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

[chomiji]

The new series is interesting enough to keep reading, but it's just not the original, sadly. I think not!Leon is pretty boring and one-dimensional.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It's fun and I like the atmosphere/city focus, but I think it was a mistake to so clearly set up Woo Fei as a foil to D doing the same things as Lron, but...not being Leon. It makes it too hard to not compare them.

(BTW, i haven't forgotten your books, i just haven't had a chance to make it to the PO yet.)