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The cast of Is the Order a Rabbit?.

(Name order note: to better demonstrate this series' Edible Theme Naming, all names here are arranged surname-first.)

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     Hoto Cocoa 

Hoto Cocoa

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Voiced by: Ayane Sakura

A ditzy teenage girl who moves from the countryside to the half-timbered town, where she stays at the Kafuu residence as part of a work/study program. She is quite keen on cute things, considers Chino her little sister, and has a very skewed sense of where her talents lie.

She works at the Kafuu family's café Rabbit House along with Chino and Rize, and attends the half-timbered town's public high school with Chiya and (as of vol. 9) Chino and Fuyu.


  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!:
    • In S1E09, she goes to the park to help look for Aoyama's lost fountain pen. She looks under a bench without any luck. Later when she spots a rabbit, she chases after it, completely forgetting about looking for the pen.
    • In S1E10, she starts spouting off prime numbers. She gets into the thousands, then turns her head, notices a picture album, and gets distracted by that. Syaro wonders how she gets so easily distracted.
  • Big Sister Instinct: Considers Chino to be her surrogate little sister much to the latter's initial annoyance.
  • Born Unlucky
  • Cheerful Child: She is absolutely adorable when she was younger, as seen in S1E09 when talking to Chino's grandfather before he became a rabbit.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Won't allow anyone else to take away Chino as their "little sister".
  • Cloud Cuckoolander: About as much as you can get. In one example during S1E07, she asks Chiya where Syaro lives. Then she, Chino, and Rize see Syaro coming out of the house right next to Chiya's cafe. After Chino tries to apologize for assuming she was Secretly Wealthy, Cocoa instead asks where Syaro's house is at. Syaro ends up having to point to the very house she just came out of.
  • Cool Big Sis: She tries to act like one. Though it doesn't work very well on Chino, Megu seems to buy it.
  • Cuddle Bug: Seems to have a thing about cuddling Chino and Tippy, which disturbs them both.
  • Dirty Old Man: When the girls visit the pool at the city, Cocoa convinces everybody to try on swimsuits they wouldn't normally wear. But the sultry two-piece she picks goes to her head and she starts hitting on younger girls like an old lech, including sneaking up behind an unsuspecting Elu and Natsume (back when they were strangers) and asking them to "keep her company". Chino freaks out at Cocoa for acting like a dirty old man, despite it being obvious she's just jealous of Cocoa giving her attention to other girls.
  • Does Not Like Spam: Hates tomato juice with a passion.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Hot cocoa.
  • Genki Girl: Is almost always hyper and often gets excited over the most seemingly trivial things, such as latte art and ordering three cups of coffee just to get an excuse to hug Tippy.
  • Genius Ditz: Despite her claims to how she has no outstanding skills whatsoever, as the first episode demonstrates, Cocoa can do near-instantaneous mathematical calculations.
  • Good with Numbers: Reveals that she is something of a mathematical savant, able to calculate large sums instantly, but she doesn't consider it to be anything special.
  • Heavy Sleeper: It is very hard for other characters to wake Cocoa up. The only suessful attempt is a threat to use Close-Quarter Combat on her.
  • Literal-Minded: At least once. Cocoa thought that the "Rabbit House" was a petting zoo for rabbits.
  • Nice Girl: Cocoa is very open and friendly towards everyone.
  • No Sense of Direction: Encountering Rize four times on the same day on her way to school (Not to mention the school opening ceremony was the next day, rather than that day).
    Rize: "D-did I wander into another dimension?!"
  • One-Note Cook: Bread is the only food she can make successfully.
  • Tareme Eyes

     Tedeza Rize 

Tedeza Rize

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Voiced by: Risa Taneda

A military brat who tries to stay composed and disciplined around her younger friends, but she also has a strong feminine side and is easily flustered by cute things and being teased. She carries a (probably replica) Glock and combat knife on her person at all times, and brandishes them at the drop of a hat.

She is a waitress at the Rabbit House and formerly attended the town's prestigious rich girl academy with Syaro, but she graduated in vol. 7 to attend college with her childhood friend Yura Karede.


  • The Ace: She gets high grades and is good at most sports, making her very popular among her classmates.
  • Crazy Survivalist: She carries a loaded pistol and a combat knife with her, always thinking about things in a militaristic way, and sees everything as survival training. Considering her father served in the military, it shouldn't be too surprising.
  • Cosplay Otaku Girl: She's in the Closet, but she really likes dressing up and has a weird fascination with bunny outfits.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Thé des Alizés, a green tea-fruit blend.
  • Expy: She is a purple, stronger and bustier version of Kiniro Mosaic's Aya Komichi. They even share the same voice actress!
    • With her pigtails, she also bears a resemblance to Azusa Nakano from K-On!, just taller with purple hair.
  • Foreign Culture Fetish: Rize seems to have a strong love for German things, with weapons and military stuff in particular, and especially things from World War II. Even her coffee art is often shown to be German tanks and apart from constantly carrying a Glock with her, an Imagine Spot had her think about a HK G-36K assault rifle.
  • I Just Want to Be Normal: At least, wants to be seen as normal.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: Rize, at the end of the day, hears Cocoa mentioning wanting to help Chino make dinner. She thinks to herself that it sounds fun, and later tells her toy rabbit that it's not like she's lonely or anything like that when talking about Cocoa.
  • Iconic Item: Her Glock.
  • Improbable Age: Assuming the setting takes place in Japan (or some fictional town in France), it is highly unlikely for anyone in Japan or France to carry a concealed firearmnote . Even in countries that do allow their citizens to own firearms or have parents from a military background, someone would at least have some common sense not to let a minor carry and use a dangerous semi-automatic pistol without any form of adult supervision. On the other hand, her gun was occasionally said to be a toy...
  • Lonely Rich Kid: Hinted at in her jealousy of Chino and Cocoa living together and her near manic happiness when she is hanging out with her friends outside of work. When they visit her mansion in season two, she is initially quite happy to see them there. Then when all of them attempt to leave for various reasons, she tries begging them to stay, and ultimately points a gun at them to get them to hang out a little longer.
  • Military Brat: Her father is a high-ranking military officer, which is the reason for her Crazy Survivalist tendencies.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She is shown wearing nothing but her underwear in the very first scene she's in. She is also the bustiest of the cast (with the possible exception of Chiya), and her cleavage was deliberately shown twice in S 1 E 05, both when she was changing, while Male Gaze was in full force during episode 8 after she changed into her swimsuit.
  • Ojou: Comes from a rich family. Ironically she doesn't act like one, which leads to her seeing Syaro as her ideal role model.
  • Older Than They Look: In-universe example: Rize is a year older, although Cocoa was initially unaware of it.
  • Shout-Out: There are a couple Metal Gear Solid shout outs, like when she talks about rations.
  • Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Rize has a tough, headstrong personality with strict military discipline. One the other hand, she happens to enjoy cute things as well.
  • Tsurime Eyes: Fitting for the more headstrong of the main trio.
  • Twin Tails: Almost always has her hair tied up in a pair.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is just as terrified of bugs as Syaro is of rabbits.

     Ujimatsu Chiya 

Ujimatsu Chiya

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Voiced by: Satomi Sato

A spacy, kooky, melodramatic girl whose family owns a traditional Japanese sweets shop, Ama Usa An, which she intends to take over and turn into an international enterprise. She's been best friends with Syaro since they were small, and she is also very close with Cocoa — the only one who can give Chiya a run for her money in the ditziness department. Has a strange tendency to give common snacks overly-complicated, flowery and poetic names.

Initially she worked alone in her family's shop and attended the half-timbered town's public high school with Cocoa. Post-vol. 9, Ama Usa An took on Megu and Elu as employees and Chino and Fuyu became her underclassman in school.


  • Childhood Friends: With Syaro, the two act just like sisters for the most part.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: She is basically Birds of a Feather with Cocoa, which explains their affinity.
  • Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: In S 1 E 05, she seems uncoordinated when practicing with Cocoa, but shows amazing ability to dodge objects being tossed at her. She even hit a volleyball hard enough to knock out Cocoa, but passes out from exhaustion herself.
  • Deadly Dodging: Seems to be a passive ability based mainly on luck, but the girl can't be hit by any thrown object.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Uji matcha tea; matcha is a finely ground powder of green tea leaves, and Uji is a city in Kyoto prefecture known for its high quality green tea.
  • The Gadfly: Likes playing tricks on her friends, especially Syaro.
  • Hidden Buxom: A more realistic example, as kimono tend to suppress the chest. Whenever Chiya changes into something more flattering she's revealed to be about as big as Rize, if not even bigger. The opening theme for Season 2 in particular showcases her impressive assets.
  • Kimono Is Traditional: She typically wears Japanese clothing, since her family owns a cafe that specializes in Japanese sweets.
  • The Nicknamer: Likes to name dishes more than making sweets, which often confuses customers, not to mention the ridiculous names she comes up with for them.
  • Nightmare Fetishist: Judging by how she acts when she brings it up, its quite possible scary stories turn her on.
  • Passive-Aggressive Kombat: When it comes to more serious topics, Chiya doesn't directly speak her mind. For example, when she believes Cocoa isn't concerned about the two getting split up in different classes in the new year, her response is to puff up her cheeks and put on a pouting face. When she wants to convince Syaro to work with her, she leaves a package with a note stating as much on the top.
  • Pseudo-Romantic Friendship:
    • When Syaro is feeling down because she's all alone at an elite school for rich girls, Chiya cheers her up by saying that even though they go to different schools they can still hangout as much as they want and that they will always be friends well into adulthood.
    • When Syaro gets a cold in the finale of the first season, Chiya takes care of her and refuses to leave until Syaro has fallen asleep despite Syaro's worry she catch the cold. Infact Chiya says she hopes she does get it, because there is a saying that you can get rid of a cold by giving it to someone else.
  • Secret-Keeper: She's the only one who knows where Syaro lives (her workplace is adjacent to Syaro's house) and what Syaro's actual social class is. And Syaro would like to keep it that way. When Syaro is finally found out in S1E07, Chiya laments that she feels a little sad, since they no longer have this shared secret.
  • Yamato Nadeshiko: Regularly wears Japanese clothing and works at a family owned Japanese Sweet café; as well as being the more subdued of her friends. Though she is not without her quirks.

     Kirima Syaro 

Kirima Syaro

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Voiced by: Maaya Uchida

Chiya's childhood friend. She lives next to Ama Usa An and has a crush on her upperclassman Rize. Fussy and short-tempered, she is easily distraught over just about everything, but she's also the most sensible and mature of the entire group. She has a slight fear of rabbits and becomes increasingly hyper after drinking coffee, her emotions differing depending on the blend.

She works at Fleur de Lapin, a herbal tea café with slightly risqué uniforms and fliers and attends the same elite academy as Rize (prior to Rize's graduation). In vol. 9, she became a senpai to Maya and Natsume at Fleur and also to Megu and Elu at the academy.


  • A-Cup Angst: She doesn't take Chiya's bust being larger than hers very well.
  • Cosplay Café: The shop she works at is a tea-serving Maid Café and she's often seen in the uniform.
  • Cuteness Overload: Seeing Rize in a middle-school uniform breaks her mind for a little bit.
  • Drunk on Milk: After drinking one cup of coffee, she gets extremely hyper. She has stated that her caffeine tolerance is low, hence why she avoids coffee. Cocoa takes advantage of this in episode 5 when practicing for a sports festival.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Kilimanjaro (coffee).
  • Genki Girl: Whenever she drinks coffee.
  • Growling Gut: Happens a couple of times to her, mostly because she can't afford to buy much food and sometimes goes long stretches without eating as a result.
  • Mock Millionaire: She actually doesn't play this trope up. However, the other girls assume she must be rich because she's very pretty and seems to have good mannerisms as one would expect someone with a privileged upbringing to show. She's too embarrassed to admit this to them however, especially towards Rize. The other girls accidentally find this out in episode 7, but despite Syaro's worries they don't think any less of her.
  • Ojou: Subverted, while Cocoa and Chino think she is rich, due to her looks and way of talking, she is actually pretty poor.
  • Penny Among Diamonds: Her main insecurity; especially when her crush is one of the "diamonds."
  • Perpetual Poverty: She is a Scholarship Student who lives in a dilapidated house next to Ama Usa An that has no TV, and have part-time job at Fleur de Lapin to cover the family expenses.
  • Scholarship Student: She actually regrets it, as this caused her to socialize with peers that are not in her socioeconomic group.
  • Shout-Out: When handing out Christmas fliers Syaro comments on how cold it is, when she swears she has seen this scene before, cue an Imagine Spot of The Little Match Girl much to her horror.
  • Tsurime Eyes
  • Weight Woe: In Episode Six of the second season, she told Mocha she get fats easily, so she avoids eating too much.
  • Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She is deathly afraid of rabbits and becomes petrified upon spotting one. Unfortunately for her, rabbits seem to love her.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: She has a lot of fear towards Anko, Chiya's pet rabbit, because he bit her when she was young, but nowadays if the two are in the same room you can bet he will end up on top of her head... after chasing her around a bit.
    • This also appears to happen with Wild Geese, the feral rabbit Rize saved her from when they met. Come season 2 he eventually ends up residing in her home and they gain unique bond.

     Karede Yura 

Karede Yura

Voiced by: Saori Onishi

Rize's childhood friend and classmate, both at the elite girl's school and at college, who takes great pleasure in appearing from nowhere and coyly toying with other people. She works as a maid at Rize's mansion and also as a barista at Bright Bunny with Fuyu, whom she takes a particular interest in.


  • Ascended Extra: Originally appeared in a single chapter as the weirdo president of the Blowgun club. Later, it was revealed she was going to the same college as Rize, got promoted to main character status, and basically became Aoyama 2.0 to Rize and the Bright Bunny group, Elu, Natsume, and Fuyu.
  • Casual Kink: In chapter 139, the Ginger girls end up with a bunch of bondage equipment at their flea market stall. They can't get rid of it until Yura (who feels guilty that she cost them a job) takes everything off their hands. Later, when a beet-red Rize asks where she got the whips and cuffs from, Yura casually asks if Rize wants to try them out.
  • Childhood Friends: In her first appearance, she didn't seem to be anybody special, but later (presumably to integrate her into the ensemble so Rize would have classmates at college) she was revealed to be Rize's childhood friend.
  • Dad the Veteran: Her father was in the special forces with Rize's, and — presumably — Chino's.
  • The Gadfly: Whenever she turns up, it usually leads to embarrassment for somebody.
  • Irony: Despite being the president of the blowgun club, she is absolutely terrible at it. Syaro outclasses her by a mile every time they face off.
  • Junior Counterpart: She first appeared on the hunt for the legendary "Ms. Emerald" (i.e. Aoyama-sensei), and personality-wise she is basically Aoyama Jr.
  • Meido: She works as a maid at Rize's mansion, most likely as an excuse to mess with her.
  • Stalker with a Crush: She likes to "watch over" her cute kouhais from far away, where they can't see her.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: Has a tendency to appear from nowhere, much to the others' chagrin.

Kouhais

     Kafuu Chino 

Kafuu Chino

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Voiced by: Inori Minase

The granddaughter of the Rabbit House's owner and third generation barista. A soft spoken girl who slowly warms up to Cocoa, though is often annoyed by her insistance on being called 'big sister'. Along with her father, she is the only one who knows the secret concerning Tippy and her grandfather's soul.

After graduating from middle school in vol. 7, she parted ways with Maya and Megu and attended the half-timbered town's public high school with Cocoa, Chiya, and Fuyu.


  • A-Cup Angst: During the girls' first trip to the hot springs pool, Chino finds herself between Chiya and Rize. As she sinks into the pool, it becomes clear that she is embarrassed by her lack of bust compared to the two girls' abundance of it. Even after she graduates and enrolls in Cocoa and Chiya's school, she has not grown much to her dismay.
  • Camera Fiend: Does this in episode twelve of season two, after the girls notice how nice the pictures taken at the camping trip were. They initially assumed it was Cocoa who shot it, until she mentions Chino took the pictures. She then takes more pictures at the cafe with the girls, including some of Tippy.
  • Dad the Veteran: Her father worked with Rize's.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Slowly warms up to Cocoa near the end of the first season, and a little more in season 2.
  • Does Not Like Spam: She hates celery, but believes eating it will help her grow tall.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Cappuccino.
  • Forgot I Couldn't Swim: After getting trapped on a sandbar by chasing Cocoa's hat that was being carried by a river.
  • Green-Eyed Monster:
    • Just a very subtle one, but in S1E06, Chino feels left out when her two school friends, Megu and Maya, spend a lot of time with Cocoa and Rize at the Rabbit House. When she tells Chiya about it, the latter notices the former is unaware of the feeling of loneliness when she saw all of them like that.
    • Gets inverted on her in episode twelve of season two, when Maya and Megu claim they're jealous of how much Cocoa dotes on her. However, this is used in a joking and cheerful manner.
  • Head Pet: Tippy most often, but it seems she'll consider anything a good pet if it will stay on her head.
  • Little Miss Snarker: Often takes a deadpan jab at any of the characters' antics, especially towards Cocoa. Emphasis on the deadpan.
  • Little Sister Heroine: Many of the characters see her as this, much to Chino's annoyance.
  • Mature Younger Sibling: She does eventually accept Cocoa as a big sister, but she never once accepts Cocoa as a competent big sister. In vol. 9 ch. 11, when she starts high school with Cocoa, Cocoa sulks about her classmates need to treat her like a big sister in front of Chino. Chino just apologizes for the embarrassment.
  • Missing Mom: The anime never made this clear, but the manga stated her mom died when she was younger.
  • Never Bareheaded:
    • Is almost never seen without Tippy being on her head. And the few times she doesn't have Tippy on her head, she's often wearing her school uniform's hat instead.
    • In vol. 9 ch. 10, Cocoa tries to style Chino's hair to compensate for the fact that her new high school uniform doesn't have a hat.
  • Nice Girl: While Chino gets annoyed by Cocoa's antics from time to time, she's relatively friendly, reasonable, and polite towards her friends and patrons alike, and always speak in a soft, polite tone.
  • Not So Stoic: After a alcohol-filled chocolate-induced little sister act, she becomes very embarrassed when she's knocked out of it.
  • The Quiet One: Always speaks in a soft voice. Lampshaded when Rize tries to teach her to speak commandingly so as to create a presence that will make up for her lack of height, and Chino can just barely raise her voice above her usual volume.
  • Secret-Keeper: She knows the truth about Tippy.
  • Security Blanket: Feels much more comfortable when she has a rabbit on her head, and especially when that rabbit is Tippy.
  • Shrinking Violet: She said she dislike to initiate conversations herself.
  • Single-Target Sexuality: Towards Cocoa from episode 10 onwards, to the point she miss her if she's gone because her smell makes her feel at ease.
  • Situational Sociability: In the fifth episode of the third season, Maya and Megu notice she is less shy and more assertive when she's wearing a Tippy mask during Cocoa's school's School Festival.
  • Super Drowning Skills: It is pointed out by one of her classmates and Chino herself in one episode.
  • The Stoic: It's rare to see her with any emotion, and even when she shows it, the change is pretty subtle.
  • Terrible Artist: Her drawing of Cocoa in S3E01 is terribly off.
  • Tsundere: She's annoyed by Cocoa's antics, but she eventually comes to enjoy Cocoa's company.
  • Weight Woe: In a chapter from the manga that was not adapted in the anime, Chino goes on a diet due to Cocoa's comments that she is "soft and fluffy".

     Natsu Megumi 

Natsu Megumi

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Voiced by: Rie Murakawa

A demure girly-girl and the daughter of a ballet teacher. She can be quite timid, and her attempts to assert herself often leave her a flustered wreck. She is prone to getting nervous and blurting out absurdities when she tries to bluff.

She formerly attended middle school with Chino and Maya, her best friends. But in vol. 9 she and Maya started attending the elite academy with Syaro and the Ginger twins. At around the same time, she began working at Ama Usa An with Chiya and Elu.


  • Affectionate Nickname: Known as "Megu" to her friends.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Does not hold up under pressure in the slightest. In vol. 8 ch. 6, Syaro pointed at a department store and shouted that they needed to hurry "Super-Express!" Megu's response was to pick Syaro up and attempt to carry her there, piggyback style, because she didn't want Syaro to run in heels, even though it slowed both of them to a crawl.
  • Edible Theme Naming: After Nutmeg.
  • Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Megu is reserved, soft-spoken, and delicate, while Maya is energetic, loud, and rough.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Aside Chino, she too has undergone a number of different hairstyles before sticking with a style that is similar to Reze's hairstyle.
  • Girlish Pigtails: Megu sports a small pair.
  • Hidden Depths: In vol. 8 chapter 6, she discovers that a lifetime studying ballet has made her an excellent breakdancer, which shocks even herself.
  • Psychic Link: Claims to have one with Maya, and they spend a whole chapter/episode proving it.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Of all eleven teenagers in the roster, she is by far both the sweetest and the most polite/demure, although she has a tendency to go too far into timidity and self-doubt.
  • She Is All Grown Up: By the time the Chimame group graduated from their middle school, she is the most evident one, growing quite a bust and becoming a bit attractive as she ages, much to the dismay of Chino and Maya.
  • Stage Fright: The reason why she quit ballet. Since she comes from a family of dancers, this leaves her without plans for the future.
  • Super Gullible: She's prone to believing absolutely everything she hears, although sometimes the others claim she's playing it up as part of a Boke and Tsukkomi Routine. In vol. 9 ch. 8, she is deadset on not believing a single April Fool's Day joke this time around.
  • Those Two Girls: Introduced this way with Maya, but during the city arc in vol. 8, the whole cast split apart into unusual combinations and they came into their own. By vol. 10-ish, she has her own subplot working at Ama Usa An with Chiya and Elu.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The girly-girl to Maya's tomboy.
  • Won't Get Fooled Again: In vol. 9 ch. 8, she states via monologue that she refuses to get fooled on April Fool's Day again. Ironically, the first thing she hears is Chino singing a song about how Tippy can speak, which is actually true.

     Jouga Maya 

Jouga Maya

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Voiced by: Sora Tokui

A brash, excitable tomboy who is always looking for adventure and treats life like an RPG. Although she's never afraid to speak her mind, she can nonetheless be plagued by self-doubts and has a chip on her shoulder when it comes to people looking down on her — especially if they're stuffy rich people. Despite that, she's not above being babied by Cocoa.

She formerly attended middle school with Chino and Megu, her best friends. But in vol. 9, she and Megu started attending the elite academy with Syaro and the Ginger twins. At around the same time, she began working at Fleur de Lapin with Syaro and Natsume.


  • A-Cup Angst: When the Chimame graduate at the end of vol. 7, they go on a Ciste hunt for old times' sake. But when Megu's chest gets stuck in a narrow hole that Chino and Maya passed through easily, they ruthlessly decide to leave her behind.
  • Allergic to Routine: She initially refuses to consider Rize's school because she hates all the formalities in it.
  • Clingy Jealous Girl: Despite her bluster, she's quite clingy when she thinks somebody (mainly the Ginger twins) is trying to take Chino or Rize away from her.
  • Cute Little Fang: Maya.
  • Edible Theme Naming: After Jogmaya, a tea estate in Darjeeling.
  • Energetic and Soft-Spoken Duo: Maya is energetic, loud, and rough, while Megu is reserved, soft-spoken, and delicate.
  • Gamer Chick:
    • Tends to think of things in terms of Experience Points and has made numerous references to Metal Gear when talking to Rize.
    • When she starts working at Fleur, she quickly memorizes the therapeutic effects of all the different tea blends because they remind her of status effects in an RPG.
  • Hates Rich People: She initially resists going to the academy since she doesn't want to catch "gokigenyounote  syndrome" from the rich girls. Later, when she overhears Elu and Natsume say they want to check out how commoners travel, she is ticked off they're spying on poor people, and that they didn't say "Gokigenyou!" She begs Syaro to tell her how to beat rich people, even as Syaro says they should just get along instead.
    Maya: Guys, have you fallen prey to the curiosity of the rich?!
  • Hidden Depths: In Volume 6 and the third season, it's revealed that Maya has good enough grades to be recommended for a scholarship at the school that Rize and Syaro go to.
  • Psychic Link: Claims to have one with Megu, and they spend a whole chapter/episode proving it.
  • Those Two Girls: Introduced this way with Megu, but during the city arc in vol. 8, the whole cast split apart into unusual combinations and they came into their own. By vol. 10-ish, she has her own subplot working at Fleur de Lapin with Syaro and Natsume.
  • Token Mini-Moe: Invoked in chapter 134. After Cocoa laments that they're all growing up, Maya declares "There's still one Chimame who's small!" solely to get Cocoa to cuddle and spoil her.
  • Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Megu's girly-girl.

     Ginger Elu & Ginger Natsume 

Ginger Elu & Ginger Natsume

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Elu (top), Natsume (bottom)

Twin girls Cocoa & co. met during their trip to the city. After everybody returned to the half-timbered town, they discovered not only are the girls Maya and Megu's new classmates at the elite academy, but they're the heiresses to the Bright Bunny coffee shop chain. Despite their family connections, they refuse to get hired on nepotism and insist on passing their interview legitimately. For experience, Elu begins working at Ama Usa An while Natsume begins working at Fleur de Lapin.


  • Commonality Connection: Elu can effortlessly decipher Chiya's bizarre naming scheme, leading Chiya to instantly offer her a job.
  • Convenient Replacement Character: As the girls head to the city to celebrate their graduation, they meet the Ginger girls who — unbeknownst to them — are Maya and Megu's new classmates. Although Chino hasn't left the cast, Elu and Natsume were obviously added to give Maya and Megu more classmates now that she's going to a different school.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Ginger ale and ginger nuts.
  • Friendly Rival: Bright Bunny is a competitor to the other coffee shops, but it doesn't get in the way of their friendship ... too much.
  • Grew a Spine: Elu is shocked when people think, because she's meek, she's the younger sister, despite being older than Natsume (by a few minutes) in vol. 10 ch. 8. However, by the end of the chapter, she is so distressed by the thought of her father's business shutting down the other cafes in town that she stands up and tells BriBu to back off, finally revealing her big sister-ness.
  • Identical Twin ID Tag: Elu has long hair, Natsume has short hair.
  • The Ingenue: They're adorable, but they're not very bright.
    • When they turn up at the Royal Cats and find the senpai working as maids, the senpai tell them the hotel has a curse condemning everybody who stays there to become employees. The Ginger twins don't even question it.
    • When Yura says she's been secretly follow— Ahem, watching over them, their response is to enthusiastically thank her.
  • Lonely Rich Kid: In vol. 9 ch. 3, Elu thinks the way to get people to be her friends is to leave them a big tip. Later, when she enters Ama Usa An, she tries to order one Chino and whips out her checkbook.
  • Mirror Character: Elu has long hair, is polite and feminine, and tends to make absurd, nonsensical requests when she gets flustered. Natsume has short hair, a boyish demeanor, and turns into a short-tempered tsundere when she's put out. In other words, they're carbon copies of Megu and Maya, except rich as sin.
    • This is lampshaded as early as their first appearance in vol. 8, chapter 1. Maya and Mugu head for the front of the train to check out the first-class seats while Elu and Natsume head for the back to check out the commoner seats. All four panels are perfectly mirrored between the two sets of girls.
  • Ojou: They're filthy rich and attend the same prestigious academy as Maya and Megu, but their wealth seems to have alienated them from their peers, and they're more interested in getting jobs the old fashioned way than coasting on their family money.
  • Self-Made Man: Despite being the heiresses of the company, they're determined to work hard and pass their interviews to get hired at Bright Bunny legitimately.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Since vol. 8 has never been localized, there's no agreement how to translate their names. Ginger Ale? Jinja Eru? Ginga Elu? Take your pick.
  • Twin Telepathy: In chapter 158, when Elu asks Cocoa to make her a bunch of fancy food with foreign names, Natsume (who is in the town with Chino) suddenly gasps and says she feels like Elu just asked for something unreasonable. Chino then name-drops this trope.

     Fuiba Fuyu 

Fuiba Fuyu

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A quiet girl Cocoa & co. met during their trip to the city. After everybody returns to the half-timbered town, they discover not only is she Chino's new classmate at the public high school, but she's undertaking a work/stay program like Cocoa's at the local Bright Bunny coffee shop, where she works with Karede Yura.


  • Convenient Replacement Character: Like the Ginger girls, she was obviously brought in to give Chino a new classmate now that Maya & Megu are going to a different school.
  • Edible Theme Naming: After the feverfew herb.
  • Face of a Thug: A quiet girl who's constantly glowering, which tends to terrify other people into submission. In vol. 10 ch. 8, after the normally-unflappable Chiya gets blasted by a Fuyu frown, Chiya makes it her mission to get Fuyu to smile.
  • Introverted Cat Person: Tends to be reserved and quiet like Chino, but has a much better relationship with cats than Chino does with rabbits.
  • Mirror Character: She is virtually identical to Chino from chapter 1 — presumably to restore some of that early Chino tsundere magic now that Cocoa and Chino's relationship is progressing. In other words, Koi can have their cappuccino and drink it too.
    • She is first introduced playing chess at the public pool, one of Chino's favorite pasttimes.
    • They meet again when Fuyu does some ventriloquism with a stray cat. Chino tries to match her, but Fuyu remarks she sounds more like a rabbit.
  • Only Sane Man: Of the Bright Bunny group. Yura is a Stalker with a Crush and the Ginger twins are too naive to see how off-putting her behavior is, leaving poor Fuyu at wit's end.
  • Only Six Faces: At a glance, she's pretty much indistinguishable from Maya. There's some variation in hair and eye shape, but given that the elaborate splash pages at the beginning of every chapter often have the characters jumping around or posing elaborately, sometimes you need to scrutinize them pretty close to tell which is which.
  • The Un-Smile: When she starts working at Bright Bunny, all the others are horrified by her attempts to offer a customer-friendly smile.

Family

     Tippy 

Tippy

Voiced by: Motomu Kiyokawa

A female English Angora rabbit, and Rabbit House's mascot, Tippy is Chino's pet, and is usually seen sitting on top of her head. She's also her grandfather, though how this happened is one of the series' biggest mysteries.


  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: In chapter 145, he finally hears what he needs to hear Chino say and walks into the light with Saki, leaving Tippy's body for good.
  • Cat Smile: Perpetually. Justified as she's a rabbit.
  • Cool Old Guy: He supports his granddaughter and gives her advice when she is feeling lonely. He was also the one who inspired Aoyama to become a writer.
  • Deadpan Snarker: He tends to make snarky remarks from time to time, especially towards anything Cocoa says.
  • Edible Theme Naming: A term in tea leaf grading.
  • Expy: Some viewers find Tippy reminiscent of Dera from Tamako Market.
  • Gender Bender: Tippy is a female rabbit, who is also Chino's grandfather.
  • Head Pet: Spends most of his time on top of Chino's head.
  • Informed Species: Tippy is supposed to be an Angora rabbit, but his ears look more like a cat's ears than a rabbit's, being very short and pointy. It's especially noticeable since the other two rabbit mascots, Anko and Wild Geese, look much more like actual rabbits than Tippy does.
  • Large Ham: While he talks normally most of the time, there are times where he does speak this way, especially towards his son.
  • Overly Long Name: His full name is "Tippy Golden Flowery Orange Pekoe." For those who knows about tea grading, TGFOP.
  • Ridiculously Cute Critter: Just look at him!
  • Talking Animal: Being possessed(?) by Chino's grandfather, Tippy can talk like regular humans. However, aside from his immediate family, most people thinks his speech comes from Chino's ventriloquism.

     Kafuu Takahiro 

Kafuu Takahiro

Voiced by: Show Hayami

Chino's father and the current owner, barman, and saxophone player of Rabbit House.


  • Good Parents: Though he doesn't interact with Chino often, he is shown to be very caring for her, such as bringing up some board games for them to play when they needed something to do. He also allows her a surprising amount of freedom, and isn't obsessed with having Chino fill him in on where she is when she's outside the house.
  • Fire-Forged Friends: Served with Rize's father in the military, as they mention having done some contests against each other in a desert battlefield in episode 11 of season 2. They then play yet another contest using blow guns, presumably playing a variation of darts, with both implying they're not going to lose, just like last time.
  • Hidden Depths: If we accept Aoyama's novel as Roman à Clef, then he basically saved Rabbit House from closure.
  • Informed Ability: It was said he plays saxophone to bar customers. Averted once he's shown to be part of Saki's ensemble when she performed in Sing for You's flashbacks.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Allows Cocoa to live in one of his open rooms and has her cover living expenses and rent by working in Rabbit House. He also allows Mocha to stay when she visits, partly so she wouldn't have to find a hotel to stay at, and partly so Cocoa and Chino can spend some time with her.

     Kafuu Saki 

Kafuu Saki

Voiced by: Nana Mizuki

Chino's deceased mom and Takahiro's wife. She used to be a singer at Rabbit House café.


  • Beautiful Singing Voice: A main plot point in the Sing for You OVA is what a beautiful voice she used to have, to the point she even recorded a vinyl that Takahiro keeps playing at the bar.
  • Connected All Along: She was friends with Cocoa's mother, and the trip Cocoa took to the timberframed town as a little girl was to visit the Kafuu family.
  • The Diva: Described as such by Cocoa in vol. 9 ch. 8, although it's strictly regarding her musical career; everything else we learn about her paints her as the epitome of wholesome, caring femininity.
  • Good Parents: She was a caring mother to Chino prior her passing.
  • Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Aside from being a stage magician, chapter 135 implies she may have had actual magical abilities. She touches a young Cocoa and tells her she'll be a great magician. Right afterwards, Cocoa "casts the spell" on Chino's grandfather that may have led to his resurrection as Tippy.
  • Posthumous Character: She passed away when Chino was young.
  • Mystical White Hair: Had white hair and was pretty mundane, but this trope applies in the third season when Cocoa meets her during Halloween.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: She looks just like Chino, but more mature and with white hair.

     Hoto Mocha 

Hoto Mocha

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Voiced by: Ai Kayano

Cocoa's older sister, who temporarily came to visit Cocoa after a year since the start of the latter's homestay.


  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Can be prone to this just like Cocoa, such as getting distracted by a rabbit on her way to visit Cocoa at the Rabbit House cafe. The latter ends up looking for her, and gets sidetracked as well.
  • Cool Big Sis: She is this for Cocoa and her older brothers. Her introduction has her one by one act as this for all the girls.
  • Cuddle Bug: Obviously Cocoa's case of the trope comes from her.
  • Cuteness Proximity: Does this to Rize and Chino when they first meet her. While Chino seems okay with it, it seems to freak out Rize, and even her attempt to pull a gun out doesn't work on Mocha.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Shows up in the 2nd volume/season 1 episode 9 in a flashback but will not be formerly introduced until season 2.
  • Establishing Character Moment: She enters Rabbit House wearing a mask and shades in an attempt to disguise herself from Cocoa. Unfortunately it's a Paper-Thin Disguise, and just makes her look seedy, especially when she pulls a bag out later, which Rize assumes are drugs. Except it was actually flour, and Mocha offers to make some better tasting bread for them.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Hot Mocha.
  • Hopeless with Tech: Cocoa mentioned she's so bad with machinery that she couldn't even use the cell phone.
  • Older Than She Looks: Do you believe she's around the same age as Aoyama?
  • Serious Business: Bread. Justified as she's going to inherit the family bakery.
  • Spell My Name With An S: Chinese usually approach translating kana names using one of several rules. In Mocha's case, this trope arises from whether her name should be treated as an single expression (the drink), or two ("Mo" and "ka"), and this is complicated by Rosario + Vampire, which has a pair of sisters called Cocoa (Kokoa) and Mocha (Moka) translated using the second rule, and GochiUsa Cocoa is already translated the same way as Rosario's. Going so far that the largest Chinese-language wiki on anime-related material, while naming her after the drink, immediately inserted a disclaimer to the effect of "that's the name used by the legal live streamer in Chinanote  and does not imply this wiki's endorsement of the naming."

     Hoto Chiyoko 

Hoto Chiyoko

Cocoa and Mocha's mother, who runs a bakery in their hometown.


  • Edible Theme Naming: Hot chocolate.
  • One Degree of Separation: She was best friends with Chino's mother, yet despite that it was a complete coincidence Cocoa would end up staying at Rabbit House when she went to the timber-framed town.
  • Supreme Chef: She runs a successful bakery with plenty of happy customers.

     Mr. Hoto 

Mr. Hoto

Cocoa and Mocha's father, a university professor who works in the city.


  • The Gadfly: When Cocoa accuses him of trying to steal Chino away from her, he smiles and plays along just to rile his daughter up.
  • Invisible Parents: He was nowhere to be seen until his sudden appearance during the city arc, when Chino spies Cocoa walking with a strange man on their way for lunch.
  • Like Father, Unlike Son: He's a bespectacled scholar with a ditzy airhead daughter. Despite that, they both share a fondness for skipping straight to desert.

     Ujimatsu Chidori 

Ujimatsu Chidori

Chiya's mother, a merchandise buyer who works in the city. She often does business with Syaro's parents.


  • The Gadfly: Teases Syaro's mother by claiming she's the only one who buys their ceramics — which isn't true, but it does get Kirima-san riled up.
  • Generation Xerox: When she fawns over Cocoa and says she wants to "buy" her, Cocoa remarks she and Chiya have the exact same enthusiasm for their work.

     Mrs. Kirima 

Mrs.Kirima

Syaro's mother, who owns a workshop in the city where she and her husband make ceramics. Ama Usa An is one of their best customers.


  • Berserk Button: Suggesting that they aren't getting any business makes her freak out and pout.
  • Kitsch Collection: In the same chapter she's introduced, Chino finds some of Kirima-san's work for sale. It's a dumpy-looking ceramic rabbit in a waiter uniform holding a pitcher and a flower, looking as miserable as a Sad Clown painting.

Literary Community

     Aoyama "Blue Mountain" 

Aoyama "Blue Mountain" Midori

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Voiced by: Saori Hayami

A novelist. Some of her novels have been adapted to film and anime. She knows, and is greatly indebted to,Chino's grandfather.


  • The Ace: When she was in high school, she was famous for acing any club activities, a fame that carries on to Rize and Syaro's time.
  • Ambiguously Gay: She is somewhat obsessed with Rabbit Houses "Master", Chino's grandfather, but she also says things like how she enjoys working in cafés because she can watch the girls and not seem suspicious, which she says while trying to look up Syaro's skirt. In the manga, she was immediately kicked out of Fleur de Lapin, and in the next comic she did the same thing with Cocoa who is relaxing in a park.
  • Covert Pervert: It's implied she enjoys looking up girls skirts.
  • Department of Redundancy Department: "Aoyama" literally means "Blue Mountain".
  • Early-Bird Cameo: She is seen walking by Cocoa in S1E01 when the latter first arrives in town.
  • Embarrassing First Name: Aoyoma's actual first name is Midori. Her kouhai from her literature club days, now editor, threatens to call Aoyoma this if the former doesn't turn in her manuscript for review.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee.
  • Pen Name: She writes books under the name "Aoyama Blue Mountain".
  • Punny Name: Her real name means "Green Blue Mountain" (because Green Is Blue), and she's nicknamed both "The Emerald" (her real first name) and "Blue Mountain" (her real last name).
  • Red Baron: The Emerald.
  • Stealth Hi/Bye: She is very capable of suddenly appearing and disappearing as needed, such as when trying to avoid her editor who keeps chasing her to get the latest revision of her manuscripts. She also puts this ability on display in S3E05, where she plays a game of hide & seek with her editor, and randomly shows up behind her from time to time, before running off again.
  • Writer's Block: In S1E09, she declares to Chino that she is giving up writing. However, it turns out she hit a slump because she lost her favorite pen, which Chino and Cocoa help find later.
  • Write Who You Know: In-Universe. She's based multiple books on the main characters.
    • Her bestseller, The Barista Who Became a Rabbit was based on Chino's grandfather.
    • Phantom Thief Lapin was based on Syaro.
    • When the girls leave the Royal Cats Hotel on the last day of the city arc, she works on a manuscript about how they brought hope and optimism back to the proprietors, her former nannies.
    • She publishes a book starring the seven main characters as the Seven Deadly Sins.

     Mate Rin 

Mate Rin

Voiced by: Juri Kimura

Aoyoma's editor, and classmate from when they were going to school.


  • Beleaguered Assistant: Due to being Aoyama's editor, she's constantly in touch to find out about her progress in her latest manuscripts. Unfortunately Aoyama has a tendency to goof off, claiming Writer's Block. Consequently Rin is often seen chasing her down.
  • Edible Theme Naming: Mate infusion.
  • Scholarship Student: She was one at Rize and Syaro's current school. Because of this, she is invited by the school to give a presentation on her experience being one to potential applicants to the program.

Alternative Title(s): Gochuumon Wa Usagi Desu Ka

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