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Full Metal Panic – Kaname Chidori Rilezu Cel & Douga

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I’m all excited because I just got this Rilezu cel of Kaname Chidori from Full Metal Panic! FMP is my absolute favorite anime series of all time, and I’ve been looking for a nice cel of Kaname for a while now. I first saw this piece in a past auction on ebay, and was kicking myself for missing it. A few weeks ago, I saw it pop up for sale on Rubber Slug and I quickly bought it.

Full Metal Panic is a CG show, so there are no production cels available. There have been a limited number of these relezu cels (hand painted post production cels) made, but they are very hard to find, and tend to cost a lot when they are available. You are especially lucky if you find one that comes with Douga, because it is the only actual production material available from the show. Needless to say, I was thrilled to find this cel, and even more thrilled to find that it came with two pieces of matching douga.

The cel itself is amazing! No flaws aside from a small piece of clear tape which I have carefully removed. The douga is really interesting because it is composed of three pieces. The front of the first sheet is the normal pencil line drawing that you normally see. The back of it has just a few color lines, and the front of the second sheet is a more complete color guide. Like my douga of Chi from chobits, the colors on the drawings are not the same as the colors on the final product, so I have no clue what they actually mean, or how they tell the colorist what to do. It’s very interesting though.

If you are looking for a FMP cel, there are still some available here.

This is a composite of the pencil line drawing on the front of the first sheet, the color lines on the back, and the color guide on the front of the second sheet:

Kaname Composite

Kaname Composite

This is the pencil line drawing on the front of the first sheet:

Kaname Douga Front

Kaname Douga Front

This is the color line drawing from the back of the first sheet:

Kaname Douga Back

Kaname Douga Back

This is the coloring on the front of the second sheet:

Kaname Douga Color

Kaname Douga Color

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Chobits Douga (Chi)

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I ordered this Douga of Chi from the anime series “Chobits” last month from Anime Museum in Japan. It is my first actual piece of anime production art, and the way it is created is really quite interesting. The image above is actually a combination of the drawing on the front of piece, and the rough coloring on the back. When the paper is put on a light table, or held up in front of a light, the color comes through from the back to give an indication to the colorist of how to color the final image.

Normally this line drawing would be transfered to a piece of clear acetate and the colorist would apply the paint to the back of the cel. Very much the same way this drawing was done. Chobits is a computer generated production, however, so the coloring is all done on computers and no cels are ever made. It is interesting though, that they seem to do the line drawings by hand, and scan them into the computer for coloring. Perhaps this practice is to prevent the animation from looking too “CG”.

This is the line drawing on the front of the piece:

Chi Douga Front

Chi Douga Front

This is the rough coloring on the back:

Chi Douga Back

Chi Douga Back

Hat Tip: Alan Baker for help with combining the two scans in Photoshop!

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I Like Full Metal Panic

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To make a long story short, I love Full Metal Panic. I have watched both the Japanese TV series, and Fumoffu, and I’m left wanting more.

Lately I have become tired of “regular” movies and TV shows. Perhaps this is because they have become less interesting, or simply because I just want to see something different… No matter. About a year ago I began looking for something new, and along came anime. I rented a number of disks, but found that I didn’t really like any of them. Eventually Zach loaned me his copy of Neon Genesis Evangelion and I loved it. I watched the entire series in one weekend and then went looking for something new.

I checked out THEM and found that the Full Metal Panic series was highly rated and had received some very good reviews. It was listed in the category I like (big robots and romance), so I decided to drop the cash on the first disk in the series. After watching it, it was all I could do not to run out and buy the next disk. The characters were incredibly likable and the plot was compelling, if not a bit recurring. Hey, it’s anime.

Eventually, I bought the remaining disks from amazon, along with the nice box to put them in.

The plot pretty much goes like this:

Kaname Chidori, the lead female character is among a small group of people known as “Whispered”. These are a kind of human databases of “Black Technology”, which allows them to understand complex weapons technology without ever having been taught.

Clearly this ability would be convenient in the hands of the bad guys. Enter Mithril, an altruistic military group that is tasked with eliminating terrorists and drug labs all over the world. Sensing that the bad guys are out to kidnap Kaname, Mithril assigns a very very serious and dedicated sergeant named Sousuke Sagara to protect her.

Kaname falls in love with Sousuke, but he’s usually too consumed with blowing things up and over-reacting to benign events that he perceives as threats to notice. He ends up loving her as well, but is not quite sure what to do about it, which builds a romantic tension that lasts the entire series. Amazingly there is some heart warming dialogue at the very end which gives the series a little more closure than we find in most other anime series.

While many complain that FMP is simply an amalgamation of other anime series, I feel that it is one of the best out there… Or at least the best that I have seen. The artwork is amazing, and the characters are very well developed and likable.

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