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.
 

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I'm sure cerusee will be along eventually!

There's a gentler tone to the series than the first-IIRC, in early volumes, D was largely giving out pets to punish people, not the pets are mostly going to people who need help and comfort-so I think D is still changed, but I agree about it starting back at square one. Though I wonder if it will be a case of D humanizing not!Leon, given the quarantine chapter?

And speaking of animals, I want more of the ones we already know!