Neko Kawaigari! Crane Inuneko Byouin Shinsatsuchuu, alternatively known as Dote Up A Cat, is a Japaneseadultvisual novelvideo game developed by 13cm, released in Japan on February 24, 2006, for Windows as a DVD. A web novel titled What a Wonderful World was released as a sequel to the original novel. The gameplay in Neko Kawaigari follows a linear plot line, which offers pre-determined scenarios and courses of interaction, and focuses on the appeal of the five female main characters.
Plot
The stage is a small clinic in the suburbs, in a world in which humans with cat-and dog ears are commonplace. Jack, the protagonist and a dog-man, works as the assistant for Dr. Crane, the head doctor of a secluded animal clinic where various cat-girls are being treated. Jack has no memory of his life before coming to the clinic, and he works for Dr. Crane to repay her kindness after she took him in. However, as the only male in the clinic, a certain serious role was imposed: Jack is to have sexual intercourse with the patients to cure their regular symptoms caused by an illness called "DOTES".
True Story
Later in the game, the true background of the story is revealed: One day, dogs and cats, which were commonly held as pets, succumbed to mysterious deaths all over the world. With the new type of infectious disease, human beings struggled to save dog and cats, leading to their complete extinction on earth. Over time, the virus mutated and infected the humans. It caused them to become animalized, loss of ability to reason, and ultimately death. This disease was called "racial uniqueness and disappearance syndrome", DOTES. It was virus researcher Norma Crane who was studying DOTES and discovered a method to make a vaccine, by transplanting and culturing a pathogen into the brain of a subject, but becoming the subject would result in death. Jack studied viruses as an assistant of Norma, but when he found out that he inherited a suitability as a DOTES vaccine subject, he applied for it. At that time he lost his memory and was called by the name of the dog "Jack" who succumbed to DOTES, by his lover, Alice Crane.
