Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 1


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Sagara Sousuke is your average Japanese high school student. He gets love letters in his shoe cubby—which he mistakes for bombs. He helps out the student council—by interrogating suspected vandals. He even models for art class—by engaging in guerrilla combat! The presence of the war-addled military geek drives Chidori Kaname crazy, but she can’t deny that he makes life exciting. Even after he booby traps their beach supplies and agrees to date another girl (merely to gain “field experience” of course), she just can’t leave this lone wolf alone!




Full Metal Panic


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Relates the adventures of Sosuke, a trained operative from a secret organization and a high school student.




Full Metal Panic! Volume 1


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Sagara Sousuke 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, Chidori Kaname 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!




Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 9: Unavoidable Nine-Day Wonder?


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As a former mercenary, Sagara Sousuke’s ordinary student existence in Tokyo sometimes feels unreal. One day, he’s mastering airsoft guns to battle the school’s survival game club. The next, he’s defending a convention of adorable mascots from a horde of angry metal-head hooligans. He’d like to help his friend, Chidori Kaname, escape her days of loneliness... but he might have to make do with helping her cleaning lady escape accusations of burglary! Will Sousuke’s “normal life” add up to nothing more than a flash in the pan? Stay tuned for the final volume of Full Metal Panic short stories!




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


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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!




Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 3


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Mercenary-turned-student Sagara Sousuke is here to solve any problems that might befall his new home front of Jindai High. He’ll investigate a threat to a schoolwide sports tournament, play unwitting cupid for two lonely teachers, and engage in a cat-and-mouse rivalry against a lunchtime saboteur! With his potential love interest (and eternal wrangler) Chidori Kaname by his side, he’ll also seek out the truth behind a haunted hospital and lay a trap for a fiendish after-school attacker—who forces women’s hair into ponytails! Life in Tokyo might seem like a circus sometimes, but ringmaster Sousuke is here to take control!







Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 8: Unflappable Eight Ball Angle?


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Sagara Sousuke has the skill and stamina to survive on the world’s most dangerous battlefields, but nothing he’s faced has tested his mind as much as life at a normal school in Tokyo. His latest challenges include diving head-first into a fantasy MMORPG, impersonating a celebrity (for whom he happens to be a dead ringer), and attempting to lead his class to victory against a wily culture festival rival. With Chidori Kaname involved every step of the way, it’s a job that would intimidate anyone... but even when he has to judge her in a school pageant competition, Sousuke always knows the angle to play!




Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 4: Indifferent Four-Wind Scattering?


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Having left his mercenary life behind for the peace and quiet of Tokyo, Sagara Sousuke is ready for the next chapter in his career... as a private investigator?! With his loyal(ish?) assistant Chidori Kaname at his side, he’ll apply his eagle’s eye to the murder of endangered snails at Jindai High, the potentially shady past of his overachieving student council president, and a new business that's moved in near the school—one that proports to indulge men’s greatest fantasies! Even when clues seem scattered to the four winds, Detective Sousuke is always on the case!




Full Metal Panic! Short Stories Volume 7: Untenable Seventh Heaven Feeling?


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Former mercenary Sagara Sousuke might just be getting comfortable with his life in Tokyo. After all, most students his age would love to go on a triple date with college girls, attend a drinking party in a house of welcoming foreigners, or take a day off while the school hosts a VIP... but then, things for Sousuke are never quite that easy. Not only does none of that quite go as planned, he also has to save a delinquent double agent from exposure and interrupt a late-night hot pot party to foil robbers at the school! No matter how the days might feel like heaven, Sousuke never fails to find a little slice of hell!