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Upotte!!

Upotte!! (うぽって!!) is a Japanese manga series by Kitsune Tennouji which began serialization in July 2009. An original net animation (ONA) series by Xebec was streamed on Nico Nico Douga and Crunchyroll between April and June 2012.[2] The series started airing on Japanese television in July 2012.[3]

Its title comes from reverse-spelling of .[4]

Plot

The series takes place at a school known as Seishou Academy. Unlike an average school, all the students are actually personifications of guns, training to one day become a useful weapon, and is divided up into elementary school (submachine guns), middle school (assault rifles & shotguns), and high school (battle rifles & sniper rifles). They are capable of drawing the weapons they represent from out of thin air and using them, and any student or his/her manifested gun can suffer from any gun-related problem the other might have. All students in Seishou train to shoot their target (literally) using live ammunition. The series mainly focuses on an

Characters

Assault Rifle Class

🇧🇪 Funco (ふんこ)
The main protagonist, an energetic girl who is a Belgian FN FNC. She is the younger sister of Fal, and she is noted to write in Dutch (as opposed to French). As the real FNC has a skeleton stock, she wears a thong instead of panties, much to her embarrassment and occasional anger. Ever since their first meeting, she has displayed an affection towards her homeroom teacher, though the feelings are one-sided.

🇺🇸 Ichiroku (いちろく)
Funco's best friend, who nicknames her Fukko (ふッこ) due to a spelling mistake. She has an energetic personality and a foul mouth with Osaka dialect, but is very kind. She is an American M16A4 assault rifle (her name literally means "one" and "six") and has a large number of fans, as she is usually photographed for the cover of specialized gun magazines. In non-combat action, she tends to rapidly alternate between bursts of activity and sudden rests, relating to her namesake's three-round burst fire only capacity. She is Ichihachi's own sister, who was adopted by the Colt family, and Ichiyon's younger foster sister-in-law.

🇨🇭 Sig (しぐ)
Another close friend of Funco. She is a Swiss SIG SG 550 assault rifle. Her grades are top notch and she's an honor student, but a bit out of it at times. She sports exceptional firing accuracy at mid-to-long-range (using improved 5.56×45mm GP90 rounds instead of standard 5.56×45mm NATO rounds) and able to survive in freezing temperature (similar to real SG 550), and doesn't like to lose. She appears to have feelings for Funco and gets jealous when others get close to her.

🇬🇧 Elle (える)
Another close friend of Funco and Ichiroku's roommate. She is a British L85A1 assault rifle (her name stands for the letter "L" in her weapon's name). Shy and clumsy, she has an unreliable nature and the habit of breaking a lot, but is very enduring for the sake of her friends, just like her namesake gun. She idolizes Funco's elder sister Fal.

🇺🇸 / 🇯🇵 Ichihachi (いちはち)
Funco's roommate (Funco nicknames her Hach-chan) and Ichiroku's own sister, who stayed with the failed Armalite family. She is a Japan-made American AR-18 assault rifle (her name literally means "one" and "eight"). She is often troubled by her loose pants as a result of the real AR-18, which has a loose stock.

🇫🇮 Sako (サコ)
A transfer student and rather vicious control freak determined to defeat Ichiroku in the mock battle. She is a Finnish SAKO RK 95 TP assault rifle. Following the mock battle tournament, she has taken a liking to Funco and has even taken her first kiss when Sako leaves the school. She has elf-like ears.

🇮🇱 Galil (ガリル)
Another transfer student and Sako's partner. She is an Israeli Galil AR, and just like Sako, she harbors a rivalry towards Ichiroku as both are variants of an old enemy of hers, the AK-47. After losing the mock battle, she decides to stay at the school despite Sako's departure becoming quite fond of Ichihachi, who helped her on that time. She also has blue dog ears and a tail. She is sometimes nicknamed "Miss Kitty", mostly by Ichiroku.

🇦🇹 Aug (あぐ)
Member of the student council. She is an Austrian Steyr AUG A1 and just like her namesake weapon can change barrels for different uses, Aug has two personalities: one with short hair, timid and friendly, and another with long hair that is aggressive and imposing; her short hair is a wig. Both personalities have their own issues regarding Funco; while one is too shy to approach Funco, the other usually leaves her scared.

🇹🇼 Tei (てい)
Aug's close friend who supports her in confessing her feelings for Funco. She is a Taiwanese T91 and is usually nicknamed "Fountain" by Ichiroku because of the multiple pigtails she wears throughout her hair.

🇦🇷 Fara (ふぁら)
She is an Argentine FARA 83 assault rifle.

🇪🇸 Modelo (もどろ)
She is a Spanish CETME Model L assault rifle.

🇸🇬 Hachihachi (はちはち)
She is a Singaporean SR 88 assault rifle.

🇸🇬 Sar (さー)
She is a Singaporean SAR 21 assault rifle. She has a crush on the Human teacher.

🇩🇪 Chuthree (ちゅーすり)
She is a German HK33E assault rifle and Jeethree's younger sister. She is often nicknamed "Chuthree" after her sister (claimed to be failed derivative of G3), which annoys her, while Ichihachi calls her "Mimi" after the two 3s in her name.

🇮🇹 Emthree
She is an Italian Benelli M3 shotgun and member of the student council.

🇺🇸 Emfour
Vice-president of the student council, she is an American M4A1 assault rifle.

🇮🇹 Betty
An Italian Beretta SC70/90 assault rifle. During the trip to the beach, she sets some schemes to get close to Genkoku, much to Funco's jealousy.

🇯🇵 Type 89
She is a Japanese Howa Type 89 assault rifle. Having a timid demeanor, she can't leave Japan just like her fellow rifle Type 64, for being exclusively designed for use of the JSDF.

🇧🇪 Cal
Funco's direct elder sister, a FN CAL assault rifle. Was introduced to be included in the big fight Seishou Academy had with Red Steel at Hakone. However, to imitate the constant breakdown it suffers across its production life and extremely poor sales with led to the FN FNC (Funco) being made, she is shown to have an extreme tummyache while travelling to the fightzone which renders her useless and went back home without even reaching Hakone.

🇸🇪 Fem
A Swedish Ak 5 assault rifle. Spy for Sako and due to her lookalike with Funco (Being a licensed copy of the FN FNC that's made for the Swedish), was captured and lured Fal into a trap which caused Fal to be destroyed into pieces in the process.

🇫🇷 Famas
A French FAMAS bullpup assault rifle. Working with a Japanese police department in ridding of crime in the northern sector of the Kanto region. Tried to stop the fight between Seishou and Red Steel (Akagane) with Type 89 and Type 64 but instead joined Seishou's side with Type 64 after knowing their intentions of being in the fight.

🇮🇹 Arks
An Italian Beretta ARX160 assault rifle. Sister of both Betty and Itaru.

🇺🇸 Rec
A student of Seishou, she is a Barrett REC7 assault rifle. Sister of Barrett and also her spotter who were both called in as support for the Hakone battle.

Battle/Sniper Rifle Class

🇬🇧 / 🇧🇪 Fal (ふぁる)
Funco's elder sister. She is an English-made L1A1 battle rifle (named as FAL L1A1 in manga and anime, not to be confused with the original Belgian FN FAL). The natural leader of her class, Fal has it all: excellent grades, popularity, and beauty. In the manga, Fal is almost destroyed during the mission to rescue the Modern Literature Teacher from Red Steel High, and although the broken parts were replaced, the bolt, the part of her body containing all her previous memories, is still in possession of Akagane, which she uses as a leverage against Funco and the others. As it turns out, Funco has two sisters that are both, FALs. One follows the traditional pattern of metric measurement FN FAL being her original sister while the imperial measurement L1A1 "FAL" is Funco's guardian "sister".

🇺🇸 Ichiyon (いちよん)
Ichiroku's elder sister-in-law from the Springfield Armory family and Fal's roommate. She is an American M14 battle rifle (her name means "one" and "four"). She has a tomboyish personality: beautiful if she stays quiet, but she's often crude and rowdy. She has an ear for corny jokes, which she perceives as coming off silky smooth, but in reality have a husky delivery that annoys the other characters.

🇩🇪 Jeethree (じーすり)

Submachine Gun Class

🇩🇪 Empi (えむぴ)
She is a German MP5A2 submachine gun and one of Jeethree's younger sisters. Despite Jeethree having several sisters, Empee seems to be the favorite one, owing to her as one of the most popular Submachine Gun. Also nicknamed Chithree (Chi for Chibi, a little Jeethree). Her elementary sisters family consists of MP5K, UMP45, MP7 (who happens to have the same vs Uzi rivalry towards FN P90, HK53)

🇺🇸 Emten (えむてん)
She is an American MAC-10 (M-10) submachine gun. Similar to her namesake gun, she talks rapidly in one stroke, leaving her out of breath afterwards.

🇩🇪 Gossan (ごっさん)
She is a German HK53 submachine gun (her name meaning "five" and "three"). As a submachine gun designed to fire intermediate rounds, she is much taller and looks much older than her classmates.

Red Steel High School

🇷🇺 Akagane
The leader of the Akaganekou Group. She is a Soviet / Russian AK-47. Also an ex-student of Gengoku.

🇷🇺 AKM
Co-leader of the Akaganekou Group. Vicious fighter with a no-nonsense attitude.

🇷🇺 Nanayon (ごっさん)
She is a Soviet / Russian AK-74 assault rifle, a school leader.

🇷🇺 AN-94/Akaban
She is a Russian AN-94 assault rifle, wounded by Sig at the Battle of Atami.

🇵🇱 Tantal

Teachers

🇺🇸 Modern Literature Teacher (現国)
The homeroom teacher for Funco and the others, and the only human character other than the Colonel at Red Steel High, whose real name and nationality is unknown at the start of the series. He was appointed to Seishou Academy unaware about the girls' nature. He often gets into misunderstandings with Funco (usually regarding her underwear), leaving him at the receiving end of her anger, but Funco cares about him and sometimes dreams about being chosen as his personal weapon. Later it is revealed that he is an American who is a descendant of John Moses Browning and despite not having any knowledge of firearms designing like his ancestor, he is kidnapped by the students of Red Steel High School for unknown reasons.

🇩🇪 Ms. Fujiko (ふじこ先生)
A teacher of the Battle rifle class, she is a German FG 42 battle rifle. She has heterochromia and wears on eye patch on her right eye. Due to her usual appearance being similar to a World War II German Wehrmacht serviceman, more leaning to the Paratrooper division, even the Japanese Teacher did not recognize her when she removes her eyepatch and loosens her hair on one occasion.

🇺🇸 Ms. Thompson (トンプソン先生)
A teacher of the submachine gun class, she is an American

Others

🇩🇪 Shiiro
She is a Heckler & Koch HK416 who was called in by Ms. Fujiko to assist in the conflict in Hakone with Red Steel. Shown to be very stable when bipods deployed.

🇩🇪 PSG
An exchange student from Germany, she's a Heckler & Koch PSG1 sniper weapon system called in to assist in the battle against the Akagane Group at Hakone by Ms. Fujiko.