Rifle is Beautiful
, also known as Chidori RSC, is a Japanese shooting sport four-panel manga series by Salmiakki. It was serialized online via Shueisha's "Tonari no Young Jump" website from April 2015 to July 2020, and was collected in six "tankōbon" volumes. An anime television series adaptation by studio 3Hz aired from October 2019 to January 2020. Plot. Hikari Kokura, a passionate marksman enrolls at Chidori High School, which has a target shooting club, but discovers the club was dissolved due to a lack of members. She restarts the club by finding three new members to join her , with the goal of making it into a national competition. Media. Manga. "Rifle is Beautiful", written and illustrated by Salmiakki, began on Shueisha's "Tonari no Young Jump" website on April 9, 2015, and it ended on July 2, 2020. Shueisha has compiled and published its chapters into six individual "tankōbon" volumes from May 19, 2016 to September 18, 2020. Anime. An anime adaptation was announced in the 46th issue of "Weekly Young Jump" magazine on October 18, 2018. The series was animated by studio 3Hz and directed by Masanori Takahashi, with Tatsuya Takahashi handling series composition, and Ken Mukaigawara  designing the characters. It aired from October 13, 2019 to January 18, 2020 on Tokyo MX, SUN, KBS, and BS11. The series' opening theme song is , while the series' ending theme song is , both performed by Rifling 4 (a group consisting of Machico, Akane Kumada, Saki Minami, and Anna Yamaki). Sentai Filmworks has licensed the anime in North America under the title "Chidori RSC". The series ran for 12 episodes. Reception. Anime News Network had four editors review the first episode of the anime: Theron Martin found the artistic qualities "nothing special" but gave praise to the main cast's  comedic delivery and detailed information about laser-target rifles, calling it a "light-hearted diversion with enough humor to make it work." James Beckett found the plot, characters and production overall to be "blandly competent" and found little interest in the show's subject matter, saying it will probably cater only to an all-girl slice-of-life audience; Nick Creamer commended the "visual execution" of the humor delivered and the camaraderie amongst the main cast feeling believable, but gave note of the "stilted scene transitions, uneven jokes, and total predictability of structure and characterization" throughout the episode, saying it  will only appeal to fans of the slice-of-life genre. The fourth reviewer, Rebecca Silverman, felt the plot was barebones and lacked urgency so that the girls' personalities can bounce off one another while using the rifles as more of a background setting.