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Originally Posted by Marcus H.
Huh? Isn't the first two episodes supposed to be anime-original?
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It is. That to me is part of the point of the first two episodes. It reinforces the fact that these teenagers by rights shouldn't be there, and set the theme of Muv Luv - a war so desperate that boys and girls who shouldn't be there, but in another genre, are dying. In droves. Reading the first two episodes alone would tell you that on the onset.
That to me is the good thing about these two episodes.
The bad thing is the animation, and pacing - again, nothing they can do though, about that, given how impatient audiences are - I mean, you already had people complaining about the first episode about the characters, and in the second episode, another set complaining that these characters are killed of too fast that we can't care for their deaths? Given the constraints of the medium, I'd say they'd are doing an adequate job, absent a god-tier scriptwriter.
The other is to drive home that Muv Luv is seriously dark stuff. Despair, suffering, and did I see a Madoka Magica shoutout this Episode?