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I haven't played Chicken Divers or Rain Dancers but I'm like 3-4 hours into the MLU Days After one.  Nothing much has really happened yet beyond introducing the people and what's going on.

From my understanding the JFK carrier was heading to Hawaii with some other navy after stopping by Yokohama Base which they called Opearation Operation Blue Ocean when a tsunami struck and they ended up wrecked in a salt field somewhere between Hawaii and Australia.  The sea level has dropped significantly after all.

This takes place in May of 2004 I think?  I'd need to check the date again exactly.  However, it has been over three years since Alternative V activated.  And this is the MLU universe so Takeru should be somewhere...wait no he wouldn't.  Takeru remembers he died two years after AlterV activated in MLA.  Darn.  :[

Our new MC Wilbert Collins is an American and part of the Knives squad along with Daryl 'Big Mama' McManthus(SIC) and are like, the only two TSF Eishi on the JFK.  When the game starts the two of them pick up a relay signal from Lilia who was shipwrecked for five days and she's a American TSF Eishi too.

There's also the Brigade General Alston(SIC) who's probably the top guy on JFK.  There's also Mel(can't remember their full name) who is an Indian or Arabian I think?  They ended up as a refuge in Australia and were discriminated against.  Seems to envy Americans.  They're a technical engineer.

BETA can't reach where the JFK crashed so this probably won't have any.  Darn x2!

...And that's about it for me.  Nothing has really happened since we picked up Lilia.  Will is a goofball though.  It's weird when Takeru isn't the MC...

The art seems to have improved dramatically, sometimes.  A few sprites look odd but otherwise it should be an improvement.  Age have had four years since MLA.  This came out in 2010.

Haven't tried Chicken Diver or Rain Dancers yet but the OP is pretty awesome.  Overall I have no idea why any Muv-Luv fan would skip out on this...except that's it's not in English yet.  We can only hope.  I would like a quick reread on some foggy details.


Anyway onto the weird one.


REAL DIFFICULTY


These guys are like a step above generics.  They're not numbers but their eyes and mouths don't move.


Here comes the fun one:

HEX STRATEGY GAME

It's actually pretty fun.  Navigating the menus is a bit difficult if you don't know what you're doing though.


PEW PEW PEW DIE BETA

Oh god CORE.  So much CORE.  Their theme song is pretty great too.

Gamerica you foooools


Carol Kiring
Carol Kiilling
Killing Carol
Kill Carol


The drunk spelling is so hard to read.


I AM A WIZAAARD


Go go go war war!!


All the guys are moe apparently.


My status currently.

Gamerica's ambush with CORE at USJ really took me by surprise.  This is my first game so I have no idea where I'm ending up.  I know I have like six turns to get to Andromeda to find this dying person so I'm making that top priority.  All I need to do is capture Andromeda since I'm right next to it.

I have quite a force at this point.  I don't think CORE can do too much damage.  My other big enemy are Aeris but I've been punching a whole through their defenses.  Go Anti-Lasers and Anti-Aircraft.

The Lucky Channel segments at the end of each episode are great.  Well maybe not amazing but they get a laugh out of me usually.  Episode 2's is still my favorite.  They're pretty meta.


Budget?  I know the gag Haruhi series did the exact same thing.  Sudden bursts of actual acceptable quality.

At the very least it's usually fluid.


I thought this was neat.  It's a magazine advertising Fate/stay night Realta Nua.  There are a lot of references and advertisements in this.


I couldn't help notice here two characters in the background feel vaguely familiar.

Everything is moe blobs in thiiiiiis.


Also a totally bizarre thing is going on here.

In Subahibi two of the main cast are sisters...and their names are Kagami and Tsukasa as well.  And even more bizarre is that Kagami is also a pig tailed hot-head and Tsukasa is also a short haired mellow dope.

I just can't believe the writers for Subahibi would so obviously copy something like Lucky Star.

Volume 1 is mainly just 'Kitano is scary looking' jokes but they start to phase out of that gradually.

Also oh god looking at this old art is hard.  He gets a lot better.  It still feels very doujin though like Onani Master Kurosawa.


Oh Takehisa you adorable blonde punk.



D:


This was the first page that had me rolling on the ground.  I think Chapter 14?  The park chapter was truly the first best one for me.


Just the entire thing.

Kuroda and his two goons are also pretty great.


KUROSAWA I mean Kitano!  Hell yeah!  SHOVE

There's also Ryoko and Shiratari and Ogisu and the Student President and stuff too.

It looks like volume 8 might focus on Ryoko's friend more?  That would be neat since she's been around forever

My prediction?  NAEGI CULPRIT

1.  Lunatic just does not matter.  He never gets addressed and manages to avoid ever confronting the protagonists for real.  We could have had some interesting shit going there.
2.  Maverick being the final antagonist was very lame.  His memory powers could have been used amazingly too.
3.  We get to experience Bunny's parents dying at least once an episode.  There was one episode where it was handled the best I think but I can't even fucking pick it out because they reshow it so many times.
4.  The "other Heroes" got the damn boot.  Sky High and Origami Cyclone in particular got interesting sideplots only to be ignored.  Blue Rose kind of turned into a written mess while Rock Bison, something Kid (I can't believe I can't even remember) *EDIT Dragon Kid!..maybe*, and Fire Emblem are even worse off.
5.  Episode 15 also gave the interesting idea of Android Heroes but in the final arc the robots were treated as completely wrong and unjust which I felt really clashed with their original morals.  Especially because Sky High felt romantic feelings for one of those Androids.  You know how amazing they could have written something with that?  It would have been fantastic!  But no, the writers were really lazy and made an very ordinary and uninteresting conclusion that manages to end with--
6.  A preview for a sequel thing?  Really?  I mean yeah I'll watch it but that's so cruel Sunrise.

Also a few very shaky plot points that bothered me:
1.  Bunny gaining his memories back was just like, magic.  That made me upset.
2.  Tiger "dying" in the second last episode was very cheap.  It was already being handled poorly and then they decided to do a faux MC death just to stab the viewer.  Not impressed.

Oh god I better stop before I hurt someone.

I beat Mom's Heart today with a nice explosive tears run.  First time using explosive tears holy crap do you have to be cautious but you dish so much damage.

I then did a second run as my newly unlocked Judas and got to Satan only to be royally crushed.  Darn.  I think I did pretty good to beat Mom's Heart twice in a row.  I didn't even have any early failed runs.

Didn't really get a chance to appreciate Satan's theme so I'll need to do that later.