TDA is not written by Kouki Yoshimune, so it is normal to feel a difference within the composition of the work to the original franchise, this is certainly to be expected. Yoshimune has a unique storytelling power that Wei cannot convey to the same extent. Saying that he is inferior to Yoshimune seems like I'm dissing the author, but I believe he is a good writer, but in retrospect, Yoshimune has a unique characteristic of his own. composition of the plot where we can easily identify its writing and a strength with words that can capture us and touch us intimately. I believe that many moments of TDA would have been better if it were a composition by Yoshimune, especially the dramatic moments of the characters, Tatsunami and Yuzuka's past and so on.
Perhaps because Wei had to carry Yoshimune's legacy and work within someone else's literary world influenced his writing, after all he had to build the story within the Muv-Luv standards determined by Yoshimune. I'm not going to go into technical aspects, because I didn't come to read Muv-Luv determined to address these issues, but what is clear as day to me is the way that Wei builds the relationship between the characters and the world of Muv-Luv :TDA in relation to Muv-Luv and this certainly defines one of the differences in the writing between the two authors.
While Yoshimune writes the characters' innermost lives, their daily lives and from them we see the world being built, relationships being formed, etc. Wei writes his scenario with the world taking precedence over the characters, that is, the characters' relationships and the construction of the world itself, geopolitics, are constructed by the world itself and not by the characters. The world delimits the characters and their relationships and after that it is up to the character, whereas during Yoshimune's writing it was the characters who ended up delimiting the world - I know this may seem a little confusing, but see it as a question of the way that the world is presented within TDA.
Don't we see TDA's world being wider than Alternative's even though Alternative has much more time to explore its own scene? Then. Overall, this discrepancy between Wei and Yoshimune's writing is a positive force for TDA in a sense, since the world taking precedence over the characters, determining their relationships, demonstrates human inferiority in relation to the vast world to which she is subjected and again a distancing from the world and a form of nihilism, which is rectified within the work with humanity closer to extinction than ever. This feeling that the world escapes us, eludes us, is precisely what TDA wants to bring, because like Alternative, our mission is to recover this world from antagonistic forces.
And now notice that even though Yoshimune and Wei's writings are different they arrive at exactly the same central point. Yoshimune, when playing the characters to explore the world and see everything only through his single vision, as we delve deeper into the world we come across our own inferiority in relation to it. Wei, by placing the world on the characters, forcing the world to determine the characters' relationships, makes us face again our inferiority in relation to the world. The way Wei plays the world over the characters is the very geopolitics that TDA has an explicit and abundant focus on compared to any other work by Yoshimune. Takeru exploring the world and creating his relationships comes across political relationships that, in Unlimited, are almost non-existent because he is just in training. In TDA, political forces have been present at all times since the work began, they are so strong that they cannot be ignored and are as threatening as any BETA.
(Oh, just a side note, is that TDA has a habit of straying from the Protagonist's POV from time to time, which is obviously a characteristic of Wei's narrative. However, Yoshimune uses all of his narration and world-building only through Takeru's vision, with except for some moments like the final stretch of Alternative when we see the POV of all the heroines)
TDA itself reflects a lot of what was already being said by Yuuhi in Alternative:
"When different governments and organizations take varying positions on the same issue. It's because they have differing ideals and beliefs."
What becomes even more evident is the power struggle that takes place within Japan with Ikaruga and 'Yuuhi', where the Shogun herself does not say that Ikaruga has no reasons or motives for doing what he does, in fact she defends him from Tatsunami saying that he is It's wrong to try to see everything as black and white.
The Day After is a good addition to the Muv-Luv universe even if it doesn't follow the canonical line after Alternative, despite not having all of Yoshimune's mastery within the narrative nor having production ahead of its time that ML and MLA had, TDA is a great Sci-fi story just like the main franchise.
And I can't help but be particularly looking forward to Resonative since the wider world of Muv-Luv comes into the hands of Yoshimune, which for me is a great indication that the production will be as formidable as that of its predecessors and we will finally have a work of the franchise capable of rivaling MLA.
Perhaps because Wei had to carry Yoshimune's legacy and work within someone else's literary world influenced his writing, after all he had to build the story within the Muv-Luv standards determined by Yoshimune. I'm not going to go into technical aspects, because I didn't come to read Muv-Luv determined to address these issues, but what is clear as day to me is the way that Wei builds the relationship between the characters and the world of Muv-Luv :TDA in relation to Muv-Luv and this certainly defines one of the differences in the writing between the two authors.
While Yoshimune writes the characters' innermost lives, their daily lives and from them we see the world being built, relationships being formed, etc. Wei writes his scenario with the world taking precedence over the characters, that is, the characters' relationships and the construction of the world itself, geopolitics, are constructed by the world itself and not by the characters. The world delimits the characters and their relationships and after that it is up to the character, whereas during Yoshimune's writing it was the characters who ended up delimiting the world - I know this may seem a little confusing, but see it as a question of the way that the world is presented within TDA.
Don't we see TDA's world being wider than Alternative's even though Alternative has much more time to explore its own scene? Then. Overall, this discrepancy between Wei and Yoshimune's writing is a positive force for TDA in a sense, since the world taking precedence over the characters, determining their relationships, demonstrates human inferiority in relation to the vast world to which she is subjected and again a distancing from the world and a form of nihilism, which is rectified within the work with humanity closer to extinction than ever. This feeling that the world escapes us, eludes us, is precisely what TDA wants to bring, because like Alternative, our mission is to recover this world from antagonistic forces.
And now notice that even though Yoshimune and Wei's writings are different they arrive at exactly the same central point. Yoshimune, when playing the characters to explore the world and see everything only through his single vision, as we delve deeper into the world we come across our own inferiority in relation to it. Wei, by placing the world on the characters, forcing the world to determine the characters' relationships, makes us face again our inferiority in relation to the world. The way Wei plays the world over the characters is the very geopolitics that TDA has an explicit and abundant focus on compared to any other work by Yoshimune. Takeru exploring the world and creating his relationships comes across political relationships that, in Unlimited, are almost non-existent because he is just in training. In TDA, political forces have been present at all times since the work began, they are so strong that they cannot be ignored and are as threatening as any BETA.
(Oh, just a side note, is that TDA has a habit of straying from the Protagonist's POV from time to time, which is obviously a characteristic of Wei's narrative. However, Yoshimune uses all of his narration and world-building only through Takeru's vision, with except for some moments like the final stretch of Alternative when we see the POV of all the heroines)
TDA itself reflects a lot of what was already being said by Yuuhi in Alternative:
"When different governments and organizations take varying positions on the same issue. It's because they have differing ideals and beliefs."
What becomes even more evident is the power struggle that takes place within Japan with Ikaruga and 'Yuuhi', where the Shogun herself does not say that Ikaruga has no reasons or motives for doing what he does, in fact she defends him from Tatsunami saying that he is It's wrong to try to see everything as black and white.
The Day After is a good addition to the Muv-Luv universe even if it doesn't follow the canonical line after Alternative, despite not having all of Yoshimune's mastery within the narrative nor having production ahead of its time that ML and MLA had, TDA is a great Sci-fi story just like the main franchise.
And I can't help but be particularly looking forward to Resonative since the wider world of Muv-Luv comes into the hands of Yoshimune, which for me is a great indication that the production will be as formidable as that of its predecessors and we will finally have a work of the franchise capable of rivaling MLA.