Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka is a cute girls doing cute things series. Yes its been done so many times at this point yet its never become tiring to the dedicated fans of these types of works. However not many of them delve deeper than the surface of just being adorable and about friendship with minimal conflict and purely for comfort and easy reading. GochiUsa is essentially the same thing some may compare it to most other popular cute girls series like Kiniro Mosaic Comic Girls KOn et cetera. This isnt meant to berate the quality of those manga as they are quite amazing for their genre as well but GochiUsa has something that I feel is missing from the rest of the lot. What is it...? Its... a life lesson. To sum up the beginning of GochiUsa very quickly Hoto Cocoa is a transfer student who is lost in the streets of Colmar France looking for her foster family when she stumbles upon Rabbit House with the impression that its a place full of rabbits typical Cocoa haha only to find out its a coffee shop and she encounters Kafuu Chino a timid little girl with periwinkle hair and a matching uniform with a... thing on her head. Cocoas quick to interact with her and she finds out that her foster family is actually the Kafuus and she decided that it was fate that her and Chino met and so the surprisingly meaningful and beautiful story of GochiUsa begins. Not much is known about Koisan. He is a completely obscure figure in the manga industry yet he has made one of the most recognizable series in Japan to date. GochiUsa is one of the few crown jewels of the Slice of Life genre yet its only been around for so little time. Despite that no one knows who he is not even a signature alias or real life presence he has a clear influence. With that influence what kind of unique talent he has makes his manga different from everyone elses? Its his ability to convey a lesson to his readers thats even more prevalent on his fairly simple writing. I find it very interesting just how real GochiUsa actually feels when you think about what Koi wants you to understand In life you will encounter many moments of happiness. None of them will last forever. However even when theyre gone youll remember and cherish every second of those blissful memories. GochiUsa is one of the very few cute girls manga Ive read where everyone actually matures and grows older as time goes on. Canonically three years have passed. Chino was 13 and now shes 16. Everyone is older. Everyone gets more responsibilities while still doing their best to enjoy life with their friends. From elementary to high school from high school to college. There is a very realistic element to Kois style that goes overlooked. Under that guise of precious character designs and personalities are what feels like real people. All the characters mean something to the story even if it is minimal because while their core never really changes you can see that theyve really changed over time. Every single one of the girls is taken care of delicately by Koi and all of them have their important moments. Its genuinely outstanding to see such dedication to making sure every character is at least interesting within their time on their respective panels. I feel sentimental thinking about it. In fact Kois art even gets more refined and delicate the more you read. Not only has he matured as a story writer but as an artist he continues to excel beyond his own ability while remaining faithful to what hes been doing for well over 8 years now and he shows no signs of stopping yet even with how far the manga has gone. I have a sincere appreciation of the atmosphere this series has. Its set in a real place in France a town called Colmar with very particular buildings unique to its area. It feels authentic and it leaves you with a guessing game of where the characters come from. Every character has been living in Colmar for some time before Cocoa showed up at Rabbit House in the beginning of the manga to be a transfer student living with a foster family. I have my own particular headcanon about the ethnicity of each character myself but its just something Ive been doing in my free time at this point since Ive read this manga so many times that Ive become too fond of all of them. Hopefully many more people feel that same bond and value that I do with the mangas setting and characters. As Ive said multiple times before GochiUsa feels real. Characters I can relate to characters I love hell I even started to like coffee after constantly reading this manga. This does way too much to you after you feel some kind of connection to it. Its almost magical. GochiUsa is a one of a kind experience for the cute girls subgenre of slice of life and its stuck with me for five years now. 220https://2.gelbooru.com/samples/fd/53/samplefd532fc8ba350da31a54ec77c99a5fd6.jpg Koi has made something that means a lot to many people including myself and I thank him for every moment hes been working his butt off to make what I genuinely consider one of the closest attempts Ive seen to perfection in manga in his medium of work. Attributed to my MAL reviewhttps://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=321956