Audience reviews
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Executor23
For those who don't know, the show is based off of an erotic visual novel. For those who know, don't expect similar content as in the visual novels. Most of the development in visual novels is cut from the anime adaptation – story progress, character development, romance (and no sexual content either; just occasional pervy jokes from Cinnamon). Expect just a simple slice of life comedy with a lot of cuteness and catgirls we already know from the novels.
With the introduction of an anime original catgirl (Cacao), the show got at least some original content. First 3-4 episodes are focused on this new catgirl and how she is getting used to living with other catgirls along with Kashou and Shigure.
Then the show takes its slice of life episodic pattern, which is a bit of a shame. Because of t…
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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…
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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 ham…
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No actual story development but was fun to watch for gags and loads of fun. Wish there was more character development overall but I enjoyed the show. Wish they also gave more screen time to the la patisserie dude cuz I thought he was the main character (which he is) but gets less screen time later on. Overall I wouldn’t put this in the romance but in the slide of life and comedy section. It’s a great distraction from the real world and the music absolutely slaps. Hoping for a second season or an ova. I didn’t kno they were from a game but I would rather watch this than play the game. A pure anime for all the innocent minded people but can have a few dirty jokes here and there from cinnamon. Recommended for pg14+
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What would you do if you found out that an anime moe is an adaptation of an adult Visual Novel? The normal thing to do is to stop watching anything about the anime, because you don't expect to see this type of genre being adapted, especially through TV. However, I need to inform you that Nekopara is a preview of what the game's story would be, without the explicit scenes and with a hint of suggestive moments. Does that make anime good? NOT!! And we need to talk about it.
Nekopara tells a very simple story: Kashou owns a bakery, called La Soleil. The confectionery has cats as employees, divided into three pairs, where the “maid café” style predominates. Her sister, Shigure, is the one who gives housing and comfort to most of the cats who work there. The synopsis, by itself, already indicat…
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Nekopara is a fun, ecchi story about cat girls running a café. Based off the hit video game it’s quite fun to watch and enjoy.
Story – 8
With a well written universe that incorporates cat girls in a believable way, it’s fun to see these cats act. The dialogue is reasonable and it’s fun to see the arguments between some of the cats.it shares many of the ideas from the games and it’s great to see these stories in animation form. There is a story that lasts through out the whole season and the story stays quite consistent throughout.
Art – 8
I enjoy the style, it’s not exactly like the games, but it is quite nice. The art stays consistent through the series and its fluid. It’s fun to see characters emotions and the art allows the characters to express emotion really well.
Sound – 7
I quite…
Read at the sourceKarenKujou
First of all NekoPara does not deserve a 6.87 rating! Even Joey "The Anime Man" agrees that all the hate on the anime adaptation is unnecessary! (The Anime Man Video Source, Time Stamp, and Explanation on why is in the story rating segment below)
I played the R18 games, I watched the OVA, and now I just finished watching the anime! And here I am wanting more adorable neko cuteness!
It's been quite a while since I last played the game and watched the OVA so it felt very nostalgic and just like how I enjoyed playing the games and watching the OVA, I enjoyed every episode of adorable neko cuteness! So with that let's get to the ratings!
Story: 8
One word, WHOLESOME! From episode 1 to 12 I always had a smile on my face. I felt very happy and enjoyed every single episode! I don't know why t…
Read at the sourceMisterAmine
I did not enjoy this anime because i am not a fan of nekos, i find them too much "nya nya"
the story is decent but not formidable
i was not disapointed because i know i am biased by the fact they are nekos
i think the anime can be better by the story and by the characters, letting the characters less "nya nya", less "cute"
As a conclusion, i will say that this anime is not woth a try if you do not like nekos because they are cliché. But, the graphics and the sound are very good, good environnements, and there is no sex in this anime which is a good thing
thanks for reading
Read at the sourceByniavo
So it's over. A very disappointing adaptation.
But Why? Why is this?
How could Felix Firm ruin such an easy adaptation?
Because the OP and ED were great, the character designs are mostly faithful, and the animation was great. However...
1) They skipped 90% of the introduction, a.k.a. why catgirls exist, how they are adopted etc. This also includes how Chocola and Vanilla were adopted. If you read the vn then you knew that was a very heartbreaking scene, but the anime only viewers will never know about this.
2) The main fucking character is barely relevant. Somehow Felix Firm managed to change nekopara from a harem to a yuri show!
3) Pacing was dreadful. Random anime original Keijo episode that should have been used to develop the cat girls. Cacao is not even in the vn - she is an ani…
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Short review for Nekopara: First of all, I didnt play the VN so I cant take that into account.
If you dont take this show very serious it can be fun and could even be a 7 or something close to it (6.5->7)
In the end I gave it a 6. Some characters can sometimes be annoying but I guess thats just my opinion. The voice acting is kind of weird in some places too and lacks enthusiasm. Other than that, like I said, if you dont take this show very serious and watch it with a "Hey it has catgirls doing funny stuff that doesnt always make sense but its cute and funny because its an anime about catgirls" kind of mindset it can be fun and you could give it a 7. I watched it with some aspects of this mindset but in the end there are some flaws if you look at it like a real anime and I couldnt give it…
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Welcome to La Soleil! The café with a lot of cute catgirls, a true cat paradise!
Hi!I'm pretty sure you came here for a "Oh, the animation was...", "Oh, the characters are..." type of review.But nope!I'm sorry to break it to you.Instead, I'll be telling you a short story on why I love this franchise so much and how it helped me feel better during some dark times.If you want my opinion on the animation/plot/sound etc., go to the bottom bellow the hearts!
Okay,when it comes to Nekopara, I have seen two kinds of opinions on twitter:
1.) It's super cute!Adorable! I love it!
2.)This is such a joke, people are only in for it because of the NSFW game!
I first played the game back two years ago as a horny teenager.First walkthrough, skipped all the dialogue so I could get to the steamy parts.Hon…
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Nekopara as we know it, is well...an hentai game series where we can PLAY AROUND with cats. Cats? No, CATGIRLS. How much fun, don´t you agree? But has this anime lived up at its expectation?
When this was first announced, i was excited that i immediatly scored 10 before it aired because i love the series overall. But little did i know i would be very wrong. Before you start shooting rockets at me because i stand my 10 on this, hear me out.
Its a 6 in reality. This series follows the main games story, if you can call it a story; but it didn´t felt equal or better than the games, rather much worse.
Story-6; Like i said, not much story here. Come on, its a +18 game, what kind of story do you expect here? All they do is just do anything different every episode as its own way. While i l…
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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 or move the story. In fact it doesn't move even an inch forward.
There's no progression in any way. That's why you can't compare Nekopara to any decent slice-of-life where the overall story still moves: be…
Read at the sourcePyraXadon
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.
Story:
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 take shifts at the pastry shop. And thus (I guess) starts another chapter of their lives.
Aside from the first three episodes which establish a comp…
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Neko Paradise!
Nekopara finally got a full length anime and what with the OVA being a small taste as to what the anime series was gonna be, Nekopara 's anime series in itself is a decent slice of life comedy anime with a *ahem* few changes from the game to make it fit into the slice of life comedy anime. Nonetheless Nekopara has neko-moeness ALL ROUND.
Nekopara's anime series follows Chocola voiced by Yuki Yagi and Vanilla voiced by Saeki Iori in their daily lives in La Soleil, a patisserie owned by Kashou Minazaki. Now slightly diverging from the game which starts as soon as the first episode is that Chocola finds a stray young cat that latche sonto Chocola, unable to know what to do, Chocola secretly tries to hide this stray cat, but as this stray cat...let's call her Cacao, well Cacao…
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“It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.” – Warsan Shire, and also nobody in Nekopara
Every few years, we get an anime that is truly a masterpiece: a work that excels in every area to create something that not only entertains greatly, but explores themes so deep that they leave a lasting impression on those who watched them and on the way that anime and the world moves forward in the future. These anime are indeed rare – we are lucky to get one in a year, but by some miracle, we managed to get two such anime in a single season. It’s hard to imagine a better way to begin the decade than with these two series. One of these is, of course, Interspecies Reviewers, and the other is the anime that we will b…
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The original Nekopara is an adult visual novel where you watch catgirls get lewded through the perspective of a self insert male. TV Nekopara is not only absent of all explicit content but has tame fanservice even for non-nude ecchi standards, unfortunate news for the hardcore degenerates out there.
But if you’re going to strip a visual novel of all adult content, you better sell the character personalities and make their relationships feel genuine enough for viewers to connect to them on an emotional level. TV Nekopara at least manages to do that well by making them appear as close knit as a true family. As such this can be watched for reasons outside of fanservice, as surprising as that may sound.
Those familiar with the VN will immediately recognize the quirks of the catgirls (and if…
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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…
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This is a fun, cute little anime that's enjoyable with, or without playing the VNs. Don't go into it expecting any sort of deep story since that isn't what it's going for anyway. Comedy and cuteness are its strongest offerings and it does them well. They also did well at keeping the spirit of the VNs while separating them so the anime is kind of its own little story instead of just trying to blatantly copy the source material, which doesn't always work out for titles based on VNs.
In short, if you're interested in an anime that's just there to be some lighthearted fun, give this one a try.
Read at the sourceMarinate1016
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 uncertain times and pass time, enjoy CGDCT or cat girls, this is your show. Don’t expect anything groundbreaking or revolutionary, but you will certainly get a laid back and cozy ride.
Technically, there’s not much to…
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