Goro Goro Goro (Review on Nekopara Vol. 2)

Catgirls don't know the concept of polygamy or monogamy, neither with jealousy. Having multiple catgirls as your catpanion also doesn't break the law. At least that's what applies in Nekopara. Nekopara comes back with its second volume as sequel to the first volume. In this volume, Nekopara still come with the same element as its first volume: catgirl, maid costume, and of course the core of the game, harem.

Maid and catgirl? Sign me in.

This volume still has the same premise as its predecessor. Main character who is a baker have catgirl maid as his bakery staff and making a harem life with them as the member. Simple as that, don't care about how underage (according to human age) work or even social inequity here. Even though it has the same premise as first one, everyone still anticipate its coming (including me). While we had Chocola (CV. Himari) and Vanilla (CV. Nakamura Amu) as the plot major character in Vol. 1, the plot now focuses more on Coconut (CV. Tezuka Ryouko) and Azuki (CV. Naruse Mia). This is quite exciting for me because I like Coconut appearance-wise. By the way, we'll talking about R-18 version so expect some opinion on sex scene.

The plot is quite well-written in my opinion. Even though the drama is still strong on the sequel, I like the plot on this volume better than first volume. The depth of both Coconut and Azuki character is quite related to even our human life that make the drama an acceptable scene. But, it's too short that make me think it's like Pokemon series where the side character is the focus there but will be forgotten in the next episodes.

There's always a place for little sister.

While I think about how well they write the all-age route, I still think they need to rethink the pace on sex scene. Even in second volume, they still make the sex scene slow-paced. Coconut's sex scene is too slow, too much dialogue that even several dialogues literally made me yawn. I think otherwise for Azuki's, the pace on her scene is acceptable.

In accordance to the plot, character development is quite nice. Both Coconut and Azuki show a development on their character and it makes them more lovely. The development is quite fast as the story for them itself is too short, but it's enough for a short and moe-purpose kinetic novel like this. With Coconut and Azuki as plot character here, Chocola and Vanilla still make some purpose and by what I mean by purpose, it's masturbate-purpose. It's quite annoying story-wise to have unneeded scene when the main character isn't there and doesn't affect them. But, sex-scene is always acceptable in this kind of kinetic novel.

Ear cleaning routinely for undefiled cat ears

Sayori really did a good job on CG here. The artworks is simply beautiful, no complain from me. Both CG really swing your mood to the scene itself and have the meaning reach to me. Though, they still literally use the same background from Vol. 1. Also, praise the guy who made E-mote real. The E-mote animation on both common route and sex-scene is practically one of Nekopara specialty that make the them more lively in one way or another. Thank you technology!

Headpat is good for your catgirl's health!

Since there's practically no additional BGM other than new theme song for Vol. 2, it's quite disappointing. Not that it's bad as the BGM are already catchy and fit to their theme and scene, but new BGM for new work is nice. The theme song for Vol. 2 is catchy, as expected to light-theme kinetic novel as Nekopara.

As kinetic novel, Nekopara is quite niche product with a serious work on both its visually stunning art and funny moment on some occassion. But, plot-wise you could find another better kinetic novel than Nekopara. Honestly though, if you find yourself can't resist the combination of catgirls, maid, and harem with R-18 label, Nekopara is for you. Oh, I really expect some nice or even better work for Vol. 3.

BINGO!