Review of Full Metal Panic!

Full Metal Panic is a unique blend of serious mecha military drama and high school slice of life the likes of which can only be found in the medium of anime. What other entertainment medium could flip so easily from a story about your entire platoon being wiped out in a horrible desert ops massacre to preparations for the school festival? It's actually a kind of black humor the way they treat Sousuke Bousuke as a joke for being so stiff and not understanding how a normal high school boy should act even though the reason he's that way is because he's only known thebattlefield since he was a child.

So the show tries to keep a very light tone despite it's potentially heavy subject matter and for the most part manages to do so. It can actually be pretty funny at times. And because it's an anime with kids in high school they had to add a love triangle. Not sure how I feel about it, especially since because of some mind melding magic the two girls in the love triangle might end up becoming the same person anyway. It'll be like some Children of the Mind type thing.

I think this show falls into the category of "entertaining to watch, but not winning any awards any time soon." 7/10