Story: There is not much to say about the story in a “cute girls doing cute things” (CGDCT) anime.
It is first introduced with Kokoa who gets lost while looking for the place where she was going to live so she decides to stop by a cafeteria with the coincidence that it was also the place where she was going to live and work part-time, there she meets Chino and Rize, later she would meet Chiya and Sharo who worked at different cafeterias. It is also worth mentioning that the girls assist to different schools so the show develops in a labor environment or just the girls hanging out after work and not in a school environment like most (if not all) CGDTs.
Now to the actual review:
The CGDCT anime usually aim for 3 things: the cuteness, the comedy and the heart-warming side but these shows usually fail a bit at the latter, they are so focused on comedy that when they try to be heart-warming in my opinion they tend to become a little boring, they struggle a lot to balance this. However, GochiUsa has a good balance, and this is because it EXCELS at being heart-warming, the comedy is a bit sacrificed but this doesn’t mean the comedy is bad, the comedy is actually good but as I said GochiUsa is very well balanced and it has a bit of character development (though this applies mostly for Chino).
The animation and art were both amazing, nice to look at and well... extremely cute, the music was also pretty good. Though the background music wasn’t particularly memorable it was good enough to portray this feeling of heart-warmth I mentioned above.
What was really memorable was the voice acting, all seiyuus performed their roles very well and were all fitting to their characters. This is especially noticeable with Inori Minase's role as Chino.
Just don't expect much of it during its first episodes as it is until the 4th or 5th episode when it gets better.
In conclusion, though GochiUsa doesn’t break any grounds at all it feels like a different take on the CGDCT genre and very refreshing to watch.
Overall 8.5/10
