Years before Girls’ Frontline, there was another anime that presented cute girls who were also, somehow, famed military combat rifles. While Moe Anthropomorphizations are common enough, there’s always that little hurdle of getting used to them, especially when it’s not just in the background but rather direct about the concept.
Enter Upotte!! (the title is very excited), that aforementioned show about guns who are also cute girls doing cute things (while going to school and learning how to gun better). At a mere 10 episodes there is, for better or worse, not that much to get through, and it’s hard to imagine it being less effective than GFL was, so let’s go ahead and dig in.
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