How the More Than Special Edition Feature works~
The best way to optimize this Feature is to watch the episode at the same time as reading, but because this can be difficult, watch the clip first without the Feature to distract you. Once finished, replay the scene in the background to remind you of what happened and in what order while reading the MTS Feature. The written segments are supposed to be in timing with the flashing scenes stating humorous thoughts, feelings, emotions and observations of the viewer. This is not intended to offend anyone and is not the sole expressed rights or views of Gonzo, Shoji Gahtoh, Fan4Lost or Miz.
With that in mind, the following More Than Special scene is from the very first Episode of the Original Full Metal Panic Series, after the opening credits and lasts 4 minutes and 16 seconds into the first Episode.
Start: birds flying over the waters as seen in the intro song
End: close of the rescue scene when Sousuke gives the girl his name
Click here to open video in separate screen
Ready to start??? Then here we go!
We descend upon a peaceful scene. Sparkly water.
Birds: *flying*
Waves: *crashing*
Birds: *flying*
And the viewer screams, “Yeah, yeah, we saw this in the opening already, we get it. What’s the point already!?”
Silent traffic lights, bridges… purtyness…
“Whoa, whoa. What’s with the Greek language? We’re in Japan! …. right?”
As we ponder that we enter the window into a room. Purty pictures pinned up on the wall with several strangers we have a feeling we’re going to get to know a whole lot about if quantity is convertible equivalent to importance at all. But, knowing the way Japanese animation tells their story we’ll go through the entire series and never know a lick. Just like we’ll never see the main characters kiss.
*Ahem* Recovering from this brutal disappointment, we return our train of thought to a very… very blue haired girl. (Srsly, what’s the deal with the blue hair?) Nevermind the fact that her demonic chanting has stopped and it’s been replaced by some… seriously ugly rooster-turned-alarm-clock. (Did she dye it? That can’t be natural.)
Man, that bird is annoying.
-The Guy I Kinda Like is a Sergeant-
Like!? As in love interest!? All the fangirls sway and glue their eyes to the screen with intense interest. The guys, they’re rolling their eyes while multitasking the meaning of the chanting that meant something to them because they heard the words “electromagnetic force.”
fangirls: SNOW!? What the… where are we? Love scenes don’t happen in the snow! It’s supposed to be roses and petals…
Now it’s the boys’ turn to be glued to the screen, as a very impressive helimicopter with shiny, shiny wings has appeared!
fanguys: OMGWTF, guns too!? *sparkly eyes*
And the guys go off on technical statistics of rounds-per-second, make and types of ammo.
Jeep: *goes bouncy*
A girl and man appear together (nevermind they are in a vehicle going ridiculous speeds heading only God knows where at such RPMs) and the girls immediately squeal. She’s biting her thumb, yeah, but he’s forceful with her and is trying to protect her from hurting herself.
fangirls: Random Guy+Random Girl=LOVE INTEREST! (we’re willing to see past the blood trailing down her hand)
*SEE HER SUDDENLY BITE HIS HAND*
Scenes of syringes full of drugs and weird words flash across the screen. Because we all know that’s what goes through our mind when we felt the need to bite the next door neighbor at four years old.
fangirls: What the hell? That’s not love.
fanguys: DUDE THIS SERIES IS FRICKING SWEET
Horrible thing? He SAVED HER!
fangirls: *now re-interested in the kindling love interest*
The guy directs her attention to mountains, and the we’re thinking – man, what is UP with this chick? Kill her? Yus? What mountains?
fangirls: Go HOME? As in together? As in in love! Look! It’s a field blooming in love!
fanguys: Wow, daisies.
Suddenly it’s not about the daisies… they were probably drugged to induce whomever walked through them into a drug aided coma like in the Wizard of Oz. No, no, instead we’re riding a missile piggyback.
fanguys: MISSILE! YUS, PREPARE FOR TOTAL DESTRUCTION WITH THE MUSHROOM CLOUDS AND THE BOOMY.
fangirls: It’s all happening so quickly. Love story? What happened to the love story!? This series sucks.
Gazing upon a brightly burning fire in the middle of no where. Sure, that contrasts so brightly with WHITE snow someone is going to HAVE to notice it somewhere along the way. Sign this place up for my honeymoon.
After a wreck like that, being thrown more than twenty five feet away, there ain’t no way I could just get back up like her without at least having to check for scratches, bruises, broken bones – you know, or at least a little stretch to ease the achiness! Or an ouch. ‘Comon now.
And all of this over a DVD? No DVD is worth all of this! (unless, maybe, it’s Full Metal Panic, the Fourth Season) Seriously, look! You took the pilot’s DVD and now he’s mad at you. Give it back, maybe with a little bow on it and he’ll leave you alone. He’s going to keep shooting until you do it like a nice little girl… boy he’s relentless… maybe… try a dance? Try to do a little dance for him or something? Dude, are you going to kill her? Because you are one bloody AWFUL shot…
Because we all know that heated blades materialize out of air, now would be the most perfect time if ever a perfect time existed for one. And wahlah, instant-save. But whoa, our plan turns foul when – through the Laws of Murphy, the helicopter is going to crash onto the girl the blade just saved!
fangirls: Dumb knife
fanguys: You can’t be serious *stares at girls*
… oh, or a Transformers gone AWESOME rendition could materialize out of no where. Why a blade? This is much better! (as long as he doesn’t step on her, GIRL LEAN TO THE LEFT! *whew* Oh… he didn’t step on her – gud)
fangirls: Go Transformer! Save the girl!
fanguys: OMGDIDYOUJUSTSEEHIMWRESTLETHATHELICOPTERTOTHEGROUNDWITHOUTASWEAT?IT’STWICETHEMECH’SSIZE!!!!!!!!!!!
fangirls: Armed slave? The correct term is Transformers.
fanguys: ARMED SLAVES FTfeakingW!
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STILL IN SNOW
fangirls: *snore* Why am I watching this again?
fanguys: *giddy from the turn to girl, eyes lighting flash introduction of the M9*
By now there’s no way she can feel her legs, I mean, she’s been on that snow patch for a long time. Why isn’t it melted away and showing dead ground underneath? Srsly, those daisies should be growing around her.
fangirls: Hey… he’s kind of cute. *remembers why they’re watching* Love can protect anything! And someone called her Princess!! Knights!? OMG LOVE STORY *flail*
fanguys: *still stuck on the fact that* There’s no way he could just step down so easily from fifteen feet up, even with his mech kneeling!
Get on with the smexy plot already! Dudette, you totally dropped something *points to ground* And in the midst of giant robots firing heated rounds in the background we all know that the characters are going to have crystal clear hearing, and only worried about getting someone’s name only after allowing him to willingly drug them. And you’ll ask them with a please.
Bond. James, Bond.
-end scene-
Hey, Sousuke, you took longer than fifteen seconds!—miz
