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The Best Episodes of Full Metal Panic!

Every episode of Full Metal Panic! ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Full Metal Panic!!

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Kaname Chidori’s one of the most popular girls at her high school – unfortunately, it’s her growing popularity off campus she should be worrying about. Unbeknownst to Kaname, terrorists are plotting her abduction, believing she

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Full Metal Panic! Season 4 Episode 1 - Zero Hour
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E1

    Amalgam decides it's time to get serious about its Mithril problem, and this means big challenges are on the horizon for Sousuke, Kaname, and Tessa. As enemies close in on all fronts, will they find ways to overcome those challenges?

    Director:Katsuichi Nakayama
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  2. Full Metal Panic! Season 4 Episode 2 - Damage Control
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E2

    In Tokyo, Sousuke and Kaname flee from enemy agents in a desperate attempt to rendezvous with their allies. On Merida Island, Mithril struggles to respond to a fierce and demoralizing assault by Amalgam forces.

    Director:Masashi Abe
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  3. Full Metal Panic! Season 4 Episode 3 - Big One Percent
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E3

    The SRT team has its hands more than full trying to protect Merida Island from three rampaging Behemoths. Sousuke and Kaname attempt to deal with their own frantic situation, as Amalgam's Kurama drags the students of Jindai High School into the fray.

    Director:Daisuke Tsukushi
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  4. Full Metal Panic! Season 4 Episode 4 - On My Own
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E4

    Sousuke and Kaname work together to save Kyoko and everyone else at Jindai High, and they both reach a point where they must make difficult, fateful decisions. Tessa likewise tries to save as many of her people as possible as she abandons the island base.

    Director:Kenta Onishi
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  5. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 1 - The Man from the South / A Fruitless Lunchtime
    8.3/10(104 votes)

    S2:E1

    A secret admirer leaves a love letter in Sousuke's shoe locker. Instead of finding the letter, he deduces that his locker was tampered with and promptly blows it up. From its fragments, Sousuke misinterprets the letter as a death threat and confronts his "stalker". Sousuke forgets Kaname's notes at home, and they make a frantic dash to retrieve them and return before lunchtime ends. Despite their tardiness, they find out that the notes were not needed since their teacher coincidentally fell sick.

    Director:Noriyuki Kitanohara
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  6. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 2 - Summer Illusion of Steel
    7.9/10(80 votes)

    S2:E2

    After Sousuke causes a panic at the school's bread stand, Sousuke and Kaname have to fill in for the stand's lunchtime duties, which raises the ire of the physical education teacher. He attempts to sabotage their bread, but he falls for Sousuke's booby traps, when Sousuke was expecting that someone would tamper the bread. Sousuke forgets Kaname's notes at home, and they make a frantic dash to retrieve them and return before lunchtime ends. Despite their tardiness, they find out that the notes were not needed since their teacher coincidentally fell sick.

    Director:Yoshiji Kigami
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  7. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 4 - The Hamburger Hill of Art / Single-Minded Stakeout
    7.6/10(74 votes)

    S2:E4

    During a field trip to the park, the class selects Sousuke to be the model for their art project. However, Sousuke misinterprets the modeling advice he receives from their art teacher, turning the assignment with his classmates into a game of life-and-death. Kaname goes on a date with a former classmate to an amusement park while Sousuke and Kyoko follow her. Sousuke seems relieved that she's simply on a date until a drunken yakuza group threatens Kaname. Not wanting to reveal that he was following her, Sousuke comes to the rescue disguised as the amusement park mascot.

    Director:Noriyuki Kitanohara
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  8. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 10 - A Fancy Without Honor or Humanity
    7.6/10(62 votes)

    S2:E10

    Sousuke and Kaname discover that Ren Mikihara is a yakuza daughter whose members ask for their help to deal with a rival gang. Sousuke, in his mascot disguise, trains the yakuza members. When the rival gang kidnaps Kaname and Ren, Sousuke and his recruits rescue them wearing the special mascot AS. The episode was dedicated to Kinji Fukasaku, director of Battles Without Honor and Humanity, who had died earlier that year.

    Director:Tomihiko Ohkubo
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  9. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 11 - Uncontrollable Bluebird
    7.6/10(63 votes)

    S2:E11

    A lack of space for all of Jindai High's student organizations prompts a review of each group's numbers. Because they only have two members, the social science club agrees to give up their room through a contest to see which club can recruit the most members of the opposite gender. Sousuke participates, but his poor social skills fail to attract anyone to his club. Kaname, feeling sorry for Sousuke, decides to help out so he can avoid a bet he made with another club.

    Director:Yasuhiro Takemoto
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  10. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 13 - The Continuing Day By Day
    7.6/10(50 votes)

    S3:E13

    Still demoralized by Gauron's claims of killing Kaname, Sousuke still refuses to function until Kaname finally appears to get him back on his feet. Inspired by her presence, Sousuke pilots the Arbalest again to destroy Gates and his men. Kaname returns home to Japan. Sousuke faces the Mithril command, which grants his request to stay with Kaname even if his wages are reduced.

    Director:Yasuhiro Takemoto
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  11. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 6 - Edge of Heaven
    7.5/10(49 votes)

    S3:E6

    Mithril attempts to learn more about the mysterious Amalgam organization. Sousuke and Kaname's relationship begins to blossom; however, the Mithril leadership forbids him from seeing her after his bodyguard duties are assigned to another agent.

    Director:Yutaka Yamamoto
    Writer:山本宽

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  12. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 9 - Her Problem
    7.5/10(48 votes)

    S3:E9

    Kaname confronts Agent Wraith about Sousuke's departure, but as she is about to get answers, Xia Yu Lan ambushes the two. Kaname outwits her pursuer until Leonard Testarossa, another Amalgam agent who is also Tessa's brother, shows up and kills Xia Yu Lan. He reveals that the assassin was a rogue agent acting outside of Amalgam's interests.

    Director:Noriyuki Kitanohara
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  13. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 3 - Summer Illusion of Steel
    7.4/10(76 votes)

    S2:E3

    During a day at the beach, Kaname becomes upset at Sousuke's insensitivity. When she goes off alone, she is asked to have tea with a boy who is enamored with her. Sousuke, however, believes that she was kidnapped and proceeds to rescue her from her apparent kidnappers.

    Director:Tomihiko Ohkubo
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  14. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 5 - The Pure Yet Impure Grappler / Trespassing on Good Faith
    7.4/10(72 votes)

    S2:E5

    Sousuke and Kaname ask the school's karate club to vacate their dojo, which is slated for demolition. However, the club refuses to leave, challenging Sousuke to a duel where they'll leave if they lose. Sousuke defeats the club's members with relative ease until he faces the club's captain. As a test of superiority, Sousuke and the karate club's captain compete to care for the injured school janitor; however, their overzealous efforts do more harm than good. The janitor tries to be patient, but finally goes berserk when they accidentally serve his prized koi pet to him for dinner.

    Director:Masatsugu Arakawa
    Writer:Noriyuki Kitanohara

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  15. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 8 - A Goddess Comes to Japan (Part 1: The Suffering)
    7.4/10(67 votes)

    S2:E8

    During a lull at the Mithril base after the events of the first season's final few episodes, Tessa decides to spend the time as an exchange student at Jindai High to learn more about school life. Sousuke, however, finds the stress of guarding her overbearing and collapses from fatigue.

    Director:Yutaka Yamamoto
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  16. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 7 - Left Behind
    7.4/10(46 votes)

    S3:E7

    Sousuke argues with his replacement, Agent Wraith, about the mission to protect Kaname. Kaname wonders why Sousuke has not been attending classes in days and starts to become worried. When she needs to see him after a chance encounter with Amalgam agent Xia Yu Lan, she finds his apartment vacant and he has disappeared.

    Director:Shinobu Yoshioka
    Writer:Yasuhiro Takemoto

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  17. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 6 - The Hard Sell Fetish / The Patient of Darkness
    7.3/10(72 votes)

    S2:E6

    Sousuke and Kaname investigate bizarre incidents where a masked predator attacks schoolgirls and gives them ponytails. With the help of a local policewoman, they set up a trap to catch the attacker using Kaname as bait. To teach a stoic Sousuke the meaning of fear, Kaname takes him into a haunted hospital, but she becomes more scared than Sousuke. They learn that the haunted hospital rumor was perpetuated by the mother and son living there who wanted peace and quiet.

    Director:Yoshiji Kigami
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  18. Full Metal Panic! Season 2 Episode 9 - A Goddess Comes to Japan (Part 2: The Hot Spring)
    7.3/10(68 votes)

    S2:E9

    Sousuke, Kaname, Tessa, Kurz, Melissa, and their friends travel to an onsen (hot springs) for some rest and relaxation before Tessa returns to Merida Island. Sousuke sets up a defensive perimeter and booby traps around the girls' bath, foiling the other boys' attempts to sneak a peek.

    Director:Sumio Watanabe
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  19. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 12 - Burning Hong Kong
    7.3/10(47 votes)

    S3:E12

    Xia Yu Fan leads Sousuke to Gauron while she runs off to fight Clouseau, Melissa, and Kurz in Hong Kong as Northern and Southern China teeter on the brink of hostilities. Now crippled and about to die, Gauron explains the truth about Amalgam and taunts Sousuke by claiming to have killed Kaname because it changed him into someone weak. Enraged, Sousuke kills Gauron and gets out of the building just as a bomb under his bed explodes. Gates and his Amalgam team also arrive to kill Xia Yu Fan. Tessa launches the Arbalest despite Mithril's orders not to.

    Director:Yoshiji Kigami
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  20. Full Metal Panic! Season 1 Episode 4 - Kidnap
    7.2/10(80 votes)

    S1:E4

    The airplane with Sousuke, Kaname and 400 of their classmates is hijacked and brought to a secluded location. Kaname is taken away from the plane, but what will Sousuke do to rescue her?

    Director:Setsuo Takase
    Writer:Tomihiko Ohkubo

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  21. Full Metal Panic! Season 1 Episode 12 - One Night Stand
    7.2/10(71 votes)

    S1:E12

    The giant AS - Behemoth - is on the move, crushing Mao's M9 in only seconds! When Kurz attempts to engage the monstrosity, the situation looks bad - until a crusader appears in the sky!

    Director:Koichi Chigira
    Writer:Masashi Sogo

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  22. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 4 - Daylight
    7.2/10(47 votes)

    S3:E4

    Mithril is perplexed at how the enemy is able to follow their movements. Once they realize that their communications have been compromised, Tessa and Commander Andrei Kalinin give false orders to facilitate the rescue and turn the tables on Amalgam.

    Director:Yoshiji Kigami
    Writer:Shouji Gatou

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  23. Full Metal Panic! Season 3 Episode 5 - Beautiful Sicily
    7.2/10(48 votes)

    S3:E5

    The SRT travels to Sicily to capture the traitor from the Nanjing operation. Sousuke has difficulties balancing work and school when he tries to have a phone conversation with Kaname and to drive a getaway vehicle at the same time. A mysterious AS also appears to help the team get away. Seeing the stress of his everyday duties, Mao decides to ask Sousuke about his own plans for the future.

    Director:Yasuhiro Takemoto
    Writer:Fumihiko Shimo

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  24. Full Metal Panic! Season 1 Episode 1 - The Guy I Kinda Like is a Sergeant
    7.1/10(112 votes)

    S1:E1

    As part of the organization Mithril, Sergeant Souske Sagara, Melissa Mao and Kurz Weber receive a secret mission: guarding Kaname Chidori, a popular student from a Tokyo high school who has hidden military potential.

    Director:Akihiko Nishiyama
    Writer:Koichi Chigira

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  25. Full Metal Panic! Season 1 Episode 5 - Whispered - The Ones to be Whispered
    7.1/10(77 votes)

    S1:E5

    Sousuke comes to Kaname's rescue, and the rest of the rescue team arrives on the scene as well, but can they hold off the army and save the students? Can Sousuke get Kaname to safety?

    Director:Yasuhiro Kuroda
    Writer:Koji Ueda

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Best Episodes Summary

"Zero Hour" is the best rated episode of "Full Metal Panic!". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Katsuichi Nakayama and written by Shouji Gatou, it aired on 4/13/2018. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Damage Control".