Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25045079-20141009014812/@comment-11188061-20141015042853

Just type and search. There's an anime, but it will never do enough justice to compare to the original Visual Novel.

You can skip the original Muv Luv, start with Unlimited (to know the prologue), and then go into Alternative. Or you can just start Alternative straight away. The fact is, Alternative's storyline and epicness is completely out of the world compared to anything else in its series. It's like, you've built a wooden hut, and the following installment to your work hut is freaking Taj Mahal.

I personally don't think the latest Muv Luv anime Total Eclipse is good but if you want to get a quick feel of the universe you can just watch that. But I repeat - you won't really understand until you've played the Alternative.

It's similar to the RWBY universe where BETA are everywhere and humans much scarcer in numbers, and there's no such convenient powers as Aura but with mech fighters instead, and while the Grimm was truly beaten back the BETA are... well. No spoilers from me.