List of Muv-Luv Alternative episodes
Muv-Luv Alternative (マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ, Mabu Ravu Orutaneitivu) is an anime adaptation based upon the visual novel of the same name.
| Muv-Luv Alternative | |
|---|---|
| Native name | |
| Japanese | マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ |
| Hepburn | Mabu-Ravu Orutaneitivu |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| No. of episodes | 12 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Fuji TV, TNC, Kansai TV, Tokai TV, UHB, BS Fuji |
| Original release | October 7, 2021 – present |
| Additional information | |
| Website | muv-luv-alternative-anime |
At the conclusion of an October 2019 live event, âge presented the on-screen title “Muv-Luv Alternative in Animation”, followed by a clip of new animation, seemingly indicating an anime adaptation of the original Muv-Luv Alternative visual novel.[1] It was later announced that the new anime would be a television series.[2] The series is animated by Yumeta Company and Graphinica, with production by Flagship Line, and is directed by Yukio Nishimoto, featuring Tatsuhiko Urahata handling the series' scripts, Takuya Tani designing the characters, and Evan Call composing the series' music.[3] It aired from October 7 to December 23, 2021 on Fuji TV's +Ultra programming block.[4][5] V.W.P performed the series' opening theme song "Rinne", while STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION performed the series' ending theme song "Tristar." Crunchyroll licensed the series outside of Asia.[6] Muse Communication licensed the series in South and Southeast Asia.[7]
At the end of the series' episode finale, a second season was announced, and is set to premiere in October 2022.[8]
Episode list
| No. | Title [9][10] | Directed by [9] | Written by [9] | Storyboarded by [9] | Original air date [11] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | "The State of the World" Transcription: "Sekai no Nichijō" (Japanese: 世界の日常) | Takushi Shikatani | Atsuo Ishino, Tatsuhiko Urahata | Ryūta Ono, Hiroyuki Taiga, Yukio Nishimoto | October 7, 2021[lower-alpha 1] | |
| In the year 1973, hostile alien lifeforms called the BETA land on Earth and begin an invasion of the planet. By the year 1998, almost the entire Eurasian continent has fallen, devastating the global population to around 2 billion humans, and the BETA begin invading Japan, overrunning almost half of the island nation. In order to fight back, humanity has developed the Tactical Surface Fighter, large mechas specifically designed to combat BETA, but they are still fighting a losing battle. TSF pilot Sayoko Komaki is transferred to a Japanese military base in Sadogashima, which is a critical strategic defense point. However, a massive BETA force attacks Sadogashima, and despite the best efforts of Sayoko and the base's defenders, the BETA eventually overwhelm the defenses and begin overrunning the area. Instead of staying behind to fight, Sayoko is ordered to escort refugee transports for evacuation. As she and the survivors of Sadoga Island leave the area, it is later revealed that Sadoga Island soon became the site of the 21st BETA hive. | ||||||
| 2 | "Recurring Worlds" Transcription: "Kurikaesu Sekai" (Japanese: 繰り返す世界) | Shigeru Fukase | Tatsuhiko Urahata | Yukio Nishimoto | October 14, 2021[lower-alpha 2] | |
| In 2001, Takeru Shirogane awakes from a seeming nightmare where humanity enacted the Alternative V plan, which involved the evacuation of several hundred thousand colonists to another planet while leaving the rest of humanity behind to stage a last stand against the BETA. However, he realizes it was no dream, and instead a time loop has returned him to two months before Alternative V's execution. With his memories of the previous timeline, Takeru meets with scientist Yuuko Kouzuki at Yokohama Base. Takeru explains to Yuuko that he was transported from his native parallel universe where the BETA never existed. He also explains he knows Alternative V was only implemented as a backup in case Alternative IV, which Yuuko is in charge of, could not be completed. Intrigued, Yuuko decides to work with Takeru, but has him join the 207th TSF training squadron as a cover. He once again meets the alternate version of his teachers and classmates, instructor Marimo Jinguuji and pilot cadets Chizuru Sakaki, Meiya Misturugi, Kei Ayamine, and Miki Tamase with Mikoto Yoroi being absent due to hospitalization. Hoping to change the future, Takeru resolves to become a full fledged TSF pilot to find a way to make Alternative IV succeed. | ||||||
| 3 | "Something to Protect" Transcription: "Mamoritai Mono" (Japanese: 守りたいもの) | Takahiro Tanaka | Tatsuhiko Urahata | Tōru Takahashi | October 21, 2021 | |
| The United Nations commences Operation Lucifer, a military operation that results in the successful capture a BETA hive located in Yokohama. A UN team heads deep into the hive and are shocked to discover preserved human brains. Meanwhile, Takeru continues with his training, and decides to go meet Kasumi Yashiro, Yuuko's lab assistant. Takeru then asks about the whereabouts of another friend of his from his original world, Sumika Kagami. Yuuko reminds him no record of Sumika exists, and also reveals Alternative IV involves the use of Kasumi, who can communicate with a preserved human brain kept in Yuuko's lab. However, Takeru is worried he won't be able to change the future, as events have gone exactly as they had in the previous timeline. Takeru also meets Mikoto and realizes it's November, remembering that BETA will land on the Japanese mainland on November 11. Thanks to Takeru's prior knowledge, Yuuko puts the defenders on alert status, allowing them to repel the BETA with much fewer casualties. Two days later, Takeru and his friends undergo the Comprehensive Combat Skill Evaluation test and manage to pass it, earning them the right to become TSF pilots. | ||||||
| 4 | "Comrades" Transcription: "Nakama" (Japanese: 仲間) | Toshiyuki Sone | Atsuo Ishino | Hisashi Saitō | October 28, 2021[lower-alpha 3] | |
| After a brief leave period, Takeru and his friends return to training, with Takeru acing the simulator training due to his past experience in the previous timeline and his video game skills he learned in his original universe. In order to help his friends improve faster, Takeru decides to share his control data with them. With Yuuko's influence, the squadron also receives their Fubuki training TSFs much quick than normal, though a Royal Guard Takemikizuchi is also sent the base on the Shogun's request for Meiya's use, though she refuses to pilot it. As training progresses, Takeru wonders why they can't modify TSF controls to be more streamlined like a videogame, with the ability to execute combo moves and cancel automatic inputs. Yuuko is intrigued by the suggestion and agrees to implement the changes, intending to use Takeru and his friends as test pilots. The next day, Kasumi gives Takeru a picture of a Game Guy portable gaming device, which confuses him since video games don't exist in the current timeline. He also learns that the UN Undersecretary will be visiting Yokohama ahead of schedule, and he warns Yuuko this means the orbital HSST will crash. Yuuko reluctantly agrees to help prevent the crash, and Takeru discovers the Yokohama base has been built on top of the remains of the captured Yokohama Hive. | ||||||
| 5 | "A New Power" Transcription: "Atarashii Chikara" (Japanese: 新しい力) | Tsutomu Murakami | Takaaki Suzuki | Hiroshi Shirai | November 4, 2021 | |
| With the Undersecretary due to arrive, Takeru notices Miki in a panic. It's revealed that the Undersecretary is Miki's father, Genjousai Tamase, and she had accidentally led him to believe that she is her squadron's flight commander and is afraid of him finding out she lied. Takeru decides to have Miki pose as the flight lead for the day while Genjousai is visiting. It's later revealed that Genjousai's HSST transport was originally shot down in the past timeline, so Takeru's influence successfully saved his life. For an upcoming mock battle, Takeru has Yuuko install her newly developed control OS into his team's TSFs, which prove to be vastly more maneuverable and responsive than TSFs running on the old OS. Impressed with the results, Yuuko decides to implement the new OS on all of the 207th's TSFs for further testing. After the mock battle, Takeru follows Kasumi into Yuuko's office, where he encounters a mysterious man who knows his name. | ||||||
| 6 | "Transfer Experiment" Transcription: "Tensō Jikken" (Japanese: 転送実験) | Won Chang hee | Atsuo Ishino | Kenji Setō | November 11, 2021 | |
| The man introduces himself has Sakon Yoroi, a Japanese intelligence agent and Mikoto's father. He warns Yuuko that a group within the Japanese government called the "Strategic Studies Group" has formed, which may pose a threat to Alternative IV. He also expresses curiosity at how Takeru can be alive and how orders that can seemingly tell the future have been issued, but Yuuko asks him to leave rather than answer any questions. Meanwhile Mikoto notices Kei talking with an unknown man. Takeru then begins experiencing strange dreams of being back in his old world, and Yuuko theorizes that his original world is trying to pull him back and he is theoretically able to return any time he wants if he desires it enough, making his existence in the current world unstable. Yuuko then organizes an experiment to temporarily send Takeru back to his original world so she can figure out how her alternate self was able to solve an equation that's preventing her from completing Alternative IV. Takeru successfully travels back to his original world and talks to the original Yuuko. The original Yuuko believes Takeru, as his existence proves her theory on alternate worlds, and she promises to give him the formulas he needs in three days. | ||||||
| 7 | "Promise" Transcription: "Yakusoku" (Japanese: 約束) | Seiya Takatori | Takaaki Suzuki | Yukio Nishimoto, Tōru Takahashi | November 18, 2021[lower-alpha 3] | |
| During his time in his original world, Takeru encounters Sumika and his memories of her return, reminding him how much he misses her. However, he resolves not to be tempted to stay in his original world until he can save the alternate one. Upon returning to the alternate world, Yuuko reveals that Kasumi is the result of Alternative III, which bred children with psychic potential in an effort to communicate with the BETA. As such, Kasumi has the ability to read thoughts, and acts as Takeru's anchor to the alternate world. Takeru then takes Kasumi outside to teach her there is more to life than her mission. The next day, Takeru gets into an argument with Meiya over the Japanese military forcibly evicting residents from a disaster zone, with Meiya believing the military shouldn't be acting against the people while Takeru points out the Japanese government doesn't have the resources to help everyone. Kei overhears the argument and runs away, prompting Takeru to follow her. He finds a mysterious letter that she drops, and he begins to think that she is a spy for the anti-Alternative faction just as Kei subdues him. Meanwhile, Japanese army officers dissatisfied with the government's actions begin to mobilize. | ||||||
| 8 | "The Capital in Chaos" Transcription: "Teito Dōran" (Japanese: 帝都動乱) | Michita Shiraishi | Tatsuhiko Urahata | Junji Nishimura | November 25, 2021[lower-alpha 4] | |
| The standoff between Takeru and Kei is interrupted when the base enters in alert status, as a rebel military faction led by Naoya Sagiri has staged a coup and seized the Japanese capital of Tokyo. Sagiri claims that he is acting in the best interests of the Japanese people by purging the corrupt government and seeking the Shogun's endorsement. Despite no civilians being killed in the uprising, many government officials have been assassinated, including the Prime Minister, who is also Chizuru's father. The interim Japanese reluctantly accepts offers of assistance from the UN and US military to retake Tokyo. Meanwhile, Takeru is concerned about Chizuru seeking revenge on Sagiri. Kei reveals that she is connected to Sagiri through her father, who was a general who was executed for disobeying orders to save civilians. The 207th then receives orders to deploy while fighting breaks out in Tokyo. Takeru private talks with Meiya, who is anxious about the fate of her sister, the Shogun. | ||||||
| 9 | "Battlefield" Transcription: "Senjō" (Japanese: 戦場) | Kōjin Ochi | Takaaki Suzuki | Ken Ōtsuka | December 2, 2021[lower-alpha 3] | |
| Takeru comes across a woman named Yuuhi Koubuin and is shocked at her resemblance to Meiya. Sakon then arrives and reveals Yuuhi is the Shogun. In order to end the fighting in Tokyo, she has slipped out of the city and had Sakon leak her location to the rebels so that they will leave the city to chase after her. The 207th then receives new orders to take Yuuhi to the Yokohama Base. Yuuhi confirms to Takeru that she is Meiya's twin sister, and asks he give her one of her dolls in her stead since she and Meiya must officially remain estranged. Meanwhile, the rebel forces begin to mobilize and pursue the 207th, with Takeru reluctant to go at full speed with Yuuhi riding in his cockpit, as she does not have a flightsuit to protect her from the G-force. As the rebel forces begin to close in, an American force led by Major Walken intervenes and helps hold off the rebels long enough for the 207th to make the final sprint to safety. However, Yuuhi falls unconscious from the G-force. | ||||||
| 10 | "Resolve" Transcription: "Kakugo" (Japanese: 覚悟) | Tōru Takahashi | Atsuo Ishino | Yukio Nishimoto | December 9, 2021[lower-alpha 5] | |
| With Yuuhi unconscious, Walken orders Takeru to administer sedatives to her so they can keep moving, but Takeru hesitates while Marimo and Tsukuyomi advise that since Yuuhi is fatigued from lack of sleep, sedatives may negatively impact her health and advise they stop to give her a chance to rest, leaving both sides at a standoff. Takeru is left uncertain of what to until Yuuhi regains consciousness and requests he administer to sedative to her in order to minimize casualties from the conflict. Meanwhile, Naoya sends another unit led by Sayoko to break a line in the UN's defenses, only to be intercepted by the Valkyries, an elite UN squadron. While both sides take casualties, the Valkyries eventually wipe out the rebel unit, leaving Sayoko as the sole survivor. However, the attack is only a diversion as Sagiri boldly airdrops himself and his forces behind UN lines, blocking the 207th's escape route. Sagiri offers a 60 minute ceasefire after which the UN must hand over Yuuhi to him. Takeru meanwhile is frustrated at his hesitation and wonders why he is still lacking the resolve to do what he thinks is right. | ||||||
| 11 | "Everyone's Thoughts" Transcription: "Sorezore no Omoi" (Japanese: それぞれの想い) | Kiyotaka Ōhata | Takaaki Suzuki | Kiyotaka Ōhata | December 16, 2021 | |
| While on patrol, Miki meets and befriends Irma, a Finnish pilot who has joined the American army in hopes of one day liberating her BETA-occupied homeland of Finland. However, this exchange leaves Miki wondering if her father helped start the coup in order to involve American forces. Takeru meets Yuuhi, who instructs him that he will face many more hard decisions in the future and he should not hesitate. When Takeru mentions how all the pilots of the 207th are connected to Japan's leadership in some way, Yuuhi has them all summoned together and gives them a reassuring speech on how she plans to reform and take a greater role in the government once the coup is stopped. Meiya volunteers to become Yuuhi's body double so she can negotiate with Sagiri in her place. Takeru, a disguised Meiya, and Tsukuyomi meet Sagiri, and Meiya's please to his sense of honor cause Sagiri to stand down. However, he warns Meiya that the troops who instigated the fighting in Tokyo were working for an American intelligence agency, meaning America orchestrated the escalation of the coup as a setup. At that moment, Irma, apparently brainwashed, attacks Sagiri's troops, causing the ceasefire to break down. | ||||||
| 12 | "Fate" Transcription: "Shukumei" (Japanese: 宿命) | Yukio Nishimoto, Takushi Shikatani | Tatsuhiko Urahata | Hiroyuki Taiga, Kenji Setō | December 23, 2021[lower-alpha 2] | |
| As fighting between both sides breaks out, Takeru attempts to flee with Meiya. Irma recovers from her brainwashing, but is killed by her teammate who then starts to fire on Takeru. Walken confronts the traitor, realizing he is a spy. The traitor attempts to flee but is cut down by Sagiri. Walken then confronts Sagiri, but due to the traitor sabotaging his TSF, Walken is quickly killed. Sagiri continues after Takeru, with Chiziru and Kei unable to stop him. Tsukuyomi then confronts Sagiri, pointing out that his rebellion has already exposed the government's corruption and will bring about the change he sought, so she will grant him a honorable death in battle. Sagiri, accepting that he will die regardless of the outcome, engages in one final duel with Tsukyomi and dies by her blade. With Sagiri's death, the rebel forces surrender and order is restored. Yuuhi promises to reform the government to prevent another uprising from happening again. The 207th mourn their lost loved ones and graduate from training, becoming full fledged TSF pilots. Meanwhile, Yuuko plots with Sakon as Alternative IV proceeds to its next stage. | ||||||
Notes
- This episode aired at 1:25 a.m. JST, 30 minutes after the original air time on Fuji TV.
- This episode aired at 1:15 a.m. JST, 20 minutes after the original air time on Fuji TV.
- This episode aired at 1:05 a.m. JST, 10 minutes after the original air time on Fuji TV.
- This episode aired at 1:00 a.m. JST, 5 minutes after the original air time on Fuji TV.
- This episode aired at 1:10 a.m. JST, 15 minutes after the original air time on Fuji TV.
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