History VisualNovel / MuvLuvExtra

''Extra'' is largely written as an OriginStory and thus contains a great deal of foreshadowing. We are introduced to Takeru, the girls he knows, [[AmbiguousGender Mikoto]] and Takeru's two teachers, Yuuko and Marimo. Since the story is written primarily to establish Takeru as your standard dense harem protagonist, it wildly embraces every harem cliche it can find so as to contrast more with the latter portions of the story. Hidden beneath the childhood friends and wacky hijinks are a surprising amount of little details that do not become relevant until far later in the story as a whole.

* BlandNameProduct: [[VideoGame/VirtualOn Valgern-On]], [[UsefulNotes/GameBoy Gameguy]], etc.

* {{Expy}}:
**Pay no mind to the fact that Meiya looks very similar to [[VisualNovel/RumblingHearts Mitsuki]] and Sumika looks similar to [[VisualNovel/RumblingHearts Haruka]] or that Sumika gets hit by a car in "Extra" in blatant reference to Haruka's accident in ''VisualNovel/RumblingHearts''. Don't worry, this is only played for laughs and Sumika gets better pretty much immediately. As you might have guessed, like Haruka and Mitsuki, Sumika and Meiya are the main heroines in this game. As a bonus, the song "Muv-Luv" is sung by Haruka's voice actress and is apparently, by "WordOfGod," a song about Sumika. To make up for it, the personalities between Meiya/Mitsuki and Sumika/Haruka are completely different.

* WeddingDeadline[=/=]SpeakNowOrForeverHoldYourPeace: The climax of [[spoiler: Meiya's route]] in ''Extra''.

* BleachedUnderpants: The all-ages versions of the trilogy censor the H-scenes. The 2012 PC re-release of the original trilogy is 18+ though, as it was intended to be a support release for newer Windows versions.

* LighterandSofter: Compared to ''VisualNovel/RumblingHearts'', of which it is a spin-off. Also happens to be by far the lightest and most comedic entry in the ''Muv-Luv'' franchise.

* WallOfText: Tsukuyomi gives one of these along with MotorMouth about the history of the Mitsurugi Financial Group/Zaibatsu when asked by Takeru what they are.

* RapunzelHair: Almost anyone with long hair will have ''really'' long hair. Bonus points to Tama for having hair that likely weights more than she does.

''Muv-Luv Extra'' is the first of the trilogy encompassing the Muv-Luv visual novels. It tells the story of an average high school student named Shirogane Takeru and his childhood friend Sumika. At the very beginning of the story, Takeru wakes up to find a ridiculously wealthy girl named Meiya sitting next to him in bed, at which point [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Sumika walks in to wake him up like always]]. [[{{Tsundere}} She doesn't]] [[ClingyJealousGirl take it well]]. The love triangle between these two then proceeds forward and completing both routes is required to unlock ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited'', though the official international release drops this requirement and makes both ''Extra'' and ''Unlimited'' playable from the outset. In addition to the main heroines, there are three other heroine routes and two bad ends focusing on the teacher character and Takeru's friend Mikoto.

''Muv-Luv Extra'' is the first of the trilogy encompassing the Muv-Luv visual novels. It tells the story of an average high school student named Shirogane Takeru and his childhood friend Sumika. At the very beginning of the story, Takeru wakes up to find a ridiculously wealthy girl named Meiya sitting next to him in bed, at which point [[PatientChildhoodLoveInterest Sumika walks in to wake him up like always]]. [[{{Tsundere}} She doesn't]] [[ClingyJealousGirl take it well]]. The love triangle between these two then proceeds forward and completing both is required to unlock ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited'', though the official international release drops this requirement and makes both ''Extra'' and ''Unlimited'' playable from the outset. In addition to the main heroines, there are three other heroine routes and two bad ends focusing on the teacher character and Takeru's friend Mikoto.

-->'''Sumika:''' Gaaaaah!!! Apologize to slugs!
-->'''Takeru:''' Gyahahahahaha!! do you even know what you're saying!?
-->'''Sumika:''' Shut uuup! [[VerbalBackspace Apologize to me too]]!!

* NotAMorningPerson: Ayamine and Takeru.

* UnwantedHarem

* MultipleEndings

* BlandNameProduct: [[VideoGame/VirtualOn Valgern-On]], [[{{Gameboy}} Gameguy]], etc.

* FanTranslation: ''Muv-Luv Extra'', ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'' were translated by Amaterasu Translations in 2010 and 2011.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Creator/MasayoKurata (Chizuru) and Yuko Nagashima (Ayamine) voicing allies who are rivals of some sort at the same time? Hmm...[[Anime/{{Scryed}} Where have I heard that before?]]

* ScheduleSlip: ''Extra'', ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative'' were supposed to be released together, but ''Alternative'' got delayed for three years due to various problems, thus the Japanese meme ''"Oruta mada~?"'' ("Is ''Alternative'' here yet~?").

On September 25th 2015, having gained domestic acclaim and a sizable international fanbase, âge, in collaboration with Degica (a Japan-based e-commerce company and video game publisher), officially launched a [[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/muvluv/muv-luv-a-pretty-sweet-visual-novel-series Kickstarter campaign]] to fund an ''official English localization'' of ''Extra'' and it's sequels ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited'' and ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative''. Within less than a day, âge achieved their funding goal of $US 250,000. The campaign concluded on November 4th, 2015, having exceeded the target amount by more than $US 1,000,000. The English version was released on Steam on July 15th 2016

* ChildhoodFriendRomance: Possible with Sumika, who appears to be the primary love interest. [[spoiler:Meiya also happens to have had a ChildhoodMarriagePromise with Takeru, but they haven't seen each other in about fifteen years.]]

See ''Franchise/MuvLuv'' for the other works in the series. The story is directly continued with ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited.''

* OriginsEpisode: Serves as one for the entire principal cast. Takeru, in particular, returns in ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited'' as an amalgamation of all the playthroughs you did in ''Extra''.

Pay no mind to the fact that Meiya looks very similar to [[VisualNovel/RumblingHearts Mitsuki]] and Sumika looks similar to [[VisualNovel/RumblingHearts Haruka]] or that Sumika gets hit by a car in "Extra" in blatant reference to Haruka's accident in ''VisualNovel/RumblingHearts''. Don't worry, this is only played for laughs and Sumika gets better pretty much immediately. As you might have guessed, like Haruka and Mitsuki, Sumika and Meiya are the main heroines in this game. As a bonus, the song "Muv-Luv" is sung by Haruka's voice actress and is apparently, by "WordOfGod," a song about Sumika. To make up for it, the personalities between Meiya/Mitsuki and Sumika/Haruka are completely different.

* {{Expy}}[=/=]CaptainErsatz:
** Takahashi Ichimonji, Meiya's limo driver, is basically [[InitialD Ryousuke]] [[TakehitoKoyasu Takahashi]] in personality and traits - stoic, always with a laptop, formulating a Theory of Maximum Street Velocity - with the face of [[InitialD Takumi Fujiwara]].
** Yuuko is a [[{{Rule63}} genderbent]] [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Shuu Shirakawa]].
** Pay no mind to the fact that Meiya looks very similar to [[VisualNovel/RumblingHearts Mitsuki]] and Sumika looks similar to [[VisualNovel/RumblingHearts Haruka]] or that Sumika gets hit by a car in "Extra" in blatant reference to Haruka's accident in ''VisualNovel/RumblingHearts''. Don't worry, this is only played for laughs and Sumika gets better pretty much immediately. As you might have guessed, like Haruka and Mitsuki, Sumika and Meiya are the main heroines in this game. As a bonus, the song "Muv-Luv" is sung by Haruka's voice actress and is apparently, by "WordOfGod," a song about Sumika. To make up for it, the personalities between Meiya/Mitsuki and Sumika/Haruka are completely different.