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Seriously Jonathan Joestar?  Dio Brando?  Jack the Ripper?  Speed Wagon?  These are S-tier names.

Also obligatory UUURRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Kyousuke is 'Maou'.  It doesn't seem like Akabesoft2 to do such a quick and cheap plot twist that early though...hehehe

Chapter 1 images I took:

Oh Eiichi Eiichi, adorably evil bishounen boy.


...Okay



The large quantity of NVL text scenes is vastly appreciated.

Really now this seems far more interesting than I thought it would be.  That OP

Not going to make any comments until I finish, or at least that's my goal.

I admit it.  I only finished yesterday but I find myself completely vexed I can't just start up MLA and continue playing today like any other day the past two weeks.

Yeah MLA took me about 14 days.  MLU took 2-3 days and MLE took 5 days.  So it easily doubled the original two games.  Good one Age.

I decided on the 8 rating for a few reasons.

First the bad.

1. Takeru isn't fully voiced, a huge bummer.  Fully voiced protagonist are one of my favorite trivial parts.
2. It's a harem.  Age don't let go of this shit.  The core harem manages to stick around all the way to the last episode.  And frankly their amount of character development isn't too great.  Ayamine, Tama, and Mikoto definitely get it half-assed.  I mean they weren't amazing characters in the first place either.
3. The pacing.  Just like Fate/stay night MLA manages to be incredibly boring in hour long lectures.  A few of the lectures are kind of interesting at best and only one I found truly exciting (and that was Isumi talking not fucking Yuuko).  Yuuko is the lecturer in this and her voice isn't too great.
4. I thought the international political intrigue would begin increasing from Episode 6 onward...that's not really true.  Episode 6 is the only chapter with a lot of IPI.  Yoroi was great but we'll get into him more later...anyway the point is beyond a few very very "out there" political intrigues mentioned in the later chapters I felt absolutely zero influence from that.  What Age could have done is freakin' awesome Interludes like F/sn did except with you know...political powers.  I could have easily given MLA a 9 at that rate.  In fact just thinking about it is amazing.  But no, let's focus on this core harem we all love.

Second the ambivalent.

1. The art style.  A very strange mix of things I like and don't like.  Some character sprites look totally fine.  Some look mindbogglingly stupid until I just assimilated my brain into accepting it.  People should not have jet intakes for hair.  Meiya is the worst example.  The cadet armored suits also look pretty bad but the ones after it are decent.  Beyond that the backgrounds range from great to cheap looking (I'm looking at you anime people!) and the TSFs/mecha generally look good.
2. The BETA.  Truly terrifying beings.  I liked how they functioned and how they all looked and such.  However, you can not just give us that insane spiel at the end of Episode 10 and proceed to completely ignore it.  I don't see any thing I can afterwards that's in English too!  So god damn you BETA!
3. The font was much harder to read than the original game.  But at the same time the cinematic approach was much nicer.

Third the good.

1. The setting is fantastic.  You might go "aliens invading Earth and humanity has to stop it with mecha" sounds incredibly ordinary but the fact this is the only VN I have even played with mecha, let alone insane aliens is pretty great.  It also makes me think of Evangelion which is a good thing.
2. The production values are insane.  Age already spent too much effort with MLE and MLU but MLA blows it all out of the water.  Idle sprites blink, their mouths flap when they talk, when it's cold you can see their breathe.  The sheer amount of sprites in-game.  I think the game is 4.5GB?  Either way it's ridiculous...and we're not even at the--
3.  Action scenes.  I don't want to break it down here but the action scenes in MLA are insane.  They're chock full of "autoread scenes" and animated videos.  The sound effects are great too as well as--
4.  The music is great.  I'll want an OST later...three tracks I really enjoyed are 悔恨の果て (sadly only plays in Alternative twice, plays a much bigger role in Unlimited), 血を欲する戦場 (my favorite action scene song), and オリジナルハイヴ (the end of it all holy shit song).
5.  Takeru's character development through the series is amazing.  It's quite a roller coaster ride and by the end he feels like a completely different person...until his existence is wiped out.  ;_;  A few other characters are quite good as well.

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Plot breakdown.

Episodes 1-4 is mainly Unlimited HD.  Not the most exciting things happen beyond I'M IN A TIME LOOP WOO
Episode 5 amplifies the slider shit...and then it's never really a big thing anymore.  Age really needed to actually make use of their "international political intrigue" and "world dimensions".  It never really hit Higurashi levels of amazing.
Episode 6 was a landmark for Age in it was the first chapter to actually be really good the entire time.  It's also the whole of the Coup d'état Arc which was very good...except that almost every character introduced in it dies...and the IPI is then kind of ignored.  WHY DID IRMA TRY TO SHOOT SAGIRI.  WHY WAS THIS NEVER FOLLOWED UP AT ALL?  WHY DID SAGIRI AND WALKEN HAVE TO DIE??  HOW COME YOU DIDN'T USE YOUR TIME/WORLD/SLIDER SHIT FOR SOME AMAZING FINALE AGE??  HUH???
Episode 7 was probably the most emotionally moving chapter for me.  The first half was simply amazing.  I don't really know what to criticize.  The translators called this the Early Sadogashima Arc so we'll go with that.  Probably spent a little too long in twisted Extra world though and it makes you think all of this was cheap plot contrives.
Episode 8 was an intermission chapter...for the stupidly long next chapter.  We get introduced to a lot of characters but at the same time...we're not getting any awesome Interludes or IPI which is exactly what I'm calling Age and the people who keep giving it 9s and 10s out for!  I also kind of forgot Yoroi existed at this point...and no he never meets Mikoto.  Great Dad.
Episode 9 was the bulk of the Sadogashima Arc.  There were two big action scenes with a pretty long break in the middle.  Invading Sadogashima was awesome...defending Yokohama base was also awesome.  The problem is afterwards...the game is pretty much over at this point.  I just kept feeling "it feels like this is ending yet there's still so much that needs to be done".  I would have really enjoyed if a few things happened but I'll get to that.
Episode 10 was mainly the Operation Cherry Blossom Arc...and the epilogue.  It was very short (completely jarring to the massive Episode 9) and pretty fun to read (everybody had awesome deaths) until...it just ended with everybody pretty much dead and Takeru gone and their future is still pretty vague given the BETA are still all over Earth, the Moon, Mars, billions of other places, and the true masterminds remain unseen.  Now Age just need a sequel to MLA.    I'd play the shit out of that.
Final Episode was just MLE.  The ED was nice though.

I think the Coup d'état Arc(ep6), the Sadogashima Arc(ep7+8+9), and the Operation Cherry Blossom Arc(ep10) are something every VN enthusiasts has to see.

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What I felt should have happened.

1. Stick in a bunch of interludes Episode 6 onward on IPI shit at the very least.
2. Make the story more grande.  I know Takeru really really didn't want to loop again after suffering through all those loses but I think if something absolutely insane happened in Episode 10 that would have been amazing.  But maybe I'm goading Age too much here...but everybody says MLA is the best VN ever so at the very least it should be the best right?  I suppose a sequel could at least solve some issues but all of the many fan discs are untranslated too.
3. Have a core harem actually die or do something interesting before the end of the damn game.  I swear they were all glued together the entire time and due to not wanting to screw anything up they don't really do anything.

Sequel sequel sequel sequel

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Characters.

Shirogane Takeru - Good god this guy, a complete jerk becomes a battle hardened soldier.  A pretty good MC beyond looking generic.  His reactions in Episode 7 were very moving.
Kagami Sumika - The main heroine and doesn't show up for real in MLA until Episode 8...so a lot of the later chapters is trying desperately to develop her character.  They probably could have done more with her I think.  Especially with all the effort they put into the ridiculously short Episode 10...and then she dies.
Mitsurugi Meiya - Secondary heroine and probably the most developed of the core harem.  Went from terrible character in Extra to quite a role model in Unlimited and Alternative.  Don't have any problems with that.  A few of her quotes seem to stick into my head too.
Sakaki Chizuru - Your typical Class Rep.  I feel like after the 12-5 incident she was a bit better and she probably looks the best out of the core harem cast in my opinion but otherwise...
Ayamine Kei - Urgh.  Speaks few words but manages to still be really annoying.  Generally worse than Chizuru in terms of character and I don't remember ever being moved by anything she said.
Tamase Miki - Cat girl.  Sniper.  That's her whole character.  Good job Age.
Yoroi Mikoto - Is now and forever a girl.  Since her kanji is different from the male version in MLE I have to assume in Unlimited and Alternative when she was born the genetic lottery struck female so her parents named her differently.  I think Mikoto is fine but really she's not very developed either.  Nice hair.

Yuuko-sensei - Maan.  I said she was the worst character in Extra but she's pretty okay now.  Can be aggravating but I don't notice it nearly as much.  She also has done quite a lot of questionable things over the course of the game which Takeru shakes off as "this world's morals".  She has a secretary named Lt. Piatif who was cool to see.  Never talks to Takeru more than one line though.
Kasumi - Oh Kasumi Kasumi Kasumi.  I thought you were so much more important than you actually are.  Don't really care for cat girls or bunny girls and the only thing special about you is your ESP and very timid nature (LIKE A RABBIT GET IT).  Hrm.
General Radhabinod - Got an upgrade from Unlimited into a barely memorable character.  He does get a few nice scenes though.  His speeches stand out and he has the same VA as Lelouch's Father and Houzuki.
Jinguuji Marimo - Marimo-chaaan.  Kind of ordinary character until the fantastic Episode 7.  Wish she was my anime Mother.  I think everybody does.

Tsukuyomi Mana - Pretty cool character.  But is pretty much just a background character after her clashing with Walken in Episode 6.  Not even going to comment on the three idiots.

Major Walken - This guy.  ;_;  True American Hero.
Captain Sagiri - I respect this guy for being the first one to actually go forth and change the plot.  It doesn't help that he was being used as a political tool though.
Lt. Irma - Same for you Irma, same for you.
Yuuhi - About as much a role model as Meiya but not nearly as around as much.

Mikoto's Dad - This guy was pretty great the three times he showed up.  Disappears after Episode 6 but was still actually alive, oh well.
Tama's Dad - Not very note-worthy.  Had a ridiculous mustache in Extra.

Captain Isumi - I liked Isumi a lot.  Wish MLA developed different during Episode 9...
Kashiwagi - Bitchin' Kashiwagi.  She has her own fandisc game that's not translated.
Suzumiya Akane - Akane was in the stuff Age made before Muv-Luv, that seems to be the case a lot but I didn't realize until after looking at VNDB.  Otherwise uuuh a character?
The Rest of A0-1 - A larger harem they just gets killed or hospitalized off.  Although 1st Lt. Suzumiya's Death was pretty brutal.

Everybody else I forgot or are just NUMBERS - It's really too bad.  Some characters looked interesting enough on their own but they never went beyond one scene.  It's truly tragic and reminds me of F/sn A LOT.  The biggest problem with massive VNs is definitely the inability to focus on everything and of course pissing some readers off.

Again, I really wouldn't mind trying one of those fan-discs...or a possible sequel Age?!  Kind of scared to check out the Total Eclipse anime adaption because they made the art style look like Gundam Seed and the MC is totally Kira.

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Final thoughts.

Muv-Luv Alternative has a lot of problems.  You also have to play the original Muv-Luv first for a lot of things to matter.  However, that doesn't make this a bad VN experience.  I truly feel shitty that I can't load up MLA and play more today.  The ending might seem disappointing but it might just be because I'm disappointed that it ended.

I will eagerly await any new translations of stuff based on MLA...or a possible godlike sequel with actual IPI and use of slider powers?  I can only wait do other things and forget about it.

FINAL MISSION

The infiltration itself was cut.  I'm not going to complain about that except for the fact we never actually get to see A-01 infiltrate a Hive.  Maybe Age are running out of budget (likely).


Takemikazuchis look so cooool.


Oh fuck that was awesome.

Synchronous S-11s?  Yessss


I never realized how badly Takeru's sprite sticks out.


Age decided it was worth drawing a shit ton of CGs, giving everybody entirely new armored suits, and wasting money on even more fully animated scenes...but I suppose they're going for an explosive finale right?

Right?!


STAB STAB STABS STABS


RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEERRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUCCCHH

I love all of the new expressions.  For one mission.


IT'S THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE, TENTACLES YAY


Oh hey let's give the players some vague info on the true threat behind the BETA that we won't possibly see ever.


HITEI



These two images are me trying to screencap the fully animated scenes.  It's a terrible blurry mess.  They were nice but they pretty much gave away that

1.  This is the climax...maybe
2.  Meiya is their favorite character



Come on Shirogane kill your last supporting heroine.

Then there's a long 'epilogue' type sequence while I'm scratching my head furiously over what the fuck just happened.


Oh okay.


How come in Alternative I realize I'm in a loop?  Why isn't that the case all the times before...or is it?


And now everybody is dead.



Happy End



...It's not ever over yet folks.

Final Episode - MuvLuv

I can't give a guess what the shit this could even be about.  My exceptions are either complete shit or marvelous masterpiece.

Hooboy.  We're rocking in for a bumpy ride.

And we do indeed find out what Yuuko-sensei's big plan is.

Anyway onwards:


The BETA that attacked us were cut down in numbers as they retreated but 20% still successfully made it back to H20.  Rats.



We get our probably last mission from Yuuko-sensei here.  A-01 is quite small now.

The biggest reveal of course being how the Hives actually work and the fact destroying the "core" of the Original Hive appears to be what we'll have to do.

Otherwise the BETA will absolutely destroy us.  Thanks to knowing how the Hives work now unless we destroy H01 then every BETA on Earth is gonna know every damn thing about us and will possibly create G weapons of their own, fuck.


It's a cool plan at least.  I look forward to see what goes wrong.

I still feel like we're sorely lacking something...


The mission we're doing was dubbed Operation Cherry Blossom while Operation Trident is in case we fail...it's pretty much Alternative V so we need to get our shit straight.


Lots of incoming Sumika CGs...she is suppose to be the main heroine after all. (sorry Meiya)


This CG makes me realize how amazing Takeru's appearance has changed.  I recall back in Extra or even Unlimited he felt like a bumbling doofus (though he still is sometimes) however his contenance just feels mature and hardened.  What a good soldier you.

Here's a similar positioned CG from Extra:

Progress.


We do need to make up for the utter lack of Sumika until Ep8 after all.


While Munakata and Kazama were sent to a hospital Akane managed to stay on the base with her injuries.  Kind of nice.

I also noticed that Chizuru definitely feels off.  Ever since the 12-5 incident something has definitely been off with her...and it's kind of better I think.  Her voice is so shaaaky.


We manage to all get the Honor Guard's mecha and Kasumi will be going out on the mission with us this time.

Oh I except everybody to die, yes.  Takemikazuchi look awesome I think too so yay.


I AM SO HAPPY LOOK AT MY GLEAMING SMILE


This totally took me back to Extra, product placemeeent.


...And we end with a nice fully animated scene.  Marimo-chaaaan  ;_;


LET'S TAKE THAT FUCKING ORIGNIAL HIVE YEEEEEEAH

As a final wish I do want something kind of amazing.  A simple "we saved humanity from the BETA on Earth!" won't cut it for me.  The BETA are also on the Moon and Mars after all.  My hopes are for just anything crazy awesome that involves time shit and international political intrigue.

Did Episode 9 live up to my expectations?

Kind of.

The action was great, being the first real BETA fights, but I still wish they focused more on the international political intrigue!!!  I feel like Episode 6 was the only one that did that successfully, darn.

ON TO THE OPERATION CHERRY BLOSSOM ARC

By my predictions this is going to be long as fuck.

Holy shit.  Episode 9 isn't even done and I've just went through two full blown war movies.

This was quite eye-catching.  The break in the middle of the two big 'events' was probably too long but we'll get to that maybe.

This covers December 24th to...29th.  I've noticed Episodes like covering a week period so I'm probably jumping the gun here but whatever.



It's not 18+ unless we say masturbation.


I like when the translators draw the letters out, it's pretty nifty.  Kiiiiiisaaaamaaaaaaaaa


OBJECTIVE 21 OPERATION, FUCK YEAH

Sumika (00 Unit) gets this absolutely ridiculous "mecha" called the XG-70 which has a lot of backstory that's not worth repeating.  Basically it's an American death machine that was made obsolete by G-bombs however if the 00 Unit can use it well we can easily wipe out hives with "100 times less casualties" which is pretty amazing.



The early early morning before the mission started we talked to Isumi, then Meiya, and then Kashiwagi which was a bit shocking.  It was pretty sweet and we got some more info on Isumi and Kashiwagi...however, thanks to a certain fact that happens latter this feels slightly too convenient writing.  Oh well it was nice.

And obligatory bitchin' back sprite from Kashiwagi.  I think Isumi and Kashiwagi are good characters anyway.  And Meiya is okay now.  I don't even want to look at my Extra post...

ANYWAY

LET'S INVADE THAT FUCKING HIVE YEEEAAAH


NAVY ADMIRALS

AWESOME


CONSTANT STATUS REPORTS

AWESOME


DEAD BETA EVERYWHERE

AWESOME


ZERO MORTALITY RATE INFILTRATION MISSIONS

AWESOME


;_;

AWESOME


FUCKING ENEMIES EVERYWHERE RAGRAHGRHARA

AWESOME


CGs EVERYWHERE

AWESOME



So yeah.  That was an awesome six hours.  I did it all in one session.  Six hours sounds about right.  Six hours on nonstop mission shit.

Two things I can't show off:

1.  The Honor Guard (Tsukuyomi's Unit) had a Leader Unit in it with a really cool blue mecha.  Also they sounded male.  I wish we saw more of them...
2.  Auto scenes everywhere.  Auto scenes are basically animated scenes but with just sprites moving (not that there aren't actual animated scenes I can't share) and Takeru is voiced in them a lot which is awesome.

I was actually expecting them to infiltrate the hive but we'll get to that...


Kashiwagi died guarding Isumi.  Isumi had to detonate the Susano'o after we secured Sumika...while she was in it.

That means two of the three people we talked to before the mission started died.  Tsk tsk tsk Age I thought you were better than that.

Not that it wasn't really sad.  ;_;


Also Sadogashima was wiped off the fucking map.



It gets kind of weird from this point on.


Sumika freaked out piloting the XG-70 because she read an image of us having sex with Meiya...it's complicated.  Pretty much Takeru is getting memories of the many different time loops he's experienced so Sumika suddenly reads these bizarre delusion like scenes which caused her thinning ODG(sic?) to thin out and she went into autistic mode to save her brain.


Also we see these guys again.  I thought this was a really nice surprise.  What Takeru tells them was really sweet and the two of them remind him of Lt. Irma who was a foreigner fighting to save her country as well.  Except these two UN Soldiers didn't have the TSF Aptitude so they were stuck being infantry.  :[


And then Sumika joins A-01 and a lot of shit happens.  It's all a blur to me honestly.  Shirogane Takeru talks with a ton of people (everybody in A-01, Tsukuyomi, Yuuko, Kasumi, etc.) about a ton of shit and just geez.

At the very least the General makes announcements of the Objective 20 Operation which will commence in two weeks.  It's to take down a Hive in the Korean Pennisula.  Thanks to Alternative IV (Sumika/00 Unit) we were able to take down the Sadogashima Hive and get ALL OF THE DATE on the other Hives.  All of it.  So A-01 will be infiltrating H20 with a near-perfect route.  It's mainly to save face with the only half successful O21O.


Hour long lectures?  Naruhodo naruhodo...good thing this pillow is comfy.


Boop boop beep boop lots of talking about romance and psychology and fallen comrades and motivation and stuuuuuff.

What's most important is that Sumika remembers what happens to the original us in this world...and also what happened to her before becoming a brain and spine.

It was not pretty.  We were eaten up just like Marimo-chan...and Sumika was raped constantly.  The BETA seem curious enough to pleasure humans at least.  IT WAS LIKE A NEVER ENDING EJACULATI--okay we're done here.

So after that we finally get our first "real" H scene and it was pretty short at least.  Sumika has some odd lines on her body thanks to being not real but whatever.  Her Eishi suit is pretty odd.  It's very very pink, it's okay to look at.

Either way it's like the morning of the 29th, at around 2:30am, a bit after having sex with Sumika finally---

BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO


There was most likely BETA out on duty for Sadogashima before coming home to a missing Hive.  To accommodate that they've started heading towards Yokohama Base/Hive for their own little invasion.

This is not very good news for the weakened state of us.

Also noteworthy is a few hallway scenes during this were very dynamic which was nice to see.  It was like I was actually walking with them.  Age's production values are wonders.


We also got ourselves the Susano'o Type 4.  But that won't help with the out-of-commission Sumika (plus the engines aren't tuned) and also...the BETA were intelligent enough to create a diversion with their laser types and they're fucking up shit at our Secondary Defense Line.  Victor Unit noooooooooooooooo


SMIRK

...it won't last long

Also the Honor Guard Leader was oddly missing, he didn't die at Sadogashima or anything.  That blows!


So so many poor TSF Eishi.


DEFEND THE BAAAASE


We have so much money to blow on CGs like you won't even believe.

Actually that kind of hurts me.  Because Age put so many auto read scenes in this "arc" I had a very hard time grabbing images.

I also had a hard time even reading what was happening, because Muv-Luv Alternative thinks it's an anime.



PINK DOTS EVERYWHERE


Here's one such image I grabbed that was an auto read scene.  I just kind of print screen'd blindly.

It's worth reminding that I have to read Hayase's line here in like...less than a second.  The auto read scenes tend to move VERY FAST so I find myself not even trying to read and then looking at the back log while I ogle at the very pretty effects.

And yes auto read scenes are very very cool to watch.  The sound effeects the noise the visuals the DIAGRAMS aaaah over fucking load.


It can get pretty confusing after awhile.

One thing I really liked was that UN Soldier 1 and 2 were part of Suzumiya's escort squad.  That rocked pretty hard.  I suppose Age did give them a scene recently but it still completely took me by surprise.


I also enjoy how missions never go how they're planned.  Failure is a very large theme in MLA.  A very large theme.  They adapt and usually manage to avoid BETA getting a guaranteed victory but humanity still suffer HUGE losses.  It's like constantly being in check mate but making up an excuse why their call isn't right and then diverting their attention just enough to place a pawn to block the check mate...for one turn.


Every image is going to look like this, corpses everywhere.

Takeru does get voiced when he's trying to contact Hayase through the static-y receiver which just pissed me off a bit.  Fully voiced man keep him fully voiced.  :[


It's only been four days since Objective 21 Operation and we're already losing HUGE chunks of more people.

Alpha 3 being wiped out was very upsetting for me.  It hurts it hurts it hurts

;_;

Specifically, when they had the BETA Soldier Class holding onto UN Soldier 1's head, that hurt my soul.  It even makes it ironic because in Isumi's lecture she mentions just that fact.  And then Suzumiya was slaughtered...  Fuck.


I love delusion scenes don't you.


Mission...successful?



No, mission definitely not successful.

We lost 95% of Yokohama Base.  We beat back the BETA yes, but THERE'S NOTHING FUCKING LEFT.

I do admire Shirogane Takeru's sudden rebound (and it's one reason I'm cutting this in half to two parts) but seriously.

Every unit but Tsukuyomi's was wiped.  A-01 is more than half gone.  That's about it for their TSFs.  I suppose Sumika and the Susano'o Type 4 were saved but...

1st Lt. Hayase died
1st Lt. Suzumiya died
1st Lt. Munakata was severely wounded and sent to the imperial hospital at the capital
2nd Lt. Kazama is the same as Munakata but less severe
2nd Lt. Suzumiya is severely wounded, also eye wound

Kind of oddly enough all that's left of A-01 is Squad 207.  The original crew.  I would chide Age for doing that but it's not too bad...nah I'll still chide them.  It would have been more fresh to kill a core cast instead of a supporting.

Pretty much every single infantry is wounded or dead (;_;).  And there's about...10 Eishi left that can pilot a TSF currently?

They started with around 215 I believe?  It was over 200.  THERE'S TEN LEFT

You know how the BETA took advantage of the weakened Yokohama Base in the first place?  Well it's completely defenseless now.

Ah right that's one very interesting thing brought up.

Yuuko-sensei and the General talked about the possibility that the BETA were actually just testing humanity to see how they reacted and after the Objective 21 Operation they finally decided Humanity was a real threat to be eliminated.  In other words the BETA weren't tactically stupid at all...they just didn't even see trying to fight Humanity for real as a thing.  It wasn't bothersome.  But our invasion of Sadogashima might have started causing the (frankly not too many) BETA that attacked us now to use real tactics.

This of course means that against an actual Hive now there's no way we'd stand a chance unless we try the Susano'o Type 4 but again, if the BETA have stepped up their game Alternative IV might at best just draw it out again...

That's probably why Yuuko-sensei is forcing the General to act now on...something

I don't really know yet because since the action slowed down for a second and Episode 9 is already long as fuck I decided to do this now.