Sunday, November 30, 2008

Full Metal Panic

The show is odd, to say the least. It combines mech action with high school romance, as is common in anime, but is not horribly sappy. A misfit young mercenary and a violent tomboy being the male and female leads respectively makes for a insane story. But the technology of the world and the alternate nature of the world shine through.

Its our world, except the military tech is much more advanced. Cloaking devices, giant mechs, and submersible aircraft carriers exist, as well as Lambda Drivers, which allow magic-like emotion driven feats of destruction, and accuracy. One is also used to make a oversized terrorist mech weigh light enough to hold together. This technology appears to come from the minds of certain young women, who innately know how this supertech works. The story hasn't revealed if this is artificial or natural yet, though.

Good enough for Netflix.

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