Nekopara

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English: NekoparA

Synonyms: Neko Para

Japanese: ネコぱら

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Type: TV

Episodes: 12

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Jan 9, 2020 to Mar 26, 2020

Premiered: Winter 2020

Broadcast: Thursdays at 21:00 (JST)

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: Funimation

Studios: Felix Film

Source: Visual novel

Genres: Slice of Life, Comedy

Duration: 23 min. per ep.

Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

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Score: 6.83¹ (scored by 20,028 users)

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Ranked: #4248²

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Popularity: #1461

Members: 79,188

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Kashou Minaduki, a son of a long line of Japanese confection makers, moved out to open his own patisserie "La Soleil". When unpacking his stuff, Kashou found two of the catgirls(“neko”) that his family had been raising hiding in the boxes: Chocola and Vanilla. He tried to send them back initially, but they begged and pleaded until he gave in. Now they run La Soleil together. They spent some great time with the help of Shigure, sister of Kashou, and other catgirls in their family: Azuki, Maple, Cinnamon and Coconut. One day, when Chocola goes out to run some errands, she meets a kitten. The story starts with their encounter...

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Adaptation:	Nekopara: Chocola & Vanilla
Alternative version:	Nekopara OVA

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Vanilla

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Iori, Saeki
Japanese

Chocola

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Yagi, Yuki
Japanese

Minazuki, Kashou

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Coconut

Supporting

Mizutani, Marin
Japanese

Cinnamon

Supporting

Noguchi, Yuri
Japanese

Maple

Supporting

Itou, Miku
Japanese

Azuki

Supporting

Izawa, Shiori
Japanese

Cacao

Supporting

Morishima, Yuuka
Japanese

Minazuki, Shigure

Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Chiyo

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Yamamoto, Yasutaka

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Tsuchida, Kasumi

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Saxton, Jad

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Tateyama, Akiyuki

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"Shiny Happy Days" by Chocola (Yuki Yagi), Vanilla (Iori Saeki), Azuki (Shiori Izawa), Maple (Miku Itou), Cinnamon (Yuri Noguchi), Coconut (Marin Mizutani)

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"Hidamari no Kaori (陽だまりの香り)" by Chocola (Yuki Yagi), Vanilla (Iori Saeki)

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Mar 26, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 2

literaturenerd (All reviews)

160 people found this review helpful

Winter 2020 has been a pretty dismal season for anime overall. Eizouken will of course run away with anime of the season because it had exactly ZERO competition that could stop it. It doesn’t matter how boring, self-indulgent, or repetitive it is. Yuasa directed it and Eizouken has a budget, so compared to the rest of the Spring 2020 lineup it’s like watching Canelo Alvarez fight a bunch of children. My personal anime of the season is Interspecies Reviewers, but I can’t review that for a few more days. Instead, let’s look at a series that apparently met Funimation’s high moral standards. This is the bizarre dumpster fire known as Nekopara.

So what the fuck is a Nekopara? Well you see, Nekopara is a shitty H-game from 2014. For the first 2 years, absolutely no one gave a fuck, but then in 2016-2017 it became a popular gag gift on Steam. A shitty game that’s really cheap, so you buy it during a steam sale and gift it to your friend as a joke, knowing that they will probably never play it. Yet SOMEHOW, this piece of shit got an anime adaptation. Why didn’t Big Rigs get an anime adaptation? Why didn’t Bad Rats get an anime adaptation?

So why complain about Nekopara? It’s just porn after all! Just shut the hell up and enjoy the cat boobs and literal pussy! You can’t, because the anime removed all the H content and decided to bank on the strong plot and characters. You read that right. This is a game where humanoid cat girls are sent via post to some chef and must help out in his restaurant. In the game he of course bangs these girls, despite the fact they’re only 4 years old and have the minds of children. In the anime, they just kind of hang out and do…nothing. There are tons of slice of life shows where basically nothing happens, but Nekopara sets a new low bar. Since the anime isn’t a porn, I end up having to think about the stuff the writer didn’t want people to think about. Where did these catgirls come from? What is the history of Mankind’s interaction with this species? They seem to have roughly human intelligence and can speak Japanese fluently, but they count as pets and legally as property. It’s not all bad being a cat slave though. The girls get a pretty bell necklace when they learn not to run away. Can’t have your harem of catgirls getting Drapetomania!

Did I mention this series got over 1 million dollars via crowdfunding? How is that even possible? I can only assume that some basement dweller used his bitcoin wealth that he collected playing Warcraft 10 years ago. I know I bang on about this in too many reviews, but half of Spice and Wolf and over half of Baccano were never adapted! There are SO many good anime that need another season, but Nekopara is what makes its crowdfunding goals and gets made. Also fuck Funimation for picking this up, dubbing it, and distributing this instead of Reviewers. Gen Fukunaga should be tied to a bed and forced to spend a passionate evening with Elza the hyena girl!

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Mar 26, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 4

shiranaitori (All reviews)

141 people found this review helpful

Do you like cat girls? Do you dream about cat girls every night when you put your head on the pillow? Has your love for cat girls now reached a fetish level? Then you are at the right place! Nekopara is with you to make your innocent dreams come true!

~STORY~
Nekopara is an anime which adapted from an eroge that places in a world where cats are humanoid livings which can talk and act like humans, but they're still pets. Nekopara anime has an interesting concept for kemonomimi fetishists but for normal people, it's just another boring slice of life anime with no plot or special atmosphere. Only thing we've watch in Nekopara is some cat girls' daily life. Also directing is so bad that this anime, which should be an iyashikei, cannot adjust pace in some points and loses its relaxing side. By the way, if you think I used the word "innocent" as a joke in the first paragraph of the review, you are wrong. Because there are no 18+ scenes in this show despite being adapted from an eroge. There are only some soft ecchi scenes, but those scenes are innocent compared to the eroge. So if you want to touching yourself while watching cat girls, I recommend you to play the eroge version. But if you want to watch something innocent that will touch your kemonomimi fetishist heart, this anime is for you.

~CHARACTERS~
In Nekopara we have various cat girls: Twin tailed clumsy black cat (Chocola), kuudere white cat (Vanilla), short haired tsundere munchkin (Azuki), dark skinned and big breasted maine coon (CocoNUT), dandere loli (Cacao), big breasted scottish fold (Cinnamon) and elegant american curl (Maple). So if you are a cat girl lover, you will most likely find a character that fits your taste in Nekopara. Also, there are some good moments among these cat girls that contribute to their character developments. However, any of these moments weren't enjoyable for me because of I didn't care any of them in the first place. So we are coming back to the fold, if you like cat girls you will like these characters and their developments but if you are not into cat girls you won't care anything about them.

~ART & SOUND~
Nekopara is weak in art and sound departments. It doesn't have an interesting art style, animations are average and sound effects are mediocre. Soundtracks are boring as hell and forgettable. Only good thing about "art & sound" is ED, Hidamari no Kaori. This song fits the show's theme pretty well; it's relaxing and using our cat girls' childhood photos as visuals.

~ENJOYMENT~
It was fun to watch some cute cat girls' daily life for first three episodes but I got bored very quickly after that. If you are not into cat girls, don't watch this show and if you want to see sexual scenes about cat girls play the eroge version.

Take care and stay healthy!

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Mar 26, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 5

PyraXadon (All reviews)

121 people found this review helpful

A question: I'm pretty sure it's established somewhere in the VNs that they're genetically engineered 'cat girls', so why call them 'cats'? Are there actual cats in this world aside from catgirls, or are all cats catgirls now? Yes, I seriously thought about this hypothetical question while watching the show.

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Within the Minazuki household lives six different catgirls. When the older of the two siblings leaves to start his own patisserie business, the two youngest cats follow their master and appear in boxes as he's moving in while the other four cats and his little sister stay behind in their family home, occasionally coming by to read more

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Mar 26, 2020

12 of 12 episodes seen

Overall Rating: 3

kirie-chan (All reviews)

100 people found this review helpful

Music and art both are top notch. That's why we had our hopes high. But with every new episode it became more and more clear — Nekopara is hot garbage.

Each catgirl gets one comic gag assigned in the beginning of the season, and then writers exploit it repeatedly in almost every episode. Including bringing character up just for a few seconds to show yet another version of the same joke they made in ep1.

While each episode has an interesting idea — Cinnamon exploring her breeding desires or Cacao looking for new owners, every single one of them fails both to develop said characters read more

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