History Manga / IsTheOrderARabbit

** Later, Rize dubs Maya, Megu, and their {{Mirror Character}}s Natsume and Elu as the MaMeNaE, or "Bean Sprouts".

* EmbarrassingNickname: Rize suggests calling the trio Chino, Maya and Megu by a truncated version of their names. By taking the first syllable to everyone's names, Rize comes up with "[=ChiMaMe=]" ('''Chi'''no, '''Ma'''ya, and '''Me'''gumi). However, Maya and Megu immediately reject this, and even Chino finds it unflattering. This stems from the fact that "Chimame" (血豆) translates to "blood blister". While all three find the name embarassing, they do come to embrace it.

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: Although it uses a lot of current technology, the series also heavily invokes pre-war Europe, especially during the city arc. Aoyama-sensei, who is in her mid-20s, apparently had ''wet nurses'', a practice that largely died out in the west once baby formula was invented.

* {{Handguns}}: Rize appears to be able to practise concealed carry with her Glock despite being under-aged, but later episodes suggest that this is a model gun.
* HeadButtThermometer: Chino does this to Cocoa in episode twelve, and learns that she's got a fever.

* AnimalThemeNaming: The cafés where the girls work are named in different languages, but they all have words for "rabbit" somewhere in their names:
** English: ''Rabbit'' House and Bright ''Bunny''
** Japanese: Ama ''Usa'' An
** French: Fleur De ''Lapin''

* TyopOnTheCover: In episode seven, Cocoa has creates fliers to advertise "Rabbit House". However, a misspelling results in the flier reading as "Rabbit Horse" instead. Chino catches it and then regrets not proofreading it first, and Rize notes she didn't even realize it until they pointed it out.

The story is centred around Cocoa Hoto, a high school girl who moves to a new town to attend high school. While wandering around town looking for the café she's supposed to be working at to pay for her accommodations, she stumbles across a café called Rabbit House. Under the impression that it's a place where patrons can cuddle with rabbits, she happily enters and meets Chino Kafū, an on-duty waitress who arrives to take her order. Despite being surprised by the absence of rabbits, Chino reluctantly informs Cocoa that she can cuddle the rabbit sitting on her head once for each cup of coffee she orders.

* ContinutityNod: In vol. 9 ch. 1, Rize explains the buttons on her school uniform are different because the originals were stolen as mementos by a flock of ravenous schoolgirls during her graduation. Syaro, who was also present, blushes beside her.

* CaptainErsatz: The epynymous protagonist of Aoyama's novel ''Phantom Thief Lapin'' is based on Aoyama's image of Syaro.

* ColorCodedCharacters: Each of the main cast frequently dresses in a particular color scheme; Cocoa usually wears pink and red clothes, Chino's clothes usually have blue on them, Rize mostly has purples, Chiya dresses in green, and Syaro frequently wears yellow. Cocoa, Chino, and Rize discover that, if they work in uniforms without their customary colours, even frequent customers like Aoyama can't recognise them.

** {{Averted|trope}} in the city arc. The characters lampshade it has cute cats everywhere instead of bunnies. The three city girls -- Eru, Natsume, and Fuyu -- are likewise associated with cats instead of rabbits.

** {{Averted|trope}} in the city arc. The characters lampshade it has cute cats everywhere instead of bunnies.

* MagicalRealism: Hints of the supernatural exist, whether it be Chino's grandfather inhabiting the body of an Angora rabbit, or Cocoa encountering [[spoiler: Saki's spirit when she gets separated from her friends]] on Halloween night, but beyond this, it's an ordinary SliceOfLife show about schoolgirls living out their lives.

* NeverBareheaded: Chino is rarely seen without Tippy on her head.

* BunniesForCuteness: This is {{Exaggerated|trope}}; in some cases, this is the CentralTheme of this series.

** English: ''Rabbit'' House

* MegaTwintails: Maya always imagines [[ElaborateUniversityHigh Rize and Syaro's school]] to have students wearing this. She even asks one of that school's student about this when she goes on a tour of that school.

''Is the Order a Rabbit?'' (''Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?'', abbreviated as ''[=GochiUsa=]''), is a [[{{Yonkoma}} 4Koma]] manga by Koi that has been serialised in ''Magazine/MangaTimeKirara Max'' since March 2011. Creator/WhiteFox produced an anime adaptation that aired during Spring2014Anime, and a second season, produced by White Fox and Creator/KinemaCitrus, aired during the Fall2015Anime season. In addition, Website/{{Crunchyroll}} is streaming the anime, so the anime can [[http://www.crunchyroll.com/is-the-order-a-rabbit be watched here]][[note]]Accessible to those in the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Netherlands, Scandinavia, Turkey, Latin America, France and DOM/TOM, Belgium, Switzerland, Andorra, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania, the Middle East and the Arab League.[[/note]] An OVA titled "Dear My Sister" was released on November 11, 2017. "Sing For You", the second OVA, released in September 2019, and a third season, produced by Encourage Films, began airing in October 2020.

*** [[ShowWithinAShow Phantom Thief Lapin]] uses [[Manga/MagicKaito playing cards]] as her WeaponOfChoice.

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Two instances occur during the second season's eleventh episode.
** Megu spins around in the river to make a miniture waterspout and splashes all of the girls.
** The girls spin around their campfire and after attaining a prodigious speed, Maya suggests that everyone let go at the same time. The girls immediately hit the ground, Chiya manages to land upright, and Megu's ballerina skills allow her to continue spinning gracefully.

* InternalReveal: In chapter 144, Chino finally learns [[spoiler: her mom was best friends with Cocoa's mom]], a revelation Koi have been teasing their audience with for years.

* InternalReveal: In chapter 144, Chino finally learns her mom was best friends with Cocoa's mom, a revelation Koi have been teasing their audience with for years.

* ConnectedAllAlong: In ch. 142, the girls follow a ciste map to the beach. When they find the treasure, they discover the map was created by [["Usagi & Choko", the pet names Kafu Saki and Hoto Chiyoko had for each other. Cocoa and Chino fail to realize they've been literally following in their mothers' footsteps.]]