Review of Full Metal Panic!
Full Metal Panic!, being the first anime I ever completed, was probably the most enjoyable anime I have ever seen. Whether this is because the show is actually extremely incredible or because it was the first thing I watched is unsure, but I am going to proceed to give it an amazing review just because of my love for the show. STORY 9 : The story of Full Metal Panic! (a guy named Sousuke Sagara, who works for an elite military like group, is put on a mission to watch over an extremely attractive blue haired female high school student named Kaname Chidori).Since Sousuke knows nothing of a high school student's life, he acts somewhat insane around her and her friends, so the show has some serious action and some hilarious humor. The reason I like the story so much is because it has a little bit of everything. It stretches from good mech fight scenes to humorous scenes about high schoolers living normal lives to romantic scenes with relationships between characters. I know other shows do this sort of thing, but I think this show does is quite well.
ART 8 : As far as the art goes, I really like the art style used in the show. I think the characters look believably real, which helps with the plot of this show. I also think the character's looks are fit their character types quite well, especially Sousuke, another great thing about the style is that it makes some of the characters rather hot (Tessa). I understand that the animation itself is nothing to cream a ton over, but I mean for when it was made I think it is at its A game.
SOUND 8 : The songs in the show are some of my favorites, the opening is still probably one of my favorite opening songs. I also think the sounds in the show are believable as well and some of them are hilarious. I watched it dubbed, so I'm not sure about the japanese voices, but I think the English dub is done well also.
CHARACTER 9 : Okay this is where the show really pushes out what it has to offer. The characters are done so well that it makes you feel like this could actually happen. You have Sousuke, a military driven guy who thinks every little thing is a threat to the entire world. He does some insane things that made me laugh out loud watching this, which is weird because other people were probably in my house when I watched this with headphones on. Kaname is a more typical teen, athletic, somewhat popular, kind of tough, and kind. Oh yea and lets not forget what i said about her earlier. The third main character, Tessa, who acts as a somewhat timid person, who also happens to be Sousuke's captain is probably one of the best, if not the best character. She is extremely nice and likeable.
ENJOYMENT 10 : When I started watching this show I was like okay I'll give anime a try again, I had tried to watch Fullmetal Alchemist at one point, but had trouble getting into it. DON'T HATE ME FOR THIS, I HAVE NOW WATCHED THE SHOW I THINK IT WAS JUST BECAUSE I WASN'T SURE ABOUT ANIME, I NOW KNOW MY MISTAKE, AND I ALSO THINK FMA IS INCREDIBLE. I also watched a lot of Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ when I was young but I'm talking about more recent, less popular anime. But like I was saying earlier I began watching it and after a while I got extremely hooked and I became the somewhat otaku I am now. I enjoyed this show so much because it opened up anime for me by pushing a little of each genre out like I said earlier.
OVERALL 10 : Overall Fullmetal Panic! is sexy. I mean it has something most everyone can enjoy and it is done extremely well. Now if you havn't seen it I would extremely recommend it, I will say the pilot is not perfect, but it at least sets up Sousuke for you. Just keep watching and enjoy. The show will have you on the edge of your seat at points, pissed off at points, rofling at points, among other things. The show is just fun to watch and is just a great mix of things. So get to watching!
And also -- Fumo! Fumo!