Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory Anime Listed With 12 Episodes

The official website for Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory, the fourth television anime series in the Full Metal Panic! franchise, is listing that the anime will have three Blu-ray Disc and DVD releases for a total of 12 episodes in the series. Each home video release will include bonus videos with behind-the-scenes content, audio dramas, and audio commentaries. The home video releases will ship once a month between July and September.

The anime will premiere on AT-X at 8:30 p.m. on April 13. The anime will also air on the same day on Tokyo MX at 10:30 p.m., Sun TV at 11:30 p.m., and on BS11 at 27:00 (effectively 3:00 a.m. on April 14). The show will begin streaming on AbemaTV at 11:00 p.m on April 13.

Katsuichi Nakayama (series director for planetarian, assistant director for Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo, Bodacious Space Pirates The Movie: Abyss of Hyperspace) is directing the series at studio XEBEC. Full Metal Panic! original novel author Shoji Gatoh is handling the series composition and writing all the scripts.

Full Metal Panic! centers around a mercenary group called Mithril on a parallel Earth in which the Cold War did not end in 1991.