Line #17 Franchise/MuvLuv


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2	''Muv-Luv'' is a sprawling continuity involving multiple parallel worlds, giant robots and unstoppable aliens. It begins looking like an intentionally clichéd harem romance with ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra'' before dropping the protagonist, Shirogane Takeru, into the apocalyptic land of ''Unlimited'' and ''Alternative''. It started out as a spinoff of ''VisualNovel/RumblingHearts'', a dramatic {{visual novel}}[=/=]{{anime}} from âge, and has become the company's current major franchise. It also shares loose relations with their first game, ''VisualNovel/KimiGaItaKisetsu''.
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4	With the setting of ''Alternative'' encountering unexpected popularity, âge began putting out works which further flesh out that world, starting with ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'' (which got animated in Summer 2012), followed by the various sidestories collectively called ''Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles'', and the light novel ''Literature/{{Schwarzesmarken}}'', which finished serialization in 2014. In addition, there is a serial photonovel called ''Tactical Surface Fighter in Action (TSFIA)'', which contains short vignettes from the ''Alternative'' universe, and a chronological sequel of ''Unlimited'', called ''[[VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimitedTheDayAfter The Day After]]''. There is also the booklet series ''Exogularity'', containing side materials and more importantly, details of ''Alternative'' universe's future.
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6	!!Works in this series:
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8	* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvExtra''
9	* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimited''
10	* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvUnlimitedTheDayAfter''
11	** ''Muv-Luv Resonative'': [[/index]]the ''TDA'' series' GrandFinale, still in development.[[index]]
12	* ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative''
13	** ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative''
14	** ''Muv-Luv Alternative Chronicles'': [[/index]]various sidestories in VisualNovel format.[[index]]
15	** ''Muv-Luv Alternative: Operation Zero''
16	** ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'' (also contains the anime and visual novel adaptations)
17	* ''Muv-Luv Integrate''
18	* ''Literature/{{Schwarzesmarken}}''
19	* ''Muv-Luv Alternative: Strike Frontier''
20	* ''Tactical Surface Fighter in Action (TSFIA)''
21	[[/index]]
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23	Below are tropes pertaining to works in the franchise that have not yet had pages made for them or other things that do not fit neatly onto any existing pages.
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25	* AdjustableCensorship: The Platform/{{Steam}} releases of the trilogy censor the sexual content, but an optional "Director's Cut" DLC is available for purchase from Denpasoft.
26	* AntiAir: Laser-class BETA essentially have the role of artillery pieces. They're strictly line-of-sight weapons and are very vulnerable in close combat, but are so destructive they essentially ended the use of airpower by humanity: [=TSFs=], which have a low flight ceiling, are the only aircraft commonly in use anymore. The US and Soviet Union still maintain fleets of strategic bombers, but they're virtually irreplaceable and only see action if there aren't any Laser-class around.
27	* FunWithAcronyms: "BETA", for "'''B'''eings of '''E'''xtra'''t'''errestrial Origin Which Are '''A'''dversary to the Human Race".
28	* HarderThanHard: In the two turn-based strategy game spinoffs. What is more difficult than Hell Mode (which outright tells you that winning is impossible), you ask? [[spoiler:Why, '''''Real Mode''''', of course! And the second game's Real Mode is even '''harder''' than that of the first!]]
29	* HeroOfAnotherStory: There's the occasional stories about the main casts of ''Alternative'', ''The Euro Front'', ''The Day After'' and ''Total Eclipse''.
30	* HordeOfAlienLocusts: The BETA, which mine any and all available resources wherever they go, [[HumanResources including humans]]. Eventually {{justified}} in ''Alternative'' when it is discovered that [[spoiler:they're actually nonsentient deep-space mining drones created by [[AliensAreBastards an extraterrestrial civilization]], and don't have the capability to recognize humans as living beings]].
31	* HotterAndSexier: ''Strike Frontier'', a gacha game, has (unvoiced) H-scenes for SR girls, including pre-existing characters such as Yui (in her adult and younger versions), Yuuhi, and various others.
32	* AMechByAnyOtherName: Tactical Surface Fighters ([=TSFs=]) typically stand about three to four stories tall, and have a tactical role akin to attack helicopters on steroids: even though they can fly, they're treated mainly as close air support vehicles rather than high-flying aircraft, since their flight ceiling is relatively low even if [[AntiAir Laser-class BETA]] aren't around.
33	* LatexSpaceSuit: The series iconic Fortified Suits are both thin, shiny and very form-fittingly skin tight that would make any latex suit manufacturer green with envy. The main way they defend their wearer is thanks to them having non-Newtonian properties, hardening on impact. And in spite of how thin they are they still manage to be loaded with various other survival functions and utilities.
34	* NumberOfTheBeast: Two examples in sidestories.
35	** The number designation of the unit the main cast of the ''Unlimited[=/=]Alternative'' prequel/sidestory ''Schwarzesmarken'' belongs to: the 666th TSF Squadron.
36	** The standard military code for "impending G-Bomb deployment" is [=CODE666=], which is first seen at the aptly-named Operation Lucifer.
37	* SelfDeprecation: "Chicken Divers", which refer to pilots who have survived a second [[ItsRainingMen orbital drop]], is a GallowsHumor title they applied to themselves, as "cowards" (chickens) who ran away from death twice.
38	* StormingTheBeaches: Seen on multiple occasions from the defensive side. BETA can't fly or swim, but they can travel underwater for relatively short distances (e.g. narrow straits, yes, deep ocean, no), so human defenders get a lot of scenes [[YouShallNotPass trying to hold them with prepared and mobile defenses]]... and usually bloodily losing against their [[ZergRush sheer numbers]]. One notable exception is the {{offscreen\|MomentOfAwesome}} defense of the Suez Canal in ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative'', which succeeded and kept the BETA from getting into Africa (at the cost of eastern Japan falling because their American allies had to redeploy to Africa to hold the line).
39	* SuperNotDrowningSkills: BETA appear to be capable of holding their breath for several hours, enough to ford narrow seas and straits by walking across the seafloor: in the anime of ''VisualNovel/MuvLuvAlternative'', they're shown first crossing into Japan via the seafloor of the Korea Strait and the East China Sea, and then [[DungeonBypass coast-hopping their way around the secondary defensive line]] in the center of Honshu, while ''Literature/MuvLuvAlternativeTotalEclipse'' shows them attempting the same tactic through the Sea of Okhotsk to get around the Red Army's defensive lines on the Kamchatka Peninsula. However, they either can't hold their breath long enough to cross areas of open ocean, or the water pressure is too high. This is the main reason the Americas remain BETA-free: the only potential crossing point is the Bering Strait, and the United States is quite happy to use the NuclearOption against [[ItsRainingMen attempted orbital insertions]]. Though they've also somewhat inexplicably been kept out of Africa so far despite overrunning Europe decades ago.
40	* WeAreStrugglingTogether: A key theme and source of drama in the works set in the alternate universe. Even with the BugWar going on, various powers, and factions within those powers, are making plans to come out ahead in a hypothetical postwar period. Said plans involve such things like under-the-table deals, false flag operations, backstabbing "allies", and a TSF which is future-proofed against both [=PvE=] and [=PvP=]. WordOfGod has remarks on the [[TakeThat absurdity of the]] [[RealitySubtext situation]].

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