Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

Humanity has spent decades fighting the BETA, alien beings whose invasion has devastated Eurasia and forced nations to rely on humanoid Tactical Surface Fighters. In 1998, cadet Yui Takamura survives the brutal defense of Kyoto, an experience that shapes her determination to build machines capable of preventing such losses from happening again.

Three years later, Lieutenant Yui joins the international XFJ development project in Alaska, where Japanese and American engineers are refining the Shiranui. Her work brings her into conflict with test pilot Yuuya Bridges, whose resentment toward his Japanese heritage complicates an already tense multinational team. While the BETA remain humanity's common enemy, political rivalries and personal scars threaten the cooperation needed to survive them.