Cocoa Hoto

**Cocoa Hoto** (Japanese: 保登 ココア) is the main protagonist of the *Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?* series.

## Etymology

*Hoto Cocoa* → *Hotto Kokoa* (ホットココア) which roughly refers to the coffee "Hot Chocolate" that is also known as "Hot Cocoa", "Drinking chocolate" or just "Cocoa".

## Appearance

Cocoa has strawberry blonde shoulder-length hair with loose bangs, decorated with a cherry blossom hair clip on the side of her head. She has purple Tareme eyes.

Her work outfit is a pink and red variant of the Rabbit House Cafe's uniform: a long ankle-length black skirt, white blouse, waistcoat and bow tie. Her school uniform consists of a white skirt and a pink cardigan sweater.

## Personality

Cocoa is an optimistic girl full of excitement with a bubbly disposition and unbridled enthusiasm that others find infectious and often convinces them to join her. She is very determined but unless it involves food or a topic interesting her, she is likely to become distracted. She also believes that she doesn't have any skill or a talent, with her confidence being so low that she's unaware of her mental arithmetic prowess and claims it's "*nothing much"*.

Cocoa has been accused of having a sister complex and strongly desires to be seen as a mature, dependable older-sister figure by others. But her clumsiness and air-headed side usually discredits her attempts when she has to rely on someone else for help. As the smallest of her siblings she was influenced by her sister and brothers. Not only is she very passionate about baking and enjoys showing her love of bread to others at Rabbit House, but she also dreamed of becoming a magician, a lawyer, and even a novelist after meeting Aoyama Blue Mountain.

## Plot

Cocoa arrives to Chino's town in order to attend its high school, having been influenced when she was little and visited as a child. She met Chino's Grandfather in this time, and attempted to cast a spell on him when he brought up wanting to become a rabbit to her.

As she is staying at Rabbit House, Cocoa quickly befriends Chino while working there.

## Relationships

### Chino Kafuu

Cocoa desperately wishes that Chino would recognize her as a big sister figure. Although Chino rarely complies with her wish, Cocoa still likes to imagine Chino is her little sister regardless. She is very loving and gentle with Chino, which is usually met with sarcasm or an insult instead of her desired reaction.

Due to her closeness with Chino, Cocoa can get jealous if others manage to steal her attention in a sisterly way. Cocoa is also likely to take things said by Chino a lot harder than she would with others.

### Rize Tedeza

Cocoa's coworker and friend. While Rize is a year older than her, she still refers to her as *Rize-chan*. She gets along with her, but is sometimes intimidated by her.

### Chiya Ujimatsu

After meeting while making her way to school, Cocoa quickly struck up a "best friend" relationship with Chiya. They have many things in common and agree on a lot, and share a very similar mental wavelength.

### Sharo Kirima

Cocoa has the idea that Sharo is a very wealthy and rich girl and admires her, seeing everything she does as elegant. Even when Sharo tries to explain herself or claim she isn't Cocoa usually assumes she is just modest. She enjoys her company.

### Mocha Hoto

Growing up admiring her older sister, Cocoa was very dependent on her and is very close with her. Now that she's older she tries to act mature in front of her and less-needy, unaware of how distant it makes Mocha feel. She developed her sister-complex from her and is shown to get a little jealous if Mocha dotes on others, or if they seem to enjoy her attention more.

### Maya Jouga and Megumi Natsu

She enjoys the company of both of Chino's friends and considers them to be "little sisters" for her to dote on. She gets along better with Megumi due to her enjoyment of it.

### Mocha Hoto

Growing up admiring her older sister, Cocoa was very dependent on her and is very close with her. Now that she's older she tries to act mature in front of her and less-needy, unaware of how distant it makes Mocha feel. She developed her sister-complex from her and is shown to get a little jealous if Mocha dotes on others, or if they seem to enjoy her attention more.

## See also

* List of anime girls age 15
* ''Gochuumon wa Usagi Desu ka?''