List of Full Metal Panic! characters
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This is a list of fictional characters from the light novel, manga, and anime series Full Metal Panic!.
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[edit] Characters
[edit] Sosuke Sagara
[edit] Kaname Chidori
[edit] Kurz Weber
[edit] Melissa Mao
[edit] Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa
[edit] Andrei Sergeivich Kalinin
Andrei Sergeivich Kalinin is Sagara's commanding officer and one of Tessa's military strategists. He is also the foster father of Sagara. He and Sousuke were once enemies, as mentioned in a two part episode by Sagara himself. The foster father status may be on the school's official papers only but Kalinin is certainly a very fatherly figure to Sagara. Kalinin was fomerly of the Soviet special forces - Spetsnaz - and was the leader of the team that found a crashed Japanese airliner. There was only one survivor: a three year-old child by the name of Sagara Sousuke. His wife is deceased [1] and the whereabouts and status of the rest of his family is unknown. His voice was provided by Akio Otsuka in the original anime, and by Mike Kleinhenz in the English dub by ADV Films.
[edit] Richard Mardukas
Richard Mardukas is an overly protective aide of Tessa's who insists on guarding her with his life. He holds the rank of Commander and is in charge of Mithril's TDD-1 when the Captain, Testarossa, is not on board; appropriate, given that Mardukas' position is that of Executive Officer. Mardukas is often seen wearing a hat bearing the name of the HMS Turbulent (S87), a real British submarine.
Prior to joining Mithril, Mardukas was the Commanding Officer of the HMS Turbulent, and a graduate of the Royal Navy's "Perisher" course: the submarine equivalent to the US Navy's famed "Top Gun" Fighter Weapons School. According to the FMP novel A Dancing Very Merry Christmas, Mardukas and the Turbulent saved Tessa's father and his submarine on a secret mission. Many of his peers in the submarine community, such as Commander Killy B. Seila, CO of the USS Pasadena, believe Mardukas to be working in a shipping firm after his retirement. He was portrayed by Tomomichi Nishimura in the original anime, and by Andy McAvin in the English dub by ADV Films.
[edit] Leonard Testarossa
A child prodigy and Whispered like his younger sister, Leonard Testarossa is known as "Mr. Silver" in the executive circle of the Amalgam organization. However, he surpasses his sister in both knowledge and physical prowess, even defeating the ARX-7 Arbalest piloted by Sousuke[2]. He also claims to be in love with Kaname Chidori, and has earned her contempt by stealing her first kiss. [3]
[edit] Kyoko Tokiwa
Kyoko Tokiwa (常盤恭子 Tokiwa Kyōko) is Chidori's camera-toting best friend. She is constantly trying to bring Chidori and Sagara together, however impossible it may seem given Sagara's tendency to blow things up at whim. Kyoko's voice was provided by Ikue Kimura in the original anime, and by Monica Rial in the English dub by ADV Films.
[edit] Shinji Kazama
Shinji Kazama (風間信二 Kazama Shinji) is Sosuke's Arm Slave loving classmate. He shares the same amount of passion to AS as Sousuke and could be considered Sousuke's best school friend besides Kaname. His father is Shintaro Kazama and a secretary of Narashino's Assault Machine Troop, his love for AS began when his dad failed to become an AS pilot. As a result of his father's failure, Shinji strives to discover the result of the failure and to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a pilot. Shinji was portrayed by Mamiko Noto in the original anime and by Greg Ayres in the English dub by ADV Films.
[edit] Mizuki Inaba
(稲葉瑞樹 Inaba Mizuki) A classmate of Chidori who initially blames her for having stolen her boyfriend. She becomes one of her closer friends later on in the story. Mizuki's voice was provided by Sayuri Yoshida in the original anime, and by Mandy Clark in the English dub by ADV Films.
[edit] Gauron
While little is known about Gauron at the present, he is Sousuke’s strongest and most formidable enemy throughout the TV series. He’s a terrorist of the highest caliber sponsored by a mysterious organization, but little is known about Gauron’s benefactors other than the fact that they appear to be more formidable and possess greater resources than even the notorious Soviet KGB. Believed to be Japanese, or at least of Asian ethnicity (presumably Cambodian, as Gauron mentions being a child soldier with the Khemer Rouge), Gauron and Sousuke have a long and bloodstained history together.He was once a captian in Mithril( As seen during once of his As's boot-up sequances.) although he left before all the major charecters entered. Sousuke left a big scar on Gauron’s forehead when he and then Soviet Spetsnaz commander Major Kalinin ambushed Gauron in a sniper attack back in Sousuke’s Afghan guerilla days. This is but one of many battle scars Sousuke inflicts upon this vicious manslayer over the course of the series.
A formidable AS pilot of tremendous talent, Gauron's dangerous Codarl AS has bested Mithril's frontline AS, the M9 Gernsback, in battle on several occasions. Even Sousuke and his ARX-7 Arbalest have great difficulty competing against Gauron's fearsome skill in their many confrontations across the course of the series.
He also appears to have a nearly supernatural ability to survive certain death, including the destruction of his AS, and the sniper attack. The Sniper Attack was explained with a metal plate in his skull, and his survival of his AS' self-destruct was explained with Gauron using the Lambda Driver at the last moment to protect his body.
It is later revealed in "The Second Raid" that Gauron worked for Amalgam, his code name being "Mr. Iron" [4].
In "The Second Raid", it is revealed that Gauron is alive. He reveals to Sagara that the young guerilla Sagara he knew in Helmajistan would have been the perfect person to kill him, but in the present day, he claims that Sagara has become 'weak' and 'soft' from his time at High School. He tells Sagara that one of his agents, one of the twins mentioned below, has killed Kaname, when in truth, Leonard Testarossa's Arm Slave bodyguards killed her. He had previously trained two twin sisters, who he named Yu-fan, and Yui-Lan. They are both formidable fighters, in an Arm Slave, (a Soviet/Amalgam Shadow at the beginning of the series, and a Venom in the end.) They do not survive the series, Yu-Lan being killed by Leonard Testarossa's bodyguards and Yui-Fan being killed by the psychotic leader of the Amalgam Execution Squad, Gates in the final battle.
