Full Metal Panic! Volume 1

Full Metal Panic!, Book 1

De: Shouji Gatou

Narrado por: Luci Christian, Chris Patton

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!

©2023 Shouji Gatou (P)2023 Podium Audio

True to the anime!

What I loved about this recording is that it stays very true to the anime, while providing more details that enrich the story (internal dialogue, visual descriptions, etc). Chris Patton and Luci Christian do a great job trading off the narration and voicing the supporting characters in addition to Sousuke and Kaname. Really hope they’ll record the entire series!

Amazing story with flawed acting

To start, I watched and read both the anime and the graphic novels before I found this, so my opinion is slightly biased in some aspects.

The story is fantastic, and the original VAs for the main characters is nice, but the acting for the some of the other characters is subpar. The other characters feel way out of place with no accents or change in tone like the Russian characters and Gauron. The whisper scream when they're supposed to shout breaks much of the immersion as well.

Truthfully, while the original voices are a nice touch, I think it would have been better had they brought in some actors who can actually play the role. That being said, I do feel like Luci Christian was a great fit for this role. Chris Patton on the other hand, really only did Sousuke, Kurz, and a handful of side characters well. Practicing different accents and different vocal ranges would do him well.

All of this aside, while I was disappointed with certain parts, it does offer a lot of details that the manga and anime does not.

Amazing!!! Anime fan must buy!

I don't normally write reviews on my Audible listens but really wanted to hype this title. I am a huge fan of FMP and when I saw this it was an immediate buy. The story comes from the original soft novel which the manga and anime is derived from so for anime watchers there will be some deviations that you will catch between the two sources. However, i loved it. Having Luci Christian and Chris Patton do the narration was a huge plus. I think if soft novel audio adaptions are going to work, getting the OG dub actors involved is the way to go.

Story was A+ and enthralling from start to finish.

I download in highest quality but did notice some sound issues namely when both actors were in the same chapter it seemed like the volume was not matched but it was only a few times.

Overall.... Highly recommend and they have me as a lock for all future releases.

Gives a lot more insight to characters

Like probably everyone I read this being a huge fan of the anime. As one would expect the book goes into more detail but I was surprised to see that events that happen way later are foreshadowed early on and character motivations are made much clearer. Excellent performance as well.

my favorite couple

I'm so glad this anime is in audible. I was about to uninstall when I found this