Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?

Kokoa Hoto is a positive and energetic girl who becomes friends with anyone in just three seconds. After moving in with the Kafuu family in order to attend high school away from home, she immediately befriends the shy and precocious granddaughter of Rabbit House cafe's founder, Chino Kafuu, who is often seen with the talking rabbit, Tippy, on her head.

After beginning to work as a waitress in return for room and board, Kokoa also befriends another part-timer, Rize Tedeza, who has unusual behavior and significant physical capabilities due to her military upbringing; Chiya Ujimatsu, a waitress from a rival cafe who does everything at her own pace; and Sharo Kirima, another waitress at a different cafe who has the air of a noblewoman despite being impoverished.

With fluffy silliness and caffeinated fun, Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka? is a heartwarming comedy about five young waitresses and their amusing adventures in the town they call home.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Kafuu, Chino Main

Minase, Inori Japanese

Hoto, Kokoa Main

Sakura, Ayane Japanese

Kirima, Sharo Main

Uchida, Maaya Japanese

Tedeza, Rize Main

Taneda, Risa Japanese

Ujimatsu, Chiya Main

Satou, Satomi Japanese

Tippy Supporting

Kiyokawa, Motomu Japanese

Jouga, Maya Supporting

Tokui, Sora Japanese

Aoyama, Midori Supporting

Hayami, Saori Japanese

Natsu, Megumi Supporting

Murakawa, Rie Japanese

Hoto, Moka Supporting

Kayano, Ai Japanese

Iwasa, Gaku Producer

Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Producer

Ogura, Mitsutoshi Producer

Yoshikawa, Tsunaki Producer

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Jun 7, 2024

lycoping

Recommended

I love this anime. I can't really say this enough and with strong enough words. I LOVE this anime.

It's a Cute Girls Doing Cute Things anime, and also a "moe" anime, and it does these things well. There are only maybe three male characters in the whole thing, but at least you can see their faces, which is sadly all too unusual for moe/CGDCT anime like this. The characters are insanely cute, and do cute things. The art is beautiful, the sound is great, everything's well made in this anime.

But this is not why I loved this anime. This ... is, at best, one reason to like this anime.

I love this anime because of the setting.

The mangaka chose a quasi-European town, with architecture that wouldn't be out of place in the Swiss countryside. They speak Japanese (which makes sense because it's a Japanese anime) but absolutely everything else seems designed specifically to evoke the atmosphere of a small maybe Victorian or turn of the century European town. All the writing is in latin script, the streets are cobblestone, the schools are semi-recognizably Japanese but with European influences, the culture festival contains nearly entirely European goods. Everyone has smartphones so the technology is somewhat anachronistic at times, but it is definitely meant to evoke a quasi-European vibe.

And it is maybe the warmest anime I have ever seen. It's on the level of "Non Non Biyori" or "Akebi's Sailor Uniform", and maybe even surpasses them. In fact, probably does.

It took me a while to figure out what they were trying to do with this anime and its setting, because the setting is actually so deliberately non-Japanese it's a little jarring at first. I saw one theory that this was set in a world where Japan won the war. That may be, but eventually I realized that absolutely everything in this anime was designed to be *warm*. From the background, to the city, to the cafe, to the costumes, to the girls... everything, *everything* was meant to evoke a warm and iyashikei-like setting that just wraps you up in it like a warm blanket and comforts you like, well, a soft, fluffy rabbit.

It's absolutely beautiful. Quite honestly, I remember very little of the plot, and I don't even *care*. I just watched every episode, enveloping myself in the warm, fluffy moe-ness that is this anime. There were some cute girls in it, I guess, doing some cute things. And it did that part well, but it's the warmth that kept me coming back.

There are things to criticize. I'm sure of it. I can't remember what any of them are. I was too busy curled up in the warmth.

But this warmth, this setting, this absolutely *beautiful* setting, is why I love this anime. I mean, really love it. I won't go quite so far as to say it defines the moe or CGDCT genre, but it definitely is a strong contender for being at least one of the anime that defines iyashikei.

This anime is perfect for a cold winter's day. Find yourself a blanket, some soup, some hot cocoa, and something warm and fluffy (rabbits will do nicely, but a cat or dog if you don't have a rabbit handy), curl up with your tablet or laptop, and watch this anime.

Absolutely recommended from me.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Jun 30, 2020

Blue_Maroon

Mixed Feelings

It’s a slice-of-life show about cute girls doing cute things.

It does it decently well, the show itself doesn’t feel too generic. Yet it doesn’t feel like it does anything to stand out.

All of the girls in the cast have their own personalities and stay true to them in the various interactions. The problem is that I never found the characters very interesting, which is the most important element in a slice-of-life show. Because of this, I got pretty burnt-out watching these characters going though plot points of no real significance.

Characters aside, nothing else stood out enough for me to analyze. The art/animation, ... sound, and music were all ok and left no real impression on me.

And in a nutshell, that is how I can best describe my thoughts on this anime. It was something that I watched, but it is not something that I will likely remember a couple weeks down the road.

I probably won’t watch its sequals, unless something awakens in me that makes me want to watch cute, animated girls make coffee for hours.

It’s closer to a 6 than a 4.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 28, 2019

SINIU

Not Recommended

Funny

Preliminary (1/12 eps)

"Ehhh".

I'm just basing this off episode 1 but if that was really the most effective hook to the series that they could muster then I feel my judgement is valid.

It didn't have enough of anything. The girls weren't cute enough. The dialogue was bland and unexciting even for moe crap. The aesthetics were off (you've got modern moe in a Victorian style pub setting on first episode, like c'mon man), idc if it's "plot" it still looked trash. Not to mention the plot in itself (or lack thereof) was trash. I know most moe shit goes for something simplistic and easily expandable but I failed ... to pick up on even the littlest bit of substance in the plot.

Further problems: Only one yuri moment... and it was undertones not actual yuri. Like if you're going to have a show this boring at least spice it up by making it go full lesbo.

I'll give this show one thing to it's credit though; the intro and outro are actually really good. Judging by the standard of all the moe garbage I've watched, it did not fail to meet my expectations. If the show was constantly as good as the into and outro, and by that I mean just over-pandering with cute bs down my throat, then that would be easy 7.5/10.

For a show that handles their characters, tropes, dialogue, plot, archetypes, and cute moments perfectly (imo) check out: "Watashi ni Tenshi ga Maiorita!"

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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