Foreword:

This is personally the most important episode throughout all of Gochiusa in terms of what supernatural things have been happening in this world. For people like me who like to read deeper into this series and see what Koi wrote between the lines, it's honestly quite the playfield. I will also be talking about the WWII Theory and setting up my own theory, so if you're interested please make sure to give it a read!

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Chi(ya)mame-tai

Volume 6 Chapter 5

Every time we get to see more Chiya, I respect her even more. She put so much effort and time into decorating Ama Usa An just for Halloween and this all by herself. We also get a bit of foreshadowing about the latter half of the episode with Cocoa preparing a magic trick. And Halloween being an event in which ghosts may come back to life...

 

Rabbit House:
After the OP we get greeted with MaMe's wolf(?) and Rabbit House's vampire costumes! Unlike real vampires, Cocoa is after cuddles rather than blood however~

Rize also exposing Chino's practice behind the scenes were also quite adorable. It reminds us of the last episode, where we got explicitly told how much effort Chino has been putting into in order to become someone customers, people and rabbits like to be around. Due to the embarrassment, she ended up playfully biting Rize to make her stop. Would you have expected the Chino from S1 Ep 1 to ever do something? It does show quite the development from Chino as well as the relationship between her and Rize. You also hear Cocoa being envious about it and honestly, don't we all want to be bitten by such a cute vampire? I sure do! Love the CocoChino scenes going strong yet again!

 

Fleur de Lapin:
After getting their loot from Rabbit House, MaMe's journey continue to Fleur de Lapin where their next victim Syaro, who wears the
Little Red Riding Hood costume, awaits. Just like almost any holiday, Syaro works on these days as well. With a lot of people taking the day off to enjoy themselves, she has to take advantage of the employees usually paying one more than usual when working on such days. Especially because she is poor. It's honestly so sad every time I think about it and it shows on MaMe's face as well.
Also to those of you who are curious about why Syaro's situation is the way it is. It will be explained later on, don't worry about. Unfortunately by the time we reach that part, it's probably in Season 5. So you can either read the manga or ask me to find it out directly if it really does interest you. Coming back to Syaro and MaMe, even though they've come to loot Fleur de Lapin, they ended up giving an equal amount of candies back to Syaro as this is the most they can do for Syaro and her situation. MaMe are so thoughtful and mature in reality, it makes them all the more loveable <333

 

On their way to Ama Usa An:
If you think about this entire Halloween thing, MaMe are basically the wolves going place to place, ready to take possessions (candies) from their prey. However in both Rabbit House and Fleur de Lapin, it didn't really end up happening like this. Why I am telling you this is so you make sense of this scene that the Anime omitted.

 

Ama Usa An:
Their last destination is Ama Usa An, with Chiya in a witch costume already greeting them. And as always when Deyui gets to talk about Chiya it gets SADD. We end up getting to know that Chiya was not only acting according to her role, but rather, she actually cut herself and her hand genuinely hurts. It was omitted in the Anime, but the wound happened as she was trying to carve out pumpkins for Halloween. Which makes all of her preparations for Ama Usa An even more impressive. Also Chiya isn't the kind of person who would show everyone her weakness and make people worry about her, which can be seen pretty much the next scene with her and Rize, but also by countless other scenes in the past. So her being unable to hide this fact from MaMe doesn't mean she's a wimp, it means the injury is more severe than you think it is. Of course, my two adorable and considerate wolves catch onto it and decided to help her out for today. Unlike Rabbit House, she gets a lot of customers and having to do it with an injured arm while being most likely fatigued by the preparations are just too much and I couldn't praise my two little girls any more than that for understanding this situation in the blink of this situation. After helping Syaro they do not hesitate to be even more precious to Chiya. My heart can't take all of this...

In the next scene we get to see more of Maya's inside joke (Level Up). For Maya,she sees things in life in the same perspective of a game, it's a huge personality trait of hers and we're now finally being reminded of it. Of course that doesn't mean that she takes things lightly and doesn't think of her actions. Most likely, at one point of her life, she saw no interest in life. So in order to lie herself into it, she turned life into something she was indeed interesting at, which was games. Unlike many of my claims in analysis, this one doesn't have any basis upon it, but rather, it's just based upon my own experiences, so you may ignore it. Anyways, many may have forgotten about it since the last time was in S1 Ep 10.

Rize & Chiya:

This scene didn't seem to have any particular significance to it, other than showing off how really hardworking and selfless Chiya is. However that's because the Anime omitted an important part about it. Which is showing how close the two have become. As the two of them walk side by side together home to Ama Usa An they had a little talk. Rize was basically telling her to be more careful and ask for help when she needs it. But she didn't say it straightforward, she just referenced her own incident. Which is what happened back in S2 Ep 02. She didn't need to say anymore, because she knows that Chiya will understand with just that. After all, the both of them are the mother and the father of this group. And I think that's beautiful.

 

In the end we also see Syaro waiting for Chiya. The moment Syaro heard that Chiya was injured she immediately went to the next shop to buy her the medicine she needs. It may not seem much, but I think we're underestimating the circumstances of it. Medicines, in general, are pretty expensive, I think and for Syaro who barely has any money left to spend on herself doesn't even think twice of spending the money just for Chiya. It's honestly TOO PRECIOUS: THIS SERIES IS TOO PRECIOUS THESE CHARACTERS ARE MORE HUMAN THAN I AM. GOCHIUSA IS MORE THAN JUST CGDCT IT TEACHES YOU ABOUT LIFE AND NO ONE CAN CHANGE MY MIND.

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Magic is real in Gochiusa:

Volume 6 Chapter 6

First thing, after seeing familiar faces in the background, we get to see is cute Lapin Chino and Police Officier Rize!
I'd also like to point out the funny scene that the Anime omitted.
We get to see more spicy SyaroRize scenes. To believe Syaro was really shy around Rize not too long ago, here she is asking her wife to wear the costume she is currently wearing :')
Now panning back to Cocoa, who looked really cute in the manga when lost.

All right now the serious stuff is happening this episode. First we hear Cocoa saying that this is the town she's been living in, however something is unusual about it. She crashed into a lost child who ends up crying and as an aspiring Onee-chan, she couldn't let this opportunity slip to help the kid out. Unfortunately, she failed all of her magic tricks to cheer the kid up and the mom picked up her child. After quite the rude remark, Cocoa is left with nothing but defeat. She has lost her pride as an Onee-chan in this very moment and ended up crying as well. I want to point out how serious this situation is. We see Cocoa screaming and being loud all the time, that's right. But this might be the first time in the entire series in which Cocoa genuinely cried due to being sad. Like I mentioned countless times previously. Ever since she arrived to this town, almost everything she has been doing is to become an Onee-chan like her big sister. Seeing how after years of practice, she wasn't even able to save one little child... This situation did in fact break her a little... It broke her and me... And now the aspiring Onee-chan ended up being the crying lost child.

Until a ghost appeared before her, managing to perfectly do the magic tricks she was trying to do herself a few minutes ago and cheered the lost child up the way Cocoa wanted to not too long ago. At that moment, Cocoa knew she wanted to be like her.

The person also had an angora rabbit on top of her head that looked like Tippy. However due to the feminine look (indicated by the eyelashes), Cocoa knew it wasn't him. The ghost is in fact Chino's mother "Saki" and the actual Tippy.

I've written far too much for today, so I'll keep it short.

Chino looking at the end of the day to the starry skies after Chiya said that their ancestors are now ready to leave for heaven is because she is worried about Tippy maybe finally leaving her at the end of the day as well. However, Tippy smart and thoughtfully notices it and reassured that right now is not the time, do not worry. As a response, she cuddles Tippy really cutely, showing appreciation towards Tippy for being there for her. As the old saying goes "You don't appreciate what you have until it's gone" and today, might have been the day she also lost Tippy. So say I appreciate you to the people you like once in a while.

Also to understand the latter half of this episode better, I recommend you watching ~Sing For You~ OVA if you haven't already.

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We also get to see Cocoa showing off her magic tricks she learned from Saki, I already went in-depth about it in my theory post. Lastly, here are the eyecatches in the manga that I highly recommend to see.

Manga Eyecatch 1 | Eyecatch 2

And what I forgot to include is Phantom Thief Rize in the manga because the Anime didn't do her justice.

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Either way, thanks for reading. I've been writing this for probably 4 hours already, so I'm going to head back to learning. Thanks for reading everyone, questions and replies are appreciated! See you next week!

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