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2	[[caption-width-right:350:Nuns with guns make the vampires run.]]
3	''Gunbured × Sisters'' (''ガンバレッド×シスターズ'') is a GothicPunk {{Yuri}} {{Seinen}} manga by Creator/WataruMitogawa.
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5	InAWorld where vampires prey on the weak and helpless, Sister Dolores Lily "Dorothy" Argencruz, a [[ChurchMilitant warrior nun of the Crimson Sisters order]], searches for a more potent weapon against the grotesques: a being who can wield the Optare, a MixAndMatchWeapon in the form of a cross.
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7	Well, one fine day, that being falls out of the sky and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice accidentally skewers herself on the weapon]]. Street kid Maria Belford is a {{dhampir}} who has been waging her own one-woman war against the vampires since she was a child while [[IWillFindYou searching for her missing sister Noelle]], and her half-and-half nature makes her exactly what Dorothy needs. If she plays ball with the [[NaughtyNuns not-so-saintly nun]], she'll get the church's protection and access to its information network that may lead her to her sister. And it doesn't hurt that a mere sip of Dorothy's blood is enough to [[SuperMode unlock her true fighting power]].
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9	''Gunbured × Sisters'' ran for 21 chapters in ''Sunday Gene-X'' from 19 September 2019 to 19 August 2021. In March 2022 it entered English publication under Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment's Ghost Ship imprint.
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12	* AmbiguousGenderIdentity: Secondary character Shannon, with whom Maria forms a LoveTriangle over Dorothy, was assigned female at birth (they're seen wearing a bra while shirtless) but is a "Brother" of the [[ThePaladin Knights of the Cross]] who [[SweetPollyOliver wears their hair short and dresses in a men's uniform]] and is alternately referred to by Maria as either [[ButchLesbian "butch bitch"]] or "dude" at times. Maria also once asks Dorothy whether Shannon actually is a girl but doesn't get an answer, and starts off using she/her pronouns for Shannon before switching to they/them mid-sentence in chapter 12, following the example of the DramatisPersonae from volume 2.
13	* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: The manga ends with the vampire pureblood responsible for the recent outbreak dead and the church higher-ups' deal with the purebloods exposed. However, Noelle has been revealed to be working with the renegade purebloods willingly, and Dorothy, Maria, and Shannon are resolved to do what they have to do.]]
14	* AnimeCatholicism: Pretty standard stuff: plenty of Catholic imagery but very little actual Catholic practice, in favor of nuns with guns hunting vampires and {{yuri}} {{ecchi}} content.
15	* BarbieDollAnatomy: In chapter 2, Dorothy gets into the shower with Maria without asking first for some {{skinship\|Grope}}. Neither of them has any attributes drawn.
16	* {{BFG}}: Even in collapsed form, the Optare is as tall as Maria herself. She's strong enough in SuperMode to swing it around with one arm.
17	* {{Dhampyr}}: Maria and her sister Noelle are both half-human, half-vampire. This means they have vampires' SuperToughness but can walk in daylight without trouble and, while they do need to drink blood, don't have the overpowering thirst for it that normal vampires do (Maria specifically draws a distinction between bloodthirst and being hungry for food). Maria usually prefers blood bags when she needs it, but if she consumes blood directly from another human--invariably Dorothy--she transforms into a SuperMode of a {{Stripperiffic}}ally-clad female vampire and can wield the Optare. The Church, unfortunately, draws no distinction between dhampyrs and full vampires, meaning Maria would be executed on the spot if anyone but Dorothy and her closest allies ever realized it.
18	* FlippingTheBird: Shannon crushes hard on Dorothy and [[LoveTriangle clashes with Maria about the latter's relationship with her]]. After Dorothy breaks up the incipient fight and leads Maria away, Maria flips Shannon the bird behind Dorothy's back as a parting shot.
19	* GothicPunk: The story takes place in a decaying 20th century-ish urban hellscape full of cathedrals and cathedral-like architecture where vampires emerge at night to prey on the living and are hunted by an order of warrior nuns.
20	* HandCannon: Being a dhampir, Maria is much stronger than a human, and her pistols are sized accordingly. Shannon tries to fire one once and can't handle the recoil at all.
21	* InterserviceRivalry: The ChurchMilitant and the local police don't get along very well, though Dorothy has a FriendOnTheForce, Detective Louis. The police resent the Church's good publicity for slaying vampires while they get stuck with cleaning up the mess afterwards.
22	* MasculineFeminineAndrogyneTrio: Dorothy is a buxom and traditionally feminine LadyOfWar (Feminine). Maria is [[TheLadette a foul-mouthed tomboy]] and as a {{dhampir}} is the most powerful physical fighter of the three (Masculine). Shannon is a graceful {{bifauxnen}} swordsperson with an AmbiguousGenderIdentity[[note]]they're AFAB beyond any doubt, but the story uses both feminine and gender-neutral pronouns for them at various times[[/note]] (Androgyne). Dorothy is the clear leader of the three, being both the ManipulativeBitch who brought the trio together and the apex of the LoveTriangle between them.
23	* MasculineFeminineGayCouple: Played with. Maria seems at first glance like a ButchLesbian, with a short fuse, foul mouth, and more boyish taste in clothing, not to mention being much more of a physical fighter than Dorothy. Dorothy, seemingly the LipstickLesbian of the two who passes herself off as a proper lady and prefers long dresses, is actually the more dominant and sexually rapacious partner between them. Maria is also charmed when Dorothy makes her try on a sundress and then buys it for her, even though she insists that kind of thing is more of Noelle's style. Similarly, Shannon is a {{Bifauxnen}} swordsperson who likes to play the KnightInShiningArmor, but like Maria is completely under Dorothy's thumb.
24	* MixAndMatchWeapon: The Optare is a man-sized Christian cross that can act as a {{BFS}} in its [[RetractableWeapon collapsed form]], and a {{BFG}} in its un-collapsed form.
25	* NaughtyNuns: Not unusually for AnimeCatholicism, the concept of celibacy is completely ignored in favor of {{yuri}} {{fanservice}}. Before she meets Maria, Dorothy is shown masturbating to the thought of having a pet dhampir; afterwards she loves to grope Maria whenever she gets a free moment. Shannon of the Knights of the Cross also has a massive crush on her, which Dorothy isn't above manipulating. Meanwhile, higher-ranking Sisters Helen and Miranda are explicitly shown having sex at the start of chapter 14.
26	* PantyThief: Dorothy steals Maria's underwear out of the laundry in one of the {{omake}}s.
27	* SexyBacklessOutfit: Dorothy's customary garb mashes up a nun's habit with a floor-length gown, with a cut-out that leaves her entire back exposed from neck to lumbar curve. It makes for an early visual clue that, [[NaughtyNuns for a nun, she's not terribly saintly]].
28	* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: Maria is a foul-mouthed jeans-and-T-shirt girl and brute of a fighter who slings a pair of {{Hand Cannon}}s as her primary weapons. But she has a soft spot for the sundress that Dorothy buys her during an afternoon on the town, though she insists they're usually more her sister's thing.
29	* TortureForFunAndInformation: Dorothy enjoys flogging information out of a captured vampire ''waaaaaay'' too much.
30	* VegetarianVampire: Prior to meeting Dorothy, Maria sated her blood-thirst by drinking from transfusion bags. Dorothy is in fact the first human whose blood she has consumed "from the vein", which lets her transform into a {{Stripperiffic}} SuperMode and was implicitly likened to losing her virginity.
31	* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Dorothy is the daughter of the current Pope, who wishes for her to stay in the church and pray for salvation from the grotesque. Dorothy prefers to take a more active role in exterminating vampires.
32	* WhatTheHellHero: In chapter 12, Maria viciously calls out Dorothy on her manipulative behavior towards both herself and Shannon.

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