1. The usual "EVERYTHING IS HAPPENING TOO FAST"2. I hate when series kill characters before I can even remember their names.
3. MORE GIRLS THAN THE ORIGINAL MUV-LUV
4. The animation is off model almost constantly plus CGI TSFs and BETA. I miss my pseudo sprite animation.
5. The opening:
a) It's wuba wuba as fuck.
b) It's...just scenes from episode 1. I'm
guessing that episode 3 onward will have an actual OP right?
It's just really laughable the BETA end up feeling like total goofballs and not the ominous threat in MLU/MLA. I would play the VN for comparison but it's not in Engliiish and it doesn't have the greatest ratings on VNDB either though.
I will say the end of episode 2 with the tank class was pretty nice albeit the heavy censoring and Yui and dead person screaming way too corny-ly. "UWAAAAAAAAAAAAH om nom nom" The earlier scene with the soldier class was laughably bad. Laughably...
bad.Also when the girl who went "I SURVIVED 8 MINUTES"--
cut in half by a destroyer class. Yare yare
OH THAT'S RIGHT
WHAT THE FUCK WHY ARE LASER CLASS DROPPING TSFs WITH ONE LITTLE BURST OF LASER?
FIVE SECONDSFIVE SECONDS NOT A FUCKING LITTLE BURST IT'S SUPPOSE TO BE A FULL BEAM TOO
AND WHAT WAS WITH THAT "ANTI-LASER SMOKE" SHIT THAT DIDN'T EVEN WORK?? IT'S SO--ARGHHHHHHHI HAVE NEVER BEEN SO ANGRY BEFORE
The first two episodes are in 1998 mainly I think and take place three years before MLA. And since I read MLA I knew their defense against the BETA on Japan wasn't going to work (they didn't really show America fleeing, just...helping kind of). Of course then they come back with G-Bombs with the Americans but that's another story. Episode 2 ends with it jumping to 2001 but it's probably the beginning or middle of the year otherwise having MLA:TE and MLA going on at the same time seems...strange. I would love to see MLA animated so I could
secretly like it mock it. Or better yet have an MLA adaption by Ufotable for 50 episode about a Takeru bad ending and then second impact happens and the Angels and BETA team up while NERV and the UN work together and every episode is two hours long with movie budget and international political intrigue sliders sliders
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