World Famous Comics: Full Metal Panic Fumoffu - Full Metal Pandemonium (Vol. 1)
Full Metal Panic Fumoffu - Full Metal Pandemonium (Vol. 1)
Starring: Full Metal Panic Fumoffu Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: DVD Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Adv Films Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: May 10, 2005 Running Time: 75 minutes
Description: It’s Full Metal Pandemonium! Sousuke and Kaname are back in action! And this time, the battleground is the school ground! High-yield explosives and hilarity come together with a bang, as the somber soldier and his unwitting target brave everything from lovesick "terrorists" to an unforgiving teacher who is bent on revenge. But as good as he is with guns, Sousuke is one clueless commando when it comes to girls – especially Kaname! A day at the beach turns sour after Sousuke misses the point one too many times (and even fails to notice Kaname’s new bikini). Then, when Kaname is suddenly kidnapped, it’s up to our dense hero to devise a daring rescue! Don’t miss the hilarious antics of everyone’s favorite military maniac – and Jin High’s most fiery female – as the full-throttle action begins!
Amazon.com: For the second season of the popular comedy-adventure Full Metal Panic (2003), the filmmakers dropped the sci-fi elements and focused on the romantic contretemps. Kaname no longer commands psychic powers; Sousuke has been furloughed from Mithril. But that doesn't mean life at Jindai High gets any calmer. Sousuke remains highly trained, extremely suspicious and terminally dense. When a girl leaves a love note in his locker, he notices the locker has been tampered with and blows it up. Unable to get through the line at the cafeteria, he fires off a pistol and declares his order. When a gang member tries to threaten Sousuke, someone has to translate thug slang into military jargon and vice versa. Kaname's standard response to Sousuke's excesses is to belt him with an outsized paper fan. Winning performances by voice actors Chris Patton and Luci Christian make Sousuke and Kaname the most fractious anime couple since Ranma Saotome met Akane Tendo. (Rated TV PG V: comic violence, minor risqué humor, tobacco use) --Charles Solomon
In 2002, "Full Metal Panic!" was a popular anime (based on the popular novel) from Gonzo Digimation that wowed animation fans with a unique story of life in high school.
Well, it's not the life that we are used to seeing in Japanese anime. Or life for Kaname Chidori since meeting Sosuke Sagara.
Unbeknownst to Kaname is that Sosuke is not your typical high school student. He's actually an elite soldier and Second Lieutenant of the Mithril special forces posing as a student.
Sosuke is purely all military and will do anything to do his job in protecting Kaname. Think of him as a one man army.
Unfortunately, he's a bit naive when it comes to high school life, romance and things that most high schoolers enjoy.
But for Kaname, this student is going through extremes of trying to help her (she doesn't know why, she thinks he's weird) but at the expense of the high school due to the destruction he causes.
In the "Full Metal Panic!" television series, we watch as Sosuke does whatever to protect Kaname from terrorists trying to kidnap her.
In 2003, the second television series titled "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu" came out and it continues the zaniness of Sosuke and Kaname, as he continues to protect Kaname, misunderstand Kaname and cause plenty of damage.
Based on the popular manga series, Fumoffu is a different from the first television series. It continues to be more zany and also more comedy. Also, short episodes.
I watched the first DVD volume for the series and I can say that I enjoyed this anime immensely.
There are a total of 17 episodes and two were not shown in Japan due to sensitive content (child kidnappings) that were ongoing in Japan.
Therefore, viewers of the anime series may have been confused if they missed an episode or two.
Fortunately, for the DVD release, we get to see these two episodes.
In the first episode, a girl likes Sosuke and puts a note in his locker.
Unfortunately, Sosuke thinks that someone broke into his locker and thinks that she maybe a terrorist.
In the second part of this episode, a group of gang members want revenge on Sosuke, so they kidnap Kaname. But these gangsters have no idea who they are messing with.
In the second episode, Sosuke is causing trouble when he learns how difficult it is to get school lunch. So, in order to make sure he gets some pan (bread), he uses his gun as a way to let the students know that they should move out of the way.
Doing so, students begin rushing for safety and injures the school's bread suppliers. Thus, in order to provide the students their lunch, Sosuke, Kaname and friends have to distribute bread to the students.
Unbeknownst to them, an unsuspecting person will do whatever it takes to sabotage the bread to get Sosuke in trouble.
In the third episode, the group go to beach and Kaname tries to get Sosuke to notice her in a bikini. All Sosuke cares about is protecting her and ends up ruining her bikini by smashing watermelons on her.
Kaname in disgust, meets a rich child who wants to meet her and for Sosuke, he thinks she has been kidnapped.
So, far watching the first four episodes has truly been fun. I really enjoyed "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu". I enjoyed the Japanese audio track but I have to let people know that the English dub was great!
The DVD is provided in 4:3 with the English track in 5.1 and Japanese track in 2.0.
Special features include a Bonta-kun board game, the mysteries of Fumoffu (an explanation of how they came up with the name), the clean opening and closing themes, the original Japanese TV spots and character artwork.
For fans of "Full Metal Panic!", you can't go wrong with Fumoffu. It's so awesome and definitely worth checking out!
Does anyone but fanbois rate these shows? I bought this by mistake. I'm not into cutsie spoofs like this as a rule. It was a happy mistake, because it was pretty good. The characters were funny and the slapstick was cute. One episode showed a group of teen boys trying to get a peek at the girls in the steambath, thwarted by the boy sent to protect one of the girls, using landmines and sniper rifles. Of course they never get their peek, this is PG13.
But what is up with 17 x 5 Star ratings? Really? Absolute perfection 17 times in a row? Why should anyone take that seriously? It was good, but the translation was only average. For additional laughs, listen in english and turn on subtitles in english. They don't translate the same and one or the other is better at times too.
The plot was only an excuse to setup rediculous spoofs of Japanese culture and Anime in particular. Being a pretty regular Anime fan, I got most of the jokes but they were not laugh out loud 5 star funny either.
ymmv
An Awesome Follow Up To Full Metal Panic! Since Full Metal Panic! is my favorite anime show, it is only natural that I totally love the second season in the Full Metal Panic! franchise as well. Every episode of this series is jam-packed with hilarious situations, funny new characters, and more of Sousuke's crazy antics. Fans of Full Metal Panic! will greatly enjoy this show.
FUNNY BEYOND EXPECTATION!!! To begin with, it is definitely a very good show, something that I will explain later on.
Let us start with the outline of the story.
As the rest of the DVDs, this one has three stories going on:
One is when Sousuke will find that someone has opened his locker and obviously blow the school apart. In this episode is when Kaname will get the first taste of competition (the other and big time competition will be Tessa, see review on the 3rd DVD). The other episode is when Sousuke will forget Kaname's notes in his apartment. They will have only 45 min. available to go home, pick it up and go back to school before class starts or they may fail the class... ending up in being chased by the police... The other episode is when Kaname, Sousuke and the rest of the high-school `gang' will go to the sea; but, as usual fights, guns, jealousy and all sorts of things will be on the `daily menu' making the viewer cry from all the laughter...
Overall, FMP Fumoffu concentrates more on the `ordinary school life' and on comedy, in contrast to FMP which balanced between comedy and action with Mechas. Nobody dies but it is funny as hell.
Additionally, the current series combine comedy, romance and action. As for the voices, either you hear it in Japanese or dubbed, both versions are very satisfying.
Last but not least, the price is the usual one that is charged for separated DVDs (well, the obvious reason here for being a little but more example is that it comes with a series box), in contrast to FMP 1st season that comes out in a box set and is much cheaper.
As a side note, the last FMP series that is out there is called FMP overload and currently available only on some other sides which for obvious reasons I cannot name here.
The final question: Buying it or not?
Having watched all the series, my humble opinion would be: Yes and I highly recommend the shows.
Full Metal Fun This is more of comedy than action anime and let say its pretty damn funny. There is no Robots but there is a hamster suit and its damn cool. Its basically just about sagura and chereei (cant spell her name) so if you like comedy Pick this dvd up
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