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Studio: Xebec
Status: Finished

Kiss kiss, bang bang! The arms race takes on a startling new development when the arms come with heads, legs and very feminine bodies attached!

Yes, at Seishou Academy every girl is literally a lethal weapon, and they're all gunning for the top shot at getting their own personal serviceman! Needless to say, it's going to be difficult for newly recruited human instructor Genkoku to adjust to working with a living arsenal of high caliber cuties with tricky names like FNC (Funko) M 16A4 (Ichiroku) L85A1 (Eru) and SG 550 (Shigu). Especially since many have hair triggers and there's no bulletproof vest that can stop a really determined coed! He'll have to rewrite the operator's manual on student/teacher relationships, and pray that his job description won't include having to field strip and reassemble one of his cadets in the dark. But unfortunately (for him) FNC's already thinking about becoming HIS personal weapon, and she usually gets what she aims for!

Tags: Educational , Military , Guns , Seinen , Nudity , Nekomimi , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast

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Girls und Panzer

Also known as Girls und Panzer.

Studio: Actas , Lantis , Movic , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sports

You may have heard of kung fu, but the girls at Oarai High School practice gun-fu—really, really BIG 75mm gun-fu, in fact. It's called Sensha-do, and it's the martial art of operating armored tanks! They take it seriously too, and since winning the national Sensha-do championship is such a huge deal at Oarai, they sometimes go to extreme ends in order to get the best students from Panzer class to sign up. Which is how Miho Nishizumi, who HATES operating tanks, gets drafted to join doomsday-driven driver Mako, even-triggered gunner Hana, highly receptive radio operator Saori and combustible tank-fangirl and loader Yukari as the incomparable Anko Team. They may not be on the half-track to fame and fortune, and maybe a few of them would rather shop for tank tops than become tops in tanks, but once their focus is locked and loaded, they're absolutely driven.

Tags: Tanks , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Military , School Club , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Teen Cast , School , Ensemble Cast , Historical , Parody , CGI , Ships , Volleyball , Gore

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Sabagebu!

Also known as Sabagebu! - Survival Game Club!.

Studio: Studio Signpost , Bandai Visual , Kodansha , Studio Pierrot , Lantis , Banpresto , Q-Tec , Nihon Narration Engi Kenkyuujo
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy , Sports

Momoka's family moves a lot, so she's always "that new girl" and the schools she's attended have all blurred together. Until her first day at Aogiri High, that is, where she's rescued by an armed vigilante, assaulted by a platypus, and coerced into joining a secret organization of gun-toting female commandos. Okay, maybe that last one is really just the school's survival club, but the platypus is real and so are the extremes that club president Miou is willing to execute to recruit Momoka.

Can uber-jaded Momoka's body armor-clad heart resist the charms of a girl who's all too ready to whip out her twin Desert Eagles in defense of another girl's virtue? Especially when it turns out that Momoka has her own talent for air pistols and senseless violence?

Tags: Anti-Hero , Airsoft , Surreal Comedy , Meta , School Club , Shoujo , Chuunibyou , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast , Parody , Military , Athletics , Crossdressing , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Kuudere , Primarily Teen Cast , Otaku Culture , School

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Dolls' Frontline

Also known as Girls’ Frontline.

Studio: Asahi Production , Warner Bros. Japan , SUNBORN Network Technology , GRIFFIN & KRYUGER , Ai Addiction
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama

In the fallout of nuclear war, the last of humanity survives with the help of life-like androids known as Dolls. Built to serve, some fight in wars as Tactical Dolls or T-Dolls. Some of them and their newly assigned human commander are sent on missions to face a new rogue threat, Sangvis Ferri.

Tags: Guns , Artificial Intelligence , War , Primarily Female Cast , Military , Female Protagonist , Robots , Conspiracy , Memory Manipulation , Amnesia , Dissociative Identities , Post-Apocalyptic , Foreign , Pandemic

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YouTube

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Strike Witches

Also known as Strike Witches.

Studio: GONZO , Funimation , Kadokawa Shoten , KLOCKWORX , NTT Docomo , 501st JOINT FIGHTER WING
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Ecchi , Sci-Fi

The year is 1944 and the world lives in fear of unidentified flying objects called Neuroi. With the old-boy old guard unable to thwart this deadly menace, humanity turns its desperate eyes to an aerial attack force with much nicer legs. Meet the girls of the 501st Joint Fighter Wing, better known as the Strike Witches. These darlings of the great blue yonder may not have standard issue uniforms, but they do have all the right stuff. Where the average flyboy falters, these dolls blast aliens to bits in the bat of an eyelash. With a little magic and a whole lot of leg, the girls of the 501st are winning the war on pants, and aliens!

Tags: Kemonomimi , Aviation , Female Protagonist , Magic , Military , Primarily Female Cast , Nudity , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , War , Yuri , Tsundere , Kuudere , CGI

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Rifle Is Beautiful

Also known as Chidori RSC.

Studio: Studio 3Hz , Hakuhodo DY Music & Pictures , Bandai Namco Arts , Lantis , Sentai Filmworks
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Slice of Life , Sports

Kokura Hikari is a first-year high school girl who loves rifle shooting. She entered Chidori High School because it had a shooting club, but finds that the club had been disbanded. She had only one day to find enough members to reform the club, but luckily was able to find three other first-year girls who she had met at a competition in middle school.

Thus begins the daily activities of the Chidori High Shooting Club.

Tags: School Club , Guns , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Primarily Female Cast , Airsoft , School , Educational , Seinen , Female Protagonist , CGI , Meta

Where to watch?

HIDIVE

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Himawari!

Also known as Himawari!.

Studio: Arms , Touhouku Shinsha , Genco , Starchild Records , Maiden Japan , Tohokushinsha Film Corporation
Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Comedy

Himawari Hinata recently transfered to Shinobi Gakuen to train to become the best kunoichi she can be. She wanted to be a ninja ever since she was saved by one when she was little. On her first day, she meets Hayato Madenokoji (a new transfer teacher) who saves her life. Hayato does not possess any ninja skills or traits, he is teaching the ninjas about normal society to pay off his debt. However, Himawari notices that Hayato bares the same mark on his neck as the ninja who saved her when she was young.

Tags: Ninja , Martial Arts , School , Guns , Female Protagonist , Primarily Female Cast

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So Ra No Wo To

Also known as Sound of the Sky.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , The Right Stuf International
Status: Finished
Genres: Music , Sci-Fi , Slice of Life

In a lonely corner of the world, on the edge of No Man’s Land, sits Clocktower Fortress. It’s home to the 1121st Platoon of the Helvetian Army, and their newest member is a 15-year-old volunteer named Kanata Sorami, who enlisted to learn how to play the bugle. When she was a child, Kanata was saved by a beautiful soldier and found inspiration in the clear, golden sound of her trumpet. From that day forward, Kanata decided music would be her life.

As the other platoon members train her how to be a bugler and a soldier, Kanata's enduring optimism will inspire them to look for happiness and beauty, even in a world haunted by war.

Tags: Post-Apocalyptic , Military , Female Protagonist , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Lost Civilization , Episodic , Primarily Female Cast , Steampunk , Iyashikei , Kuudere , Philosophy , War , Ensemble Cast , Tragedy , CGI , Tsundere , Nun , Tanks , Language Barrier

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High School Fleet Movie

Studio: A-1 Pictures , Aniplex
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Comedy

The students of four marine high schools, including Yokosuka Girls, participate in an operation to prevent pirates manning a heavily-armed seafort from making its way to Japan. During this time, Mashiro struggles with an important decision: to become the captain of a ship or stay with the Harekaze and her friends.

Tags: Ships , Primarily Female Cast , Female Protagonist , Military , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Pirates , Educational , Coastal

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Softenni

Studio: Xebec , NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan , Lantis , AT-X , KLOCKWORX , Studio Mausu
Status: Finished
Genres: Comedy , Ecchi , Sports

The tennis comedy centers around the members of a female middle school soft tennis team and the twists and turns that their lives take as they aim for the nationals.

Tags: Parody , Surreal Comedy , Nudity , Tennis , Slapstick , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , School , Kuudere , Shounen , Female Protagonist , Tragedy

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Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II

Also known as Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online II.

Studio: Aniplex , A-1 Pictures , KADOKAWA , Bandai Namco Entertainment , Straight Edge , EGG FIRM
Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Sci-Fi

The second season of Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online.

LLENN, M, Fukaziroh, and Pitohui form the strongest team, LPFM for short, and enter a new battle royale death match tournament that was annouced out of the blue.

LPFM is eyed as the top favorite candidate team to win, but the team will have to endure several rigorous ordeals to get there: a playing field that sinks into the ocean with the passage of time, an unknown area hidden in the middle of the map, and an anonymous team conspiracy.

In addition to all of this, all players will have to follow some shocking special rules if they want to play the game and win…

Note: On June 17, 2024, Studio 3Hz announced their acquisition by A-1 Pictures. The GGO Project would continue to be handled by the same staff, now working under their new studio's name.

Tags: Guns , Video Games , Female Protagonist , Battle Royale , Virtual World , Military , Cute Girls Doing Cute Things , Tomboy , Swordplay , Idol , LGBTQ+ Themes , Primarily Adult Cast

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