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Is the Order a Rabbit?? Special Episode Opens in Hong Kong in March

Hong Kong film distributor Neofilms announced on Wednesday that it will open Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka?? Dear My Sister — the new special episode for the anime Is the order a rabbit? (Gochūmon wa Usagi Desu ka?) anime — in Hong Kong on March 1. Neofilms is streaming a Chinese-subtitled trailer for the anime.

The episode screened in 40 theaters in Japan beginning on November 11. The episode's theatrical screening was slated to premiere in spring 2017, but it was postponed. The episode opened at #4 for tickets sold and sold 79,000 tickets to earn 102 million yen (about US$899,907) in its opening weekend in Japan. The film eventually earned a cumulative total of 320,997,340 yen (about US$2.82 million) by its fifth weekend.

Hiroyuki Hashimoto returned to direct, but at the animation studio production doA instead of Kinema Citrus and WHITE FOX (the studios behind the previous television seasons). The original manga's creator Koi and Hashimoto are credited with the original story concept and script, and Yousuke Okuda returned as the character designer. Ruka Kawada also returned to compose the music. The cast also returned.

In Koi's original four-panel manga, the main character Cocoa (a pun of “hot Cocoa”) arrives at the café 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 launched the original manga in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Max magazine in 2011. Houbunsha published the manga's sixth compiled book volume last November.

The first season of the anime premiered in Japan in April 2014, and the second season premiered in October 2015.