Chocola or Vanilla?

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I choose Kokonatsu

But this has nothing to do with anime and manga.

>>150851320
Swirl it

>>150851398
It got an OVA in the works though.

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>>150851374

I came here to post this. She's the best kitty, Cinnamon and Maple are good too though.

>>150851320
Vanilla:
>DFC
>calm
>smart
>pervert

>>150851432
Oh well, didn't know. Keep on with your /e/ thread then.

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>>150851398
http://nekoparaova.com/

>>150851320

Nuts

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>>150851320
Vanilla.

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TWO WEEKS TO NEKO PARA OVA


ARE YOUR BODIES READY

>>150851374
>>150851469
>>150851538
Why do people like Coconut? Huge useless tits.

>>150851320
Vanilla is cuter, younger, smaller, deadpan, composed, mature, loli, flat, follows white color scheme, and has the tightest pussy. She's the best choice.

>>150851320
Both, any other option is flat-out wrong.

>There are people in this thread that think Coconut is hottest cat but have never watched Dog Days and don't know her anime lookalike Leonmitchelli

get it together

>>150851876
Milhi a best.

>>150851320
Vanilla is way better.

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>>150851876
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that both of them are not my favorites of their respective series.

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>>150851876
dog = cat

>>150853627
Stop shilling your shit tier cat.

>>150853718
See >>150851481

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>>150853718
Stay buttmad.

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>>150853627

Am I the only one who likes Azuki?
Vanilla is still the best though

>>150851320
Choco no contest

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>>150851320
Flat

>>150854057
Budding.

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>>150851607
Oh, they have their uses.

When's part 3 anyways?
AHHH I really want that one super pervert girl. She's awakened my burning sadist heart.

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>>150853952
Brother.

>>150854167
Ewwww, disgusting. Why would you want that? Leave perfection alone.

It's not illegal to have more than one cat, you goofs.

>>150855227
>sample
Oh, dear.

>>150853952
Not after all that bedwetting.

On topic, Chocola is more aesthetically pleasing and does things to my heart, so I choose her. Vanilla is only marginally inferior though, they're both awesome.

yaaay, /a/ is so exciting
super looking forward for more best girl wars

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What happens when you paws the anime?

Milk a best.

Vanilla Ice.

Vanilla with a side of Shigure.

>>150851568
>TWO WEEKS
Wow, I was thinking it was going to be much later.
>>150855341
Just following this thread, I know Vanilla is going to be the best. So, no need for that.

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>>150851320
>want to start nekopara
>kept laughing at all those ribbons in their hair
>never got to download
>see this >>150851481

Might as well start it now

>>150851607

Insecure imouto pretending to be a sturdy onee-san.

I choose all

>>150851320
Chocola is the only answer, Vanilla is not bad but she kind of pisses me off for some reason.

>>150851320
>this nu-weeb pandering garbage is allowed to have threads on /a/ now
Kill me

>>150856331
>nu-anything
>>>/v/

>>150856353
Spotted the nu-weeb
I pet you also own Shittunia games on steam

>>150856331
>nu-weeb

Please die.

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>>150856353
>>150856436

>>150856513
Seriously consider killing yourself.

>>150856598
You first braindead waifufag

>>150856353
>>150856436
Let me give you some advice. If the post is obviously bait or the poster is just really stupid (it can be hard to tell sometimes), don't reply.

>>150856763
>the post is obviously bait or the poster is just really stupid
Whatever makes you sleep at night faggot
Enjoy your kusoge

>>150851374
This. Cutest girl, cutest outfit, cutest insecurities.

>all these fags liking the literal lesbian cat that only uses you as Chocola's surrogate penis

Chocola at least loves you unconditionally.

Vanilla is the only right answer.

>>150851374
Same

>>150851374
First post best post

IT'S SO FUCKING BORING TO PLAY/READ THIS

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Wudja?

I just want MC-kun to fuck his sister and impregnate her.

>>150851374

My response exactly.

>>150857051
This.

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My priorities:
1. More money for Sayori
2. It will actually be good

>>150857051
I find it weirdly more compelling over time, it's really cheap pandering shit, but damn if i don't smile just the same.

Azuki best.

>>150857285
It never pretends to be otherwise and doesn't try pulling LEL SELF AWARENESS constantly to pull itself out of a perceived hole, it's hard to hate it because of that.

>>150857216

Saori is a girl (female)?!

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>>150857554
Yes, and so is Sayori, the artist for NekoPara.

She is also married.

And Chinese.

>>150857592
And fat.

>>150857676
Well duh

>>150857592
and male

>>150857051
Are you mentally damaged? It's literally a few hours long and you're only reading for the h-scenes anyway.

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>>150857045

>>150857777
Where do you think you are?

>>150857051
>Actually complaining about pandering fap bait

no anon you were retard

>>150851320
White hair and blue eyes does does things to my dick

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>>150857921

>>150857810
Why would she enjoy getting touched in boob but not in tummy?

>>150857956

That is a bote.

>>150857051
Don't worry, anon. I skipped all the text except for h-scenes and started to enjoy it a lot more.

>>150857777
I read it for like 3 hours over the course of THREE DAYS and guess fucking what bucko I NEVER EVEN MADE IT TO THE PORN.

I NEARLY FELL ASLEEP LIKE TEN TIMES

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>>150851320
>the author refuses to do more neko paradise doujins
>there will never be a neko paradise anime
>the VNs are terribly boring with a super bland MC and way too much boring daily interactions instead of fun interactions with the catgirls

It would have been way more interesting with a catgirl as the MC.

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>>150857999
*warship

Also purr-ship.

>>150857996
Cats don't like belly rubs.

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>>150858074
>there will never be a neko paradise anime
See >>150851432

>>150858140
B-but my cat loves that.

>>150858177
NORMAL CATS don't.

>>150851320
Roll 1d2

>>150855319
>bedwetting
Wait, what?

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Mushroom-girl animated adventures when?

>>150858345
Better idea.
Mushroom-cat-girl animated adventures when?

>>150857592
And married to a Japanese man, with a kid.

https://zh.moegirl.org/Sayori

>>150858190
Are you trying to say that my cat is retarded!?

>>150858444
Yes.

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What kind of gifts would you like from them?

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>tfw sitting here randomly patting them on the head between dialogue.

I shouldn't be enjoying this but good god, truly mankinds purpose was to advance to the point of giving me computer catgirls at the click of a button

>>150858444
Trips confirm

It's okay /a/non, mine has cat-autism <3

>>150858444
That'll be the title for the next top selling LN.

Has anyone tried asking the author why she won't release more doujins like the original neko paradise ones?

>>150858781
I think it works better as a VN.

>>150857078
My man.

>>150858282
She ends up feeling way too good during her scene that she loses control and accidentally let's herself go.
Normally that shit wouldn't fly with me, but all that Azuki bullying and her fucking mewling during her H scenes was too much for my dick.

>>150859390
Azuki purring = muh dick

>>150859390
That isn't bedwetting. That's just normal wetting.

>>150859507
Well you DO do it on the bed.

>>150851320
Vanilla.

>>150853986
same, there's a reason Vanilla loves Chocola tll.

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I like Azuki myself. Her personality has this great dichotomy between her acting more like a mature adult (such as on her date) but then at other times she'd be like a cute kid.

Does it bother anybody else that they're clearly intelligent but are essentially slaves?

>>150860091
That's like saying wetting oneself on the floor is called floor wetting.

>>150860329
Anon please

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>>150860329
That's like saying you're bothered by the fact that children are intelligent but are essentially slaves. Neko's are somewhat smart, but more like kids than adults.

>>150860741
You don't fuck children though

>>150851374
But does it have milk?

>>150860741
Kids usually don't work, at least not for free.

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>>150860770

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>>150851320

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>>150855951
>he doesn't like the ribbons
but the VN designs are already toned down by an order of magnitude.

>>150856259
I require a webm just of them blinking.

>>150860329
It's not slavery if it's a species genetically engineered to derive happiness from being subservient to humans.

Would it not be cruel to deny them their source of happiness?

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>>150851374

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>>150851320
The one and only.

>>150860274
Is this a jojo reference?

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>>150851320
I'd rather choose Sayori's self-insert character.

>>150862334
Talk about a bun in the oven

>>150862396
I want to fuck sayori thorough her self-insert.
I'm still mad that Shigure isn't impregnated yet.

>>150862396
>>150862499
Men of taste.

>>150858074
It definetly would.

>>150856259
I played that game just for the fucking breast physics.

>>150862396
>Sayori's self-insert is smug
What does this mean?

>>150851374
I would give her my natsu any day of the week.

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>>150862869
It means she recognizes her inherent cuteness.

>>150862334
At least he´s a baker. I usually cringe from things like ”man-batter”.

>>150855984
>>150856005
tell me, is there an imouto route?

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>>150863567
Not in the first three volumes. It's possible we'll see one in the fourth volume, but honestly it's fairly unlikely. I think Nekopara is too popular in the west for the company to feel comfortable with putting an incest route in.

>>150851374
https://a.catgirlsare.sexy/ybrwot.webm

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>>150859390
>Azuki trying really hard not to purr when being pet

The cutest

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>>150863816
>Volume 4
>Asia only release
>Shigure route only
>Lewdness off the charts with a threesome h-scene with Shigure and each of the catgirls
>Massive catgirl orgy at the end
>Kashou dies at the end from exhaustion and dehydration

>>150863816
>Shigure giving you the finger

>>150858074
Wasn't one released like on C89, C90?
Tried searching her twitter to see but this shit stopped me.
https://twitter.com/Beabosaur/status/807316951928336385

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>>150862396
You can always go for her mummy self insert.

>>150858022
You're a very slow reader. Don't blame that on the game

more lewd

I want the last game to be about having a healthy and loving relationship between siblings.

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>>150865222
For (You)

>>150865527
WE HAVE TO GO LEWDER

>>150865579
/a/ is a blue board.

You need to go to >>>/h/

>>150860329
It did. And how it's available on Steam to normies who aren't throwing a fit over it.

>>150858074
>its some Code Geass segregation type story
>the catgirl MC joins a party of revolutionary catgirls to fight for catgirl freed
>she leads them forward into battle and does crazy CG-tier antics
>only for it to be revealed at the end that catgirls were infact alien lifeforms that forced normal housecats to evolve and try to take over the world
>catgirl MC now has to team up with the remaining humans to take down Catgirl Hitler
Sponsor it.

>>150851568
My dick is ready

>>150865362
>It turns out that Shigs and Cashew are NBR
Now what?

>>150851568
So I guess it's an original story?

>>150860329
I am really happy this isn't a dark work, because it easily could go wrong.

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>>150860329
You don't have to think so deeply about it. It's just a lighthearted moe-moe serious with cute neko girls.

>>150864187
Troll endings
>Chocola dies, everyone becomes depressed and brooding
>Cat (male) is introduced, NTR en masse, leaves Kashou only with imouto
>Kashou's dad is introduced, NTR en masse, leaves Kashou only with Milk
>Kashou actually has magic semen and impregnates all the catgirls

>>150851568
no H right?

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>>150862334
>All that Azuki crying and Vanilla being a bully
My fucking duck.

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>>150868766

>Kashou actually has magic semen and impregnates all the catgirls

This needs to fucking happen

It won't, but a man can dream right?

>>150868984
Anon what if they give birth in litters.
That would be like two dozen more catgirls.

>>150869172
two dozen more waitresses
has has vanilla and azuki manage two other bakeries as part of a chain.

>>150851374
Big, dumb, friendly Maine Coon love.

Between Chocola and Vanilla? Vanilla.

Chocola is cute but she can get a bit irritating.

My favourite is Coconut thougn

>the author of this series draws lewds of herself in Nekopara artstyle

Sayori is excellent.

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>>150869172

You say that like it would be a bad thing anon.

>>150869465
Coons are smart. SMART!

>>150869939
not that one

>>150869939
That they are. I have an 8 month Coon. Its a fucking character and smart as fuck for a cat.

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>>150870010

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reccomend me some good catgirl doujins, anons.

Preferrably ones that display #TheStruggle of being a cat-human hybrid

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>>150870223
only if you give source on that one

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>>150870337
planet of the cat ears

>>150870475
Nyan Nyan Shi-See

>>150870776
the deepest lore

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>>150860329
Funny you say that. This kind of "domestic ownership" really fucked with my head in Wanko to Kurasou. The pet girls there were more like mentally handicapped retard children lead around on leashes, whereas in Nekopara they're like lower class servants. There were people basically fucking in the street too, and it was laughed off because "oh they're just animals in heat. The master's gotta relieve his pets once in a while". Nekopara treats it with a little more class.

I can't stomach that VN at all, it's got such strange mood whiplash and theme clash. Overrated but Mikan's cute at least.

>>150871601
I hated that VN's protagonist because of his backstory and his personality and ability to smell whenever a girl's horny because of it.

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>>150871601
I found it interesting in Wanko to Kurasaou that it would, at times, go out of its way to show you that the animal girls weren't just humans with cute ears, but were still fairly animalistic in their own right as well.

>>150858367
But if Nekokino to Ame no Machi got an H-anime, they would raise the breast size of both lolis and that would be terrible.
As for OP's question, Vanilla all day every day. Chocola only if she's up to threesomes.

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>>150860329
You again?

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>>150862869
Sayori is all about smug

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>>150853684
In Dog Days there's a country of cats, one of dogs, and one of squirrels

they are not all dogs just because the anime is called Dog Days

that's why Nekopara should have doggirls, because just since it's called Nekopara doesn't mean there can't be wankos

>>150864794
Please don't post my wife, thank you.

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>>150862396
>>150862499
>>150862546

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BIG FAT CAT TATS

>Nekopara is now /a/ related

yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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>>150871601
I love you too, Mikan!

>>150870223
https://exhentai.org/g/329171/472a9e7a79/

>>150857996

Because she wanted it in her bummy.

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>>150851320
Azuki.

>>150862334

This is why we love our perverted medium.

>>150868766
>Cat (male)
There are no male catpanions, it's mentioned in the story somewhere.

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>>150875125
She's pretty cute all right.

>>150857777
>you're only reading for the h-scenes anyway.

Faggot. If you just want a quick fap read an h-manga. The parts where you go through obligatory drama may be shit, but the cute parts where you get closer to the girls make the h-scenes so much better.

>>150876078
>but the cute parts where you get closer to the girls make the h-scenes so much better.
So, what I said. Idiot.

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>>150862334
Truly a literary masterpiece.

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Vol. 3 when?

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>>150859046
>>150862499
>>150862546
>>150873232
>>150863816
>>150862396

My comrades.

Incest truly is best cest.

>>150877568
No info yet and Comiket 91 is just two weeks away

Maple
Vol. 3 when?

>>150877877
I'm pretty sure there's going to be info coming out this C91 if I didn't read Sayori's twitter wrong.

>>150868766
>>150869172
I think it's stated somewhere that catgirls can't have offspring or something.

>>150870223
Somehow I remember Asobi ni Iku yo

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>no one else likes Cinnamon
Fine, she's all mine.

>>150879442
Yup, can't remember well but I think it was stated on Vol 1 that they couldn't reproduce.
That or I'm thinking of Wanko.

What studio is doing the OVA?

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>>150851320

>>150879604
K. You can have her when I'm done with her.

Chocolate.

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>>150875815

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>>150851472
This Man is Your Friend.
He Fights for Freedom!

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>>150879604
Cinnamon is like 2nd or 3rd place for me. Basically I like all the big fat cat tats.

>>150879604
Her boobs are just too big for me so I don't find her overly attractive physically. And she's too much of a ditz so I don't really care for her personality either. Not saying she's terrible but she just doesn't do anything for me.

>>150851374
This

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>>150880001
>Her boobs are just too big for me

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>>150857216
>>150857592

>>150880137
Sorry. I prefer medium sized breasts. Anything much larger than Coconut's just aren't very attractive to me, and even hers only work because she's so tall.

>>150879691
Right

>>150864032

Going to need a webm with sound of that.

>>150851568
I'm 16 hours late but that says that the crowdfunding for the anime adaptation begins in two weeks over at kickstarter, not that the completed product is due in two weeks.

>>150879622
It was mentioned that humans can't interbreed with catgirls, not that catgirls are just infertile.
There would have to be males, either that or there are secret humans with magic catgirl egg fertilizing semen.

>>150858787

Yes, and?

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>>150857810
This is too much for me to handle, I'm out.

>>150879604
She's too impure. /a/ only likes good girls like Coconut.

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>>150878003
We are pilgrims in an unholy land.

>>150866949

Dumpster the Shiture and be happy with Cowtits.

>>150881499

Those legs though.

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>>150881499
>OVA just for her
>thrown into a fantasy world
>called Maplestory
Fund it?

>>150881612
Sayori draws amazing legs.

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Team Chocolate

Imouto when? Anal when?

>>150884680
Anal with imouto because it doesn't count.