Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo Vol 3

[meganbmoore]

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.
 

Comments

[octopedingenue]

The only Tezuka I've actually enjoyed so far were Dororo and bits of Princess Knight. MW, Ode to Kirihito, and (especially) Apollo's Song all had me going, "Yep, the art is awesome, and I am now swearing off sex forever."

[cerusee.livejournal.com]

Well, those are all the freaky ones.

Older works like Lost City and Astro Boy are just fun (boy's adventure stories,and not much else, although still historically important), and stuff like Phoenix and Black Jack is darker and weirder and more ambitious, but less mindfuckish than MW and Apollo's Song and Ode to Kirihito, and Adolf. Dear god, what an upsetting story that was.

And then there's Buddha, which I think I am even more in love with as time passes, even though I only read it once. It's just still percolating through my skull.