Is the Order a Rabbit? - Reviews

One of the sweetest anime about friendship. I myself love coffee, so I very much enjoyed the cafe scenery. Also, the town in which the anime is located is so picturesque that made me feel I want to visit it. The story is quiet and peaceful, and the best way to start your day.

The characters are sweet and unique without pushing it to the edges like the typical harem anime, in which each character tends to be so annoying, because they want to stand out.

The soundtracks also calm and sweet make you feel like you're inside the cafe, or in the park - they're cheerful and give you the sense of happiness.

I recommend it to every otaku friend here, who wants to relax and enjoy a beautiful casula story with cute but not provocative girls.

There is this thing in anime that drives toward kawaii, to see the cuteness in people and things.  That's perfectly fine, if there is some sense to controlling how much and to what extent.  This we find in Is the Order a Rabbit?  There is a cuteness that is sweet, but  the contents of Rabbit? is saccharine sweet, almost nauseatingly so.

Haven't we learned our lesson from Strawberry Marshmallow?  Is the Order a Rabbit? makes the same mistake.  The five girls are unqualified kawaii, but their antics push them to make the cute girl sexy.  We find the five in all sorts of fanservice, in acts of dressing, odd poses, the gratuitous swimsuit scenario and visits to the baths.  The typical fare, and then you ask ... what are these girls up to?  And in a series of vignettes you basically reply ... same-old-same-old.  If nothing else, Cocoa's friendliness is infectious ... getting others to realize this, there's your premise.

The series spins the varied personalities of the five main characters.   Cocoa is a transfer study who come to a picturesque European town and finds employment in a local coffee house, the Rabbit House.  Cocoa is characteristically hyper-upbeat.  Contrasting Cocoa is Chino, the coffee shop owner's daughter who is hyper-subdued.  Chino rebuffs all attempts of Cocoa becoming the hyper-devoted 'big sister.'  Rize is the gun-toting military-minded girl who moderates these two girls' activities.  Chiya is a 'pure Japanese girl' whose kindheartedness makes her the perfect hostess of her sweets shop.  She employs Syara, a girl whose elegance and good taste hides the fact that she is dirt poor, something she doesn’t want other to discover.  Add to this mix Chino's grandfather who has been reincarnated as a short-eared rabbit, and Aoyama, a novelist who has been inspired by him (though she never finds out the secret of Tippy the Rabbit).  Then there is Maya and Megu, Chino's livelier classmates who are usually up to some mischief.

The humor is the best thing to Rabbit?, and it runs from the gentle (usually on rabbit-based themes) to the sketchy (based on fanservice).  And the humor spins about of a set of twelve unrelated and disjointed episodes.  And the plots are predictable down to the Christmas episode near the end of it all.  Still, I found myself laughing at some of the jokes which often come fast and furious, when it does.

The animation is based on elaborate background scenes which introduce us to the simpler settings where the girls engage in conversation in any of the inns, pools, baths, and shops the girls frequent.   The technique is standard, creating almost chibi-style characters doing grown-up stuff.  Like children acting like adults and not quite getting it right.  One quaint feature is the closing theme, where a roulette wheel of playing cards spin and flip, usually displaying one of the girls on a face card (Cocoa is the Joker, go figure!).  No closing feature is exactly the same and you concentrate to catch the nuances.

The music is peppy though not sensational.  It tries to engage the cheerful spirit of the comradery which develops throughout the season.

There are more seasons for Is the Order a Rabbit?, but seeing the first, will the same-old-same-old persist?  You can get sick if you get too much kawaii.

White Fox bought us season one of Koi’s nine volume manga in anime form back in 2014. The whole thing is a relaxing life cleanser (“lyashikei”) from the universe-of-cute in which nothing ever bad happens. As such it is undemanding to the point of driving the audience into a coma. Nothing really happens and nothing is ever going to happen yet this got spun out for three seasons, one film and a game. So, it has to have something going for it. The story is set in a small German medieval town that has somehow been magically recreated in contemporary Japan. We can only guess that such places exist or is this just fantasy? It all forms a beautiful backdrop to a world in which rabbits seem to be a dominant theme. They are everywhere in this story. The story (for what it is worth) revolves around the lives of seven teenage girls and a couple of adults. Three of the girls are in middle school and the rest in high school. They all, at one time or another, work in one of three of the town’s cafes all of which have some kind of rabbit theme or motif. The central character is new girl Cocoa Hoto although she is by no means the most interesting character. The honour of most colourful individual actually goes to the military-obsessed tomboy Rize Tedeza who, despite her dominant persona, moonlights occasionally as her feminine alter-ego “Rose”. None of which makes much sense as the rest of the time she is either dressed in high school uniform of her waitress uniform both of which involve skirts. Between this and her wonderful long hair she sems to be a feminine as they come. Another quirky and unexplained part of the plot is the rabbit that lives at one of the cafes called “The Rabbit House”. The creature appears to be the reincarnated grandfather of one of the girls (Chino Kafu) but when he speaks the girls always assume it is Chino throwing her voice. Madness.

So, you get the picture. It is all a big marshmallow The girls do fun things like dress as maids, go to Christmas Markets, do jigsaw puzzles, have sleep-overs, learn ballet, etc. Heck. This is not exciting yet neither is it in any way offensive. It is all very pleasant, like snuggling up in a duvet. It lacks flavour but makes up for it in colour. Despite the writer’s best efforts, the girl’s personalities all kinda merge into one where it is hard to tell them apart (with the possible exception of Rize). The characters lack diversity but it seldom matters. They are visually different. You watch it for the cute and stay for the cute. It is CUTE with a capital “C”. This is planet-Kawaii so strap in and let the whole darn thing wash over you like a pleasantly incensed waft of warm air on a winter’s evening. Don’t expect too much in the way of fan service nor expect many of the usual tropes in season one. No beach scenes or high school culture festivals yet the girls are fond of baths. It is good clean fun (pun intended) with only the very occasional mention of bunny girls despite the obvious inferences throughout the story. Family entertainment through and through. Difficult not to like but hard to really love. Anime chewing gum.

I'm on episode 7 out of 10 so yes it is improper for me to give a review of this anime... but I just don't know if I can do it anymore. Each episode is filler, the story is non existant, the characters are bland and forgettable except for the rabbit that sits on top of one characters head. Honestly the only reason I'm hanging around is because I'm curious on how her dad got turned into said rabbit on her head, but I don't think the story is going to tell me. 

I want to like this anime, the animation is adorable, the sound is decent, but it's just so slow and boring. It's set in a cafe where there is never a customer. Everything is just... bleh. It's not bad if you just want to sit down watch something adorable for half an hour then go watch something else and come back a month later and watch another episode.......

Honestly, I can see some people really loving this adorable anime, but it's just not for people who are looking for a story and rememerable characters or are looking for a cafe anime. Because unfortunately it lacks all of that. 

I think perhaps you should take the time to find another more fulfilling anime to make you smile. 

Right...Is the order a rabbit......Even from the title you can say that this anime will absolutely have some very serious issues.

I mean as creative titles go,this is lacking..You could slap "Hitler is my waifu" and be done with it.

But the title was the least of my worries even before i hit the play button.This seemed like the usual,overplayed song called "moe girls do moe things"..And if this is your first time reading any review of mine,i'll let you know that i hate moe with a passion.Cause it lets the writers go all lazy,add some moe spice and the moe-sheep will rip their bra's with excitement.But i want meaning,i want substance,i want when i watch something to be a coctail of marvelous with a splash of boner powder.

This has none of it in spades.Ok let me run this past you for a sec..The anime starts with a girl named Cocoa Hoto(hot cocoa)who moves to a new town,and ends up living in a coffee house called "Rabbit's House Cafe",owned by the father of Chino Kafuu(capuchino)who also has a fluffy white creature as a mascot on her head.

Now most of you will-as i did-think of another anime..Maybe one that also had a similar premise..You know,Italian-esque town,white bastard mascot?No?Nothing yet?

Aria maybe?

As far as similarities go this is it.All else is different.Not worlds apart different but you get the idea.

And here start the problems for me.This anime start to finish is a borefest.It has the classic episodic nature other animes of this type do,so as far as story goes you won't get anything apart from the cute things they do to pass their time in work or school.

The characters except for Lize,who is a total gun nut,are the same old same old deal..But laziness this anime is awash as Cocoa and Sharo are one and the same from a design's perspective.Ok you're lazy we get it but at least do a decent attempt for fuck's sake.....Oh i almost forgot that other airhead of the party Chiya,who is Cocoa's kindred spirit.Both dumb as fuck and as interesting as a lesson on how to cut your wrists wide open.

VA's and songs were ok-ish i think..I mean i didn't pay too much attention anyway so ok is the verdict.

But as is with every case this anime isn't for me.Maybe if you are a girl you might find it cute and relaxing and up your street.But for me this was boring as hell.

I keep banging on about how i want the anime to feel special,to grab me by the balls and make me pay attention..This sadly doesn't feel special at all.There's a huge influx of animes of this type to the point where i have to wonder when will this ride stop so i can get out and commit suicide in a dark corner forgotten by the world.

I don't expect even for a sec at this point anything innovative from the anime industry..There is a halt in creativity from a point on..Look at Hollywood where everything is either reboots,remakes,superhero movies and stuff.Nothing new.So i don't expect parthenogenesis but at least make something slightly interesting for the viewer and not the same rehashed shit we've seen hundreds of thousands of times.