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Originally Posted by Traece

It does a lot wrong, but I always thought of DBZ as intending to be a gratifying show to watch.

So Muv-Luv Alternative - Total Eclipse is drawing to a close on my end, and it can't end soon enough. Normally I do a great job of picking anime that I can enjoy watching, and for all my criticism I have to give I usually still find enjoyment in what I've seen.

Spoiler for Severe criticism within. A little bit of plot discussion.:

I think Muv-Luv is terrible. There are two enormous reasons why I think this.

The first reason is how cliche it is. I made a list in the cliche topic, and it's about half of what's actually there. In 25 episodes Muv-Luv has not only a beach episode, but a camping/hotspring episode. It literally feels like they collected as many cliches for its associated genre, and whatever else they could fit in. I mean that wholeheartedly. It's not like Hot Fuzz either, where its cliches are there to be exploited for comedy. They're serious, and they're seriously bad. I'm absolutely trying to ignore them all, and to try and embrace the good in this series, but it's like the plot took a nosedive into a tar [cliche] pit.

Secondly, where the hell did the plot go? The beginning of the series is so, so promising. I really liked the first two episodes and how they introduced the overall story. I liked that they were going for a Blue Gender sort of story mixed with a bit of FMP and such. I liked that it had gore, and that it was militaristic and that they had all these dark themes. Did I mention beaches and camping trips/hotsprings? Yeah... The planet is being invaded by seemingly non-intelligent lifeforms called BETA that, and I kid you not, EAT HUMANS. The first two episodes show the BETA actually EATING HUMANS. So how did we get to beaches and hotsprings? After the first two episodes the writers decided: "You know what? Nobody cares about alien invasions." The alien invasion angle is merely a footnote as to why the male MC (who is also the death of this series, as the female MC in the first two episodes is far more interesting) is a test pilot. That's it. I don't think I have anything left to say here. All I see here is waste. I wont spoil the last few episodes, but it gets infinitely worse. Also episode 20 is a synopsis episode, you know, just in case you missed what happened in the last 17 episodes of main story.

I've seen it mentioned that people want another season of this. Apparently a lot of people liked it.

My regret at this moment is that I have two episodes left.

To be fully honest I agree with you. The number of episodes worth seeing in that show number about 6. The two first ones, the ones set in Russia, and then the last two. And even then they are good and not great.