You're not watching a story, you're watching a pastry shop where four cats happen to exist exactly as they are. The comedy doesn't build toward anything, it just lets you watch Chocola knead dough with her whole body, then watch Cinnamon do something equally stupid in a different key. If you're here for plot, you've already left. If you stay, you get what the show actually is: a 12-hour commission to be warm, and it delivers that without apologizing.
Kashou Minazuki comes from a long line of Japanese confectioners and has moved out to open his own patisserie, La Soleil. In this world, cats are human-like girls with ears and tails, kept as pets and allowed out alone only after passing special training and wearing bells. Two of his family's catgirls, Chocola and Vanilla, stowed away in his moving boxes and begged until he let them stay, and now they help run the shop. His sister Shigure and the family's other cats, Azuki, Maple, Cinnamon and Coconut, round out the household, though Azuki and Coconut rarely see eye to eye. Life stays calm until Chocola, out on an errand, finds a lone green-haired kitten in a park and brings her back. The family adopts her, names her Cacao, and carries on with an everyday life that is now livelier than before. The result is a light, ecchi-tinged slice-of-life comedy.
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