

The battles scenes we were treated to were brief, but crisp and fast.

My only complaint about the mecha portion of this show was that there simply wasn't enough of it. My experience with mecha up to this point has mostly been with the Gundam series, though to be honest I have become rather tired with the formulaic beam spamming combat, deus ex machina doomsday machines, meaningless annoying rivalries, and inexplicable Houdini stunts. The main cast are a group of elite pilots sent by their respective governments to conduct tests on next generation TSFs at a United Nations base in Alaska. Humanity rallied back and managed to stem the invasion using Tactical Surface Fighters (TSF for short), humanoid mecha variations of real world fighter jets. Ugly alien monstrosities named ' BETA' have invaded earth, and large swaths of Eurasia have fallen. I was not disappointed on both counts, as should be apparent from the illustration above, but still.Īnyway, a brief summary. All I knew was that it involved mecha- to which I have no objection, with a cast of pretty girls (again, no objections, for obvious reasons). Despite knowing next to nothing about this show, I had high expectations for Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse.
