Forum - View topicNEWS: Full Metal Panic! Novels Get 25th Anniversary Sequel Set 2 Decades Later
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sharkticon
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If there is another season, it should wrap things up.
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Tanteikingdomkey
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volume 6 was also never adapted (dancing very merry Christmas) |
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Ggultra2764
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That got adapted into an audio drama back in 2016 by Lantis for their YouTube channel. But believe all the videos posting that have since gone private. |
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Allison Addams
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I stuck with Full Metal Panic for so long, and was surprised to see Invisible Victory drop years later. I was glad, but then kinda mad because it had the gall to end on a cliffhanger with no season 5 confirmation in sight after so long.
I really hope it gets to conclude someday. |
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Zetabag
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Well hot damn, guess it's time for me finish the light novel series.
Now if only they would finish adapting the anime series. Glad to see there's still interest in the FMP franchise. |
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sniper_samurai
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The Funimation CE for Invisible Victory has the audio drama included on CD alongside a booklet with the translated script. Anime Limited went on to include it on a subtitled bluray in their UK CE set. |
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spacedin
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Xebec actually did go broke. Their bread and butter was fanservice titles for the late night and home video crowds: To Love Ru, Triage X, Kanokon, Maken Ki, Shuffle etc. which dried up. Ironically their #2 focus seemed to be shonen battle anime - Shaman King, Rockman, Future Card Buddy Fight, Racing Brothers, Super YoYo - which got them a Pokemon movie, but that genre, the Beyblade and Yu Gi Yo stuff - is just as dead. Xebec was actually an early innovator in the CGDCT arena, but theirs retained the fanservice hook which is why it didn't catch on. Instead wholesome CGDCT became a hit genre years later. So, their main specialties were genres that while reliable from the late 90s through the mid 2010s are now dead. Even their last gasp pivot attempt with Invisible Victory was strange. They chose to continue - rather than reboot - a series whose last installment was in 2005. Also mecha anime and (somewhat) realistic contemporary military anime had been dead for ages and FMP was based on both.
Also, was I the only one who preferred Teletha Testarossa to Kaname Chidori? Yes, such works are generally going to have the Japanese woman get the guy instead of the foreigner - Freezing, Familiar of Zero and Little Busters are notable exceptions - but I would be interested in an update on Testarossa also. |
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WoodDude
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^
And sometimes they mixed. Rockman.exe has a ton of fanservice in it. Lots of beach episodes and upskirt shots of Meiru and other things. Never shied away from their bread and butter even then. |
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Joker#941490
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it wasn't really bankrupt more like it was sold to Sunrise and became Sunrise Beyond Production I.G had the choice to continue from them since they were owned by them but probably didn't see it profitable for them and preferred to focus on fanfer in azure. |
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GhostStalkerSA
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I had no idea the FMP LNs finished, but I guess I should’ve expected them to. Was disappointed with how IV went, not even withstanding the cliffhanger. Just the mech fights and the action in general seemed very poorly choreographed compared to TSR, and the less said about the CGI, the better. Guess I was just expecting more after how much I liked TSR, but I guess not everything can hit the high of KyoAni animating it.
It’s a shame, because FMP was one of the first anime series I watched subbed without first seeing it on TV, because it was the first show my high school’s anime decided to show in spring semester of freshman year back in 2002. |
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Joker#941490
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Blu-ray version had animation/art fixes since the production schedule was tight sadly but it had a good staff for the job just lacked proper time. |
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Key
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Question for novel readers, then: can an anime-only viewer (who's seen all of the anime) start with novel 10 without complications? I like the franchise enough that I would like to see the story finished even if the rest doesn't get animated. |
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sniper_samurai
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Yeah, there are no real issues doing so. I'd also go back and read volume 6 if possible as well as it's really fun, it's basically FMP doing Die Hard. |
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RacingManiac
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I love reading the LN, be it as official or fan-translated(finished it before as fan translated but bought all the official LN anyway). I love how much setup there was for that alternate reality but yet all the techno-babble makes sense for the setting. A catch up with our protag after the ending of the LN would be awesome...
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ShanaChanTT
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did they ever end up together?
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