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Amusement parks are places of wonder and fun for all ages... right? Well, that''s not quite the case for Amagi Brilliant Park, a "crummy" amusement park on the outskirts of Tokyo where the snacks are inedible, the attractions are falling apart, and the mascots regularly get into fistfights with the guests. It''s the kind of place that cool, handsome, brilliant Kanie Seiya wouldn''t be caught dead in... until a mysterious girl drags him there--at literal gunpoint--and demands that he help them save the park!From the author of Full Metal Panic!

Kanie Seiya has saved the park... right? Well, you can hardly call it “saved” when they’re majorly understaffed and their budget is running on fumes! Which means that if Seiya wants to give his newfound friends more than a brief stay of execution, he’ll have to navigate a new set of trials. Touch-and-go employee interviews and razor’s edge investor negotiations may be par for the course... but when things escalate to literal trials in a literal dungeon, it won''t just be the park whose survival is in question!

Working at your favorite amusement park is awesome... right? Well, it''s not so easy for Chujo Shiina, a painfully shy girl who takes a job at AmaBri to escape a miserable first year of high school. Her favorite mascots are cranky old men, the star of the live show keeps catching fire, and her boss barely acknowledges her existence! What she doesn''t know is that the park is in a new scramble to quintuple its yearly attendance or close... and she''s about to become an integral part of that effort!

Some people are just unlucky... right? Well, no one''s as unlucky as Bando Biino, a high school girl who just got hired at Amagi Brilliant Park. Accidents and bloodshed just seem to follow Biino around, so if Acting Manager Kanie Seiya wants to stand a chance of reaching their attendance quota by the end of the year, he may have no choice but to fire her. By putting their fate in the hands of a distractible doctor from another world, can they save both the park and Biino''s career?

It''s important to keep your work life and personal life separate... right? Well, the two are about to collide for Adachi Eiko when her boss, Macaron, stumbles into a fight with her fiancé in a bar! Now, to keep her influential father from taking his anger out on Amagi Brilliant Park, Macaron will have to win him over. Can he, Seiya, and Tricen put on a show good enough to impress the discerning doctor? And what sinister magical device has Seiya arranged to help facilitate the process?!

Drawing three million people in a year is impossible for a tiny park... right? Well, Seiya thinks so, but he''s about to get help. The leader of the world''s most popular theme park has taken interest in Amagi, and he wants to see Seiya reach his goal, no matter what the cost! Unfortunately, for Seiya, the cost might prove too high... when Latifah loses her memory again, he''ll have to make a grim decision about what really matters.

Co-workers need to get along... right? Well, things aren''t that easy for the stars of AmaBri''s fourth most popular attraction, Elementario. Salama is forced to slum for crash space after losing her apartment in a fire; Kobory wrestles with social anxiety amidst well-meaning rumors of a helpful park "fairy;" Muse takes a grilling from her castmates about her romantic prospects; and Sylphie... starts a dance riot?! But none of these troubles compare to the terrible secret they''re about to learn about their costumes!

When things get overwhelming, the best move is to run away... right? Well, Seiya''s certainly starting to feel that way, as summer draws to a close and the reality of the park''s attendance seems locked in. Buckling beneath the pressure, Seiya tours the territory of Sanami Amusement Park, a desiccated ruin that seems to taunt him with visions of AmaBri''s own future. But will the trip change his destiny — and Isuzu''s — forever?

Sagara Sousuke isn''t your typical high school student. He reads military enthusiast magazines; he responds to questions with "affirmative;" he brings grenades to school in his bag. Though everyone at school takes him for a hopeless military geek, Chidori Kaname thinks there might be something more to him. When their plane is hijacked in the middle of a field trip, Kaname''s instincts will prove correct: Sousuke is an elite, mech-piloting mercenary... and he''s here to protect her!

Two months after Sunan, Sousuke and Kaname are in a holding pattern. He''ll fire his rifle off the school roof; she''ll yell at him to stop; lather, rinse, repeat. That all changes one day, when Sousuke''s commanding officer Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa shows up at his apartment, trying to hide a key to a terrorist superweapon of unprecedented power. Tessa is brilliant, pretty, and the same age as Sousuke, and her presence might put a serious crimp on his relationship with Kaname... assuming the city survives the night!

Kaname is in the doldrums: There''s just one week until the end of summer vacation, and she hasn''t done anything interesting! Fortunately, Sousuke is here to provide a little adventure, by offering her a trip to Merida Island. But what starts for Kaname as a simple trip to learn more about the mystery surrounding her quickly snowballs into a firefight in a chemical weapons facility, a reunion with a mortal enemy, and a battle for control of a runaway submarine! However things turn out, at least she can''t claim that her summer was uneventful...

With the defeat of Gauron, Sousuke''s life has entered a comfortable rhythm. He''s adjusting to school—the occasional car bomb false alarm notwithstanding—and balancing his newly-found normalcy with the needs of his mercenary life. He''s even started to turn his thoughts toward the future—a future that might involve Kaname. But that future will soon face a threat, not from North Korean soldiers, Italian mobsters, or Russian spetsnaz... but from the hierarchy of Mithril itself!

On orders from Mithril, Sousuke has been forced to abandon Kaname to focus on learning the secrets the Arbalest and the lambda driver. Meanwhile, Kaname—left to the care of a remote and anonymous intelligence agent—feels the threat from a mysterious pursuer drawing ever closer. Their challenges will lead them both to the tension-racked streets of Hong Kong, a city even more divided than the burgeoning couple''s destinies. And a series of climactic showdowns will bring them to a reckoning with enemies old and new!

What could be more romantic than Christmas Eve on a cruise ship? That''s what Kaname is thinking when her school decides to schedule a make-up class trip... at least, until Sousuke declares that he''s made other plans. He''ll soon find that he''s needed, though, as the ship finds itself beset by half-hearted terrorists, killer robots in the hold, and worst of all—a wannabe hero who''s seen too much Die Hard! With the specter of Amalgam hanging over everything, can Sousuke probe the mystery behind them, while also keeping Kaname safe from harm?

The Pacific Chrysalis was Mithril''s first true victory over Amalgam, but their success has only led to escalation. Between growing suspicion at school and cryptic warnings from Tessa''s brother that everything is about to change, Sousuke begins to realize that his peaceful life in Tokyo might not last much longer. Before he can even prepare, though, Sousuke finds himself running a gauntlet beyond anything he could have imagined. He''ll have to fight not just for his own life, but for the life of everyone he knows!

Sousuke has been torn away, not just from Kaname, but from the entire life he’s made for himself. His flight brings him to a lawless border town in Southeast Asia, whose economy revolves around mech battles played out for sport and profit. On a lead that Amalgam is involved with the corrupt authorities there, Sousuke joins a ragtag team headed by an impetuous young local and her reluctant foreign sponsor. But as he seeks what he’s lost, will Sousuke lose what he’s gained?

All hope is not lost! Mithril might be scattered to the four winds for now, but its members continue to work toward the same goal. While Tessa concocts a plan to strike back at Amalgam, Hunter conspires to create a new ace machine to turn the tide. Meanwhile Sousuke—even with few allies, limited resources, and a body riddled by mortal wounds—remains determined to free Kaname from Leonard''s clutches. Can these disconnected factions meet up and begin working together in time?!

The battle at Niquelo ignited in Sousuke and Kaname a new passion to find each other, but the rest of the world won''t make it that easy. While Sousuke fights, waiting for the operation that might bring her back to his arms, Kaname endures new trials at the hands of a jealous tormenter. Everything comes to a head in an abandoned Soviet research town, and the winding tunnels beneath it—tunnels that hosted a catastrophe seventeen years ago, and which might hold the secret to the Whispered themselves!

The secrets of the Whispered have been revealed, but that knowledge has only brought new danger. Leonard has retreated to Merida Island, where he seeks to rewrite reality itself with Kaname by his side. And with Mithril''s forces already aching and depleted, Amalgam has occupied a Soviet missile base—with the intent to trigger worldwide nuclear war! It''s a two-fronted battle on Merida Island and the mountains of Afghanistan for the penultimate volume of Full Metal Panic!

Clouseau and Mao lead the charge in Afghanistan to prevent nuclear war, while Sousuke and Tessa invade Merida Island, intent on stopping Leonard and his world-changing TARTAROS device. With resources depleted and the very world changing around them, their desperation to find each other is all they have left. Will Kaname awaken from her nightmare? Will Sousuke get through to her in time? Will anyone survive?! All bets are off in the explosive final volume of Full Metal Panic!

Sagara Sousuke isn''t your typical high school student. He reads military enthusiast magazines; he responds to questions with "affirmative;" he brings grenades to school in his bag. Though everyone at school takes him for a hopeless military geek, Chidori Kaname thinks there might be something more to him. When their plane is hijacked in the middle of a field trip, Kaname''s instincts will prove correct: Sousuke is an elite, mech-piloting mercenary... and he''s here to protect her!

Lifelong mercenary Sagara Sousuke’s struggles to fit in at a regular Japanese high school continue. He turns a turf war with delinquents into a hostage situation, investigates a local shrine for nuclear weapons, and sends a struggling rugby team through boot camp! He’s getting closer with his friend Chidori Kaname, too... but between almost losing an important assignment of hers—forcing them into a race against time to get home and back—and running recon on her first date with an old crush, he might be a little behind in the count! But however the game turns out, this is one batter that always swings for the fences!

Mercenary-turned-student Sagara Sousuke is here to solve any problems that might befall his new home front of Jindai High. He’ll investigate a threat to a schoolwide sports tournament, play unwitting cupid for two lonely teachers, and engage in a cat-and-mouse rivalry against a lunchtime saboteur! With his potential love interest (and eternal wrangler) Chidori Kaname by his side, he’ll also seek out the truth behind a haunted hospital and lay a trap for a fiendish after-school attacker—who forces women’s hair into ponytails! Life in Tokyo might seem like a circus sometimes, but ringmaster Sousuke is here to take control!

Having left his mercenary life behind for the peace and quiet of Tokyo, Sagara Sousuke is ready for the next chapter in his career... as a private investigator?! With his loyal(ish?) assistant Chidori Kaname at his side, he’ll apply his eagle’s eye to the murder of endangered snails at Jindai High, the potentially shady past of his overachieving student council president, and a new business that''s moved in near the school—one that proports to indulge men’s greatest fantasies! Even when clues seem scattered to the four winds, Detective Sousuke is always on the case!

Sagara Sousuke might no longer be a mercenary, but there are still times when he’s called in to solve problems. With the endless support (and occasional fury) of Chidori Kaname spurring him on, he’ll negotiate peace between playground warring factions, fight a martial arts duel for control of a dojo, and lead a yakuza turf war—with mascot suits! But whether he has to track down a missing handbag (possibly full of biological weapons) or compete for the approval of a convalescing custodian, there’s no blaze that firefighter Sousuke can’t extinguish!

He may have survived the world’s most dangerous battlefields, but Sagara Sousuke is finding his tenure in high school to be no less intense. In addition to having to master new skills—navigating a romance for a karate-obsessed rival, subbing in as an actor for a tyrannical movie director, drafting a prospective student pamphlet for a special reward—his relationship with Chidori Kaname is becoming more complicated. After he participates in a girl hunt (to help out a friend, of course) and unleashes a biohazard in his homeroom class... if enemy snipers don’t put him in an early grave, Kaname just might!

Former mercenary Sagara Sousuke might just be getting comfortable with his life in Tokyo. After all, most students his age would love to go on a triple date with college girls, attend a drinking party in a house of welcoming foreigners, or take a day off while the school hosts a VIP... but then, things for Sousuke are never quite that easy. Not only does none of that quite go as planned, he also has to save a delinquent double agent from exposure and interrupt a late-night hot pot party to foil robbers at the school! No matter how the days might feel like heaven, Sousuke never fails to find a little slice of hell!

Sagara Sousuke has the skill and stamina to survive on the world’s most dangerous battlefields, but nothing he’s faced has tested his mind as much as life at a normal school in Tokyo. His latest challenges include diving head-first into a fantasy MMORPG, impersonating a celebrity (for whom he happens to be a dead ringer), and attempting to lead his class to victory against a wily culture festival rival. With Chidori Kaname involved every step of the way, it’s a job that would intimidate anyone... but even when he has to judge her in a school pageant competition, Sousuke always knows the angle to play!

As a former mercenary, Sagara Sousuke’s ordinary student existence in Tokyo sometimes feels unreal. One day, he’s mastering airsoft guns to battle the school’s survival game club. The next, he’s defending a convention of adorable mascots from a horde of angry metal-head hooligans. He’d like to help his friend, Chidori Kaname, escape her days of loneliness... but he might have to make do with helping her cleaning lady escape accusations of burglary! Will Sousuke’s “normal life” add up to nothing more than a flash in the pan? Stay tuned for the final volume of Full Metal Panic short stories!