In a lot of ways, that’s the fairest way to do it. Now, a lot of times, I like to look at adapted material (where I know the original source) as its own thing, independent from and without drawing reference to the source material. To adapt media well, what you want to do is tell the same story in a way that makes sense and fits the new format like it was always meant to be in that format, and sometimes that means things have got to change. At least have the characters doing something while the information is being dumped. In a show, nobody (not even me) wants to sit through a class lecture. I like those exposition bits because I can sit down with them at my own pace and delve deeper into the world. The briefings and lessons that I eat up in a VN, absolutely love, would be slow and lame exposition dumps and would ruin the pacing in a show. It’s even voice acted and (in a sense) animated so I didn’t want the anime to just be the HD version of the game. I don’t need a shot for shot, scene for scene remake of Muv Luv Alternative.
Different types of media have different needs, and while missing the point of the original or losing what made it great might be the more common failure, in some ways adaptations that try to be excessively faithful are the more disappointing.
It seems strange to say this as an author, but when it comes to adaptations I actually favor ones that are at least a little pragmatic – Lord of the Rings (for all that I love the original books) being one good example. This is not a mark of intensity, mind you – there have been more hostile fandoms and worse receptions than either LotR or Alternative got – but it is a precise flavor of anger, where I got the feeling that there was a sector of fans of the original who desperately wanted the adaptation to be bad specifically because it would be more insulting if it were merely lackluster or mediocre, because they could discard and cut loose on something truly heinous but something that was just “not quite right” would be no less disturbing, harder to bury beneath fury, and was seemingly on the table. Specifically, the anime version of Muv Luv Alternative brought out a certain character in fans and purists that produced rage of a quality I’d not seen since Peter Jackson first put The Lord of the Rings to film. Now, I’m going to wax a bit long about the process of adaptation, so if that’s not what you’re in for, scroll on down to the “Review Proper” header and go from there, from which point I’ll mostly be on-topic.īefore I start running through the show in earnest, I have to say that right when the first episodes of the Alternative anime were coming out (or even right before they dropped, when we were getting teasers and character designs), I experienced a quaint feeling not unlike nostalgia for the response. I can speculate, and will try to do so where a logical guess can be made, but certain things just haven’t gotten to the screen. Second, since this is a review of Season 1 with Season 2 announced, it should be clear that this show doesn’t cover the entire running time of Muv Luv Alternative, so there’s a degree to which I can’t say how well it does justice to certain elements. It should still be more than enough to follow the story if you don’t already know it, but I will try to keep more to significant events. For one, I am going to be a little more sparse on the plot summary here than I usually am because I already went into great detail on Muv Luv Alternative earlier this month. So, a couple things to make clear right at the start. Technically, this is only season 1, which is something of a shame but the decision to do January as Muv Luv Month was made before the fact this show was getting a Season 2 was announced. Welcome to something of the “Main Feature” for the month I’ve spent reviewing Muv Luv properties – Muv Luv Alternative, Anime Version.
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