Upotte!!


Upotte!! is a Japanese manga series by Kitsune Tennouji which began serialization in July 2009. An original net animation series by Xebec was streamed on Nico Nico Douga and Crunchyroll between April and June 2012. The series started airing on Japanese television in July 2012. Its title comes from reverse-spelling of.

Plot

The series takes place at a school known as Seishou Academy. Unlike an average school, all the students are actually humanized guns, training to one day become a useful weapon, and is divided up into elementary school, middle school, and high school. They are capable of drawing the weapons they represent from out of thin air and using them, and any student or her manifested gun can suffer from any gun-related problem the other might have. All students in Seishou train to shoot their target using live ammunition. The series mainly focuses on an FN FNC assault rifle nicknamed Funco and her friends with their human teacher.

Characters

Assault Rifle Class

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; Saa
; Chuthree
; Emthree
; Emfour
; Betty
; Type 89
; CAL
; Fem
; Famas

Battle/Sniper Rifle Class

; / Faru
; Ichiyon
; Jeethree
; Type 64

Submachine Gun Class

; Empi
; Emten
; Gossan
; Uzi
; TMP
; Jatimatic

Red Steel High School

; Akagane
; Nanayon
; AN-94
; Tantal
; Type 86S
; Saiga
; Dragunov
; Bizon

Teachers

; Modern Literature Teacher
; Ms. Fujiko
; Ms. Thompson
; Headmaster Springfield
; Professor Garand
; Ms. Erma
; Ms. Mire
; Ms. Esuku
; Suomi

Media

Manga

The original manga by Kitsune Tennouji began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from July 4, 2009, before moving over to Shōnen Ace from June 2011. A 4-Koma sideseries entitled "Upotte Nano" ran in 4-Koma Nano Ace from 2011 to 2013, when the magazine folded.

Anime

An original net animation series by Xebec was streamed on Nico Nico Douga and Crunchyroll between April 8, 2012 and June 9, 2012, also streaming on the Anime Network from May 9, 2012. A television broadcast of the series began in July 2012. The opening theme is "I.N.G." by Iori Nomizu, Misuzu Togashi, Kaori Sadohara and Misato under name Sweet ARMS while the ending theme is "Calendar" by Kaori Sadohara. The anime has been licensed in North America by Sentai Filmworks.
A Blu-ray containing an extra episode of the anime series will be bundled with limited editions of the fourth volume of the manga series to be released in October 13, 2012. Sentai Filmworks later released the series on Blu-ray and DVD on March 18, 2014.

Episode list