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:

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.

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?

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.

New Full Metal Panic! Release Dates

A bunch of Full Metal Panic! light novel and Manga release dates have been announced by Kadokawa. To shorten things up, here is the overview:

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Reissue

Earlier this month in a Monday post on our facebook wall we reported about two mysterious Sigma volumes to be released in Japan on December 20, 2012. Well, we figured it out now. Full Metal Panic! Sigma will be reissued in fewer and bigger volumes. Instead of the current 160 pages per volume according to amazon.co.jp the new books will have 288 pages each. Both together could fairly cover the old volume 1-3 and the first few chapters of volume 4.

If that's not enough, the next new Sigma volumes 3-4 will be released on January 19, 2013 and should reach up to volume 7 or maybe even 8. It can be ecpected, that the Full Metal Panic! Sigma reissue will have 10-11 volumes in total. With 2 volumes each month they might even catch up before the release of the final Full Metal Panic! Sigma volume 19. There might actually never be a Sigma volume 19 as it gets consumed by the new volume order.

What's more? We also get the cover arts:

New Full Metal Panic! Sigma Volume 1-2 Cover Arts