唯依とユウヤが結ばれる話はないのか

海外マブラヴニキからの質問への回答です。

あります。 ただし、今は……多分版元に存在を忘れ去られているのではないかと。

吉宗的には、アニメ『TOTAL ECLIPSE 』はゲームとは別の、分岐が近い確率時空って設定です。
幸いなことに小説連載中にアニメ化が決定、それと連動させるためコンシューマーゲーム化も決定しました。ペラ1枚の企画メモでアニメ化が決定したものの7年間塩漬けになってお蔵入り（その後アニメ化しました）した『マブラヴ オルタネイティヴ』に比べ、『TOTAL ECLIPSE 』はとてもラッキーな作品でしたね。

『マブラヴ』がアニメ化されなかった大きな理由のひとつに、物語が長大で濃密すぎるという問題がありました。なので、テキスト量無制限のAVGを先行させてしまうとシナリオ容量的にアニメ制作が破綻します。そこで思い付いたのが確率時空という設定を活かすことです。近い分岐の別世界線にすることで、AVGとアニメそれぞれのメディア特性に適合した内容を並立させられる仕掛けを考えたわけです。これは、自分が子供の頃見ていた『人造人間キカイダー』や『ゲッターロボ』が、テレビ、マンガ、各児童雑誌（たのしい幼稚園～小学6年生）に連載しているマンガですべて内容が違っており（マルチバース展開を70年代の日本漫画界は既にやっていたのだ！）、そのすべてを違和感なく楽しんでいた体験が影響しました。

その結果、AVGではクリスカを軸にしたユウヤの成長物語に、アニメは唯依の成長を軸に『TOTAL ECLIPSE 』の別の可能性を描く脳内構想となりました。※『帝都燃ゆ』がアニメ用に追加で書き下ろされたのは、舞台説明や初期のグリップだけでなくアニメを唯依の物語にするためでもあったのです。
色々信じられないトラブルがありすぎて長くなるので経緯は端折りますが、2シーズン想定だったアニメが1シーズンで終わってしまい、結局唯依の物語は私の脳内だけのものなりました。

その後、PC版『TOTAL ECLIPSE 』が発売され、『帝都燃ゆ』の短編AVGが追加されました。それもあってか、唯依の人気は衰え知らずで、「唯依ルート（書き込みを見る度にピリつきましたｗ）を追加して！」というファンの慟哭は勢いを増すばかりでした。
ですが、当時私は『マブラヴ』から離れ、新企画を進めるポジションにいたので公には何もできません。そこで考えたのが「グレーゾーンの同人誌ならワンチャンあるんじゃね？！」でした。私は早速、脳内の物語を出力して可視化し、ラノベ二冊分の上下巻構成でプロットを組み上げました。この流れで2017年のコミケ発売されたのが、紹介パンプレット的なポジションの『第三次武士っ娘ツンデレ大戦』です。なぜこんなふざけたタイトルになったかというと、同人とはいえ原作者が関わってる以上、さすがにタイトルに『TOTAL ECLIPSE 』や『マブラヴ』を使ったらヤベェからです。それでも発売後には定例幹部会で「いやいや、それってどうなん？」という重めの空気になり、渋々版元預かりにすることで決着しました。
※電撃大王に私が自主提案して実現したコミック最終回の、設定資料制作費（自腹）を同人誌で回収しようとしてた計画も、同じ会議で更に重めの空気になったため、版元預けにした結果『ストライクフロンティア』PR記事と抱き合わせの『exogularity 01』として発刊されました。

『第三次武士っ娘ツンデレ大戦』は、アニメ最終回の数週間後から始まります。序盤の内容をざっと説明すると以下のような感じ。
・大伴中佐の糾弾によりXFJ計画は凍結、唯依は解任。
・唯依は機密漏洩のスパイ容疑で拘束されるが証拠不十分で放免。
・唯依の失態を元帥府が問題視し、守旧派武家の篁家への鬱憤が噴出。
・招集された御前査問会にて煌武院悠陽の命により無期限家督預処分。
・ユーコンの機材撤収完了まで、新帝都の篁邸での服務を命じられる。
・義憤に駆られた元部下や革新系武家衆が夜な夜な篁邸に参集し唯依困惑。
・憔悴しきった唯依を巌谷が代理として北米最大の兵器展示会に派遣。
・展示会視察初日を終えラスベガスのホテルに戻るとサンダークと再会。
・予想外の提案に唯依動揺。サンダーク去り際にユウヤの所在を知らせる。
・メンタルボロボロの唯依、ついネリス空軍基地のユウヤを訪ねてしまう。
・ユウヤは左遷され海外派兵部隊の中隊長に。荒くれ移民衛士を率いる。
・今になって唯依の苦労を知ったとベタ褒めのユウヤに唯依メロつく。
・XFJ解散の顛末を聴いた唯依は、日米密約の捨て駒にされたと疑念。
・信奉し寄って立ってきたものが瓦解したかのような虚無感で唯依号泣。
・ユウヤなにも聴かずにハグ。その夜、唯依は自らの意志で一線を越える。
・数週間後、唯依は千歳基地の次世代技術統合研究部隊に左遷。
・そこには弐型フェイズ2の四個小隊が。吹っ切れた唯依テンアゲ。
・10日後、ユーコンから引き揚げたパーツが到着、4機がフェイズ3に換装。

とまあ序盤から中盤にかけてはこんな感じの展開になりますが、公開情報とはいえ、これ以上はさすがに自粛しますね。

今後はもっと濃い内容をい知りたいなどのリクエストが多くあれば（版元に確認取った上でになりますが）有料枠内での限定公開も考えます。
実際、ペイウォールという敷居を設けないと、安心して貼付したいり書いたりできないことも結構あるので（汗。
濃い話を書くなら、悪気なくカジュアルにコピペしてアップしたり広めたりするリテラシーや価値観が違う人をフィルタリングする意味でも、ペイウォールは必要だな、なんて考えてます。

『マブラヴ』関連の非公式まとめサイト
https://w.atwiki.jp/wiki9_alternative/

This is translated using claude.

It exists. Though at this point… I suspect it's probably been forgotten by most people.

In my view, the Total Eclipse anime is set in a different probability universe from the game — one with a nearby divergence point. As luck would have it, an anime adaptation was greenlit while the novel serialization was still running, and a console game was also decided in order to tie in with it. Compared to Muv-Luv Alternative — which got the go-ahead for an anime adaptation on a single sheet of concept notes, only to be shelved for seven years before it finally happened — Total Eclipse was a very lucky work.

One of the major reasons Muv-Luv didn't get an anime adaptation sooner was the problem of the story being too vast and too dense. If you lead with an AVG with unlimited text capacity, the sheer volume of scenario content makes anime production untenable. So the idea I hit upon was to make use of the probability universe concept. By setting it in a nearby divergent worldline, I devised a structure that would allow the AVG and the anime to coexist, each tailored to the strengths of its respective medium.

This was heavily influenced by my childhood experience with works like Kikaider and Getter Robo, which ran simultaneously as TV series, manga, and serializations across multiple children's magazines (from Tanoshii Yochien all the way up to Shogaku Rokunensei) — all with completely different content. (Japanese manga was already doing multiverse storytelling in the '70s!) And I enjoyed all of them without any sense of contradiction.

The result was that in my head, the AVG became Yuuya's coming-of-age story centered on Cryska, while the anime became a separate vision of Total Eclipse's possibilities, centered on Yui's growth. (This is why 'Teito Moyu' was written as an anime-exclusive addition — it was there to make the anime Yui's story.)

A great deal happened, so I'll spare you the full account — but the anime, originally planned for two seasons, ended after one, and Yui's story ultimately remained something that existed only in my head.

After that, the PC version of Total Eclipse was released, with the addition of a short-form AVG of 'Teito Moyu.' Perhaps partly because of that, Yui's popularity never waned — and the fan cries of 'Add a Yui route!' (which made me twitch every time I saw them, lol) only grew louder.

At the time, however, I had stepped away from Muv-Luv and was in a position focused on developing new projects, so there was nothing I could do publicly. What I came up with was: 'Maybe a doujinshi in the grey zone could work?!'

I immediately set about externalizing and visualizing the story in my head, and assembled a plot structured as a two-volume light novel set. That process led to the release at Comiket 2017 of The Third Great Samurai-Girl Tsundere War — a work occupying the position of an introductory pamphlet for that story.

The reason it ended up with such an absurd title is that even for a doujinshi, with the original author directly involved, using Total Eclipse or Muv-Luv in the title would have been asking for trouble.

Even so, after release it created a noticeably heavy atmosphere at the regular executive meeting — 'Hey, is that really okay?' — and was ultimately resolved by placing it under the publisher's custody.

(My separately-hatched plan to recoup the out-of-pocket design document costs for the comic adaptation's final chapter — which I had self-proposed to Dengeki Daioh and seen through to completion — via doujinshi sales also generated an even heavier atmosphere at that same meeting, so it was handed over to the publisher at the same time, eventually seeing publication as 'exogularity 01,' bundled with a Strike Frontier PR feature.)

The Third Great Samurai-Girl Tsundere War (hereafter: the Yui arc) picks up a few weeks after the anime's final episode. Here's a rough rundown of the early story:

• The XFJ Project is frozen following denunciation by Lieutenant Colonel Ōtomo; Yui is relieved of her post.

• Yui is detained on suspicion of being a spy who leaked classified information, but released due to insufficient evidence.

• The Imperial Household's military command takes issue with Yui's failures, and long-simmering resentment toward the conservative Takamura noble house boils over.

• At a convened imperial inquiry, by order of Koubu'in Yuuhi, Yui is placed under indefinite suspension of family headship.

• She is ordered to serve at the Takamura residence in the new imperial capital until the retrieval of equipment from Yukon is complete.

• Former subordinates and reform-minded noble warriors, driven by righteous indignation, begin gathering at the Takamura residence night after night — much to Yui's bewilderment.

• An exhausted Yui is sent by Iwaya as his proxy to North America's largest weapons exhibition.

• On returning to her Las Vegas hotel after the first day of the exhibition, she reunites with Chadwick.

• An unexpected proposal throws Yui off balance. As Chadwick leaves, he lets slip Yuuya's whereabouts.

• Mentally at her lowest, Yui finds herself visiting Yuuya at Nellis Air Force Base.

• Yuuya has been demoted and assigned as a company commander in an overseas deployment unit, leading a ragtag band of immigrant TSF pilots.

• Yuuya heaps praise on Yui, saying he only now understands how hard things were for her — and Yui finds herself falling for it.

• Hearing the full story of the XFJ Project's dissolution, Yui becomes consumed by the delusion that she was a disposable pawn in a secret Japan-US agreement.

• Overwhelmed by a sense of emptiness, as if everything she had believed in and stood upon had crumbled, Yui breaks down in tears.

• Yuuya, asking nothing, pulls her into a hug. That night, Yui crosses a line of her own volition.

• Several weeks later, Yui is demoted to the Next-Generation Technology Integration Research Unit at Chitose Base.

• There she finds four platoons of Type-2 Phase 2 units. Yui's spirits soar.

• Ten days later, parts retrieved from Yukon arrive, and four units are upgraded to Phase 3.

That covers the early-to-mid section of the story — but even though this is all technically public information, I'll hold back from going further than this.

Going forward, if there's enough demand to know more in depth (pending confirmation with the publisher), I'm considering making it available in a paid-access limited release. In practice, there are quite a few things I can't comfortably post or write about unless there's a paywall in place to filter things (sweat). If I'm going to write the deeper stuff, a paywall also makes sense as a way to filter out people with different literacy levels and values — those who might casually copy-paste and spread things around without any ill intent.