Monday, December 23, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Another - Update And Spoilers

Full Metal Panic! Another Light Novel And Manga Volumes

So there is this thing called Full Metal Panic! Another. What is it? A spinoff light novel series set in the same universe as FMP, 11 years after the events of the final book in the original Full Metal Panic! light novel series. What is a light novel? It's a style of Japanese novel primarily targeting middle and high school students (as wikipedia would say).

FP!A is written by Naoto Ooguro with some help of Shoji Gatoh, creator and author of FMP. As with the original Full Metal Panic! light novel series, illustrations are done by Shiki Douji.

There has been one known attempt by the Baka-Tsuki Translation Community to fan translate FP!A (the official abbreviation for Full Metal Panic! Another) to english, but so far they didn't live up to their promise.

However, the events of Full Metal Panic! Another are not completely unknown. Over the past years, users of the animesuki FMP! board have gathered a buch of spoilers that should give you a pretty good idea, what FP!A is about and where it's headed.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

New Full Metal Panic! Cover Arts and TCG Update

Full Metal Panic! Another (Manga) volume 5 Cover Art

The cover art for the upcoming fifth volume in the Full Metal Panic! Another Manga adaptation by You Taichi can now be found on amazon.co.jp and other sites. Just like with the first four FP!A Manga volumes Adelina Aleksandrovna Kerenskaya is featured, this time with a Blaze Raven Unit 2 in the background. The volume is set to be released in Japan on December 7 and is likely to include at least 4 new chapters on around 200 pages.

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray - Part 3 The Scans

Edited Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray Box Artwork

Continued from Part 2: The Content

As promised, we scanned the four individual cover arts from the Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray Box in high resolution. After getting the neccessary equipment ready, each of them was scanned in 1200 dpi. Although up to 4800 dpi is technically possible with our current device, the resulting scans become rather impractical due to traces from the printing process getting highly visible.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray - Part 2 The Content

Full Metal Panic! All Stories - Special Booklet

Continued from Part 1: The Box

With the second part of our review to the newly released Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray Box we will focus on the content. All Stories includes all episodes of the previously released Full Metal Panic! Anime seasons, including the 2006 OVA. There are 10 Blu-Rays, 2 CDs, a booklet with 50 pages and a promotional card for the upcoming FMP! themed trading card game.

Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray - Part 1 The Box

Full Metal Panic! Blu-Ray Box All Stories

It's not common these days that a Full Metal Panic! Blu-Ray gets released in Japan but so it happened last week on October 25th. For the celebrations surrounding the fifteenth anniversary of the FMP light novel series, Kadokawa released a Blu-Ray complete collection containing all three Anime seasons and many extras.

We decided to split this review in two parts, this first one for the box and the second one tomorrow for the content of the Box set.

Saturday, October 12, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Sigma -Pocket Comic- Reissue

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Pocket Comic Volumes

In December 2012 Kadokawa, the rightholder of Full Metal Panic, started to reissue the Full Metal Panic! Sigma series in Japan to smaller, fewer volumes. Re-released as light novel seized books, this caused some confusion and anger with customers who expected to buy light novels instead of Manga volumes.

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Zero Update

Full Metal Panic! Zero Volume 1 and 2

Full Metal Panic! Zero is the latest Manga adaptation to the FMP light novel series. Serialized in Dragon Comics Age since December 2012, there are two volumes released so far with 4 chapters each. Much like most of the Full Metal Panic! Sigma books, each volume has about 160 pages.

Full Metal Panic! Sigma 19 Update

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Chapter 90 Front Page

Full Metal Panic! Sigma 19 is the final volume in the second Manga adaptation to the Full Metal Panic! light novel main series. It ends the overarching storyline that began with chapter 17 as well as the story for Sousuke Sagara and Kaname Chidori overall.

Monday, October 7, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Trading Card Game

Full Metal Panic! Trading Card Game

A Full Metal Panic! themed trading card game will be released on December 13 in Japan as part of the the Crusade System trading card game series. It will seemingly feature characters and units from both, Full Metal Panic! and Full Metal Panic! Another.

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray Box Art

Full Metal Panic! All Stories Blu-Ray Box Art

The box art for the upcoming Full Metal Panic! All-Stories Blu-Ray Box has been uploaded to amazon.co.jp. It shows the three main characters as well as the ARX-7 Arbalest.

Monday, September 2, 2013

New Full Metal Panic! Cover Arts

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.19 Cover

Low-res scans from the cover arts of the upcoming light-novel and Manga releases have been uploaded to the Full Metal Panic! section of FujimiShobo.

Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.18 Fan Translation

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.18 Cover

Illuminati-Manga has released the english fan translation for 'Sigma Vol.18' (Chapter 78-83). You can read it online at mangafox, mangareader and so on:

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Full Metal Panic! News - Year Two


Hello,

today this news blog is getting two years old. It's been a great run so far and we'd like to thank all of you for that. In the past 365 days about 949 new fans subscribed to our facebook site, more than twice of the first year, pushing our total subscribers on facebook up to 1309 as of right now.

Looking back to the past year, quite a lot happened around FMP. We saw the release of:

Monday, February 11, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Another 5 Special Edition - Unboxing

Full Metal Panic! Another 5 Special Edition

Hello and welcome to our first unboxing blog post. We just got our hands on the Full Metal Panic! Another 5 special edition, so take your time and enjoy the pictures.

Friday, February 1, 2013

New Full Metal Panic! Cover Arts

Full Metal Panic! Another 5 Special Edition Box Art

Like we told you back in December 2012, you are in for a whole bunch of cover arts related to the upcoming Full Metal Panic! releases. You may have seen some of these already, but you don't mind, do you?

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Reissue Update

Various Full Metal Panic! Light Novel And Manga Volumes

The Full Metal Panic! Sigma reissue is a Manga ... and yet a light novel. It's complicated.

Full Metal Panic! Sigma 18 Update

Full Metal Panic! Sigma 18 Mission Notes

So while we have to wait just a bit longer for the Full Metal Panic! Sigma volume 18 fan translation by Illuminati-Manga, here are some pictures and the chapter list.