Nekopara

The siblings Kashou and Shigure Minazuki enjoy the company of six catgirls. Chocola and Vanilla assist Kashou in his job as a baker at the patisserie La Soleil, while the others—Coconut, Azuki, Cinnamon, and Maple—accompany Shigure in her daily life back at their home.

One afternoon, when Chocola goes out for an errand, she notices a green-haired kitten alone by herself at a park and decides to bring her back to the patisserie. Soon after, the Minazuki household adopts her and gives her a name: Cacao. With a new member in their family, the members of the Minazuki household continue their everyday lives—bound to become livelier than ever.

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Vanilla Main

Saeki, Iori Japanese

Chocola Main

Yagi, Yuki Japanese

Minazuki, Kashou Main

Tachibana, Shinnosuke Japanese

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 Supporting

Hondo, Kaede Japanese

Cook, Justin Producer

Kananiwa, Kozue Producer

Iizuka, Aya Producer

Takechi, Tsuneo Producer, Planning

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Aug 19, 2023

RealCheeze

Recommended

Nekopara is a visual novel franchise with some animated content such as this 12 episodes anime we have here. The animation is great, the art style is as cute as it originally is in the VN's, the humour is amazing, as well as the voice acting being great in both, English dub and Japanese dub.
Despite it having great and amazing things in it, there are some things that ruin it a little bit. The original source, the VN franchise is NSFW while this anime adaptation isn't which makes most of the younger audience that have watched this anime adaptation confused about it being just ... a wholesome series or whatever. But overall, as someone who started to get into the series by watching this anime at first, I recommend it. But it's better to start with the VNs instead. But it's still fun to watch this 12 episodes animated series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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May 18, 2021

FlexySpagoot

Mixed Feelings

Nekopara is just plain boring. That's all there really is to it. It doesn't have much of a "plot," because that isn't what its going for, but the individual episodes don't have enough substance in them to really warrant watching them. I probably would have rated this show a 6 if it weren't for the fact that I was completely bored of it by episode 4. Only reason I really finished it was because me and some friends watched it (and the movie and OVA) as a joke. A boring, 4 hour long joke. The humor in this show is pretty bland, mostly just boiling ... down to cat puns and "this character is quirky and does X," over and over again. The other main appeal is the cute/wholesome aspect of it, which it doesn't really deliver on. Despite raising $1,000,000, this show looks cheaply made. That kind of hampers its ability to look "cute," doesn't it. Other than that there isn't really much else of importance. Its boring and I don't recommend it unless you really like catgirls.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Feb 18, 2022

AnimeEnjoyer420

Not Recommended

Recommendation: Skip it unless you really like catgirls.

Positives:

+ Delivers exactly what it advertises. Each episode is 20 minutes of catgirls being cute and absolutely nothing else. And let's be honest, that's the reason you're going to watch this. So even though it's not a "good" show, you'll probably like it if you know exactly what to expect from it.

+ Can be funny when it leans into the idea of them literally being cats, like Vanilla kneading on Chocola's stomach to wake her up, or them being unable to resist the urge to sit in a random box that's been left out.

Negatives:

- The catgirls ... are too childlike or infantilized for the amount of fanservice and sexualization. The gratuitous ass shots and boob jiggling come off as a bit creepy when they're mostly treated like children and are barely allowed to leave the house without an adult. It feels like it couldn't decide whether to be a cute show about little girls or a horny show about sexy catgirls, and it split the difference in a way that ended up being kind of uncomfortable.

- The human characters suck. Shigure is a weird and cringeworthy pervert, and to say that Kashou is boring would be to wrongly imply that his presence or absence is felt in any way. He is a complete nothing character, and the show would literally be no different if he were replaced by a cardboard cutout of Kashou propped against the wall in the background of a handful of scenes.

- Catgirls never really evolve beyond their established archetype. You get a tiny bit of it with Chocola trying to become a big sister/mom to Cacao and an episode where Maple pursues her dream as a singer, but that really only serves to highlight how static all the other characters are, and makes it disappointing when they just reset to their usual selves at the start of the next episode.

- Gross, off-putting and unnecessary piss jokes are far too frequent.

- Can occasionally fall into being the bad kind of slice of life where it's just boring instead of feeling like a fun hangout with characters you love.

Reviewer’s Rating: 3

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