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

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

The OVA is only four episodes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pet_Shop_of_Horrors#Episodes) -- they're reasonably faithful adaptations of some of the individual arcs from the manga, but you really don't get the whole sweep of the interactions with Leon (and his little brother) and D, and how they're all changed by each other.

As for child-suitability -- well, it is a horror series, and there are some fairly scary, gory moments in there, particularly in the first two episodes. I suspect it might be too confusing and too scary for a small child. Older kids who aren't phased by violence or scary creatures would probably be OK with it.