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]

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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?)

[octopedingenue]

I know you sexualize me like a young thing would and I think I like it~

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.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

You know, obsessive devotion can have it's appeal *eyes Basara's pirate queen and her boytoy for a moment, not to mention every Clamp character ever* but there are limits.