Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka? - Ch. 184
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yo their finna married.
Thanks for the TL!
Was wondering why there was something about Cocoa needing to sleep early at the end of the previous chapter, and this chapter explains it.
Nice to see how Cocoa's come to terms that she'll have to leave Rabbit House and the town, but has realized that its a place/home she can always return to. Aso LOL on more Cocoa traits rubbing off Chino.
Overall loving the increased focus on character development on the recent chapters as the end of Cocoa's 3rd year nears.
Was wondering why there was something about Cocoa needing to sleep early at the end of the previous chapter, and this chapter explains it.
Nice to see how Cocoa's come to terms that she'll have to leave Rabbit House and the town, but has realized that its a place/home she can always return to. Aso LOL on more Cocoa traits rubbing off Chino.
Overall loving the increased focus on character development on the recent chapters as the end of Cocoa's 3rd year nears.
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I can feel the end is near
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Oh wow. I think this is the 1st time we actually get shown that the Hoto Bakery is actually a rather big bakery shop. I always thought it was one of those family bakery but just really popular. It seems they have plenty of staff and even have a 2nd shop. Very nice. I wonder if perhaps we'll have a spinoff in the future where instead Chino (or someone else) goes to a Hoto Bakery and does some training there.
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It's kinda melancholic to see how the two have grown ever since they met at the rabbit house...
Agreed - and it's true of all the original girls, really - I noticed it the most with Rize, but also Cocoa, Chino, Chiya, Syaro, Maya, and Meg have grown up a lot over the course of the story. Even the Bright Bunny girls and Yura have matured in their relatively short time in the series, though it's not quite as easy to spot.
Most of it's in the characterization (since the characters were first introduced, they've overcome a lot of grief, loneliness, anxiety, and/or insecurity, for example), but I don't think the visual part of the impression can all be blamed on the art shift over time, nor simply on different hairstyles and outfits, but I can't really put a finger on exactly what the artists are doing differently to make the girls look older now than they did at the start of the manga. Whatever it is, it's subtle enough that I barely noticed until I reread from the beginning, but effective enough that it's convincing.
There's definitely a melancholic effect to it - not at all a bad thing, but I almost miss them already. The story has been moving along a little faster than I realized - looks like Syaro and Chino are already studying up for their college entrance exams, with their graduation (and Cocoa's) only a short time away!
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I think it's meant to be a sign that business for the shop has picked up and it's really grown - I'm pretty sure there was a chapter that featured Rabbit House and the cafes and shops getting good reviews thanks to Aayoma Blue-Mountain, with the result of getting more business, and Hot Bakery had also gotten one of the reviews.
I believe one of the previous chapters where Cocoa had gone back home to help out with the bakery for a few days had Cocoa helping Mocha with the deliveries, and being surprised both by Mocha riding a motor-bike for the deliveries, and by the amount of business that the bakery was getting. Looks like they've expanded even more since then, and Mocha drives a delivery truck now!
At the start of the story, Rabbit House, Chiya's sweet shop, and Fleur seemed to be barely keeping busy with just the original four girls, but in the more recent chapters, the girls are constantly helping out at each others' shops part-time, even with the new characters helping full-time, too!
It seemed like sort of a running gag back when Grandpa "Tippy" was a cast regular that Rabbit House wasn't getting much business, in part because Chino was so timid and gloomy before Cocoa arrived, and partly because of all the family grief from the loss of Chino's mother and grandpa's "disappearance", but mostly because Grandpa's vision for the shop was maybe a bit more ambitious than he could handle, and Grandpa didn't always make very good business decisions. By the time Grandpa decided that Chino had "bloomed" and could stand on her own, allowing him to move on, Rabbit House was quite a bit "livelier", and the girls were fulfilling his vision for the place.
Reading between the lines, it looks like maybe the bakery was in a similar place: it looks like the girls' parents all knew each other and were good friends, but they were all affected by whatever had happened before the story started, when Chino's mother passed away and Grandpa disappeared. But, as the girls became friends with each other and began growing up, time passed and healed old wounds (whatever they might be), and Mocha grew into her own helping out with the bakery, the bakery began flourishing along with the other shops.
So, I'm pretty sure that Hot Bakery, like the everything else in the story that started small, has really grown up, and it's not just your imagination that it didn't seem as big earlier in the story!
