Is the Order a Rabbit? Bunnisode 11

 The Girl Dons a Red Coat and Drives a Team of Rabbits Across the Christmas Eve Night Sky (少女は赤い外套を纏いウサギを駆りて聖夜の空を行く) is the eleventh episode of Is the Order a Rabbit? anime series.

Synopsis
''With Christmas approaching the girls decide to decorate the Cafe for the Holiday while Cocoa takes it upon herself to play the role of Santa. ''

Summary
With Christmas approaching everyone is out doing their shopping. Cocoa is amazed by the ornamental Christmas Market when the others remind her that they came to buy items for the cafe. While looking around the girls discuss their cafe menu, with Cocoa bringing up the fancy pancake they plan to make, while Ama Usa will be serving turkey, which for some reason always goes over pretty well. Since Sharo will be working during Christmas they decide to hold a holiday part when she's available. They also decide to play Secret Santa and exchange gifts.

At a candy store the girls are surprised to learn what marzipan really is while admiring the Christmas sweets. Then they head into another shop to observe Christmas Tree ornaments and decorations. Chiya suggests they decorate Sharo's house when Cocoa gets distracted by a large angel nearby. She goes on to reveal her desire to get Chino the perfect gift, but she initially doesn't know what to get until they spot the scary-looking rabbit plush Rize found, and a sweet little music box they think Chino would like.

After finishing they stop to observe the winter sky and wait for Cocoa, who has "early presents from Santa" and hands each of her friends a marzipan rabbit they were looking at earlier. She suggests their party be held at Rabbit House and the others agree, with Chino asking to invite Megumi and Maya too. Cocoa allows it and Chiya warns her to try to calm down a little so that she's able to sleep after noticing how excited she is, and with that they decide to buy some snacks from the outdoor stalls and observe some Christmas Lights.

Back at the Cafe the girls serve customers. Sharo and Chiya haven't shown up yet which causes Cocoa some concern until Rize points out they are still busy. Chino confirms that Cocoa sent out the invites, then after reading over one she makes some critique.

As Chiya is working, she decides a skit may be fun to include during their party. However, she convinces herself not to do it since Chino and Cocoa are the hosts and she doesn't want to take away their attention. Meanwhile, Sharo is passing out invitations for people to come to Fleur de Lapin on Christmas. She imagines the various foods and sweets she can enjoy during the upcoming party- but starts to panic after imagining herself as the "little match girl".

Later, Megumi and Maya show up dressed with ornamental hats. With the cafe still busy, Chino asks them to wait and have a seat for now, then warns Cocoa that they have to continue working out of concern she'll get distracted. Chiya joins the girls with some Japanese sweets while they wait, and the girls offer them some drinks. Maya and Megumi offer to lend the girls a hand after noticing how busy they are, but Cocoa distracts them as they try to make pancakes.

When Sharo arrives she expresses disappointment at the idea of doing more work, as she's exhausted. She refuses to sit around and be a freeloader though, so she starts to order the other girls around and gives them directions to make sure things go smoothly. Cocoa finds herself growing really worn out but Rize manages to encourage her to keep working while Maya and Chino resume their work to keep up. Megumi comments that since Sharo had started to direct everyone, the work was improving greatly.

In the kitchen, Chiya works on making pancakes when Chino realizes they're out of butter. With many stores closed during the holiday this will be problematic, but Chiya suggests it can be fixed. She starts shaking up the cream they have to turn it into butter. As this is going on, Megumi has trouble with the cash register so Cocoa lends her a hand.

Despite how worn out everyone is and the minor problems coming their way, the girls continue to work and have a lot of fun, knowing how happy their customers are leaving. Chino takes a moment to observe everyone before she makes conversation with Tippy.

Eventually the shop closes and everyone changes as Aoyama shows up to lend them a hand working the bar shift. She tells the girls to go enjoy themselves and they start by sharing a drink, with Chino making the toast. As this is going on Aoyama joins Takahiro with work to finish making food and cleaning up. He tells her to join the girls after she takes them the dinner but she refuses, deciding to make them some drinks.

The girls decide to open their exchange gifts, with Chino getting an ornamental doll, someone getting cookies, another getting rabbit ears, and someone getting the scary rabbit doll.

Later in the evening, Cocoa gets up and sneakily walks through the hallway, now dressed in a Santa hat and shawl. She tries to determine what to tell Chino later when she asks, but as she gets into the room she stops to observe Chino asleep. She is joined by Takahiro, who had the same idea.

The next morning, Chino awakens to find presents within the stocking. Not only did she get a cute rabbit music box, but a 3D puzzle she wanted. To her surprise she also finds a passed out Cocoa and takes the music box to the front of the cafe and winds it up as Rize walks inside. Seeing the box, she is happy noticing how delighted Chino is. She decides to say no more than how "scatterbrained" the person is when Chino wonders who got it for her. It is then Cocoa runs into the room with a present Santa dropped off for her as well. They remark on how scatterbrained, leaving Cocoa to express confusion.

Characters

 * By order of appearances.


 * Cocoa
 * Chino
 * Tippy
 * Rize
 * Chiya
 * Sharo
 * Aoyama
 * Megumi
 * Maya

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