Total derived from panic novel Metal project begins this summer (updated)

The band of jacket wraparound in new volumes of Full Metal Panic! Sigma manga announced that the imprint of Fujimi Fantasia Bunko of Kadokawa will release a new Full Metal Panic! design of novel of spin this summer. The previously disclosed collection of Full Metal Panic! Stories will be also published in the same period. The history of the new draft of novel laying down more than a decade after the story in the original series.

Shoji Gatoh, the author of the original Full Metal Panic! series of novels, written and had supervised the new draft of the novel, but Naoto Oguro write the actual text. Shikidouji is reprising his role as the illustrator of the novel, and Kanetake Ebikawa is contributing to the mechanical designs. Gatoh indicated in January that "a small interesting project related Full Metal is in the works".

Last June, the American publisher Tokyopop revealed their plans to publish the volumes fourth and fifth of the original Full Metal Panic! series of novels in 2011. TOKYOPOP includes two volumes in a book in February before announcing that it will close its American publication operations this month. Full Metal Panic! It focuses on a group of mercenaries called Mithril in a parallel Earth in which did not end the cold war in 1991. The main final volumes in the original series sent in Japan last summer.

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