History Manga / TokureiSochiDantaiStellaJogakuinKoutoukaC3Bu

** Rento and Honoka use these to coordinate their attack on Karila in the 1st Episode's {{Rambo}} scenario.

* ToBeAMaster: {{Deconstructed}} hard with Rin [[spoiler:and Yura]].

* XMeetsY: Affectionately referred to as ''Manga/KOn'' meets ''Manga/{{Upotte}}'' (with [=BB=]s instead of 5.56mm [=FMJ=]s). Episode 4 throws in some Haruhi, and episodes 7-11 added a hint of [[spoiler: VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine]].

Yura Yamato has just recently [[NewTransferStudent transferred]] to the prestigious Stella Girls' Academy and discovers that it is difficult to find friends in her first day at school. After a chance meeting with a fellow student named Rento Kirishima, she is recruited to the school's airsoft club named C³-bu [[note]]Military acronym meaning Command, Control, and Communications, which is also the club's motto[[/note]]. The story revolves around Yura's experiences as a member of the C³-bu and her interactions with her fellow members.

** Episode 5 gives a shout to D-Day, and WorldWarII in general.

** Episode 2's {{Imagine Spot}} seems to be a reference to ''{{The Bodyguard}}''; there's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Suspiciously Similar]] instrumental version of "I Will Always Love You" playing in the background during the climax.

* TheMentor: "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Shisho]]", a US soldier, and Rin and Sonora's airsoft teacher when they were young and in the US. Somewhat true to the traits of an [[TheObiWan Obi-Wan]], [[DeathByOriginStory he's killed in battle,]] his demise influencing Rin to grow into who she is now.

* MagicSkirt: [[http://fabien.li/tvtropes/Stella_Jogakuin_Koutouka_C3-bu_02_19.18.jpg acrobatics while wearing skirts? No problem!]]

** ShoutOut to ''Manga/KOn'': Some of the girls' plans to make Yura join the club: lure her in with cake, and throw a roll of money at her face. The latter is most certainly a K-On! reference, as Yachiyo, the one to suggest slapping Yura's face with a wad of cash, is voiced by Madoka Yonezawa, who also voices K-On!'s Ui Hirasawa. In one episode of K-On!, Ui's sister Yui (who is very similar to Yura, in both personality and being the main character), fantasizes about getting slapped with a wad of cash by Ui. (Also, [[http://fabien.li/tvtropes/Yura.jpg Yura's round face]] is reminiscent of ''Manga/KOn'''s art style.)

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* ClothingDamage: Invoked; to attract visitors to their SchoolFestival booth, they wear paper shirts over swimsuits and have squirt-gun duels. [[SexSells It's...rather effective.]]

* XMeetsY: Affectionately referred to as ''Manga/KOn'' meets ''{{Upotte}}'' (with [=BB=]s instead of 5.56mm [=FMJ=]s). Episode 4 throws in some Haruhi, and episodes 7-11 added a hint of [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine Spec Ops the Line]]]].

* RecycledInSpace: Frequently referred to as "KOn with airsoft guns".

** ShoutOut to KOn: Some of the girls' plans to make Yura join the club: lure her in with cake, and throw a roll of money at her face. The latter is most certainly a K-On! reference, as Yachiyo, the one to suggest slapping Yura's face with a wad of cash, is voiced by Madoka Yonezawa, who also voices K-On!'s Ui Hirasawa. In one episode of K-On!, Ui's sister Yui (who is very similar to Yura, in both personality and being the main character), fantasizes about getting slapped with a wad of cash by Ui. (Also, [[http://fabien.li/tvtropes/Yura.jpg Yura's round face]] is reminiscent of KOn's art style.)

* XMeetsY: Affectionately referred to as ''KOn'' meets ''{{Upotte}}'' (with [=BB=]s instead of 5.56mm [=FMJ=]s). Episode 4 throws in some Haruhi, and episodes 7-11 added a hint of [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine Spec Ops the Line]]]].

* FanNickname:
** Episodes 5-11 are referred to as [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine C³-bu: The Line]]]].
** Yura when she's just having fun and nothing else: "Fun Mode".
** Yura's bad rep during the aforementioned [[spoiler: C³-bu: The Line]] earns her the nick "Yura Walker".
** When Yachiyo puts on her [[InTheHood hood]], she's the Little Red Sniping Hood.

* ImagineSpot: Several during the first episode, mostly from Yura:

** It seems these will be a regular occurrence from Yura. In Episode 2 she imagines herself as an actual bodyguard and when cornered in episode 3 imagines post-apocalyptic UrbanWarfare is taking place.

* MoodWhiplash: Happens every time since episode 7. The opening shows C³ (with Yura) in saccharine-sweet BB-pelting airsoft action, in between the DarkerAndEdgier ColdOpen and the main storyline. And then there's unhappy episode endings, immediately followed by the hyper-peppy ending theme. Even so in the after-credits blurb, where random chatter by the characters are followed by increasingly depressing titles for the next episode, as well as the previews that aren't going to cheer you up either. Until the end of episode 11 did we see some better results, [[spoiler: and only in episode 12 is the trope truly averted as dramatic theatrics make way for six girls to have truckloads of fun]].

* [[FiveManBand Six-Girl Band]]
** TheLeader: Sonora, being the club president.
** TheLancer: Karira's hotheadedness compared to Sono's calm manners.
** [[TheSmartGuy The Smart Girl]]: Honoka. Wears glasses, gets good grades, is the club's strategist.
** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]] [[TheHeart with a Heart]]: Rento, physically. At the age of 15, she's taller than 17 y/o Sono. in the 24-hours endurance, she's the heavy gunner and carries the team's supplies. [[spoiler: The Heart part comes when she tries to convince Yura to rejoin C³]].
** FriendlySniper [[TheChick Chick]]: Yachiyo. Her role mostly focuses on providing cover fire, supporting her allies from afar.
** SixthRanger [[TheHero Heroine]]: Yura. She's the newcomer, and the protagonist of the series.

Preferential Measure Organization Stella Girls' Academy, High School Division C³ Club (特例措置団体ステラ女学院高等科Ｃ３部 Tokurei Sochi Dantai Stella Jogakuin Kōtō-ka C³-bu, often simply called Stella Jogakuin Kōtō-ka C³bu, or Stella C³-bu, or simplier, C³) is a manga series created by Ikoma and Tomomoka Midori. The anime, made by Gainax, was aired for a season as a part of the Summer2013Anime season.

Yura Yamato has just recently [[NewTransferStudent transferred]] to the prestigious Stella Girls' Academy and discovers that it is difficult to find friends in her first day at school. After a chance meeting with a fellow student named Rento Kirishima, she is recruited to the school's airsoft club named C3-Bu [[note]]Military acronym meaning Command, Control, and Communications, which is also the club's motto[[/note]]. The story revolves around Yura's experiences as a member of the C3-Bu and her interactions with her fellow members.

Preferential Measure Organization Stella Girls' Academy, High School Division C3 Club (特例措置団体ステラ女学院高等科Ｃ３部 Tokurei Sochi Dantai Stella Jogakuin Kōtō-ka C3-Bu, often simply called Stella Jogakuin Kōtō-ka C3-Bu, or Stella C3-bu, or simplier, C3) is a manga series created by Ikoma and Tomomoka Midori. The anime version, made by Gainax, is airing as a part of the Summer2013Anime season.

!! Tokurei Sochi Dantai Stella Jo-Gakuin Kōtō-ka C3-Bu provides the following:

* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: Averted. Despite using nonlethal airsoft guns, the C3 members show proper trigger discipline[[note]]trigger finger outside the trigger guard prior to actual shooting[[/note]] and wear protective gear.

** And now in episode 7, we have ''illegally modified'' airsoft guns.

** Done again in episode 8, showing Stella's C3 group fighting their first and last battles, while skipping the fights that take place in-between.

** Utilized again in episode 13, only showing some of the more important duels. Even some of the C3 members are subjected to this, and they either obviously win, or come back later and say they got hit, thereby losing to another opponent.

** Episode 12 is this turned UpToEleven. While in episode 4 only Rento enters Yura's imagination, in this we see [[spoiler: All six C3 girls going against all of Stella]].

* CallBack: At the end of episode 12, Yura is walking through the school, with the scenery resembling when she first saw the school in the first episode. She then overhears two girls (possibly the same two she encountered back then) mention how high school sure seemed boring and nothing interesting happened. Yura then approaches them and asks if they want to join C3.

* ColorCodedCharacters: All of the C3 club members have their own color eyepro and gloves.

* CloudCuckooLand: The titular C3 club. Yura (with her [[ImagineSpot Imagine Spots]]) and Rento (see FunnyBackgroundEvent below) take the cake.

* CurbStompBattle: The C3 Club is on the giving end during the first battle, and on the receiving end of one during their final one in episode 3.

** Episodes 5-11 are referred to as [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine C3-bu: The Line]]]].

** Yura's bad rep during the aforementioned [[spoiler: C3-bu: The Line]] earns her the nick "Yura Walker".

** [[TheBigGuy The Big Girl]] [[TheHeart with a Heart]]: Rento, physically. At the age of 15, she's taller than 17 y/o Sono. in the 24-hours endurance, she's the heavy gunner and carries the team's supplies. [[spoiler: The Heart part comes when she tries to convince Yura to rejoin C3]].

** [[spoiler: What's worth noting is that these are the three girls in C3 with ''larger boobs'' than their other clubmates.]]

* GroupPictureEnding: Episode 5 ends with the C3 club taking their picture together on the beach. Aoi then photobombs them by jumping into the picture as well at the last second, while Sonora looks at Yura's general direction, sensing [[spoiler: something wrong's happened to her]].

** When arriving at Stella, she imagines herself as Cinderella in a carriage (it's actually just a bus), then imagines the C3 Club to be a club for tea, cakes and relaxing, and then at the end of the game, she imagines Karila as Rambo shooting Rento and her as sheriff's deputies.
** The C3 club enthusiastically imagine their plan of getting more recruits... before regretfully realising it'll never fly.

* JapaneseSchoolClub: The C3 club. The KGB as well, combining an airsoft club with a drama club.

* MeaningfulName: The club's name, when read in Japanese, is "shi-kyu-bu". This pronunciation sounds like =CQB= (close quarters battle), and indeed some characters use weapons intended for close-range engagements (Kari's P90, Yura's Skorpion, Aoi's =MAC-10=).

* MoodWhiplash: Happens every time since episode 7. The opening shows C3 (with Yura) in saccharine-sweet BB-pelting airsoft action, in between the DarkerAndEdgier ColdOpen and the main storyline. And then there's unhappy episode endings, immediately followed by the hyper-peppy ending theme. Even so in the after-credits blurb, where random chatter by the characters are followed by increasingly depressing titles for the next episode, as well as the previews that aren't going to cheer you up either. Until the end of episode 11 did we see some better results, [[spoiler: and only in episode 12 is the trope truly averted as dramatic theatrics make way for six girls to have truckloads of fun]].

* NiceHat: The C3 club uses red berets during matches.
* NotSoDifferent: Rin claims Yura would do anything to win, just like her. [[spoiler:She proves it by goading Yura into cheating to win the tournament.]] Averted in episode 10, when Yura joins Meisei to learn a few pages off Rin. While both are ruthless, Rin at least genuinely cares about her crew, unlike Yura at the moment who's only concerned of winning. Eventually cast aside as [[HesBack Yura returns to "fun mode" and rejoins C3]].

* PinkMeansFeminine: Most of Stella Girls' Academy is drenched in bright pinkness, even the students' uniform coats are pink, contrasting the duller realistic colorings of C3's play areas and clubroom.
* PyrrhicVictory: [[spoiler:C3 wins the 24-hour tournament, but only because Yura cheated by shooting Rin after being hit.]] The rest of the team doesn't know and starts celebrating around Yura, who is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]]. Yura does later informed the officials, but Rin denies the cheating claim, therefore Stella still keep the trophy.

* {{Tomboy}}: Unusually for a SchoolgirlSeries, which sports a token single Tomboy amongst the heroine's ensemble, ''C3'' has ''two'' Tomboys, namely Karila and Sonora.

* WhamLine: [[spoiler:Yura tells Sonora she's quitting the C3 club at the end of episode 9.]]

** The club also realises that their recruitment plan will never be approved because of all the safety violations (first and foremost being the use of suppressive fire to prevent the other clubs from entering the school hall).

** The lack of ImagineSpots since episode 7 shows Yura's CharacterDevelopment... [[spoiler: [[FaceHeelTurn For the worse.]]]]

*** [[spoiler:Eventually subverted. Yura is less an expy of Yui, and more a ruthless deconstruction.]]

** Episode 2's [[ImagineSpot]] seems to be a reference to ''[TheBodyguard]]''; there's even a [[SuspiciouslySimilarSong Suspiciously Similar]] instrumental version of "I Will Always Love You" playing in the background during the climax.

* TheAce: Sonora and Rin.

* MissFanservice: Sonora and Honoka are this. The former isn't afraid to show up naked in front of another girl she first met, and the latter flaunts it to win votes at an airsoft beauty queen contest.

* FunnyBackgroundEvent: In episode four, Sonora, Yura, and Rento go to do some training. Sonora begins giving Yura a sort of SeriousBusiness "philosophy of shooting" speech. Off in the background, Rento gets bored and starts pushing herself along the bench on her back using her feet.