Ranked #505

Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid OVA

Since its a 30 minute OVA, a short review is in order.

Story -
Tessa has lost her Bonta-Kun plushie last night... and got drunk! Who knows what could've been said!? She retraces her steps by asking everyone on the ship about her "lost item", but no luck.. and she then proceeds to PANIC! that she might have told something to Sagara...or anyone else for that matter.

Art/Animation -
It's KyoAni, clearly, it was nice and pretty, like all of the previous series I've watched from them. I expected nothing but the best and I got it. The backgrounds were especially amazing.

Sound -
It was nothing remarkable. Yeah, that's all.

Character -
I learned one thing character-wise: Tessa is so darn adorable.

Enjoyment -
Anyone who doesn't enjoy Tessa walking around in a nightie of somesort really has no sense of humor or no power of love. I, for one, enjoyed every minute of it.

Overall, I'll give it a 9/10. It mostly feeds the Tessa fanservice group, but it was indeed nice and filling. :) read more

There is not much to say about a story here, because there are only 30 minutes worth of it. Although nothing amazing at first, it provides a decent plot. It has a few really funny moments (without going overboard or risking making the characters OOC) and it gives a couple of good laughs. The characters are the same that we came to love (or hate) from the previous Full Metal Panic series and some of them receive some good placed character development. The VA did a great job, as usual, voicing them, so there is nothing that can be complained there.

Sound wise, the music is barely noticeable and doesn’t help enhance the atmosphere. It’s just there, well place, and subtle enough to be ignorable without distracting us from the story. What was more annoying was the ED, or rather lack of it. The instrumental score that was used while showing the credits was boring, and the whole arrangement of pictures next to the written credits was too slow to be interesting. After the first seconds I just fast forwarded to the end to see if there was anything after it and to my disappointment, there wasn’t anything.

There is nothing exceptional to say about the animation except that it’s good, but there is nothing bad to say about it either. It was nice, the same as the one from FMP: The Second Raid, although the previously mentioned series had, animation wise, some more memorable scenes.

Fans of the Full Metal Panic series, especially of Fumoffu, will probably really like this OVA. Other than that, there is no real reason to check it out as there is nothing special about it.
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