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The main female protagonist of the story, Kaname still has to keep an eye on Sousuke. After Sousuke leaves without notice, she gets very worried about him. She is sad because he is gone, but she gets more worried about that someone else from Mithril's Information Department is watching her. After an encounter with "Wraith", an Assassin sent by Gauron tries to kill her, but it is stopped by Leonard Testarossa, who after ordering his ASs to kill the assassin and asks her to go with her, kisses her. For that thing she hates him, because it was her first kiss. She finally finds Sousuke in Hong Kong with the help of "Wraith" and helps him tap the full power of the Arbalest's Lambda Driver when he faces off with several Codarl- |
The main female protagonist of the story, Kaname still has to keep an eye on Sousuke. After Sousuke leaves without notice, she gets very worried about him. She is sad because he is gone, but she gets more worried about that someone else from Mithril's Information Department is watching her. After an encounter with "Wraith", an Assassin sent by Gauron tries to kill her, but it is stopped by Leonard Testarossa, who after ordering his ASs to kill the assassin and asks her to go with her, kisses her. For that thing she hates him, because it was her first kiss. She finally finds Sousuke in Hong Kong with the help of "Wraith" and helps him tap the full power of the Arbalest's Lambda Driver when he faces off with several Codarl-M ASs. Amalgam's plans regarding "Whispered" is not very clear, but it is safe to say that it includes her given Leonard's determination. |
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===Teletha “Tessa” Testarossa=== |
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Revision as of 08:16, 7 September 2005
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid is the second sequel to the anime TV series Full Metal Panic! after Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu. It is produced by Kyoto Animation and is said to have a length of just 13 episodes.
Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid is based on the The End of Day by Day novels, and continues the storyline of the first Full Metal Panic! series while including references to the Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu stories.
Synopsis
This series takes place two months after the events ocurred in the Tuatha de Danaan at the end of the Full Metal Panic!. Mithril learns of an secret organization that has technology able to counter the ECS (Electronic Cloaking System) mode. This organization, known as Amalgam, also has "Black Technology", obtained from "Whispered" like Kaname Chidori, and like the other intelligency agencies, they intend to obtain more. However, when Sousuke's mission to protect Chidori is terminated by Mithril, all seems to be in place for Amalgam's plans.
In-depth Plot
Sousuke's and Kaname's relationship is put to the test after he is withdrawn from protecting Kaname, her encounter with Leonard Testarossa and his hate for the ARX-7 Arbalest.
Cast
Sousuke Sagara
Sousuke is the hero of the story. He is a Sergeant at Mithril, and hopes to advance to Captain. His call sign is Uluz 7. He is still unaccustomed to the "normal" life that he lives while protecting Kaname. When his bodyguard mission is terminated by Mithril, he begins to understand that Kaname is more important to him than the organization. He is the only who can operate Mirthil's ARX-7 Arbalest's Lambda Driver, but really hates the machine because it makes him feel like a tool of the organization. He is constantly annoyed with Al's "personality", activated when Sousuke tells the AI in its "Free Speech Mode" that Bunny, another "whispered" who developed Mithril's Lambda Driver, the Arbalest and Al, is dead.
Kaname Chidori
The main female protagonist of the story, Kaname still has to keep an eye on Sousuke. After Sousuke leaves without notice, she gets very worried about him. She is sad because he is gone, but she gets more worried about that someone else from Mithril's Information Department is watching her. After an encounter with "Wraith", an Assassin sent by Gauron tries to kill her, but it is stopped by Leonard Testarossa, who after ordering his ASs to kill the assassin and asks her to go with her, kisses her. For that thing she hates him, because it was her first kiss. She finally finds Sousuke in Hong Kong with the help of "Wraith" and helps him tap the full power of the Arbalest's Lambda Driver when he faces off with several Codarl-M ASs. Amalgam's plans regarding "Whispered" is not very clear, but it is safe to say that it includes her given Leonard's determination.
Teletha “Tessa” Testarossa
Captain of the revered Tuatha de Danaan, known as the "Toy Box" to the submarine captains of the world. She is very intelligent, but fairly clumsy and with little atlethic abilites. Like Kaname, she is a "Whispered". She is in love with Sousuke, and jealous of how he treats Kaname. Her parents are dead, but how they died is unknown. It seems she had a crush on Bunny, the "whispered" who developed Mithril's Lambda Driver installed in the Arbalest. She does not know the details regarding Bunny's death. She hates her brother for his ego and his affiliation with Amalgam.
Leonard Testarossa
He is the brother of Tessa, and part of Amalgam. He is known in the organization as "Mr. Silver" and is accompanied by what it seems to be two men in coats, which in reality they are man-sized ASs. After his ASs gets rid of the assassin sent by Gauron, he tries to convince Kaname to follow him, but when she refuses, he kisses her. He is also a "Whispered" and is in love with Kaname. He thinks of Sousuke as nothing more than a obstacle to Kaname's heart.
Andrei Sergeivich Kalinin
Sousukes's commanding officer and appointed to Tessa by Mithril as a military strategist. He is listed as the foster father of Sousuke in the forged documents used to have Sousuke accepted at the Jindai High School. He met Sousuke while serving with the Soviet Spetsnaz in Afghanistan (indirectly referred to in the anime as "Helmajistan"). They were enemies at first, but after something involving the guerilla group Sousuke belonged to and Gauron happened, they became allies. He used himself as bait to allow Sousuke to shoot Gauron in his head. He cares a lot for Sousuke, and certainly knows what he would do in most situations, never doubting at all his professionalism. He has a wife and sons, but their whereabouts and conditions are unknown.
Melissa Mao
Melissa is the second-in-command of team Uluz. She is of Chinese descent, and an ex-US Marine. She joined the Marines the day of her arranged marriage. She usually smacks Kurz due to his crude and impolite behavior. She thinks of Sousuke and Kurz as her younger brothers, and tries to help Sousuke when she can. Her callsign is Uluz 2. Her M9 is fitted with an special fin designed to jam enemy communications.
Kurz Weber
Mithril's best sniper, Kurz may seem to be single because of his constant hits on women, but he has a girlfriend with a disease and pays for her treatment. His callsign is Uluz 6, and he is Sousuke's most trusted friend. He often gets in trouble with Melissa because of his crude comments and actions, and is usually assigned jobs -like cleaning ASs, cleaning decks, etc.- for his behavior.
Richard Mardukas
He is the second in command of the Tuatha de Danaan, and Tessa's submarine situations advisor, Mardukas seems to hate Sousuke. The hat he wears was given to him when he served in the Royal Navy. He is known as "The Duke" because of his tactical prowess in Submarine Battles. The HMS Turbulent (S87) is a real British submarine.
Kyoko Tokiwa
Kaname's best friend, she is usually vouching for Sousuke. She wants to see Kaname happy, and she tries everything to make Sousuke and Kaname declare their feelings to each other. One can be deceived because her childlike appearance, but with the right hair style and clothing, her appearance changes to one of a young adult. She is usually seen around the school with her small pink digital camera, taking pictures of Kaname, Sousuke and everything else.
Name of the Tuatha de Danaan SRT Team
The correct spelling of the TDD-1 SRT team name shown in this series is "Uruz". It can be seen in episode 6, "Edge of Heaven" of this series: an E-mail sent to Sousuke identifies him as "Uruz-7". Originally, it was "Uluz", and it can be seen in episode 6: "Still Alive" of Full Metal Panic!, when Sousuke activates the Arbalest for the first time after it was sent by the TDD-1 inside an ICBM in that series. The Arbalest's screen identified him as "Uluz-7". Both forms of the name are correct.
"Uruz" happens to be a letter of the Runic alphabet. In neo-Paganistic circles such as Wicca, Uruz represents strength. It is likely that this is the origin of the team's name, considering the scattered refences to ancient mythology throughout the franchise: Ogma (the call sign for one of Mithril's operatives), Tuatha de Danaan (the name of Mithril's submarine), etc.
This confusion and consequent double transliteration is caused by the fact that the Japanese language doesn't distinguish between R and L. Also, because Japanese speakers tend to add vocal sounds at the end of Rōmaji words, in the anime it is pronounced as "Uluzu" (or "Uruzu". Both sound the same in the Japanese language).
In the DVDs released by ADV Films of Full Metal Panic! the term used in the english subtitles is "Urzu", which can be argued that when read in english it sounds the closest to the original Japanese sound. This term is used by some fansub groups for Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid. A similar transliteration problem caused by Romanization can be seen in the name of the character Alucard, from Hellsing.
Non-Japanese Releases
This series has not yet been licensed for distribution outside of Japan, but it is assumed that it will be licensed and dubbed into English by ADV Films, the same company that licensed both the original series and FMP? Fumoffu for the North American region.