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

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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

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Morishima, Yuuka
Japanese

Minazuki, Shigure

Supporting

Ichimichi, Mao
Japanese

Chiyo

Supporting

Hondo, Kaede
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Kananiwa, Kozue

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Iizuka, Aya

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Takechi, Tsuneo

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Tomohito, Naka

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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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	1: "Hidamari no Kaori (陽だまりの香り)" by Chocola (Yuki Yagi), Vanilla (Iori Saeki) (eps 1-8, 10, 12)
	2: "Honto no Kokoro (ホントノココロ)" by Maple (Miku Itou) (eps 9)
	3: "Hidamari no Kaori ~Cacao mo Issho ver~ (陽だまりの香り~カカオもいっしょver~)" by Chocola (Yuki Yagi), Vanilla (Iori Saeki), Cacao (Yuuka Morishima) (eps 11)

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Mar 26, 2020

literaturenerd

Not Recommended

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

kirie-chan

Not Recommended

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 ...

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Mar 26, 2020

Marinate1016

Recommended

Nekopara is a fun and cozy way to spend 24 minutes. Simply put, it’s a very relaxing show with extreme amounts of literal and figurative fluff.

Ironically, in contrast to its hentai origins, Nekopara is one of the most wholesome shows I’ve seen. Narratively, there’s not much on the way of plot in this show. It’s very much a “monster” of the week type thing with each episode providing a new challenge or event for the girls to prepare for. These will usually be 90 percent fluff and 10 percent fan service.

If you’re looking for a fun and relaxing way to deal with the current ...

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