FMP: Overload? o.O

cultnirvana · Post by **cultnirvana** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 4:34 pm

Found these listings on Amazon.com. The publisher is ADV Manga.

Full Metal Panic: OVERLOAD! Volume 1 (July 2005)
Full Metal Panic: OVERLOAD! Volume 2 (August 2005)

I'm guessing this is the other FMP! manga aimed at younger readers? Any thoughts?

Avlor · Post by **Avlor** » Sat Dec 18, 2004 9:14 pm

wah - I want pictures! wish they had more info. Will have to keep an eye on this...

(Since when is Sousuke spelled "Sosake"?)

SOULS_LEADER · Post by **SOULS_LEADER** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:33 am

Hmm... Must read

KiLlEr · Post by **KiLlEr** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:40 am

Not sure whats up with the volume 1 entry, but what does volume 1 have to do with FMP?

cultnirvana · Post by **cultnirvana** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 1:46 am

KiLlEr wrote:Not sure whats up with the volume 1 entry, but what does volume 1 have to do with FMP?

That's what I was wondering. Maybe Miki a character this spin-off? *shrugs* We'll hopefully no whats going on when ADV make an official announcement. There's no listing on their website as yet.

terran empire · Post by **terran empire** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:18 am

amazon wrote: COMEDY. Miki discovers that the ramen business isn't for the faint of heart, and she'll have to put her martial arts to good use to beat the competition! But while her scare tactics might work with local gang members and thugs, she'll have to kick it up a notch to win this war of the ramen shops in NOODLE FIGHTER MIKI Volume Two!

i think some one @ Amazon put this in the wrong place it looks like and reads like it's own series

Sgt. Sagara Sousuke · Post by **Sgt. Sagara Sousuke** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 5:22 am

I can't see any connection to FMP! at all... What's going on?

cultnirvana · Post by **cultnirvana** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 2:58 pm

The second one does look like FMP!

Sosake has sworn to protect Kaname no matter what, which somehow always seems to mean that something is going to blow up! The action-packed slapstick continues in this wacky spinoff of Full Metal Panic!

The first one is strange, though. If we could just find a synopsis of the the Japanese version of the manga, we could see if the first volume has a mistake or if it is indeed FMP!

PookaKitten · Post by **PookaKitten** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 4:27 pm

Looking at the estimated release dates, my guess is the first one is a mistake. I doubt ADV would release the two volumes with only one month between them. Isn't it normally several months between volumes for the regular FMP! manga?

Samantha

cultnirvana · Post by **cultnirvana** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 6:35 pm

PookaKitten wrote:Looking at the estimated release dates, my guess is the first one is a mistake. I doubt ADV would release the two volumes with only one month between them. Isn't it normally several months between volumes for the regular FMP! manga?

It generally depends upon how many volumes have previously been released in Japan. The main FMP! manga is a good few months between volumes as we are almost at the same point they are in Japan (volume 8 is just out in Japan and volume 6 has just been released in English). The closer we come to matching the Japanese releases, the longer the gulf becomes due to the fact that a graphic novel is only released in Japan twice a year.

But with series' that already have a slew of volumes releases, the time between each can be really short. For example, the Rurouni Kenshi manga is being published every month in graphic novel form.

This FMP! manga already has a number of volumes out in Japan, so at least at the beginning it may be published quite regulary. The average time between releases is every other month.

Jae · Post by **Jae** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:49 pm

This looks like the Ikinari! spin-off.

Volume 1's summary is a placeholder, and other items of info in the 2 entries at amazon may also be placeholders.
(Vol 1's summary is for another ADV manga series)

I'm not sure who's employing the placeholders, amazon or ADV, but either way, pre-release info at amazon.com is notoriously subject-to-change.

Ikinari! is totally done in Japan, with 5 volumes.
(Surplus! has the same artist and catalog #s as Ikinari, but I don't know if it's technically a part of it.)

FMP must be doing well for ADV.

cultnirvana · Post by **cultnirvana** » Sun Dec 19, 2004 10:55 pm

Jae wrote:FMP must be doing well for ADV.

Let's hope it continues to do so, meaning we may eventually get a release of the novels

HELLFIRE · Post by **HELLFIRE** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 9:25 am

....find out as we get closer to those dates

// marks them on the calendar for posterity

Regards

Post by **Taurec** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 6:48 pm

So now they do Ikinari! any bets on the novels ?? ... no wait that involves reading .. .. hahaha silly me ..

SOULS_LEADER · Post by **SOULS_LEADER** » Mon Dec 20, 2004 10:59 pm

Hey ladies and gents ive been researchiong about overload. I think its this one

scroll all the way down when you open it

http://www.kadokawa.co.jp/fujimi/panic/panic.html