Mahou shoujo Neko Taruto

English title: Magical Meow Meow Taruto
Mangaka: Kaishaku
Pub. Date: 2001
# of Vols.: 1

TV Series: 2001 (12 Episodes)

Taruto is a little pet cat who thinks herself to really be a princess. This series features cute catgirls as the heroines, but is more inline with a title like Star of Cottonland (where the main character is a cat but the audience sees her as a catgirl, at least that is my impression). But the pet cats are drawn as human-like girls with cat features but treated as any normal everyday pet by their owners, so a bit different. The manga of Taruto is by the creators of titles like Steel Angel Kurumi and seems to be classified as a bishoujo or shounen manga. The anime on the other hand may or may not be bishoujo but shoujo in classification.

Note: Taruto is a local sweet in Ehime; a spongecake filled with a swirl of sweet bean paste.