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

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.18 Cover Art

Full Metal Panic! Sigma volume 18 cover art

And here you go. Thanks for participating in our little survey on facebook. Although it was quite obvious, that after Sousuke on v17 and Tessa on v15 it is now Kanames turn. This brings us down to who will be on the cover art of the final Full Metal Panic! Sigma volume 19. Maybe they go for a group picture? Hiroshi Ueda might actually take some inspiration from the cover art of the final light novel - 12 Always Stand By Me - illustrated by Shikidouji.

Full Metal Panic! Manga Update

Full Metal Panic! Zero ARX-7 sketch by Tetsuro Kasahara

News are coming in more quickly again. After Hiroshi Ueda recently confirmed the end of Full Metal Panic! Sigma with the release of volume 19, Fujimi Shobo's Monthly Dragon Age magazine has now announced, that Tetsuro Kasahara will launch a new Manga series in December, tentatively titled Full Metal Panic! Zero.

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.17 Fan Translation

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.17 Cover

Illuminati-Manga has released the english fan translation for 'Sigma Vol.17' (Chapter 72-77). You can read it online at mangafox, mangareader and so on:

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Progress

Sigma Draft

A couple of days ago Hiroshi Ueda, artist of Full Metal Panic! Sigma, uploaded a draft from what appears to be the final Mecha fight between Sousuke and Leonard.

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.16 Fan Translation

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.16 Cover

Illuminati-Manga has released the english fan translation for 'Sigma Vol.16' (Chapter 67-71). You can read it online at mangafox, mangareader and so on:

Full Metal Panic! Another - FTA And Volume 4 Cover Art

Full Metal Panic! Another FTA Announcement

A "FTA" project related to Full Metal Panic! Another is in development. It was announced in Kadokawa Shoten's Newtype Ace magazine.

Full Metal Panic! Sigma ARX-8 Drafts

Within our absence over the past 2 weeks Hiroshi Ueda, artist of Full Metal Panic! Sigma, has uploaded two ARX-8 Laevatein drafts on his Twitpic account. The Artworks most likely originate from a yet to be published chapter of Full Metal Panic! Sigma. Take a look.

Sigma ARX-8 Draft 1

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.15 Fan Translation

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.15 Cover

Illuminati-Manga has released the english fan translation for 'Sigma Vol.15' (Chapter 61-66). You can read it online at mangafox, mangareader and so on:

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.17 And Another (Manga) Vol.1

raw1st.com has shared raw scans of Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.17 and Full Metal Panic! Another (Manga) Vol.1, giving us a first look at both volumes. Another (M) Vol.1 has about 200 pages and does include the first five chapters. Sigma Vol.17 has about 160 pages and does include the six chapters 72-77.

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.17 Chapter List

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Chapter 75 (Chinese)

Front Page of Full Metal Panic! Sigma chapter 75

The chinese translated "Full Metal Panic! Sigma" chapter 75 is now available online and can be viewed (read?) here:

Full Metal Panic! News - Year One

Happy Birthday, FMP!N.

Launched on March 27, 2011 this news blog exists for exactly one year now. In the past 366 days we have seen

- the announcement of Full Metal Panic! Another
- the release of 4 FMP Light Novel and 3 Manga volumes in Japan
- the release of 5 english fan translated Full Metal Panic! Sigma volumes (10-14) by Illuminati-Manga
- Shoji Gatoh talking about a "long awaited" FMP project to be released 2013 or later

and last but not least 360 people subscribing to our facebook site. Thanks to all of you. Your active support is most appreciated.

Full Metal Panic! Light Novel Sales

The 25 currently released Light Novel volumes of "Full Metal Panic!" and "Full Metal Panic! Another" reached the historic milestone of selling over 10 Million copies.

For that occasion we present you the current and classic cover arts for the 12 "Full Metal Panic!" main story Light Novels. Take a look.

Full Metal Panic! Another Vol. 3 And Manga Vol. 1 Cover Art

The official Cover Art for the third Light Novel as well as the first Manga volume of "Full Metal Panic! Another" have surfaced. Three Drafts for the upcoming 17th volume of "Full Metal Panic! Sigma" were already uploaded by Hiroshi Ueda, artist of Sigma, two weeks. All three volumes will be released within the next 35 days.

Full Metal Panic! Another Vol. 3 Cover Art

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.17 Cover Art (Drafts)

Hiroshi Ueda, artist of Full Metal Panic! Sigma, has uploaded 3 drafts for the Cover Art of the upcoming Sigma volume 17 on his twitpic account. Take a first look and decide for yourself which one suits you best.

Sigma Vol.17 Cover Art Draft 1

Full Metal Panic! Sigma Vol.14 Fan Translation

Full Metal Panic! Σ Vol.14 Cover

Illuminati-Manga has released the english fan translation for 'Sigma Vol.14' (Chapter 57-60). You can read it online at mangafox, mangareader and so on:

Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid 'Anime Classics' Region Code

Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid "Anime Classics" BD edition by Funimation

The new "Anime Classics" BluRay edition of "Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid" is Region-B enabled. Unlike the previous north american BD release of the first season and Fumoffu, TSR so far was Region-A locked. With the new "Anime Classics" release by Funimation for the first time "The Second Raid" gets playable on Region-B players (Europe/Africa/The Middle East/Australia). For more informations on your BluRay region check out the following map, taken from wikipedia.org

Full Metal Panic! New Years News Roundup

1. Shoji Gatoh will work with Kyoto Animation once more. For Kyoto Animation's new series "Hyoka" Shoji Gatoh, the author of "Full Metal Panic!", is in charge of the series scripts. He previously wrote scripts for the Kyoto Animation tv series "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya" and "Lucky Star".

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-12-22/full-metal-panic-gatoh-writes-kyoto-animation-hyoka


2. Shoji Gatoh mentioned an anticipated project that he cannot talk about yet for 2013 or later. There will also be more "Another" light novels in the near future.