History YMMV / Upotte

*** The orange slice also bears a resemblance to the sight adjustment knob on the M16's carry handle.

%%* AudienceAlienatingPremise: See WidgetSeries.

* WidgetSeries: Anime viewers who like moe will be put off by the guns, and gun fans will most likely be put off by the moe. Only those who can appreciate - or tolerate - both genres will be able to watch this show.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: See WidgetSeries.

** L's GagBoobs refer to the L85 being rather heavy and having a larger handguard, compared to other assault rifles; also, according to the Gun Girl anatomy book, the handguard ''is'' the bustline. (Now consider where a guy's hands usually end up...)

** Crossing into IncrediblyLamePun territory; when Sensei is reading up on Gun Girl anatomy their back side is the equivalent to a rifle's stock or ''butt''.

*** Something very similar to this is brought up during the Enoshima arc, involving the Beretta assault rifle [=AR70=], and its updated variant, the [=AR70/90=]. While they're both chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO, each rifle has a different rifling twist rate optimized for two different 5.56 loads (the older [=M193=] for the former, and the more recent [=SS109=] for the latter). And the person to figure this out was [=HK33=], as her series of rifles also went through this change, with the original 33's optimized for [=M193=], and the made-for-export 33E's and later production 33's optimized for [=SS109=].

* TheScrappy: Genkoku.

*** Something very similar to this is brought up during the Enoshima arc, involving the Beretta assault rifle [=AR70=], and its updated variant, the [=AR70/90=]. While they're both chambered for 5.56x45mm NATO, each rifle has a different rifling twist rate optimized for two different 5.56 loads (the older [=M193=] for the former, and the more recent [=SS109=] for the latter.

** The Japanese Teacher's surname, [[spoiler: Browning]], will make his involvement in the whole plot much more sense since [[spoiler: [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning John Browning]] is the father of many American weapon designs during the late 19th and early century such as the M1911 pistol, M1917, M1919, and M2 machine gun, M1918 BAR automatic rifle, and much more on this list here [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Browning#Firearms]]. This is of course assuming he is related]].

* {{Moe}}: ''All'' of the girls. Curiously, this has been put up a notch in the character designs for the anime, in which the girls have a more "classical" moe look, compared to their more edgy designs in the manga.

* {{Moe}}: ''All'' of the girls. Curiously, this has been put up a notch in the character designs for the anime, in which the girls have a more "classical" moe look, compared to their more edgy design in the manga.

* {{Moe}}: ''All'' of the girls. Curiously, this has been put up a notch in the character designs for the anime, in which the girls have a more "classical" moe look, which arguably takes away from their more edgy design in the manga.

* {{Moe}}: _All_ of the girls. Curiously, this has been put up a notch in the character designs for the anime, in which the girls have a more "classical" moe look, which arguably takes away from their more edgy design in the manga.

*** This is true since the M16 series has been adopted worldwide from the Americas all the way to Asia and Europe. This is unlike the FNC since a few number of countries have adopted it like Belgium and Venezuela while the rifle has been adopted by Indonesia and Sweden under license.

** 16 eats an impossible hot chicken nugget and then yells at Funco, saying she's delicate, and later jams; this is a reference to the M16's ill-advised change of ammunition propellant powder in Vietnam, which caused a lot of problems with jamming.
** In Episode 3, 16 is shown meticulously cleaning herself, even though she didn't go out like the other gun girls; the M16 family of weapons requires ''a lot'' of cleaning, due to the direct impingement operating system, which has been described "eating where you shit at."

** In episode 9 when the girls bring out some modern rations, Ms. Thompson coments that, "Back in my day we used to eat canned food all the time," which is true of WorldWarTwo era rations.
** Galil tries to open a bottle using her teeth, and 18 tells her not to do that because it'll damage her magazine lips. In Israel, newly-conscripted soldiers have been known to do exactly that, which is why Galil bipods have a built-in bottle opener. But as 18 points out to [=AUG=], Galil-chan is the AR model, which lacks the bipod.
** When Funco, 16 and L skipped out on long-range shooting and tried to pass off Sig's shots as their own, it doesn't work because the SG 550 doesn't use 5.56x45mm NATO. She uses the dimensionally identical but ballistically different 5.6x45mm [=GP90=]. She has a different rifling twist rate than the NATO rifles, meaning that each would be less accurate using the other's ammunition.
** 16 moonlights as a fashion model because the M16/A-15 series is one of the two most popular assault rifle types in the world, constantly appearing on gun magazine covers. Likewise, FAL is the class president of the battle rifles/high school girls, because the FAL was the most widely-used battle rifle in the world (the "Right Arm of the Free World").

* AudienceAlientingPremise: See WidgetSeries.

** And then to add further insult to injury, in Episode 4 she breaks her firing pin, and is depressed for much of the episode, especially after 16 repeatedly calls her a dud. This became worse in the jungle wargame arc when Funco remembers the times when L can't attend a wargame ranging from tripping herself to stomach pains or trips to the nearby hospital.

* MemeticMutation: Fans will declare a gun to be their "raifu"[[hottip:*:contraction of "rifle" and "waifu",]] whether it's talking about the show itself or in firearm or video game discussion.

* DieForOurShip: YuriFans don't appreciate Genkoku being FNC's crush.

* {{Jerkass}}: M-16.

** When Funco, 16 and L skipped out on long-range shooting and tried to pass off Sig's shots as their own, it doesn't work because the SG 550 doesn't use 5.56x45mm NATO. She uses the dimensionally identical but ballistically different 5.6x45mm GP90. She has a different rifling twist rate than the NATO rifles, meaning that each would be less accurate using the other's ammunition.

* MemeticMutation: Fans will declare a gun to be their "raifu" whether it's talking about the show itself or in firearm or video game discussion.

** This is also related to why [=MP5=] is repeatedly called mini-G3 (''chiisai Jisuri-sempai''); the [=MP5=] is essentially a G3 in submachinegun size, chambered for 9mm Parabellum. (And also why she's apparently G3's favorite imouto.)

** Her big sister FAL gets mistaken for molesting G3 later on in ''Upotte Nano''. It's actually a big misunderstanding, when she acts upon her suspicion about G3 (she was right; it was actually one of her little sisters MID-33 filling in for her).