“Military-obsessed teen Sousuke is secretly a mercenary mech pilot assigned to protect classmate Kaname.”
Full Metal Panic! Short Stories
フルメタル・パニック! 短編集
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Military-obsessed teen Sousuke is secretly a mercenary mech pilot assigned to protect classmate Kaname.
Sousuke Sagara isn't your typical high school student. He reads military enthusiast magazines; he responds to questions with "affirmative;" he brings grenades to school in his bag. Though everyone at school takes him for a hopeless military geek, Kaname Chidori thinks there might be something more to him. When their plane is hijacked in the middle of a field trip, Kaname's instincts will prove correct: Sousuke is an elite, mech-piloting mercenary... and he's here to protect her! (Source: J-Novel Club)
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A Light novel Publication
- Format 51 × 9 ch × vol
- Total read 6h 48m approx
- Published May 1998 – Jan 2010
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M18884 catalog