Additionally, Takeshi Yoshioka (chief animation director for Classroom Crisis, Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid-) is the small arms designer and animation director, Kanetake Ebikawa (Full Metal Panic!, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid) and Toshiaki Ihara (Full Metal Panic!, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid) are the mechanical designers, Takayuki Yanase (Ghost in the Shell Arise, Gundam 00 mechanical designer) is the set designer, and Masanori Nishii (Star Blazers 2199) is the mechanical director.
Osamu Horiuchi (Full Metal Panic!, Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid) is the character designer and chief animation director, and Aya Yamamoto (animation director for My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU TOO!) is the sub-character designer.
FUNimation Entertainment announced on Wednesday that Full Metal Panic! light novel author Shoji Gatoh and illustrator Shikidouji will attend Anime Expo for a panel on the series’ 15th anniversary and the upcoming Full Metal Panic! Invisible Victory television anime.
Naoto Ōkuro published the Full Metal Panic! Another spinoff novel series, also illustrated by Shikidouji, from August 2011 to February 2015.