Holy shit that was brutal

Welcome to Muv-Luv Alternative, the real story begins now

Training arc? Piece of cake.

Survive a civil war and won? Rainbows and sunshine.

Travel to another universe to bring Alternative to life? No problem.

When Marimo gets chomped? Welcome to the spiral of horror and trauma that Muv-Luv is!

kinda bored by all those talk no jitsu and then suddenly holy shit.

I miss the opening 1 where takeru is reaching from the sky I love that

Oh dear.. if u cant handle i really really recommend u drop.. i actually almost got really depressed from this shit… i watched the novel… 💀
The only reason im calm watching this now is cuz i know whats gonne happen … im glad they didnt get a super emotional /hard soundtrack for this

She wet herself back then and it made takeru feel like omg she's the same as me and now she dead just like that we will miss her

Cant wait for more beta gore. Going to be a gory season with Akiba maid wars and chainsawman. Bruh how they gonna do me like that. Pep talk speech and then BAM, the ending. I feel BETRAYED. Cyberpunk edge runner levels of betrayal. Did her dirty like Rebecca.

Takeru's 1st deployment = PTSD.
PTSD: Am I A Joke? I'll show you some real PTSD. *Crunch*

I rewatched 20:57 on 0.5 speed. F*ck. She was smiling and... She was still alive! She was still struggling and moving her feet in her last moments before the 2nd crunch, OMG. I cant imagine what she felt in her last moments. It happened all too quick. She didnt even know what happened. Sudden intense pain, while simultaneously seeing pitch black darkness... the few seconds that seemed like an eternity, emptiness. It was over.

Johnny: "Here? For folks like us? Wrong anime city, wrong MC people." And just like that weebs all over the world felt a great disturbance as they unconsciously clutched their heads with both their hands.

Btw, the LN line they skipped Takeru's internal monologue after calling her the wrong name,
"She must be pissed, she's not even responding..." 🙈

I hope they keep the messed up interrogation scene next ep.

this ep felt more like original Luv, where gore was part of everyday life.

That's absolutely insane. Never thought they would trash her with a smile like that.

You know he could've just run and smacked that beta instead of screaming

Probably didn't even feel that. Literally cut her face off that would have made her feel...well...anything from her brain, just chomped to bits. Probably was looking at Takeru and then...nothing. Honestly, a death like that isn't so bad. So many deaths in this series and so many pilots that were like Takeru; no way to defend themselves and just waiting for the aliens to just strip their armor and kill them. You either fight them on an open field or die trying but get immobilized like that? Pretty much game over. The only thing that saved Takeru is that he stalled long enough to get the group reinforced and come to his aid.

My qeustion is how that Beta and Irene from the bibliophil anime had so good sneaking/teleporting ability that they could just show up behind "nothing personal, kid"

Omnomnomnom!

Dude that came out of nowhere why didn't she sense it walking and why would takeru just scream instead of shooting that beta

Chomp?

Her Death flag was just too tasty to ignore.

chomped

Worst type of beta…

YAAAS BETA GOOOORE! “ψ (｀∇´) ψ

Geez talk about a forced stimulant pop LMAO note to self never mess with Takeru when he has been forced stimmed xD

Likely not a good idea to use adrenalin rush
on people with high inborn adrenalin production.

He behaved not very smartly and maybe even a little bit stupidly...
This will be a very important lesson for him...
Noooooooo 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭💔 not the teacher, my favourite character 😭💔

Dude got cocky from his achievement, new powers and always thought to himself "he's the only one who can save the world." But, those stimulant and hypnosis boosted his ego exponentially, thus his stupid behavior but even without those he would probably get to that point either ways with those mindset until he learn some lesson. That ending scene was brutal just from the fact she smile alone without knowing her own death at that exact moment. Looking forward to his development in the future without him being cocky, not a hero, but a guy who just want to protect someone to obtain peace by taking off those monsters.

He thought he got the mc plot armor but he doesn't have it because I have it

Be quiet, you were a vegetable for most of the time xD

he got combat drugs, and wasnt train for it, that the main problem

That drug let it all out his emotions and because of that he wet himself and got marimo-chan get killed

Well, I won't say anything, because Marimo-chan is a lady, after all. T_T

TT^TT

The chain of depression starts now. Welcome to Muv-Luv.

And it won't stop coming
and it won't stop coming
and it won't stop coming
and it won't stop c(ry

o7

Hello darkness my old friend

MC went berserk, i wish he had real ammo.

there out right just killed a character i liked.. fuck man

What did I expect, first time in Total Eclipse they did this with one of the random characters that I form a liking towards and in Schwarzesmarken they did the same thing. I got lured into the false sense of happiness from S1 and Ep1 of S2 and I get immediately punched in the face cracking all my facial bones.

That's the Muv-Luv we know and love, tragedy and PTSD are the hallmarks of the franchise!

And if anything, don't worry, Marimo-chan understands your pain in the facial bones.

💀

Really loved this episode, when i saw the infamous chomp being teased for this week i was kinda worried on how they would condense the XM3 Trials, and while one or two little parts were cut, i honestly couldn't be more happy with the result.

Takeru's VA did an insane job at portraying his frustration and panic, the fighting scenes were awesome as usual, and i was literally at the edge of my sit the whole time...i've read the Visual Novel but the anime made it feel almost as if i was experiencing this moment for the first time again. I wonder if the anime will show how he got saved, maybe in a flashback in the next episode since it was cut, at the very least i know it will be mentioned.

Now...on to this version of one of the most iconic moments in Muv-Luv, THE CHOMP... i love how they gave this scene the time it needed, it wasn't rushed at all and the speech was just like in the visual novel as far as i could tell (if anything was cut in this part i honestly didn't notice), also liked that they did show imagery from "Atonement" (Marimo's past), as soon as Takeru turned around the scene itself was more faithful to the manga so it wasn't as shocking as it was in the Visual Novel, it didn't have that "ptsd.mp3" sound effect playing either.

With that said, i honestly don't feel like it interfered with how effective and surprising the scene itself was, so i hope the anime onlies got the feeling of how things can change rapidly from 0 to 100 in this series, not just with the chomp but with the trials as well.

Again loved this episode and i'll look forward to the next one!

LETS GO THE real show begin now !!!

New OS OP man hot damn

I have to be honest here... this is pretty much and by far the best episode of this entire Alternative adaptation, I really feel like I was playing the VN again... and then CHOMP happened... yup, it still hits like a truck no matter how many times I see it, and I think this anime did a great job in that scene.

I have to give props to all voice actors involved, the music was also on point and the sounds... Jesus, those crunches will haunt me for the foreseeable future.

It's such a shame that the rest of the Alternative anime is a freaking mess, imagine how hard this episode would have hit with proper pacing and development... which is why I strongly suggest everyone new to the series to play the VN, you guys are not going to be disappointed at all.

Also, this is the moment in which things are about to spiral out of control, so Takeru's real suffering arc is about to begin.

Wkwk nice face Takeru

8:40 Regardless of random chance, or coordinated attack by the Beta. This is bad as they are using non lethal training rounds. Hauling azz should have been a forgone conclusion.

15:54 OMG!!!! This is it.
20:58 CHOMP!!!!

RIP Marimo Jingūji.😔

Now, I have been well aware of the 'CHOMP,' when I read a lot of the series and saw the video from the game that actually showed it. As shocking as the scene was happening, was less graphic when compared to the original source.

Nevertheless, those that didn't know were probably caught off guard by what happened. But as a long time watcher of anime, my logic kicks in about certain things. For instance, my Situational Awareness was screaming at me going on, who the Phucc carries on a conversation with possible unknown BETA that can be about.

Even if I didn't know what was about to happen, my SA would still be screaming!!! While the game came out back in the early 2000's, would still be that same thing. That lack of judgement could have been prevented. Nonetheless, 'CHOMP" has become the thing of legends to this series.

But, they did one helluva job adapting this, from the score playing in the background, and then that White silence just before, and the Sound Efx during. Made the hairs stand on the back of my neck, and I knew what was gonna happen. They did a great job, but still Effing sad state of affairs and can only imagine the fallout in the next episode.

Aww maaaan that triggers me, meufragging BETA random remnant snacking on her nooo raaaagh

Oh noo not like this pls 😥😥😥

I forget this is MUV universes now im depress

Noooooooooooooooo Marimo-chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! T_T

Tasty Marimo-chan, I'm having fun reading all the anime-onlis reactions to CHOMP XD

Sheesh man...

Chomped

What a stupid mc he has the sword at the back of his mecha but he didn't use it... of all the muv luv series he is the stupid mc...