Muv-Luv Alternative: Total Eclipse

It is the year 1997, and aliens have taken over most of Eurasia. Humanity fights back with giant robots called TSFs, but is gradually losing ground to endless alien armies. Now the aliens are advancing on Japan, and Yui Takamura, a trainee at the Imperial Guard Academy, will have to battle them.

The BETA have invaded Japan, and are advancing on Kyoto. An alien vanguard breaks through the Japanese lines, and attacks Yui's supply base. Badly outnumbered and cut off from support, she has no choice but to flee...

Yuuya Bridges, an elite American test pilot, has been sent to a backwoods Alaskan base to test the next generation of TSFs. But he hasn't even arrived when two other test pilots wander off the course in a deadly game of cat and mouse, and they're heading straight for his plane...

Yuuya Bridges, the new American test pilot at Yukon base, is struggling with his first assignment: a joint project between the US and Japanese militaries. To master his new TSF, he must first learn to think like the Japanese, and that means confronting his own past...

Yuuya continues his attempts to master the Japanese TSFs, to little success. During one last exercise, an unknown TFS suddenly appears on the practice ground, and it's heading straight for him...

As part of a morale-building exercise, Argos Flight is sent to the Caribbean for a photo shoot. During a boat race, Yui, Cryska, and Yuuya are stranded on a deserted island. Cryska gets sick, and an injured Yui tries to force herself to help, but the rain is getting worse...