Otaku Review

The trend has continued for at least one more film with ANN reporting that Mandalay Bay has licensed the film rights to the high school comedy ‘Full Metal Panic’. Additionally it seems that star of ‘High School Musical’ Zac Efron is already in talks to play the lead role of Sgt. Sousuke Sagara. There really is no news beyond this but for the sake of funs, let’s think about this. The high school comedy follows a young sargent who is put in charge of protecting a stubborn high school girl making him resort to pretending to be a high school student himself. The series ended up being hugely successful with multiple anime series and manga spinoffs being created over the years. The series saw a release in the US with both Funimation and ADV releasing seperate parts.

This is Zac Efron; nice kid… looks semi clean cut:

 This is Sousuke Sagara; not so much:

So, I suppose if we dirtied the kid up, squinted and tilted our heads you could sort of see where this idea came from.  What do you think?

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