Full Metal Panic!

2002

Seasons & Episodes

  • 4
  • 3
  • 2
  • 1
  • 0

7.6| 0h30m| TV-14| en
Synopsis

Kaname Chidori’s one of the most popular girls at her high school – unfortunately, it’s her growing popularity off campus she should be worrying about. Unbeknownst to Kaname, terrorists are plotting her abduction, believing she possesses the rare and coveted abilities of “the Whispered.” That’s where Sousuke Sagara enters the picture. He’s a hotshot soldier from the clandestine counter-terrorist organization known as Mithril – and he’s going undercover at Kaname’s school to try and keep her safe. He may be an ace in the cockpit of an Arm Slave mech, but there’s no training in the world that could prepare him for the warzone of high school.

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Solemplex To me, this movie is perfection.
SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped
UnowPriceless hyped garbage
Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Asxetos Plot: A young expert in warfare and 2 of his colleagues are given the mission of protecting a simple teenage school girl from terrorists but don't know the reason why.You'll love Full Metal Panic! if: You want a great and balanced mixture of action, comedy and romance & wonderful characters and all these accompanied by very appealing visuals and great sound effects and music. FMP manages to give the viewer a little bit of everything that's good about anime in the right amounts and in great quality. The show starts as a very lighthearted comedy and slowly starts getting darker and with more battles. Speaking of battles FMP in one of my favorite mecha anime, a genre I usually detest due to the overall cheesiness involved. Here mechas look and feel like actual war machines and not toys that you operate with stupid voice commands (ala most mecha anime). The plot while simple and not groundbreaking keeps you interested because of the overall presentation and mystery involved, but most importantly FMP has excellent characters and beyond excellence character chemistry. Instead of the typical 2-d anime duos, (the geeky male and the short-tempered female), the characters have more than meets the eye in them and actually change throughout the series' episodes. All in all excellent blend of action, comedy, mystery, ecchi-nes, romance and character development.You'll hate Full Metal Panic! if: You either want something "darker" or "lighter" OR with less genre variety OR more depth. FMP while great isn't the "deepest" anime there is out there. There is some well presented Sci-Fi and mystery here but don't expect "Ghost In The Shell". There is a lot of character development and action but don't expect "Cowboy Beebop". Finally if you want something that focuses heavily in the comedy aspect look elsewhere. FMP is an Action series with lots of decent laughs thrown in but not a 100% comedy. In the end the most important thing about this product is that it's a mixture of genres and some people that want something more specific won't appreciate it. Tastes are tastes…FINAL VERDICT: A Cocktail Of All That's Good About Anime (7.7/10)[+] Great blend of various genres. Wonderful main character chemistry. Great animation.[-] A bit weak in terms of plot. Some may want to see something way darker or lighter.Also Check: Cowboy Bebop (1998)- Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid (2005) – Neon Genesis Evangelion (1995)P.S.: My purpose in all my IMDb Reviews is not to say "I like\don't like this movie" but to help you decide whether YOU will like it or not since everything is all about taste and expectations IMO...
Master Cultist Sousoke Sagara is a hard as nails special forces military type, who works for a mysterious organisation called Mithril. His new assignment seems a little strange - to protect a seemingly ordinary schoolgirl called Kaname Chidori but of course, as is the way of things, she is anything but ordinary.Fusing militaristic action with a great line in frivolous humour, this is a beast with two heads. At times, the fluffy silliness goes a little too far but, for the most part, this is genuinely laugh out loud funny. The episodes tend to be delineated along these lines as well, with some episodes all out action, whilst others are lightweight, throwaway comedy moments. It seems a little incongruous at times, but overall it does work.Violent, witty, dark, silly. All these words have to be used to describe this show.Entertaining throughout, this is one for die hard anime fans only, I would suspect. Very enjoyable stuff.A word of caution - the dubbed English version is reputedly terrible so, do yourself a favour, get hold of the subtitled version if you can.
vaclon Full Metal Panic is a wonderfully well-done series, as is the graphic novel. It centers around Souske Sagara, a young man who knows nothing but what it takes to survive on the battlefield, Kaname Chidori, what the show classifies as a 'Whispered' which is later revealed to have increased intelligence and knowledge on creating new weapons systems like the Lambda Driver. Also the main villain of the series is Gauron/ Gaul (depending on what fansubber or language your watching it in) who is a hyper-intelligent but ultimately insane terrorist who wants nothing more than to control the super-sub that Sagara is stationed on called the Tuatha De Dannan.Full Metal Panic is a Comedy/Mecha/Sci-fi Anime that is amazingly well done and never ceases to amaze me. The only downside of the series is that the English Version's voices are very unenthusiastic for the first and second series, but they start to gain a bit of emotion by Full Metal Panic: The Second Raid.
sg_hikari Another show ruined by Studio Gonzo. FMP started off good with the first half of the series that was based on the original comic. But when Studio Gonzo started writing their own plot lines into the show, it turned into another one of their wasted and over-rated shows. The characters are all typical anime cliches and plot lines. But the good animation, music, and the first 12 episodes serve as the shows only saving grace. Hint of advice, forget about the 2nd half of the series, it just serves to disapoint... Still it's an alright series, but Mediocre at best.