Fumoffu Mission Complete book

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 7:59 am

http://www.toranoana.jp/mailorder/comic ... 8full.html

supposedly published jul28/'04... MUST HAVE!! Any more info out there?
Hope this is picked up for English release ASAP!!

Regards

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:02 am

What's this? In Jap...

A manga on Fumoffu?

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:03 am

HOPING it's like the FMP! Anime Book... anyone got a JPN lang pack
installed on their computer?

Regards

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:17 am

What's an anime book? I've got JPN lang pack installed. That means I can see the kanji, right?

Best translation I can get is this (don't want to crash ppl's expectations if my translations are wrong):
Some kind of artbook. With illustrations, erm... military explanations, poster attached.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 8:21 am

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke wrote:Some kind of artbook. With illustrations, erm... military explanations, poster attached.

IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!! IWANT!!

Thx SSS

Regards

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Tue Jul 13, 2004 6:16 pm

I would expect it to be the Fumo equal to the Anime Mission book.

Lotta screencaps- anime style work- chara and military profiles- perhaps small ep summaries and various location profiles. I'll watch amazon japan for it and probably get it sent to me via slow boat.

woman22980 · Post by **woman22980** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:48 am

Is there a similar link to the same book? That link give me a 404 error, and I'd search around the site but it's in Japanese.... Random clicking didn't get me too far

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 5:58 am

Here's a japanese link, it has a cover pic...

woman22980 · Post by **woman22980** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:13 am

Ah... Bless you Jae.... can I donate my small collection of avatars to your site in thanks for always having such good information? They're in my post here

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 6:16 am

Ah, yes

I'll happily take them.

Hopefully I'll have the actual book within 2 weeks and can give an idea of what's in it.

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Jul 26, 2004 8:13 am

...and someone'll kindly pick it up for translation and (commercial) release over here

Regards

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 8:53 pm

Well, mine just arrived (like, I just cut open the box and haven't even looked at the other things in the order yet...)...

Here's a quickie summary-

It's about half an inch taller than the Anime Mission book. This one is titled Full Metal Panic Fummofu? Mission: Complete

The first thing I checked- the first 80 pages are all glossy color (unlike the AM book which had far fewer color pages)- there are about 15 pages of glossy BW pages.

Starting with the BW pages- there are several pages of 'interviews' with the voice actors that are organized around Fumo episodes. Then a staff list, and then 6 pages of weapons details. (doesn't appear to be any details about the Bonta-AS though- just the weapons it uses)

Back to the beginning... another real treat-
Also unlike the AM book- 16 pages of large-ish size anime artwork.
This is the sort of thing sorely lacking for the first series, so it's really great to see these, but some of them overlap

But there is alot of bathing suit action.

Then some pages featuring the main cast- Sousuke, Kaname, Tokiwa, Tsubaki, Haya-dude, Ren, Shinji, and Mizuki. (a warning- those last 4 only get a quarter page)

Then several pages of episode summaries with caps- then woah, a double spread of the Fumo girls in skimpy Bonta outfits. Then back to the episode summary pages. A few pages featuring Bonta-kun... then we get feature pages for each of the Mithril charas (yes Tessa gets 2 pages)

Last in the color section are many pages of color schematics- the Character Model Pages (artist reference) and the backgrounds.

Overall, a nice book- much nicer than I expected. It really has alot of the stuff that I felt was seriously lacking in the AM book.

woman22980 · Post by **woman22980** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:21 pm

The fumo book sounds really cool Jae! I recently got my anime mission book and truth be told, I was kind of disappointed. There was some interesting stuff, but not much in the way of color and too many overused pictures

Guess they fixed that the second time around.

These things were some of the suggested items while I've been trying to figure out how to create an account and order the fumo book, can anyone tell me what they are? The look like magazines.

http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 89-9153824
http://www.amazon.co.jp/exec/obidos/ASI ... 89-9153824

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Mon Aug 02, 2004 9:40 pm

Those are both limited edition Fumo DVDs. Quite pricy too...

Chief Petty Officer Klerk · Mon Aug 02, 2004 10:28 pm

Bout what I would have payed in Japan if I could have justified it. (for the box set)