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Originally Posted by Utsuro no Hako
What a horrible first episode. I don't know which is worse, that they're wasting two episodes on backstory, or that they made it feel like a clip-show about a bunch of characters we don't know. How am I supposed to care about these girls when the only distinctive characteristics they've demonstrated are their bust sizes. The writers should've gone back to watch Gundam and Macross to see how those series dispensed with the backstory in two minutes before the credits.
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I find these two prequel episodes quite fitting, as they represent what Muv Luv is overall; a slice-of-life mecha story with HUGE JABS of despair thrown in.
It could be argued you could generalize much of Muv Luv with what is shown here in these two episodes, in my opinion.