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It's the 4th season of Full Metal Panic! We, the fans of this series, have waited for this season 13 years and we finally have it...

Having said that, I must say that it looks awful. The art and the animation is really bad and only ok at it's best: there are a lot of still images of characters flapping their mouths, a lot of images sliding throu the sceen, a zoom out of a characters completely deforms them and the CGI (cars and mechs) poorly blend with the drawings: they move stiffly and don't appear to be moving in the same plane as the ... anime... and it's a shame because the Mechas were well done (or at least they didn't felt like moving toys). There are a lot of things I can criticize about it's animation but I can't find the words to describe it...

I trully don't know how to feel about it: in one hand it is what I've been waiting for a long time, but in the other hand it's ugly AF...

Still, it's Full Metal Panic!, so I love it regardless... but I think you'll be better off reading the ligth novel/ manga.

Let's hope that a better studio brings us it's 5th season...

This anime is a hidden jem: it's not perfect nor the best anime ever made, but it is worth your time.

First things first: this anime's plot is generic and a bit bad; and it's a shame that the first half of the fist episode is dedicated to set up the plot and introducing characters that are not important until later in the series.

But the shows knows this, so instead of boring you with the same generic plot of "let's travel and save the world", the show focuses on traveling though the fantasy world and the character interactions; and only specific episodes are plot ... "heavy", and even in those episodes there are more than enough gags to keep you entertained. Althou, my problem with this approach is that you'll forget why they were travelling in the first place (but you'll have so much fun that you won't care)

Almost every episode is set on a different city/town and focuses on the adventure that the party has on each location. The location themselves are normal (houses with normal people), but the interesing part of them are the adventures the party in the city: maybe they'll have to defeat a monster using the power of a pumpking-god, or maybe they'll do random jobs (like fishing flying piranhas) so to gather money to buy supplies and don't starve to death, or maybe they'll have to help a gunsmith to save his sister because he is alergic to the guns he creates, or maybe one of the party members just scews something up and the all the party has to fix the problem they caused.

But the most important thing about this anime are it's characters and their interactions: all of them are idiots (with good or bad intensions) and they're pissing each other off for the hell of it but, at the end of the day, they can't stay mad because they are all friends that care for each other.

By the way, this show is a comedy. Without spoiling anything, the "fights" are not real fights... but, at the same time, they are there so that the conflict is resolved. Also, since the last a cople of seconds, they won't bother you.

A side note; this show handles fanservise in the good way: most women are really hot, but their boobs are not the reason for why they exist.

Its visuals and its sound are good: both of them are deliver a good experience but they are not remarkable enough to point them out.

But maybe you'll read this review and ask yourself "if this anime has so many problems, why does this guy gives it a good review?". Basically, because it is that funny! It is hard to review this anime without spoiling anything because the things that heppens in it are hillarious and ridicule!

If you've read this review and you have doubts about watching the show, go to Youtube and watch it's second opening. It doesn't contain any spoiler, it is a short adventure that shows how goofy and hillarious this anime and it's characters are.

I hope you have found this review helpfull. Any type of feedback is welcome (send them by PM).