Product Details

• Actors: Tomokazu Seki, Jason Douglas, Satsuki Yukino, Tomoko Kaneda, Christine M. Auten
• Directors: Don Rush, Yasuhiro Takemoto
• Writers: Yasuhiro Takemoto, Fumihiko Shimo, Mike Yantosca, Shôji Gatô
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Section 23
• DVD Release Date: September 13, 2005
• Run Time: 75 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000ADKWJG
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #103,286 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu - Full Metal Fervor! (Vol. 3)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

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Kaname's friend Kyoko sums up the third set of episodes of the action comedy Full Metal Panic Fumoffu when she observes, "This just keeps getting weirder." The principal of Jindai High threatens to disband the rugby club unless the players break their 49-year losing streak. Sousuke has to train them for their critical match--with the help of a book of rugby rules (which he doesn't quite grasp) and a volume of Marine-style cursing (which he grasps only too well). Jealousy rears its head during a visit from Captain Teletha "Tessa" Testarosa, Sousuke's Mithril commander in the previous season. Tessa brings military and fan service to Jindai High and the Okutama hot springs, but no one peeks at her or Kaname in the outdoor baths when Sousuke's on duty. Full Metal Fervor can't quite match the previous Full Metal Fracas for take-no-prisoners hilarity, but it's still very funny. (Rated TV PG V: comic violence, nudity, risqué humor, including real and fake profanity) --Charles Solomon

Product Description

Studio: Adv Films Release Date: 09/13/2005 Run time: 75 minutes

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tessa Fans of all Nations, Unite!, September 10, 2005

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PDR Mike (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu - Full Metal Fervor! (Vol. 3) (DVD)

The highlight of the 3rd volume of Full Metal Panic Fumoffu is the return of Captain Tessa for 2 episodes. It's really a shame that she only appears in 2 episodes in this series. Anyway, Tessa decides to use her vacation from the sub to attend Kaname's high school as an "exchange student". In her first episode she shows up at Souske's apartment and enrolls at school. In the second episode pretty much the whole cast goes to a Hot Springs, including Kurtz and Mao who also make an appearance. The Hot Springs episode contains more fanservice than all the other episodes in the series combined! In short, if you like Tessa, these 2 episodes might be your favorites of the enitre Fumoffu series.

Oh, there is another episode on this disk: Kaname and Souske try and turn the wimpy school Rugby team into tough guys so they can defeat their rivals and save the Rugby Club. There is an incredible amount of foul language in this episode, a lot of it is bleeped out in both the Japanese and English versions, I'm not sure if it was aired originally with the naughty words or not, but it's not too hard to make out what Souske is saying. It's a funny episode.

To summarize, if you like Tessa (like me) you'll wait in line to get this disk. Lots of laughs and plenty of fanservice.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars FUNNY BEYOND EXPECTATION!!!, May 24, 2006

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Niko - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu - Full Metal Fervor! (Vol. 3) (DVD)

To begin with, it is definitely a very good show, something that I will explain later on.

Let us start with the outline of the story.

As the rest of the DVDs, this one has three stories going on:
1) In the first episode Sousuke and Kaname will be assigned to help the rugby team to get back to the winner's road. The problem: The rugby team will behave more like poets (just brought up as an example, I have nothing against them)rather than being an actual rugby team (well, the ones who play this or a similar sport will understand what I mean when watching the shows). In order to help them Sousuke will isolate them for a week somewhere in the mountains and give them the proper military `basic training'. Funny as hell. By the way, Sousuke will curse at the players like a lunatic but `bibs' will be heard all the time.
2) The second episode, is when Tessa (who appears only in this and in the next episode alongside with Mao and Kurz) decides during her vacations, because the sub needs repairs, to visit the school of Sousuke and Kaname `firing' the love triangle to new heights.
3) The third episode is one of the most talked about. Tessa decides to spend her final weekend in a hot spring. And guess what Mao and Kurz show up as university students (cover). Well, you can already imagine: The Men will give everything to see the naked bodies of the women and you will laugh with what they will come up. The only one standing between them: Sousuke. This show is extremely hilarious.

Overall, FMP Fumoffu concentrates more on the `ordinary school life' and on comedy, in contrast to FMP which balanced between comedy and action with Mechas. Nobody dies but it is funny as hell.

Additionally, the current series combine comedy, romance and action. As for the voices, either you hear it in Japanese or dubbed, both versions are very satisfying.

Last but not least, the price is the usual one that is charged for separated DVDs, in contrast to FMP 1st season that comes out in a box set and is much cheaper.

As a side note, the last FMP series that is out there is called FMP overload and currently available only on some other sides which for obvious reasons I cannot name here.

The final question:
Buying it or not?

Having watched all the series, my humble opinion would be: Yes and I highly recommend the shows.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WHIP THESE WIMPS INTO SHAPE, October 23, 2005

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Sesho "www.sesho.libsyn.com" (Pasadena, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu - Full Metal Fervor! (Vol. 3) (DVD)

Sousuke and Chidori have been given an assignment by the student body president that they are not particularly suited for. They have to whip the school's rugby team into shape because if they lose their next game, the program will be dismantled. The problem lies in the fact that all the players are a bunch of sissies whose idea of a work-out is to laze around and water plants! Things are not going well until Sousuke institutes a military style training regimen, including tons of cuss-words that have to be censored for sensitive ears. After that, Sousuke has to deal with the arrival of his superior officer, who informs him that Captain Tessa is coming to stay at his apartment and will attend his school as she takes a vacation from Mithril. Of course, this is going to really get under Chidori's skin, especially because she won't admit she even likes Sousuke, and Tessa has a major league crush on our military nut. But just wait till you see the hilarity of that fan-service obligatory anime phenomena...the hot spring bath visit as a send-off to Tessa. With sex-crazed Kurtz and his arch-enemy Mao along for the trip, things are going to get ugly. Especially as Kurtz's main goal in life is to be a peeping tom!

This show is really funny. While the middle episode on this volume was pretty weak in terms of humor, the other two that bookend it were just great. The voice acting is superb and really makes you like the characters. This could have easily went the way of Excel Saga and bored the viewer, but it keeps up the laughs. The animation is also great, even though the show is pretty domestic, there's still a lot of action.