The main story follows Tatsunami Hibiki and Sendou Yuzuka, two surface pilots from the Imperial Japanese Mainland Defense Force and veterans of Japan’s expeditionary force to Europe. This is not the main story, though instead, this is simply the prologue to another bloody chapter in human history.Įpisode 01 starts the story in earnest capitalizing on the world-building foundation set by Episode 00. Stranded and with no way to contact reinforcements in Hawaii, the crew of the JFK have to find a way to hold out against a renewed BETA threat. The hives may have been annihilated, but some of the crab bastards survived. Oh, and insult to injury? There are still BETA on the planet. The effects of the G-bombs, though? That permanently deforms the planet. In a lot of ways, The Day After is legit more post-apocalyptic than Fallout.
If this was a victory against the BETA, it was history’s most pyrrhic victory. Japan and France, having lost their territory beneath the waves thanks to what has been dubbed the Great Ocean Collapse, exist as governments in exile harbored by the United States and Canada, respectively. Only four nations remain – the United States, Canada, France, and Japan. Most citizens of the United States – once the nation safest from the BETA threat – are dead. Electromagnetic storms make long-range communication impossible. Parts of the atmosphere have been stripped away leaving whole patches of the surface devoid of air pressure or breathable oxygen. All of Eurasia is now underwater merging the Atlantic and Pacific into one giant ocean. Most of the southern hemisphere has been transformed into salt deserts with the salt that once formed the seabed. Tectonic plates lurched across the mantle. Megatsunamis hundreds of meters tall crashed across Eurasia, moving entire oceans from one part of the surface to another. Fortune smiles on them another US Marine surface pilot survived.Įarth is in shambles the G-bombs were used as a last resort against the BETA, but no one knew the devastating effects it would have on the planet. The two pilots hope desperately to pick up a distress call on the radio once the relay is up and running. The story opens as surface pilots with the United States Marine Corps fly across the salt deserts to set up relay points. Kennedy, one of America’s nuclear-powered TSF carriers. 00 opens to with a ship stranded in the shallows in what used to be the South Pacific somewhere between Australia and Hawaii – the USS John F. Episode 00 serves as a sort of stand-alone introduction with Episodes 01-03 telling the actual main story. The Day After is broken into four episodes – Episode 00, Episode 01, Episode 02, and Episode 03. That was how the story of Muv-Luv Unlimited ended.
After the departure of the migrant fleet, dozens of G-bombs – bombs with still-not-understood gravity-distorting effects made from exotic G-elements brought to Earth by the BETA – are dropped on BETA hives all over Eurasia in one last-ditch effort to eradicate them from the face of the Earth. A migrant fleet with roughly 100,000 of humanity’s most promising minds on board departs for Barnard’s Star, abandoning the Earth under the pressure of the relentless BETA onslaught. That’s The Day – the day that Alternative V was put into action.
Review written by Stephen Deck originally published on Teacher by Day, Gamer by Nightįair warning, this contains spoilers for Muv-Luv Unlimited as this takes place immediately after, so keep that in mind.įebruary 23, 2004.