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Full Metal Panic! IV TV Anime Revealed for Fall 2017
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A special stage for the Full Metal Panic! franchise at this year's "Full Metal Panic! IV. The new anime project is a television anime series that will premiere in fall 2017. The event also revealed the show's main staff and a teaser image for the series.
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Prop Designer and Mechanical Animation Director: Takuya Matsumura
Mechanical Animation Director: Yū Katō
CG Director: Shōsuke Uechi
Color Key: Chiaki Kitabayashi (XEBEC)
Special Effects: Shin Inoie
The schedule for the stage had teased in August that the event would have an "important announcement" for the franchise.
Yukana (Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa), producer [Atsushi] Itou, and original novel author Shoji Gatoh appeared at the stage event.
The stage event also announced that Odoru Very Merry Christmas (Dancing Very Merry Christmas), the sixth Full Metal Panic! novel, is getting an audio drama. The onstage guests also revealed a key visual for the audio drama.
Last year's Fantasia Bunko Daikanshasai event Full Metal Panic! light novel series were underway.
Full Metal Panic! centers around a mercenary group called Mithril on a parallel Earth in which the Cold War did not end in 1991.
The original Full Metal Panic! light novel series debuted in 1998, and Tokyopop published the first five volumes before the company shut down its North American branch in 2011.
The franchise inspired the 24-episode Kyoto Animation animated the two sequel series and the video anime.
released all three television series and the video anime on Blu-ray Disc in Japan with an English dub in 2013 to celebrate the franchise's 15th anniversary.
The original novel series has also inspired several manga spinoff series, as well as several light novel spinoffs (including Another) and short story collections. Naoto Ōkuro Shikidouji illustrated both the original Full Metal Panic! series and Full Metal Panic! Another.
