![]() Which begs the question: what is it with Japanese and their jokes about poor people? Considering how high the poverty rate is in Japan, it's something a little difficult to laugh about at face value. Rounding off the main cast is Chiya Ujimatsu, a "proper Japanese lady", and Sharo Kirima, whose big joke is her apparently also acting like a proper lady despite living a very thrifty life due to being poor. Are everyone used to all this? Must be nice being in a rich family, because yes, she totally is. She whips it out inside the cafe - even in the presence of customers and she even whips it out in public. And we don't even know whether or not everyone acting calm by this is a joke in and of itself. To counter that, Chino is a too-mature-for-her-middle-school-age girl with a deadpan voice, and Lize is the slightly taller tomboyish girl who whips out a gun (hopefully a toy one!) at a moment's notice. She wants Chino to refer to her as "onee-chan", she squees over the cute stuff, and generally behaves like she's in her own little world. She's kind of a MOEified extension of standard otaku personality behavior. It's a shame that Cocoa is such a colossal airhead, and not a particularly engaging one at that. Having tanks and an almost perfect replica of the F-16 fighter jet as latte art earned itself some laughs from at least one of us due to its bizarre out-of-place application. Some of them are obvious enough, like the one where the girls' bread-making session ends up with them partaking in a nice selection of bread and pastries that ends up having horrifying downsides, while others are probably not meant as comedy. That said, a lot of the jokes do hit the marks, even if we're never really sure whether they were meant to be jokes in the first place. Sure, the jokes are kind of hit and miss, but in this show you can at least choose to focus on the serious parts if the jokes doesn't float your boat. (And no damn jingles between them, either! - Tim) Most of the episodes tend to center around two or three main courses, and builds the jokes on top of that. ![]() But that might be because Is the Order a Rabbit? doesn't go for the rapid-fire joke approach, but instead allowing itself to linger on a subject for longer than one minute. well, the whole thing is so scenery-porn-y, it's as if the show knew Stig's weak points much too well.Īnd while we're not jumping all the hedges over the cast, they're still a damn sight better than the ones in Kinmoza!!. There's lots of greenery along the streets, with detailed shop signs, and. The town is meticulously made, the outsides a lush brick-and-wood lineup of houses standing at attention on each side of a river, with narrow brick alley roads snaking between more housing areas. The show is taking place solely in a town designed after Western European towns, with the settings mostly taking place either outside or in the various coffee shops around the town, and for what it's worth, the background art is gorgeous. Part of that could probably be attributed to the incredibly cozy atmosphere. But where Kinmoza!! ended up being a huge bore, Is the Order a Rabbit? ended up being only occasionally boring, instead of nearly constantly. (Saccharine even, I'd say at times.)Īnyway, what we have here is a show that for all the world sounded an awful lot like another show we reviewed late last year that seemed to center most of its activity around the antics of MOE. Two, it's more, well, grounded in reality. For one, it's about waitresses, not gondola rollers. Is The Order A Rabbit isn't too similar to that series outside of the set-up. A cute teenage girl moves in to an Italian-esque village and works at a place whose mascot is a white, fluffy animal that barely looks like its species. Tim: Stop me if you heard this one, guys. I remember having made this joke before where various girls' names are made up to sound like various hot drinks. Notes: Based on the manga by Koi, serialized in Houbunsha's seinen manga magazine Manga Time Kirara Max.Ĭocoa Hoto (hot cocoa) 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. Length: Television series, 12 episodes, 24 minutes eachĭistributor: Currently licensed by Sentai Filmworks.Īlso Recommended: Hidamari Sketch, Croisee in a Foreign Labyrinth, Aria.
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