Chino & Syaro Intro:

Volume 6 Chapter 4

This is one of my personal most favourite Chino scenes in the entire series. And the Anime wasn't really able to capture it as well as the manga. So allow me to show you what you've missed out on:

Coming back to the analysis at hand, some might find it kind of overexaggerated, but it is in fact true that all rabbits usually run away from her. With the exception of Anko, Tippy and Wild Geese. So being able to cuddle them for the first time without their attempt on running away, due on using the Syaro magnet, must have been really wonderful for her.

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Graduation Photo:

Volume 5 Chapter 13

In actuality, all of them wanted to prep themselves up for the photo, but because of how the conversation at the beginning went, it was hard for any of them to really admit to it. Seeing this situation unfold really made me chuckle at my own countless situations that went similar to that.

Megu:

As Megu asked help from Syaro & Chiya for her haircut, we get a nice reminder that they're the straight bangs duo. We had an episode that emphasized this trait of theirs in S1 Ep 10, in which Cocoa cut her bangs straight to be one with the group. And Rize, clueless whether it is a trend or not, joining in as well.

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Maya:

In Maya's case, she stumbled upon a hair accessory shop only to be found by Rize at the most embarrassing moment. She also made a different expression in the manga.

Also for those looking closely, it's a great reminder for us at how interested Rize is in ladylike stuff just like clothes and accessory, in the series Rize can be found a lot of times in clothing shops trying out very feminine clothes, which was at the time hard for her to admit, that's why Rosé started existing and tells us she isn't just some kind of one-dimensional tomboy tsundere character, but just like any person, has different sides of themselves and different interests.

Also Maya with the bloom hairpin did look really great on her, but may I mention how incredibly cute it was in the manga!

In fact, Koi-sensei even drew Maya with a similar pin before!

Not to mention, when Maya suggested Rize a hairpin, she looked so adorable in the manga!

By the way, if you guys look closely at the hairpins the both recommended each other in the end. Then you may find them very resembling to something on the key visual.

For those who wanted to know what the QR Code is for, it redirects you to this page.

Here's an easier QR code to scan if you're having troubles.

The code below the barcode is 8081402141609 which stands for Maya's BD (808) Rize's BD (1402) Maya's (140 cm) and Rize's height (160 cm) (14160) and 9 is a Check Digit. You can paste 808140214160 into the GTIN-13 (GLN) Check Digit calculator and it will actually give you 9 as its check digit. Test it out here. Here's the person who figured it out.

At the end we see the dynamic between Maya and Rize's relationship, both of them have similar personalities and interests, however they like to "fight" each other most of the time. Which is what I see as their way of liking and get along with each other, it's comparable to a bromance if it makes it any easier to understand.

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Chino:

Hearing Chino saying that she will just trim her hair herself as usual, really did hurt a little. Reminding us all that she had no mother for her to be doing so and thus grew up learning to do these things herself... She could have just asked her father, but knowing her, she wouldn't want to burden him more than necessary.

Also little trivia is that you can see Rize's daily plan she made for Chimame in "~Dear My Sister~" hanging on the wall in the manga, that the Anime didn't cover.

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One of the communities' fan-favourite Cocoa panel:

I never like to say anything negatively about topics in public at all, especially subjective topics and definitely if it comes to Gochiusa. But I was really disappointed how they did not make an extra shot for arguably one of Cocoa's most fan favourite panel in the entire manga.

The community liked it so much, an artist, at the time one of the most popular and talented in the Gochiusa fandom, even colored it:

https://twitter.com/Nagomi_yyd/status/778595726922096641

Furthermore, an artist even animated the panel in the style of the Anime. They deleted their Twitter and didn't post it on their Pixiv however. So unfortunately I am unable to source it properly.

So yeah, a few people were sad to see it didn't get any special treatment.

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If we jump to the scene with Cocoa trying to look similar to Mocha, we can notice how good the details are.

If one had paid attention in the ~Dear My Sister~ OVA, they'd realize that the uniform that Mocha wears is the one we have been shown in the OVA. She made it herself, to surprise Cocoa. But in actuality, she was just "Cocoa-sick". Either way, that's some good detail work there! Here's the manga version of this scene which didn't include Mocha however.

The scene where Cocoa messed up Chino's hair is also one of the highlights for me, Cocoa just wordlessly and instantly offering Chino the hammer in shame is peak comedy for me, the both of them are just too cute and funny, I love them.

However Cocoa just completely 180° there and shelled out quite the emotional sentence after this joke. Trying to look like Mocha, a great Onee-san, doesn't make her one, and she has always been aware of that. And that in all of her jokes throughout the series, you just like to do it sometimes out of despair. We will get back to that later though.

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Conclusion:

In the end, we get to see the three of them in completely new looks. And as you all know me as the manga enthusiast, here's the manga panel for it, they look fantastic there~

Also if you guys remember the post credits scene of Episode 3, that's actually what should have happened in this episode. If we were to be faithful to the manga.

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Bread Bread Bread Bread Festival:

Volume 6 Chapter 4

Of course, what would be a Gochiusa episode without "Welcome! Come on!"
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So Chino decided to be a little "mischievous" in this scene. The reason being that, Cocoa mainly advertises Rabbit House for their bread, completely missing the fact that Chino and Tippy dedicated their love and life for this to be a successful café and not a bakery. Of course anyone could have complicated feelings about it then if they were in this situation. It just doesn't look that deep if it's wrapped around such a genius comedy idea, using the rabbits as if they were Chino's personality slot of some kind. In fact, Koi really likes to wrap such sad and sentimental things around with comedy or make the viewer forget about the scene by just pushing in a funny scene.

Character Development:

This chapter in general has a lot of potential to be interpreted. Chino taking the initiative to offer the child a hot Cocoa after being shut down by her mother. Chino being confident in making café latte art in front of all these people and talk about coffee.

Yet again does it show the remarkable growth of her personality. Even Cocoa couldn't help but notice it. Then the important line of Rize hits right at home "She resembles you [...]". Followed by a "I guess I don't need to change myself[...]".

Throughout the episode, Cocoa has shown several times how inferior she is in comparison to Mocha as a Onee-san. She learned in this episode a bit though, that she doesn't have to change who she is to become what she aims for. She can just be herself and still achieve her goal and it's wonderful seeing all of them grow up, not only Chino who is the most noticeable.

Furthermore, after a ton of practice of the flower cafe latte art she was finally able to put it on display today. Cocoa drank it saying that it isn't much different from the normal blend she drinks. It has a lot of meaning to it. And my interpretation is that, from the very beginning where Cocoa met Chino, she has always been the same wonderful person she met. After countless attempts to change herself to become an individual she was looking up to, she finally was able to "bloom". And it's the same for Cocoa, you can bloom (as a good big sister) as well without changing to be the Cocoa we love. In the end scene, Chino asks Tippy whether she was able to change. To be a more warm person, someone who smiles, someone who is nice to have around with. However, Tippy didn't need to answer it. The first time in her entire life, a rabbit was happy to be approaching Chino. And that was all the confirmation she needed.

However, it's not just Chino and Cocoa. Rize who initially was too shy to admit that she likes ladylike stuff and was afraid of being different from others, openly interacted with Maya about hair accessories and in general has no worries showing her likes and interests about guns and military topics to others. Syaro and Chiya in this episode spent time with each other together, having fun just like they had in the past, which they had difficulties with. Everyone in the cast has grown, and I hope that this analysis of mine, gives at least one of you readers a new perspective of this series, that means so much to me.

Thank you for reading my thoughts and analysis and I hope to see you next week as well~

If you want to read other analysis' I recommend: TheInfiniteZenith and DokiDokiVisual!

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