a clips episode, Total Eclipse can't help but be a disappointment. It just can't get out of its own way with the otaku pandering. I did a longer review here.

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The two deserted island episodes represent an hour of my life that I'll never get back.

I completely understand this. Pretty sure it was right after those deserted island episodes that I found myself losing complete interest in the show and stopped watching it when it was initially airing.