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>tosses gun to Iris instead of shooting him with it
>takes injured Iris to a hill at the edge of town instead of a hospital
Holy shit. Thank god this harem rom-com of a mecha show is over and not getting another season.
>>14087879
Best girl right here
>>14087879
If it makes you feel better, their actions lead to germany never reuniting and he becomes a terrorist seeking to destroy the world.
so anyone else has received the bag?
>>14091373
the medallion and wall scroll are really nice
/r/ing screenshots of Iris' glorious tits. I don't give a fuck about muh nipples.
>>14091376
>nips
>>14087879
Wew lad
>>14091057
So, he becomes a terrorist who wants to destroy the world because he is a fucking retad and did not take the injured cunt to the hospital? I didn't believe Muv-Luv was as retarded as everyone said but holy fucking shit
>>14091711
He doesn't become a terrorist. It's just a shitty meme.
>>14091718
Spiky red hair, green eyes, same VA.
Just a meme.
GDR UBER ALLES
>>14091741
DDR STRONK
>>14091739
Considering Europe gets gobbled up eventually there's plenty of time for him to lose his way
Probably after the ponytail girl dies
>>14087879
it was also retarded to charge at someone armed while cuffed too
>>14087879
It's completely nonsensical because it's a bad adaptation.
>>14092705
muh DRAMA
>>14092708
muh WATANABE
Seriously, he did the similar shit to KGNE to make it more dramatic.
>>14092710
Did you rike it?
>>14092721
That's like asking if Beatrix liked it when Theo took her life-virginity.
>>14092705
When it happens in the LN it's still stupid.
>>14092926
Yeah well, but Iris (and Gretel) are fatally wounded by a round specially designed to penetrate fortified suits
Meanwhile on the anime Gretel survives to 3 AK rounds and Iris dies to a fucking single .25
What is the lesson here? The party protects
>>14091373
>666th patch
F U C K. Every time I saw it in the OP, the more I wanted it. It may look edgy but it's cool to me.
>>14093105
Being Best Girl is the real protection. Too bad that shitty haircut turned her into worst girl as a result.
>>14093388
>imfuckingplying
behead those who insult shorthair
>>14093388
It's just a temporary setback
>>14093392
Long hair a best
FITE ME
>>14093392
I like shorthair but not that shitty shaved cut they gave her. She was PERFECT with her long hair. Figma fucking when?
>>14093392
>>14093395
Ladies please, they can both be decent on the correct person.
>>14093395
>>14093403
All Gretels are equally perfect.
You cannot ruin Gretel, you can only make her more BEST.
>>14093406
Except when you give her that shitty boy cut. Regular Gretel a perfectest.
>>14093415
I'LL KILL YOU
>>14093417
EAT MY ASS FUCCBOI YOU KNOW I'M RIGHT.
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>>14093392
>>14093417
short hair a shit. i repeat, SHORT HAIR A SHIT!
look at it, this fucking short hair IS A FUCKING SHIT!
GRETELFAGS CIVIL WAR NOWI'm on the side of the long hair
>>14093406
>>14093415
>>14093426
>>14093430
Glasses and ponytail master race
>>14093430
SHE LOOKS LIKE A FUCKING MAAAAAN. IF YOU LIKE SHORTHAIR GRETEL THEN YOU'RE A FUCKING F A G G O T.
In every time
In every place
The waifu wars remain the same
>>14093450
East and West weren't divided over political reasons, it was over hairstyles.
>>14093446
She is not a man you closet homo
>>14093462
Yeah yeah, keep trying to justify your taste, shiteater
>>14093466
Negro I love long hair Gretel but you don't dare to call her a man
>>14093458
But who supports who?
Someone would argue that short hair is tactically functional (doesn't get caught in anything), while the other would cite morale boosts (cute things are cute).
>>14093473
I'm on the side of the long hair
>>14091376
You can enter military bases if you flash them that.
>>14093470
Shorthair Gretel is her own entity, separate from true perfection.
>First Secretary of the Central Committee tier
Ponytail and Glasses
>Commissar tier
Normal Gretel
Ponytail and no glasses
>I am glad that you survived tier
Short hair Gretel
>>14091373
wat the fuck, they are already sending them out? I know beam is from tacoland but I have not received any info whatsoever of a shipping or something
>>14093403I want to see how many of you still waifu her when the VN is translated.
>>14093867
>that ass
Lordy.how much worse does she get beyond refusing to retreat when the airstrike is getting called in?
>>14093867
Is that a garage kit?
>>14094177
No that is most definitely not a garage kit.
>>14093867
It's not her fault she can kill Theo twice in the first part.
>>14094182
Actually it is
http://myfigurecollection.net/item/154771
I would have bought it if it wasn't resin. Too bad best girls never get figures.
ig-27を使ったのも隻影を読んだ後だとユルゲンのMig-21Pのカラーを模す事でユルゲンに
対する喪の表れと不滅の愛情を表現したかったのかと思えるから、例えマスターになっても
[I realized] after reading Shadow [of Bernhard that] the color of [Bea's] MiG-27 is the exact same as [Jurgen's] MiG-21P.
It's a manifestation of her undying love and mourning for Jurgen and is comparable to the Master [for Iris].
Looks like Jurgen really is the Char of Schwarzesmarken.
I just want to ask, do people actually read/watch Muv Luv because they think it's good, or is it just for the waifus and memes? I can understand people liking many things, but I have no fucking clue how you can legitimately enjoy Muv Luv. I'm not even joking, I actually want to know what people find good about it.
>>14094469
People like edgy war stories.
>>14094469
>read/watch
Which one are you talking about ?
The original trilogy ( At least Alternative if you're not into the Slice of life genre ) is very much enjoyable, the same way I enjoyed Starship Troopers, which it's heavily based on. I, on the contrary, don't see why you wouldn't be able to enjoy it as it is, a war life story in an alien invasion ( Except if you have way-too-high standards )
>>14091373
Yep, gonna have fun airshitting with these.
>>14094539
>Starship Troopers
I see this comparison a lot, and I don't like it.
The book Starship Troopers discusses the facets of a potential future's society, culture, and politics.
The movie Starship Troopers(at least the first one) is is a parody of military propaganda through the use of over-the-top action sequences and an intentionally dumb plot.
I have no idea how Muv Luv, any of them in any form, is either of those things.
>>14093867
She is just doing her job and ends up been one of the most moral persons. That says a lot about the rebels
>>14094746
>the rebels
>GOOD JOB KILLING YOUR SISTER THEO, THE RESISTANCE REALLY NEEDS MORE GUYS LIKE YOU, PEOPLE WHO KILL THEIR OWN FAMILY. IT WAS REALLY GREAT WHEN YOU SHOT YOUR SISTER IN THE FACE. I BET IT FELT REALLY GOOD PUTTING A BULLET IN YOUR FAMILY MEMBER'S BRAIN. YOU DESERVE A MEDAL FOR KILLING YOUR ONLY SURVIVING FAMILY.
>>14094781
OUR HEROES
does not matter, Europe got royally fucked in the ass one year later making everything pointless
>>14094469
What do you enjoy? Because if you like any Gundam then you have no right talking down on other people's taste you shit.
>>14094597
Observe.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSUwRmDz-P4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIGHCoVzqtk&nohtml5=FalseMostly because mecha killing hordes of mindless aliens
>>14094781
Suzy pls go
>>14094597
>The book Starship Troopers discusses the facets of a potential future's society, culture, and politics.
Actually, it's more of a political essay using a fictional warlike society's culture and politics as a framing device.
Which is exactly what Muv Luv Unlimited and Alternative is, as stated by the writer, and which anyone with half a brain who has read it can attest.
>>14094781
Suzy's expectations for Theo being willing to kill Lise is quite reasonable considering who her brother is implied to be.
>>14095074
oh fuggg :DDDD
>>14094597
>I have no idea how Muv Luv, any of them in any form, is either of those things.
Humans who rely on technology (power armor or mecha) fighting scary space bugs that rely on biological weaponry (admittedly in the novel, they had heat rays, but it's all biological in the movies) and sheer mass of numbers and who also live in hives.
So have you remembered to thank based Yuuko for the gift bag yet?
>>14094993
>implying he read the trilogy
He probably read the wiki at best.
>>14095358
> dat lux blush staring Yuuko's boobies
nice touch, anon.
>>14094556
>Airshi-
Oh, I forgot I wasn't on /k/ for a second.
I still thought the German dubbing PV of the VN was pretty well done.
Why is she so gorgeous, /m/?
Is it the sleek head pod?
The graceful legs?
That beautiful multifaceted eye cluster?
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>>14095550
RAPTOR A SHIT
make way for my fat waifu
>>14095561
Fishbed is love, Fishbed is life
>>14093105
Iris was shot with a .32 caliber pistol round in the lower abdomen with no exit wound. That's actually very survivable as far as gunshots go and she probably would have lived if they had just taken the dumb cunt to the hospital.
>>14095584
More like a .25
>>14095584
Maybe she just wanted to die as penance or something since she reached her goal in the end, also everyone was out revolutionizing so there probably wasn't any med care available.
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>>14095584
>has a fucking GIANT ROBOT
>can fly anywhere now that the Stasi are BTFO
>surely anye competent doctor is willing to treat them for their deeds
>LET'S WATCH THE SUNRISE AND LET ME DIE BLEEDING
>"EVERYTHING WILL BE OK NOW"
>Europe gets fucked one year later and all the germans probably had go to seek asylum with the britfags
I hope Iris had a set reserved on first row in hell and watch ho everything she did and believed went to shit
anyways, I'm listening to that Schwarzesmarken Partial OST one anon uploaded and fuck me, its god tier (save the horrid OP)
>>14095594
Theo pls stop tying to rationalize your fuck up
>>14095561
>RAPTOR A SHIT
Fucking fite me in groom lake and not in berlin, ossie, and see what happens.
>>14095602
OK NIGGA YOU ASKED FOR IT
>>14095599
Don't even get me started, that OP was so fucking generic.
I literally can't remember a single line.
>>14095588
>More like a .25
huh...could have sworn it was a P1001.
I guess I was just flabbergasted that Anett chose to toss Iris her gun instead of just shooting Axmann with it to notice.
>>14095599
>Europe gets fucked one year later and all the germans probably had go to seek asylum with the britfags
The DDR actually falls within a month or two of the epilogue, and the BATERS are in West Germany by the beginning of September.
>>14095613
I liked the extended version
https://d2.maxfile.ro/wjfckhgkoi.mp4
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>>14095616
so it wasn't even a year? jesus fuck, I hope Katia became BETA food then
>>14095615
I think It's a Colt 1908 vest pocket
>>14095640
It's in TSFiA 39, the one where the American A10s sacrifice themselves in a last stand to allow West German citizens time to evacuate.
>>14095640
>I hope Katia became BETA food then
Absolutely disgusting. Hasn't the poor girl been through enough already? Don't you think she doesn't deserve some happiness?
>>14095659
her actions directly ended in the fall of Germany and in result, at least half of Europe
her whole idealistic attitude made everything crumble, why would you not want her to fucking die?
>>14095665
Because she's cute.
>>14095671
>willing to sacrifice an entire continent for a qt
WEW LAD, you sure will be a fucking hero
>>14095659
>Hasn't the poor girl been through enough already?
Do you think that she had it worst that the other girls, really nigger?
>>14095665
this
>>14095671
Katiafags are insufferable
>>14095677
The greeks did it all the time.
>>14095679
Not as insufferable as Iris-fags.
>>14095682
>irisfags
Irrelevant as their waifu
>>14095682
Yeah well, the greeks had buttsex with each other all the time too
>>14095679
>Do you think that she had it worst that the other girls, really nigger?
>implying
Who Annette here?
yeah yeah, PSTD and THROWING A GUN but fuck it, I liked her and the fact she was the other melee specialist in the squad
>>14095677
I've seen worse justifications.
>>14095689
>Having her heart broken is worst that been killed and or all the shit they had before been on the 666th
ok
>>14095691
Annette is my second favourite girl
>>14095691
I thought she was the best too.
baka's are almost always the best.
>>14095704
best thing is she survived the massive kill ratio in the cast
>>14095708
and removing Stasi shits with Gretel
>>14095714
>when the 37mm kicks in
Farka ;_;
>>14095718
Gretel went full BLAM and shoot the 120mm
>>14095679
>Katiafags are insufferable
I'd say Beatrixfags are worse
>muh tragic heroine
She's a straight up villain who's even worse than Axmann in some respects. She doesn't deserve sympathy, only hate.
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>>14095724
man, they DID NOT fuck around at all
>>14095729
Secondary scum.
>>14095358
I haven't gotten mine yet ;_; Was it supposed to come in the mail?
>>14095731
They where pissed off as fuck (which is compressible)
>>14095732
>implying most of the people on /m/ aren't secondaries
>implying you aren't a secondary
>>14095358
>>14095737
I dunno is this only happened to me, but I doubt it. The thing is yes, I received my bag and I'm happy about it >>14091373 but I'm also concerned, as I NEVER received a freaking email or something telling me that those guys from Tokyo Otaku Mode had shipped it
Hell, they used EMS for it and according to the tracking number, it was sent on april 4th and got here yesterday, talk about fast.
Still, I can't even begin to imagine the concern if this happens too when they send the other stuff, mainly the Codex, which is the damn reason why I decided to drop some cash in the KS thing in first place
>>14095708
she survived with the cost of her dead team mate. bitch should have died by herself from the beginning.being Chaika's VA doesn't help the situation of liking her as a waifu, same goes to Yukarin as Beatrix's VA.
>>14095796
Beatrix made me hate Yukarin.
>>14095796
Annette rubs her deathflags off on her teammates.
This is why 3/4's of the 666th is dead at the end.
>>14095813
aww come on anon. hate the character, not the VA.
Yukarin was one of the best VA & if someone broadcast loli Beatrix (as in Bernhard im Schatten) with Yukarin voice 24/7 or even a year i might say 'fuck it, let me join Stasi'
>>14095900
I hate Beatrix. Young or old, Extra or Alternate, it's all the same. Her whole life was filled with spreading pain to as many people as she could. She deserves Theo's CIWS buried to the hilt in her gut.
While hating is kind of an exaggeration, I do hate how Beatrix has sullied Yukarin's voice to me so I'll always hear a little of her in every character Yukarin voices.
>>14095936
There's a word for this that starts with A and ends with M.
>>14095953
Antisemitism?
>>14095900
>>14095936
I agree. Beatrix is about as evil as you could get. Some people have difficulty with this because she was wrapped in a pretty package, but really, she puts others like even Axmann and Schmidt to shame with her depravity. There isn't one iota of good in her.
She is quite literally one of the most disgusting people I've seen in Muv-Luv. I could imagine her being an SS guard dumping babies into a furnace. Some people don't need to have a reason for evil, they just are.
Age giving her a prequel doesn't change anything. I would kill teenaged Beatrix the same way I'd kill adult Beatrix, just because I am a firm believer that evil such as hers is innate, not learned.
As has been pointed out many times, she's a hypocrite too, as she purposely sabotages Europe's survival just because she's driven by her ego and lust for power while stating she's doing it for "humanity".
If there is nobody more fitting for a gruesome and terrible end, it is Beatrix Brehme.
>>14095958
YOU WANT THICK?
I'LL GIVE YOU THICK
>>14095969
Autism you faggot.
>>14095813
Its not Yukarin's fault that Bea is like that.
Give her a break, that person's already borderline suicidal.
>>14096218
R...really? You mean Yukarin IRL? ;_;
>>14096219
>not knowing about Yukarin's depression
She's been like that for years now.
THROWING the gun remains hilariously silly, it would've had more impact if the gun had jammed when she tried to fire because QUALITY COMMIE WORKSMANSHIP. Shit Gretchen was bitching about the substandard equipment just before.
I still choose to believe Iris chose to die because she didn't actually want to carry the weight of how utterly fucked they all were. And then the dream of a free Germany collapsed not even a year later thanks to the BETA invaders having advanced far, far too deep.
>>14095074
It is implied she got her right eye scar from him.
>>14096229
Gretel over estimated the level of protection of the fortified suits
But the will of the party protected her
>>14096229
muh waifu!
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>>14096513
shut up bitch!
>>14096513
>>14096531
remove wessie
SM VN 2 can't come fast enough. Get it done so we can move on to Operation Zero, TDA finale, and Euro Front!
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>>14096533
no, remove Ossi
& FUCK OFF REDS!
>>14096554
>>14096533
>>14096531
>>14096513
They DO realize there's a Big Evil Terrifying Alien invasion going on, RIGHT?
Thats one thing I never liked about Muv-Luv.
>literally over half our planet is being overran by ayylmaos
>better spend what time, effort, man power and ammunition I have left fighting my fellow human over shit that doesn't even exist anymore! Hurrdurrdurrhurrdurrrrrrrrrrrrrtrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr esagRWGKHERAIUOHE; WEGSDFB ,snasdlvj bwsdKHVF 327IFTVSFG K/V53Q.7 L89S9ND0 ft4ylq4;uigq6ghnhzxifd pe4u
>>14096554
Fite me you wessie slut
>>14096571
Humans will always be human
>>14096571
I'm pretty sure this is something that would happen in real life too, unfortunately.
>>14096571
There isn't a crisis in history big enough for humanity to drop all it's doing to respond instead of playing politics like "Why don't we let the Reds deal with the aliens and we'll swoop in later to pick up the pieces and the coins?"
I doubt there ever will be one irregardless of whether humanity gets exterminated in the end or not.You have to consider that the invasion in MLA takes place over 30 years across dozens of different nations with their own political slights and goals. East Germany actually believed that it could solo the tide while the rest of Europe was packing up (same thing happened with the French earlier, they were preparing to pack up while the rest of them trundled off the Palaiologos, look who's laughing now) and when you drop a worldwide crisis into the middle of the Cold War, to have them all suddenly unite in the face of crisis is even more unrealistic. Grudging cooperation is the best you can expect and ML is mostly about that.
To be fair, no nation in ML-UL/A has ever taken up arms against another nation since the first scum-scuttler space rock lander hit Kashgar in late 1973, so I'd say they're doing pretty well. Coups are little speed bumps just like when groups of people kill each other over whose written rendition of the skyfather is better (Islamists do that well enough to each other in the ME, just look at the precariously-positioned melting pot of tribal fighters, villagers, freedom fighters, ethnic groups, and cells of different radical Islamic sects that is the current local coalition V.S. everyone's favorite retaliating punchbag, ISIS), so it's no biggie in the long haul.
>>14096587
>>14096590
>>14096649
We are talking about human extinction at the hands of a alien invader on this planet.
At no point have a alien invasion happend in our recorded human history and we as a species decide to fight eachother during a alien invasion where said aliens are here to kill us all (Every thing that lives on this planet).
Nothing at this scale has happend before. Even if we go back and look at history we will learn nothing since these are wars against other humans where one side have not been so strong and genocidal to the point that literally nothing human or life that exist on the planet is left alive and the land becomes dead sand.
>>14096649East Germany actually believed that it could solo the tideIt's not like they could have asked for other friendly socialist nations to help them? You know like Cuba? Or does it even exist in muv luv world?
>>14096471
Funny considering that the suits provides protection against battle rifles.
>>14096656
Throughout the 20 years of war, people honestly believed they could still win.
- Russia and China thought they could handle the BETA on their own and refused western help until Russia was almost completely overrun and China had to retreat to the coast.
- With the creation of TSFs, proper anti-BETA doctrines established, and the restructuring of the UN and cooperation of both the west and the soviets, it was thought that the BETA could be held at bay from invading Europe.
- Okay, Eurasia is overrun, but the bulk of humanity's manufacturing and research ability has been moved to Oceania and the Americas, which are pretty safe from the BETA. After all, technology has improved tremendously, and as humanity continues to advance a tactical and technological solution to the BETA is ever closer to being a reality.
Note that while the vast majority of humanity is committed to fighting against the BETA, at an individual level they still have their self-interest, their personal relationships, their history and their culture to deal with. The nations directly at the frontlines, the people that have already lost their homelands, and those that are relatively safe and hold manufacturing and research power (mainly the US and the CCCP towards the events of Alternative) all have different mindsets and concerns.
And, as the other guy mentioned, the fact is that no nation has waged war against another since the BETA arrived. Wishing for a billion humans to on top of that dissolve all cultural barriers and decades if not centuries of animosity is very unrealistic - hell, even within a single unified nation working towards the same goal you'll run into disagreements over whats the proper course of action.
>>14096656
And no nation has taken up arms against one another since 1974. It's not like an ongoing human-vs-human war while the BETA march on. Every human-vs-human incident post-SM has always been a group of discontents VS the in-charge. SM's is pretty much the largest incident there ever will be, even overshadowing the 12/5 Incident in scope.
You can't quash all dissension, there will always be a bunch of people who will disagree with your doctrine and bomb your HQ just because. Just within the Stasi, Ketchup Hairgel faction wants to use the Minsk divide to break off Soviet reliance and become a new force in the worldscape, thus ensuring that they have a say in ALL future matters at home and abroad (justified by future happenings such as the forcing of smaller nations into being bled dry at India in the 1990s) while Awoo Bitch faction wants to retain Soviet favor because they believe in sticking to Big Brother Commie and that the West will fuck them up. This is typical "my way is best way" and while it's easy to step back and say "can't one of you fuckers just give way" it's a lot harder to put it into action because just the road of a negotiation to a union is rife with potholes, to say nothing of fear of coming out under in the negotiations.
What's the alternative? Easy. Lop off the other group's heads and absorb their assorted resources for yourself. In fact, the environment in ML-UL/A lends itself further to this shit because when kekekes are less than a day's march from your capital and your "friends" have no intention of parley, you better believe that lopping off heads is a lot faster to deal with a festering boil than calling for negotiations or letting the other party end you first - or worse, dealing with a backstab while you're stuck dealing with the BETA up front. Imminent extinction is not exactly the most rational of moments for humans, a reactive "fight" response like internal dissent is more likely than a meetup to discuss terms of cooperation.
>>14096664
They actually did. Most of the nations did, apparently. Like what >>14096708 said, really, most nations believed in their own doctrine until they realized that the CPU ran on x10 funds and build speeds. It didn't help that every time something seemed to work the BETA would just unleash an even bigger horde at it. SM's Oder-Neisse Line is the shining example of that. It held for a year! It has to hold on, right? Nope, let's crank out 100+ corps of BETA hordes at it.
I believe that the Western-backed space development early on also meant that information about the BETA from the Lunar War was either not flowing or distrusted by the Reds as a form of fearmongering to let the West get boots on commie soil. IW doesn't state it explicitly, though, just a lot of >implying, so this is just conjecture as of now. China wanting to horde alien crack is definite, though, and I imagine that the Soviets must have at least entertained the thought as well. So there's a general tide of distrust stoked by Cold War embers that never really died out, plus opportunistic politics. Throw all these reasons plus the aforementioned stuff together into one huge pot, and you have a fairly reasonable foil as to why these RTS chumps (by any other universe's standards, really) continuously mistime their attacks, spam the wrong thing, don't synergize their research, never help def at allied HQ, and keep wanting to call for superweps on each other's bases.
On to Cuba. In TE, Belyayev, Sandek's scientist man, is reduced to a blabbering wreck when the psycho sisters system goes out of control and lets slip a line that he could have been sipping drinks on the tropical beaches in-between leisurely sessions of research, if he hadn't fucked up somewhere and ended up helping out at Evensk instead. Cuba should be somewhere out there; and South America getting somewhat taken in by Soviets diplomacy would also explain why the US has B-1B bomber flights clustered around the Mexico border.
>>14096656
You are putting too much hope on the human nature
>>14096684
Well she did survive after all
>>14095714
REMOVE STASI SHITS
>>14096664
And like a gas-high idiot I forgot to answer the crux of the question.
Most socialist nations in a position to help would have been those around Europe (all defeated by 1983), since the need for TSFs ensured a supply demand of machines to the European Front first before anywhere else. No doubt some of them could have pledged material, but it's really all the extent of which they can do, considering that they've never been in a total war situation, probably haven't even gotten a sizable enough unit of TSFs to be able to afford an expeditionary unit, and I doubt that they have any pilot cadres that they could have sent that could have contributed in the same manner expected of NVA pilots.
Also the whole Ketchup/Awoo shitflinging at the end of SM. Even fellow Red nations would be split on whether to send help and charge it to Awoo, and get trapped by by Ketchup when he wins, or decide to support Ketchup, and wake up to a sudden infestation of Soviet "allied dispatch troops" swarming all over your tropical house of parliament irregardless of whether Awoo won or not.
They'd just get laughed off if they send troops to help the NVA; "I'm sorry, but the masters of the house are currently having a tussle over ownership, and the house dog is not a valid responder to your service call".
Besides, considering that Australia has the world by its balls just by being really good at speed farming, if I were any of the untouched socialist nations, I'd just stick to farming. Like, for really tasty NON-SYNTHETIC potatoes. ML-UL/A people have raped and murdered in refugee camps for less.
>>14096664
>East Germany actually believed that it could solo the tide
haha oh wow
>>14096571
They talk about it in TDA, with Ikaruga preparing for the post beta world, etc.
>>14096762
>I believe that the Western-backed space development early on also meant that information about the BETA from the Lunar War was either not flowing or distrusted by the Reds as a form of fearmongering to let the West get boots on commie soil.
This is highly interesting, since this means that soviet intelligence agencies suffers from a very big quality drop, spies getting caught on all levels and soviets dismissing their own ability to spy on the BETA with space probes.
>>14096800
>Soviet "allied dispatch troops" swarming
>Soviets
>Having the ability to invade Cuba in 1983
If they can do that then they have the ability to punish any non-soviet loving East German.
Considering that we have no idea what Cuba would be post 1967 or 1973 or the possibility that the authors behind Schwarzesmarken and Muv luv does not know about the Soviet-Cuban relationship or about the Cuban interventions in Africa and thus were unable to give them a role in the Muv Luv world.
They may as well be non existent.
>>14096656
It's idealism at its finest.
Humans don't see themselves as a common species sharing a common home, they will factionalize and subdivide and propagate an us/them mentality such that the arrival of cosmic rape aliens is just another group to add to the "them" pile.
You can't unite humanity until the day comes that you can get people to commonly believe themselves to be straight up people of Earth. Earthers. Earthnoids. Whatever demonym you choose, until the world view of the human race expands to the scale that they see themselves like this, you will never see unification. No outside threat will bring about this change, it's a problem that the species has to address on its own terms.
It's not unique to Muv Luv's case, it's honestly the cynical, perhaps even realist view of how we'd react to an alien invasion. Humans are humans, we're entrenched deeply in "us vs them."
>>14096954
In most of the previous Muv-Luvs, I always thought human infighting was stupid, but I think it was justified in Schwarzesmarken. Beatrix and the stasi were shitstains that needed to wiped out. The world was a better place with all of them dead.
>>14096961
It's debatable, because the ideal of unification is contrasted with Germany getting shitstomped. It makes you wonder if Beatrix had a point, that the only way to defeat the BETA was to fundamentally alter human nature and essentially become a living machine dedicated to countering the BETA.
>>14096954
I wouldn't call it realist. Anytime an outside invader attacks, alien or otherwise, people normally band together to get rid of them, and then return to the previous conflict. There are plenty of examples through out history. The enemy of my enemy is my friend exists for s reason.
Human factiinalism regarding Earth won't disappear till people grow beyond Earth and colonize other planets. Then you'll get Earthers, not before.
>>14096966
I think her philosophy was just about spreading as much misery as possible. Turning humans into machines was just a way to achieve that first point.
>>14096966
>Beatrix had a point
Nah, she's just evil.
>>14096968
Nah, once you colonize planets you just shift the factionalism to an interplanetary scale and end up with anti-Ender sentiment.
>>14096985
That's the point. People are still divided, just on a different scale.
>>14096988
That doesn't solve the inherent problem, though.
Beatrix being irrationally evil is a pretty weird meme.
Maybe I'm just not used to anime fandoms.
>>14096980
>>14096966
no, Beatrix did have a point and saw the big picture, but her plan was also doomed to fail
>LET'S SEND ALL THE EAST GERMANS TO THE MEATGRINDER TO GAIN AROUND 6 MONTHS OF TIME BEFORE THE BETA CHOMP US
>>14097040
I think what really led to their failure was the scale. Germany itself isn't enough to hold back the BETA, you'd have to unify the entire world under the ideal of cooperation or absolute devotion to the war effort to make progress.
Though, even that might not be enough. It took an outside perspective arguably as alien as the BETA itself, as seen in Alternative. Human nature is a very interesting thing, shaped by so many factors.
>>14096991
I never said it did. My point was that people are always going to be divided, and the only way to unite Earth is to have planetary colonialism.
>>14097068
Well the ideal should be removing the inherent factionalist drive, not changing the scale.
Just imagine the day we do start colonizing other planets, only for factionalism to kick in and lead us to interplanetary war. It's all fun and games until someone parks a large celestial object on Sydney in the name of Martian supremacy.
>>14097068
You sound like this kid years ago in college i heard arguing that orbital colonies were necessary because you don't put all your eggs in one basket.
Orbital colonies are as stupid as the idea that mankind, which has a strong tribal mindset, will somehow unify if you expand the scope if their living habitat. Interplanetary colonization, which squarely belongs in the realm of fiction but let us entertain it for a moment, will just create more differences, not unity.
>>14097012
We will have to live with this until the LN is translated, or at best the VN if Kouki did not destroy her here too.
Is there a muv-luv where the main characters aren't high schooler tier?
>>14097087
Deal is, the anime version starts of way more evil, but the LN version ends more evil. LN Beatrix actually tortured Iris, used residential areas as cover, and was willing to shoot up civilians. Due to better characterization, the LN version still comes off as far more sympatheticeven without BiS or Requiem.
>>14097086
So I sound like someone saying planetary colonialism will unite people for saying it won't? Kay. I'd also point out that no cares about village, town, city, County or province issues anymore. Because spiritual and national ones take precedence. By the same token, the only thing that'll unit countries is planetary factiinalism. It might never happen, but we'll never unite on a planetary level then. I'm not discounting it will just so I can call others college kids in a condescending way though.
>>14096951
South America and Africa are just underdeveloped in the settings as of now. It remains to be seen as to what they have in store.
There's still plenty of space left for the series to throw more references in the form of BETA-fied versions of real-life events.
>>14096923
How would they put space probes into lunar orbit before the UN stepped in with SHADOW, when it was all NATO and US work back then? Regular recon satellites don't see that far and since the Soviets put focus on Earth-orbit technology while the West jumped to lunar development before the entire debacle started, the Soviet lunar developments may very well have not happened.
Even US intel initially thought that the BETA were a Soviet bioweapon. Nope, just your friendly next-door BETA neighbors.
China, their closest ally, was all for monopolization. The fact that the Soviets didn't ask the US for help well until after the invasion of the European landmass doesn't really say anything about their spy network, but it does say something about their possible intentions. In typical party politics fashion the leadership could very well have ignored spy reports in favor of getting a cut of of the space crack after China was done. It's not like the Soviets were involved in the Kashgar battles from the get-go so there was plenty of time for them to respond after China screwed up and called them in for aid - yet from 1974 to 1978 when NATO and Warsaw Pact joined up against the Minsk Hive, they never once allowed intervention from the West.
All the spy networks in the world won't do good in the face of self-serving politics at the height of the "capitalist vs communist" era.
>>14097095
Muv Luv deals with young soldiers, so as they're all tweeners at best, the answer is nope. Though I guess Yuuko counts as a main character in the main trilogy.
Sidestories tend to be on the same boat, but there are some like Chicken Divers.
>>14095602
holy shit, literally
>*teleports behind you*"
>"Psshhhh nothin personal kid"
>BOOM
found what seems to be a preview of the upcoming Theo's MiG-23 and holy shit, it looks bad with that (lack of) color
>>14097119
>How would they put space probes into lunar orbit before the UN stepped in with SHADOW, when it was all NATO and US work back then?
Because the SHADOW project happend post 1973.
They had 6 years to deploy a recon probe in lunar orbit to monitor BETA activity.
>Regular recon satellites don't see that far
Depends on where you put them.
Considering that the space program got signicantly advance in the 50's. The Viking 1 from 1975 in 1958 and we got a lunar base, you are assuming too much. It would be rather silly that camera technology is very bad in the 60's in muv luv.
>Soviets put focus on Earth-orbit technology while the West jumped to lunar development before the entire debacle
Unmanned techonology and space probes. Like they did in real life.
>Even US intel initially thought that the BETA were a Soviet bioweapon
Considering how it's implied that the moon is mostly western and how the soviets does not visit the moon often etc, it is a pretty retarded idea and does not seem to be something the CIA would think of but the author unless the soviets are on the moon too.Which they are if we trust the wiki
And the part about spies and etc? Information about amount of space rockets being launched, how many space ships are going to the moon, Spies inside the military sending back parts of reports about the BETA, how they look, what they are made of, numbers, tactics, effectivness of weapons they have on the moon and reports about Material strenght from Destroyer-class etc.
Intercepting lunar messages, Having pictures from their own probes showing BETA hordes moving around the moon...
All of these would have been extremely valuable to the military, scientists, design bureau and the politicians on how and what they should do about the BETA threat.
It would have been understandable that the Soviets refused help if they actually did something that would allow them a possibility to solo the BETA back to Kashgar.
But they did not.
>>14096954
>until the world view of the human race expands to the scale that they see themselves like this, you will never see unification
Even then it wouldn't work. Historically, whenever a tribe grows large enough internal dissention will split it again. Territories want secession, religions fracture into splinter cults etc etc. It's in human nature, people will always find some reason to draw a line in the sand and say 'that's them and this is us'.
>>14096968
Anytime an outside invader attacks, alien or otherwise, people normally band together to get rid of them, and then return to the previous conflict
But they don't. The might work together uneasily at most, but at any scale larger than, I don't know, a town community, people will simultaneously scheme to their advantage while this is going on. Every party involved is out for themselves, and working together is merely a temporary means to achieve this.
Maybe it's just the cynic in me, but I find the geopolitical situation in Muv Luv far more believable than any humanity fuck yeah state where everyone drops their differences and rushes to each other's aid.
>>14097102
>I'd also point out that no cares about village, town, city, County or province issues anymore
Yes, they do. Never put people above being petty or thinking their immediate patch of dirt is better than the next patch over by virtue of existing.
>>14097095
Well no, because most anyone older than that is either BETA chow or only got there by being off the front lines.
I just want to see a short prequel with prototype NACF X-1's fighting on the moon.
The best thing about the X-1 is that mecha like that suddenly become viable to build IRL if only you do it on the moon. I hope during my lifetime it becomes feasible to haul that much hardware up to the moon as a civvie and play around on the uninhabited regions in my big dumb mech brought from Earth in pieces.
>>14096966
>It makes you wonder if Beatrix had a point
I've thought about this before, but in the end, I think Beato was proven wrong, even if she didn't live to see it. In Alternative, at least, humanity's salvation comes from the Bratty Savior and his friends--because he finally decided to face his problems, stop running away, and stand up to defend the people he loved, he was able to destroy the Original Hive and give humanity "breathing room," at least--and judging by the successful hive operations later on, perhaps true victory. In short, it was love and freedom that defeated the BETA in altverse; exactly the ideals that Beato condemned.
>>14098079
The freedom part makes sense, but the love part doesn't. Beatrix is all about love, particularly of Jurgen. In fact, you could argue that she so fanatically clings to her ideals because it's literally all she has left of him.
>>14098079
Everybody was wrong. Katia wasn't pragmatic enough, Iris is a nationalist who hates the UN and the West, and Beatrix cast aside her heart in favor of ruthlessness.
>>14098079
>>14098106
>>14098115
>sociopath
>gets off on executing and torture
>treats everyone like shit, including people who are loyal to her
>has people killed off for the lulz, even if it hurts her
>even enjoys hearing about the deaths of other Werewolves
>anything but ego driven and selfish
She's full of shit and should've been taken out back and shot in the head when she was a child. She doesn't have morals or ideals. She's just as bad as Axmann if not worse. At least Axmann treated his blonde subordinate well.
>>14098106
I haven't read the VN, I was going off on Schwarzesmarken. IIRC didn't Beato say something like all human relationships--the bonds of love between parents and children, husbands and wives, etc.--should be sundered so humanity could dedicate itself entirely to fighting the BETA? That's why she supported the Stasi and the way its informants made even family members unable to trust each other. But as we saw, it was Takeru's trust and faith in the people he loved, and their trust and faith in him, that led humanity to victory. That could have never happened if everyone was worried about spies in their midst and stuff.
>>14098133
the Schwarzesmarken *anime,* I mean, I haven't read the Schwarzesmarken VN yet. My bad.
>>14098133
It's complicated because Beatrix lies and manipulates a lot so you never know when she's being truthful. You do get some nuggets, like her conversations with Jurgen on what she actually thinks on things:
>"For me, East Germany is a cage even bigger than the Brehme family. I'm not going to be at the mercy of my father nor will I become a tool for East Germany. If my father and the state want to treat me like a tool, then I'll make use of them as well."
She actually hates the stasi. Axmann father forced her against her will into joining the MfS, then forced her to participate in Jurgen's murder.
She still became a totalitarian, but desperate times breed desperate people.
>>14098164
>Axmann father
Axmann and her father
>>14098164
Hm, that's interesting. The anime didn't mention Beato's relationship with Jurgen as much, so she seemed like much more of a devoted servant of the Stasi than in the VN. I really ought to check it out, it seems; going from what you're saying Beato's still a villain there, but a more complex/internally conflicted one than in the anime.
>>14098177
The anime is a shit adaptation. You skim parts of the first fricken chapter and see how drastically different things are (just look at the Gretel scenes, for instance):
https://alternativeprojects.wordpress.com/schwarzesmarken-ln-translation-page/
It doesn't do shit for Beatrix, Lise, or really anyone. Jurgen and Beatrix are literally the true love pairing of Schwarzesmarken. You know, just like Takeru/Sumika, Yuuya/Cryska, or Hibiki/Yuuzu. Jurgen was willing to topple the DDR to get Beatrix, just like Beatrix was willing to destroy herself in his memory. Jurgen was to be her knight in shining armor and whisk her away from her abusive father, the stasi, and Axmann. Unfortunately, he couldn't save her in the name of true love despite sacrificing everything.
They also oddly cut out her charisma. In the LNs, her men were willing to die for her and each other. Because the antagonist are so laughably evil that they treat even each other badly, it makes a couple of major plot points and character motivations nonsensical, like why Lise would stay loyal to the stasi (in the LN, she actually loved Beatrix like a sister).
>>14098133
>But as we saw, it was Takeru's trust and faith in the people he loved, and their trust and faith in him, that led humanity to victory. That could have never happened if everyone was worried about spies in their midst and stuff.
More broadly speaking, it was Sumika's obsessive, desperate love for Takeru that gave the world a chance, as that's what caused the loop that over N iterations eventually gave the world a chance.
And even then, it was all because of Yuuko's genius and throwing away her feelings in favor of hard logic that enabled the miracle. She's never portrayed as being wrong in the heartless choices she makes, in the grand scheme. And in the end, Ouka turns out the way it does by everyone deceiving him, because the girls were all stronger than he was and didn't hesitate to do what had to be done.
>14098220
Hm, yeah, that is a lot of character development we never got in the anime.
>>14098233
>And in the end, Ouka turns out the way it does by everyone deceiving him, because the girls were all stronger than he was and didn't hesitate to do what had to be done.
That is true. I would say, though, that even though the girls deceived him, it was fundamentally a deception of self-sacrifice, and one borne out of love. They knew he cared about them too much to support plans in which they'd have to sacrifice themselves. Lying to someone because you have to do what's best for them, even if they're too bratty and obstinate to realize it, is different from lying to them in order to eventually betray them at the state's behest, which was what Beato and the Stasi did.
>>14098248
>is different from lying to them in order to eventually betray them at the state's behest, which was what Beato and the Stasi did.
Who did Beatrix betray?
>>14097668
>SHADOW project
If the passing of time ever guaranteed anything, it would only be itself. But let us assume that they did get permission from global authorities to set up a lunar probe in those 6 years. This goes to my second point.
>satellites
I would rather assume camera technology has not improved significantly enough that mere probes can see all the way from Earth, considering that the SHADOW system itself uses a network of them around lunar orbit to monitor BETA Hive launch activity. It doesn't match up if the LEO-focused Soviets end up developing better and longer-ranging probes than the primary backers of everything on the moon and beyond, including the Mars excursions prior to finding the BETA.
>US intel
I'm just reading directly from Integral Works. The moon is, I quote exactly, "primarily western-backed". The wiki itself, I see, also has a reference link that checks out with what I'm seeing in the book.
I would never discount the spy network but as I mentioned above in >>14097119, my main vector is that when it came to the question of why the Reds refused help until it was too late, is that I do not have the best impression of their leadership in making the most pragmatic decisions during the early days of the invasion.
>>14098381
Maybe not Beatrix herself, that was a poor turn of phrase on my part. But the ideals of the Stasi she supported almost inevitably lead to personal betrayals among people.
>>14098421
I don't think Beatrix's ideals were that of the stasi itself. She was more or less using the stasi, not the other way around.
>>14098450
Yeah, but her ideal totalitarian state would have been as invidious or even more so than the Stasi, wouldn't it have been? At least judging by what she said about the importance of "total devotion" to the struggle against the BETA and so on.
>>14098450
Yeah, there were some passages of her final speech to the Werewolves while they were suiting up in their hangar where she mentioned that the UN was the greatest hope for humanity or something.
This is contrasted against Iris, who's way more German-centic, to the point where she calls the UN and the West her enemies when Katia brings them up. Not a bad stance to take (they were secretly backing Beatrix after all), but nationalism usually isn't portrayed as a good thing in ML.
>>14098459
The whole we must "create a state where inequality is enforced" is anime original. What is canonical is her perfect police state, but even then, it was just a means, not an ends. Beatrix was just playing a delaying game with the BETA anyways, and at the end of the day, the BETA are what matters to her. If she has to fuck over millions to put the rest in a better position to attack the BETA, than so be it. This was probably reinforced by her hatred of the DDR and her abusive father, Abel, (who was also a state official, go figure) that had been fucking her over since she was a baby and took away the only thing that made her happy, Jurgen (childhood friend romance and all, they even dated for over FIVE years). So setting off the powder keg that was the DDR was probably as much about a belief that this would help humanity in the long run as getting revenge on East Germany for destroying her life. You also need understand that Beatrix had suicidal tendencies from an early age (before she met Jurgen and Iris) so crashing everything (herself included) into the BETA was even more appealing.
>>14098459
Funny thing is is that she's established in the prequel as hatin totalitarianism even if she sees it as a necessity.
>>14098514
>The whole we must "create a state where inequality is enforced" is anime original.
Ahh. Yeah, like I said, I gotta read the original, it seemed like the anime made her a lot more evil/a lot more single-dimensionally villainous.
>>14098540
The whole cast is different but that tends to happen with most adaptations.
>>14098514
I think the turn of phrase the anime I'd recorded as using is more a mangling of what the intent was: to unify mankind like a machine, in an ironic way becoming like the BETA itself to combat them.
Honestly I had the impression Beatrix was largely acting out the motions of being a sociopath rather than truly being one.
>>14098417
A super power dont need permission to send out a probe to the fucking moon.
This is assuming they have nothing already orbiting the moon.
Unless the whole western world and the UN have the power stop one of the premium members in the UN from doing such a thing.
>all the way from Earth
Why would you place a probe, which you want to monitor BETA activity on the moon around the Earth's orbit?
That is the most inefficent way to do it. I am sorry if I manged to imply such thing but that is not my intention.
>>14098540
The LN version is both better and worse. It's kinda weird. The anime version starts off doing a bunch of heinous shit that the LN version never did, but the LN version does shit later on like using heavily populated areas as cover to prevent Heim from bombing or artillery striking her men when she's outgunned or shooting 36mm shells at crowds of protesters to discourage them from attacking her base/the Berlin Wall.
Despite this, LN Beatrix is still more sympathetic (along with the Werewolves) just because she admits to feeling guilty about things with statements like calling herself dirty or stating her hands are drenched in blood. You get a sense of tragedy about her from the LNs despite all the terrible things she does. In fact, her intro in the prequel has this bit of foreshadowing:
>"Beatrix,hmm……"
>If my memory was correct, then that name meant "someone who brings fortune".
>Ironically, it often worked out to be the opposite, and many girls with this name had lives filled with tragedy——or at least I think that was the case according to many tales I'd heard. Infertility, premature death, bereavement——not exactly what you'd call lucky.
Beatrix was also the fucking main Heroine of Bernhard im Schatten, which you definitely do not see in the anime's take.
>>14094804
STAND A CHANCE PASTICHE FUCKING WHERE?!
>>14095358
That doesn't apply to me because I MISSED THE WRETCHED KICKSTARTER!
>>14098133
Word of God states that Beatrix's plan wasn't wrong compared to the heroes' plans, just different.
>>14098115
>Iris is a nationalist who hates the UN and the West
?
>>14099091
In the VN, her reaction to Katia talking about the West is to state that they aren't their friends.
>>14098133
>all human relationships--the bonds of love between parents and children, husbands and wives, etc.--should be sundered so humanity could dedicate itself entirely to fighting the BETA
That kinda defeats the purpose of securing humanity's continued existence.
>>14098220
They REALLY should've gone for two cours.
>>14098514
>getting revenge on East Germany for destroying her life
Then she should address that to the establishment and not dump on the general public for circumstances beyond their control.
>>14098607
>using heavily populated areas as cover to prevent Heim from bombing or artillery striking her men when she's outgunned
Dirty though that is, it's at least somewhat understandable given the lack of more viable alternatives.
>shooting 36mm shells at crowds of protesters to discourage them from attacking her base/the Berlin Wall
Desperation and resentment often drive people to such actions.
>>14099170
>Then she should address that to the establishment and not dump on the general public for circumstances beyond their control.
Well she was doing that too. Killing Schmidt, Axmann, Iris, and a whole lot of other higher ups was all apart of her plan.
>>14099197
I think it's more because she can't stand how oblivious and willing to betray their loved ones the East Germans are. There's a scene where she gets pissed off as fuck seeing some East Berliners carrying on and even daring to have a good time despite all the death and destruction going on. She also repeats some of Jurgen's lines about the DDR being a nest of vipers and backstabbers.
>>14099019
How exactly did you manage to miss a KS lasting literally for 6 months ?
>>14099197
She didn't see fit to spare the civilians.
>>14099217
First off, they're just as much victims of their society as she is; they've had that mentality driven into them for the entirety of their lives, and they don't have status in the social hierarchy to insulate them from consequences for exercising free thought. Secondly, sweeping generalization. Not everyone ratted out, and she didn't bother to differentiate those who did from those who didn't.
>>14099998
I make no excuses.
Muv-Luv is shit. The concept of the mechas alone would be enough to get my to eternally pour my fucking money into the franchise if it was just decently animated and had passable characters. Instead it looks like shit and all the characters are subhuman garbage. Such a goddamn shame.
>>14102562
maybe you should try the source material instead of the garbage adaptations
>>14102562
>I'm too stupid to read the source material
>>14102564
>>14102566
When I do and they're shit too, what then?
>>14102591
I aint your mom.
figure that shit out yourself.
>>14102591
We'll never see each other again. Everybody wins.
You think we'll get the VN greenlit on Steam?
>>14102600
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=651346103
It was already greenlit.
>>14102609
That's great. I see that they plan to do photon melodies/flowers as well.
What about TE though? I'd like to see everything translated one day.
>>14102626
Photon Melodies/Flowers made it as part of the kickstarter (stretch goal).
But TE a shit.
Well, no. Let's be fair: it's mostly shit, but the good part of TE is getting translated, too. Also courtesy of the kickstarter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aVbPoCYhnE
>>14102599
I want to marry Kei and have her troll our flatchested daughter.
>>14102750
Just finished watching SM. Is the other series any better?
>>14102766
Outside of the trilogy, SM is probably has the strongest cast and one of the strongest stories in the franchise.
However, the anime is absolutely shit as an adaptation.
>>14102777
It's fine.
Hell it's amazing if you consider how low TE set standards for when it came to Muv Luv anime.
>>14103767
He said as an adaptation. I agree that the anime is alright, even if it fails to adequately explain some extremely important story threads (like who is Jurgen, what are his ideals, and why do Iris/Beatrix keep fighting about him), but it sucks as an adaptation of the LN/VN.
>>14103777
Fair enough.
>>14103777
>who is Jurgen
Seriously, who is he? I know he's Iris brother, but that doesn't exlain why Beatrix would care about him? If anything, she should hate him since he was a rebel and her rival's brother. What was her vow with him anyways?
Irisdina is also carrying out his mission, but what was it? I suppose since she was the good girl that he passed it onto her, but I still don't understand what's going on.
>>14104688
Jurgen didn't rebel at all - shit, he trained the Werewolves, and it's been stated since forever ago that Iris had some hand in his death. We still don't know the specifics.
>>14104711
He sounds like a bad guy then. I wonder why everyone was going on about how great he was in the first couple of episodes.
>>14102777
Nice trips.
>>14104688
Jurgen was the love of Beatrix's life. An all around cool guy that was helping unfuck her head after an entire life being the daughter of her father, and an ace TSF pilot that helped define the proper way to utilize the machines.
He wasn't a rebel, but he butted heads with Axmann and, well, it ended with Iris having to kill him to save herself. That obviously did not go well with Beatrix, and also because Irisdina's method of carrying on Jurgen's ideals that working together was the only way to defeat the BETA was narrowminded as fuck.
(And eventually led to Master Theodor, who almost crushed a certain very important brain).
>>14104758
>Jurgen's ideals that working together was the only way to defeat the BETA was narrowminded as fuck.
What was the issue with Irisdina though? Uniting Germany seems like it would be a good idea since the two nations would be able to pool their resources.
Beatrix's plan to establish an even crueler authoritarian hellhole where inequality between people is enforced (I'd assume by a caste system of sorts) is horrifying and doesn't really seem to address the problem of the BETA at all.
>>14104798
That wasn't Beatrix's plan in the LN. There it was essentially to use the DDR as a buffer zone, sacrificing East Germany and those still in it to the BETA so the other powers could try and get their shit together.
>>14104798
Irisdina's desire was for Germany to be reunited - but that's it. 'The West' wasn't an ally in her eyes, and she truly believed that a reunited Germany could stop the BETA.
Beatrix, meanwhile, felt that it took *all* of humanity working together, and her plan was to sacrifice East Germany if it meant buying the rest of the world more time.
>>14104931
>Beatrix, meanwhile, felt that it took *all* of humanity working together, and her plan was to sacrifice East Germany if it meant buying the rest of the world more time.
I heard in some other threads that most of Europe evacuates anyways, even without Beatrix's plan, making it a moot point.
I hope this isn't the case though, as I feel the ambiguity makes for a more realistic and gripping scenario.
>>14105035
Oh no, the Oder-Neisse Defense Line falls less than a year after Schwarzesmarken, and thanks to the efforts of our 'heroes', the evacuation plans fell through besides last ditch measures (and France who was already busy relocating to Canada).
There's little ambiguity here. The only ones who arguably came out better off are the East Germans, who instead of being bled dry over a number of years collapsed almost outright and whoever didn't get eaten relocated to Ireland; and even then, they're blamed for the fall of Western Europe.
>>14105460
>less than a year after Schwarzesmarken
It literally falls less than two months after the epilogue with Katia and Theo on a train (the epilogue takes place three months after Iris's and Beatrix's deaths on the 28th of March). Some guy on /a/ did an analyses of SM's ending using TSFiA 39, Bake the Enemy, that showed that the BETA had already crushed East Germany and was attacking West Germany by the beginning of September 83.
Of course, a lot of Katiafags get upset at the above and thus try to state things like Beatrix's plans would never work or was pointlessly evil because the majority of Europe made it to England and Africa before the fall, but that's unlikely as even Hamburg hadn't been evacuated according to BtE.
From many of the comments I read over on anicobin and 2ch, they agree with Beatrix, and some even say that she was doing a much better of following Jurgen's philosophy than Iris was. It's notable that a poll conducted over on anicobin with 830 votes cast favor Beatrix 55 to 45 over Iris/Katia. Also notable is SM's author stating that Beatrix ideals or plans weren't wrong (he didn't say right though) when asked about her, but when asked about Katia, he stated something along the lines of SM being about what happens when adolescent ideals are thrust upon reality.
>>14105035
>a more realistic and gripping scenario
Ayy
>>14105552
Well, by realistic we're really talking about verisimilitude or believability. Aliens can invade, yu can have mechs doing shit in the 80's, but one thing that remains constant with the real world is people being people.
Did anyone else get triggered by how the mecha guns looked so distinctively plastic blue?
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>>14094556
What are you using to stick them on anon?
>>14091739
Also all his mercs in the know about the real plan in Yukon were Germans.
>>14106284
Ayyyy
