YMMV / Muv-Luv Alternative

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is the existence and identity of the Takeru we see in Final Extra really the same one as that of the one we stuck with in Unlimited and Alternative, or did the latter cease to exist after 00-Sumika dies? The members of the English-speaking fandom holds either the former or the latter position. In favor of the former: he slips into deja-vu in both FE and Altered Fable. In favor of the latter: one of the game's emphases is that a person's memories and experiences make up his identity; he describes his eventual fate in the Extra branch (that of gradually-merging with that branch's Takeru) as effectively ceasing to exist.
• Awesome Music: "Asu E No Houkou", performed by none other than JAM Project.
  • They come back with another banger in the form of "Akatsuki No Ute" for the second opening.
• Memetic Badass: Ikaruga is the pinnacle of YAMATO DAMASHII. He's "so Japanese that he's more Japanese than all of Japan and its lands and Shinto deities combined; people look at him and see the General of Generals, while BETA burst into flames just by being near him."
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The aforementioned YAMATO DAMASHII.
  • age's Asian Speekee Engrish in Alternative and other related works, along with the quote "English can eat shit. I repeat, English can eat shit." For obvious reasons, most of the Engrish was corrected in the official localization, though the latter quote remained intact.
  • The 33rd page of the 19th's chapter of the manga has an infamous replacement of part of its text, usually accompanied by a Threat Backfire-sort of reaction.
• One-Scene Wonder: For all his popularity, Ikaruga only appears during one very short scene that isn't even really about him.
• The Scrappy: Naoya Sagiri is not a popular character in the fandom, to say the least. The reasons for this largely revolve around his behavior during the coup arc and his behavior back in the world of Extra, where he comes across as extremely selfish.
• Spiritual Adaptation: Pacific Rim is the closest thing we could ever get to a screen adaptation of Alternative. The amount of similarities that they share is staggering, from the pilot outfit design to a plot point.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The track "Howling Spirit" tends to almost immediately receive comparisons to the "GunBuster March".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The first opening to the anime adaptation was not well received, not because the song was bad, but because a lot of people found it extremely unfitting to the spirit of Muv-Luv Alternative. The production committee seems to agree, as the second opening is sung by JAM Project and Minami Kuribayashi, to the hype of many fans.