Original description: maybe i'll make a video essay one day on the wild tangent of a story that is Neko Neko Bakery DS
most of the info i know is here, but here's some other fun facts:
- there's 3 main cats named bucchi tencho, moco, and kororo (no relation to the retranslation), but there's also a ghost cat with a beard that shows up in none of the official media and only in certain issues of chara parfait - the only other merch this series got was an official plushie and a gacha keychan series, outside of that its just magazine extras - they made a full-on mascot suit of this guy!!!! - for a little bit of time, there was an official collaboration with a bakery where you could eat the cat bread/various other sweets - for some reason Animal Kororo has a different game over theme???? was it too scary for the neko game or something???? also listen to the ost here
if anything it's one of those weird obscure cases of "it's not really lost lost since the contents are still legally available, but obscure enough where no one really cares to save it and all of the development threads are either defunct or dead or spun off into something else entirely" it's technically a game based off the manga, but the game itself was on the 3ds eshop before it shut down and then the developer's website got taken down, the magazine they're from is still going even if owned by a different parent company but they've basically pivoted into being the chiikawa publisher
if anything it's one of those weird obscure cases of "it's not really lost lost since the contents a
