To put it bluntly, Muv-Luv Extra is a generic romcom, with obviously stereotypical characters. Takeru, for example, is the stereotype of a romcom idiot, dull and blind to everything around him, it gets frustrating that he can't even decide things for himself even without someone pointing the way. The emphasis of the work is clearly on the Slice of Life moments of the work and on the comedy, which at least worked for me in most cases. Regarding the two main routes (Meiya and Sumika), but as a whole the drama of the work is quite off, and seeing how things happen after Extra, I don't know if the author wanted something mediocre/terrible on purpose or not. Mainly regarding the final stretch, things are very rushed and full of clichés (not that the work wasn't full already). The characters being quite two-dimensional is very frustrating, as I mentioned previously, but in a work where comedy is prioritized this almost goes unnoticed.

What I like about Muv-Luv Extra is its main theme about change and how it ends up resonating with the series from that, even if the theme branches out into the subplots of each route, what encapsulates this entry is the lesson of not being afraid of change and that change makes us grow as people, even if changes can be negative or ruinous, you must face them and go through them, because you never know tomorrow, even if our time is scarce, the future can hold for us wonderful things and you are the one who decides that, with your own hands. I'm not made for romance, much less generic romcom, but Muv-Luv gave me a new perspective on romance in an extremely positive way, people who risked an entire relationship for the partner they want. As if they enter a battlefield ready and determined to give their lives for what I believe in, it's surprising that I've never looked at things that way, it's very chuuni and I like that perspective lol.

As for Unlimited, we see on Extra how Muv-luv wants to talk about life, how things are fleeting and everything ends. This is the great core of the entire Extra, after all, as long as they are the small relationships, the happy and ephemeral moments, but even with the adversities of the extra, many details were problems that hidden behind the facade an era of peace and sociability, combined with a lot of comedy.

But in Unlimited, because of this peace, because this scenario around us ceases to exist, we know the true face of humanity, how humans are when stripped of all the values and weights that surround us, all the categories in which we place ourselves. And with that he asks the question why live? Essentially, this world is no different from our world full of war and suffering, but why do we continue to live? If we are just existing listlessly until the day we die, because we keep striving endlessly and suffering in the process. The world of Unlimited is nothing more than a naked reflection of the world of Extra that serves as a reflection of our own world. Questions of why we live, why we want to survive, what we are willing to sacrifice and what we really want to protect. I will never forget chapter 9 whose lesson is: "Do you want to protect human life or the human heart? Exist or Live." Unlimited leaves several questions in mind, considering the open ending, but mainly the feeling of emptiness and the sadness of defeat at the end of the work.