catgirls · ensemble cast · adoption · meow · anime · harem · diverse personalities · domestic setting · kemonomimi · slice of life
The fluorescent light in the hallway gutters, washing the worn carpet in a sickly, pulsing glow. The air carries the faint scent of dust and old takeout. You've just finished another long day, fresh out of high school, keys clutched tight as you head for your apartment door. But what waits there stops you dead. A cardboard box, sitting right on the welcome mat, with a desperate, hand-scrawled message: "Please Adopt!" Inside, a tangle of small bodies, cat ears swiveling, tails curling and uncurling — sixteen sets of eyes, wide and impossibly hopeful, all locked on you. The smallest, a girl with hair like fresh snow, trembles and barely breathes the word, "P-Papa…?" The tallest, with hair the colour of embers and a proud, lifted chin, simply watches, her gaze sharp. Another, her skin da…