Full Metal Panic! Volumes 4-6 Collector's Edition

Full Metal Panic! Light Novel #4-6

by Shouji Gatou, Shikidouji (Illustrator), Elizabeth Ellis (Translator)

Volumes 4-6, now in a collectors hardcover edition, and with a brand new translation!

With the defeat of Gauron, Sousuke's life has entered a comfortable rhythm. He's adjusting to school--the occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstanding--and balancing his newly-found normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life. He's even started to turn his thoughts toward the future--a future that might involve Kaname. But that future will soon face a threat, not from North Korean soldiers, Italian mobsters, or Russian spetsnaz... but from the hierarchy of Mithril itself!

Genres: Light Novel, Manga

650 pages, Hardcover

Published January 5, 2021

About the author

Shoji Gatoh ( 賀東招二), born on July 11, 1971, is a Japanese author from Shiga Prefecture, Japan. He is best known for the creation of the Full Metal Panic! series that included light novels, manga and anime. He is not only an author but also an anime scenarist, for example "The Day of Sagittarius" of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya and three episodes of Lucky Star.

Reviews

[Ricardo Matos · Rating 4 out of 5]

While some of the solutions for the problems are over the top and require quite a lot of suspense of disbelief to fully enjoy it, enjoy it I did. These are great fun!

[Anthony Wendel · Rating 4 out of 5]

I did not give this book the respect it deserved. I read the first two volumes in it which were adapted into the Anime and then shelved the book because the 6th book was more of a side story. Still, once I finally went back and finished the novel, I found the story to be incredibly entertaining and humorous. I also found out Chidori Kaname and I have something in common as we are both December babies and don't feel our birthdays get the respect they deserve as much as someone born in other months of the year. It was an amusing little fact to discover and also helped me to connect with the character even more. If anyone enjoyed the anime, then they owe it to themselves to pick up this novel and see how the story was originally presented.

[Michael · Rating 4 out of 5]

Volume 4 and 5 is the second major story arc after the first trilogy (Subtitled Ending Day by Day Part 1 and 2), while Volume 6 is a Christmas episode.

After 6 volumes, Sousuke is finally acting less like a robot being told when/where/what to do.

Gauron reappears and almost convinces Sousuke to abandon his team when he is feeling the most emotionally and mentally unstable after having to leave Kaname's side. It's pretty hilarous how Kaname practically forces a Mithril agent to travel across continents just to find Sousuke and smack some sense back into him. And it worked!!!

That's the Kaname effect, everyone! *applause*


I do feel a bit bad for Tessa though...

[Shannon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Even better than volume one, the writing in these novels just flows so naturally and I’m kept engrossed throughout. Kaname and Sousuke steadily inch closer to each other with a few setbacks in between and I’m all here for it.

[Zaki · Rating 5 out of 5]

this story is important and must be read. One of my most cherished memories.

[Jenna D. · Rating 4 out of 5]

These novels are so good!