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Elex Media Licenses Is the Order a Rabbit? Manga

Indonesian publisher Elex Media Komputindo announced last week that it has licensed Koi's Is the order a rabbit? (Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka?) manga. It will release the manga's first compiled book volume on January 24.

In the four-panel manga, the main character Cocoa (a pun of “hot Cocoa”) arrives at the cafe Rabbit House one day, excited for rabbits. She actually all but lives in that café. She meets lots of different girls there, including a tiny and cool girl named Chino (from “cappucino”), a tough and soldier-esque girl named Rize (“Thé des Alizés” tea), a spacey and quintessentially Japanese girl named Chiya (“Uji matcha” tea), and the ordinary but dignified Sharo (“Kilimanjaro” coffee).

Koi began the manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in 2011, and Houbunsha shipped the manga's sixth compiled book volume last November. The manga inspired two television anime adaptations. The first season of the anime premiered in Japan in April 2014, and the second season premiered in October 2015. It also inspired the Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka?? Dear My Sister special episode, which began screening in 40 theaters in Japan last November. The special episode ranked #4 for tickets sold in its opening weekend, and sold 79,000 tickets to earn 102 million yen (about US$899,907). The film's per-screen average was 2.55 million yen (about US$22,497).

[Via Kaori Nusantara]