With new projects coming out, a re-release of the Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse series is on the way in Japan. Avex Pictures has scheduled a March 19th, 2021 debut for the twenty-four episode series where the new collection will be priced at 18,000 yen. The catch is that it’s all of the show on a single Blu-ray disc. No extras are being included at least.
With the series out last week, we now have a look at the main cover artwork for it and it uses the familiar key visual, which is unfortunate as we’d hoped they’d commission something new or use some lesser-known artwork.
The series originally aired throughout 2012 with a twenty-four-episode run and recap episode. Animated by Satelight, it was directed by Takayuki Inagaki and had character designs by Yumiko Hara.
Plot concept: In 1967, Mankind encountered the hostile alien BETA and the Space Race became a Space War. Despite every measure thrown against them, the BETA made their first deadly landings on Earth in 1973 and by 1998, half of Eurasia has fallen. While the rest of the world stages desperate defensive battles across a thousand fronts, a brutally savaged Japan barely manages to hang on, thanks to the support of the United States, the UN, and a new form of robot/jet hybrid known as the Tactical Surface Fighter. But even as pilots and engineers struggle to develop the newest generation of advanced weaponry, the vestiges of the Cold War threaten to cripple the efforts of the defenders, with the surviving nations fighting to prioritize their own survival. And at the eye of the gathering storm, the actions of 2nd Lieutenant Yuuya Bridges of the U.S. and First Lieutenant Yui Takamura, the sole survivor of a unit lost in the battle of Kyoto, may become the focus upon which the fate of all humanity depends.
[Source: Muv-Luv]
