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meganbmoore) wrote2008-11-18 11:01 pm
meganbmoore) wrote2008-11-18 11:01 pm
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Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo Vol 3
This volume seemed to be a lot more about Kabuki-cho than about D and his shop. Actually, this series as a whole has a bit of that going, the earlier volumes just not as much so. Not a complaint as I like stories like that, but I wonder if that has to do with the series being set in Tokyo, instead of an unspecified U.S. series like the first was.
There also seemed to be less of Woo Fei here than other volumes, but we did get an interesting look into his darker side in the second chapter.
But where did the Leon cameo and story about D’s father that we had in the first two volumes go? I anticipate those! They’re my favorite part!
And was Femto in the first series, but I’ve forgotten him, or from another of Matsuri Akino’s series? I wasn’t clear on that bit. And did I also forget that the animals changed shape? I always thought that they were always in their humanoid forms, but looked like animals to most people, not that they changed shape. But then, it’s been a while since I read the original series, and it’s one of several that went missing when I moved, so I don’t have it to go back and check.
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Wanted IIRC was basically that bit of The Princess Bride in which Dread Pirate Roberts sorta-kidnaps Buttercup, if he'd actually succeeded in sorta-kidnapping her, and then they'd both been slow to realize they were each other's Long-Lost Twue Wuv, amid various piratey hijinks. I'm saving the official translation for a rainy day to read when I need cute fluff fix I won't feel compelled to analyz.
If you were able to roll with the pedophilialalala of Merupuri, you should be fine with Captive Hearts, as I would group it with the Sublimated Kinky Fun for the Whole Family at which Hino excels. Basically, spoiled rich guy finds out (cue his FREAKING OUT) that he's prey to a hereditary curse that makes his family flip out into SLAVISHLY DEVOTED SERVANTS to another particular family, of whom there is only one living (young, sweet, gorgeous, female) member left. Who to her credit responds to his sudden spasms of prostrating himself adoringly at her feet by FREAKING OUT on behalf of his free will and vowing to break the curse, while he is freaking out less as it becomes increasingly blurry how much of his following her around like a lovesick overprotective puppy is due to Insidious Mind-Control Curse and how much is due to Hot Chick Making Big Empathetic I-Will-Protect-You Eyes At Him. I'm only one volume down, but I'm hopeful it won't go all "SLAVERY IS HOT!" as so far it's the most fluffy S&M With Bonus Class Divide Draaaama ever.
I like Kaname, but I think he and D would also get along with terrifying ease, which is not a plus for either of them. Though the series-swap of Count Kaname in a flowing robe and cranky Officer Zero busting in for a tea and pastries is hilarious beyond words. (I guess Leon is off patrolling Vampire High School? OH MAN.)
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I'm not sure I would have survived MeruPuri scans.
Meru Puri..I just kinda "LaLaLa"-d my way through it, really...
(There aren't little boys who grow in the dark and mutually declare love for girls twice their age, right?)
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Merupuri...I read it long and lovingly and squirmed like mad. I don't think Matsuri Hino characters ever have to actually have sex, they are so fulfilled(?) by the free-floating kink vibes of chaste BADWRONG.
(Not so far! But guy does get control-freaky a bit a la "MY LADY MUST NOT BE BESMIRCHED BY WORLDLY EVIL" at times; hopefully that will ebb with the foot-kissing curse.)
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