Trivia / Full Metal Panic!

• Creator Backlash: If this tweet from Shoji Gatoh posted the day episode 8 of Invisible Victory aired is any indication, he regrets killing off Nami in Burning One Man Force.
  Shoji Gatoh: "It feels like I'm attending a wake. Why did I kill her ten years ago?
• The Danza: Yukari, the AI in Kurz's Arm Slave, is voiced by Yukari Tamura. This also partly crosses with Comic-Book Fantasy Casting, since the original novels noted that Kurz intentionally modeled the AI on "a popular Japanese idol", even providing voice samples.
• Defictionalization:
  • Jindai High/Mithril uniform are made by cosplay companies, so they're available for purchase.
  • Same goes for Mithril patches. If cosplay companies don't make them anymore, then you can ask a patch maker to do so.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The original novels translated by Tokyopop before J-Novel Club announced on March 18, 2019 that all the original 12 novels will see a new translation and release.
• Meme Acknowledgment: Sousuke's "I'm not an amateur! I'm a specialist!" line is available with Cospa shirts for a short time.
• No Export for You: In Latin America, almost none of the Full Metal Panic! anime franchise was officially released. In the anime case, only Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu was released in Spanish. In the manga case, only the first manga was released by Editorial Vid in Spanish. In Brasil, the original manga and Sigma was released by Planet Manga until it was cancelled.
• Playing Against Type: Josh Grelle as Admiral Borda.
• Sequel Gap: The second series aired in 2005 with The Second Raid. The third series, Invisible Victory, aired in 2018.
• The Shelf of Movie Languishment: The release of the first anime series got pushed to 2002 due to 9/11 and edits to Sousuke's homeland of Afghanistan.
• Star-Making Role: Chris Patton as Sousuke Sagara and Luci Christian as Kaname Chidori.

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