Audience reviews
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LuxuriousHeart
This anime is very similar to the Junji Itou Collection that's on Netflix now. If you haven't read the manga, it'll be a way better experience. Though if you have, it'll be fairly lackluster. Mostly because the manga is so brilliant and it's complete. It's a masterpiece that develops the characters and has interesting art and arcs. This anime does not match up to the manga at all. Unfortunately, that's due to the limited budget and episodes. It's only 4 episodes, and each are only 20 minutes. This anime only adapts a few chapters from the manga. That's really such a shame because the manga is rich with stories and characters. I personally want another adaptation with a full budget and to adapt the entire manga. Madhouse can tackle this project again, or perhaps Studio Wit? Madhouse did a g…
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Pet Shop of Horrors is an episodic OVA series, with each story being reminiscent and likely inspired by Aesop's Fables. I came into the show thinking it would be generic vintage trash, but I was pleasantly surprised at how good each episode was. Episode one is decent but a bit unbelievable. Two and three are the best, and four is the worst but still solid.
The only real problem with the show, in my opinion, is its four-episode runtime leaves plot points unanswered, which are supposedly only answered in the manga. Despite this, I still enjoyed the anime, and haven't personally read the manga. However, there are a few other problems, such as the dated animation and Detective Leon's English dub voice actor being mediocre. Still, I didn't see them as a massive problem.
Overall, I recommend P…
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A shop dealing in exotic animals finds itself as the common denominator in a series of mysterious deaths. A homicide detective is determined to make the correlation between these deaths and the enigmatic owner of the shop.
The illustration quality is high and there are a few moments of superb technical animation; however, the animation is generally stiff for the majority of the short runtime. Each episode is theme-specific and the pacing is ruinous to the representation of these themes - the overall storyline compositions are poor. The atmosphere of the series is noir and decadent; the 3-D videogame-like opening is dated and telling of this anime's age. The soundtrack is also telling - it is classic jazz that would not be out of place in vintage low-budget porn.
The idea behind the serie…
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This is one of my most favorite anime I have ever seen and I wish there was more of it. I know that there's plenty of more manga chapters, however it would be great to see them animated with music, movement and colors.
I really enjoy the way the way it looks, the story and everything in it.
There is an incredible combination between darkness, despair and beauty.
It makes me think this anime holds a deep truth for life itself. How illusory things are. I like the idea of the pets looking like humans, but they are actually some kind of strange demons. It's not exactly easy to describe everything that I love about this anime. It only saddens me to see that most people do not find it as enjoyable as I do. Most people don't understand this. The shopkeeper is so mysterious. He reminds me of Or…
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The anthology series has always been a popular stable. Particularly those involving the strange, like horror and sci-fi. Anime doesn't always offer this style, but I wish it did more. Particularly this short-lived show from Studio Madhouse. "Petshop of Horrors" only has four episodes, but it does well in it's presentation and gives us a good story with a little food for thought.
The series is wrapped around the extravagant and enigmatic Count D. This character is something that only anime can do. He dresses like a kabuki performer and is meant to make the viewer feel curious and unsettled as your defacto host. He is the thing I will remember most from this show.
The stories are short, sweet, tales with a lesson or subtle twist at the end and are all centered around the "pet" purchased…
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Pet Shop of Horros is a very unique and interesting anime that is quite different to most. With only 4 episodes you should not come in expecting a big story line or a lot of character development. Although the art may not be the most appealing and the anime may seem to look like it had a smaller budget than a lot of popular animes it is still an anime I believe most viewers should watch.
{STORY - 6}
Pet Shop of Horrors has an interesting story with a different set of characters each episode visiting our main character, Count Drac. I think each of the different stories was unique and interesting in their own way and also that they each have a moral behind them which you would expect from an anime such as this one.
{ART & SOUND- 4 & 7}
The art is not amazing and the anime is in general not…
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A short anime about a creepy pet shop in Chinatown. You can certainly say that I was quite interested when I heard about Pershop of Horrors. And it was just 4 episodes so I decided to give it a try. It was indeed quite interesting, but very inconsistent. The 4 episodes were 4 different story's and they are very different both in themes and quality. So let's look at this promising mess.
~story~ 5/10
Count D (yes, that's really our main characters name) owns a pet shop in China Town, and as if that isn't weird enough he also looks like a gothic emo with… interesting eyes (if you have already watched this anime, you know what I mean). Oh and he sells mythical creatures and the customers have to sign a creepy contract to buy these creatures. And if they break the contract, disaster and even d…
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Now, the scores here may seem very high, and perhaps that is because I am a little bias; I have been in love with this anime since the moment that I discovered it, and have rewatched it too many times to 'Count'. Lame joke, not sorry.
Anyway, onto the review. Personally I have never found an anime that I have loved more than this despite its length in comparison to the manga. Regardless of this, I truly adore it all the same. While the manga displays the Count's humor quite often, the manga takes a look at the darker side of things, taking 4 stories from the first part of the manga series. The art of this series is very nostalgic in its style, but still an absolute masterpiece in my opinion, as are the sound tracks and voice actors, especially the people involved in developing the series…
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For any fans of Tales from the Crypt, this is most definitely the anime for you. Each episode follows a different character who has visited the pet shop. This 4 episode OVA is filled with creepy and spooky tales, and at the end of the episode, you may just learn a lesson or moral from each story.
Story
Pet Shop of Horrors is about a strange gothic young man named Count D who manages a pet shop. However, this is no average pet shop. At this pet shop you can find a wide variety of 'rare' and 'exotic' animals. All you need to do is sign a contract with this man, and it's yours. However, you may find these rules hard to abide with, and end up with a disaster in which even death may occur.
I'm a big fan of episodic series, so this anime was definitely a hit for me. Each story was creepy and…
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Welcome, my friends, to the end of horror anime month. Petshop of Horrors is a four episode horror anthology OVA from Madhouse entertainment based on a ten volume Manga by Akino Matsuri. The manga has recently continued with a second series that's currently eight volumes in and still going, but that came after the OVA so I doubt very much that any of the elements or plot lines introduced within it are going to come up. Let's take a look at the OVA and see what mysteries this little shop contains.
Since the series is an anthology without an underlying narrative, lets look at the setup. There's a pet shop in a Chintown within the United States run by a man known as Count D. He sells regular pets as well as exotic ones to certain, deserving, customers. All of these pets come with a three co…
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Someone had told me to watch this Anime as I was a fan of Horror. It was quite cheap in a store so I picked it up. I was hoping for a very interesting story with elements of horror, although I was curious as to how they planned to pack this into 4 episodes if I remember correctly. The story seemed good, different & interesting. The animation and art was old, but don't think I hated it because it was old. No, other older Anime have still managed to capture me with their art, however this one was quite basic, mediocre and overall boring. The sound effects and music didn't tend to vary, they just played the same boring sounds over and over again. Characters were okay, nothing terrible or great about them. They didn't have much back-story or personality or unique looks however. I barely got th…
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It's difficult to review a anime in which there is barely anything to draw from, but I will try.
Story - Guy named the Count owns a pet shop full of strange animals with weird conditions you have to follow or you die, pretty much. I like how this is quite unique as I have not seen any anime about a pet shop of horrors (if you please) so it's quite interesting, I heard that there is a manga and that is what it's drawn from but I wish this could have at least gotten a 12 to 13 episode anime to help explain the characters and the plot more as it's quite limited. But the stories the anime does show are quite intriguing and interesting, I like seeing how the clients come to disobey the conditions of owning the 'pet', one key thing I see is obsession from the clients to have something that is i…
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Ever since The Twilight Zone, there have been countless anthology shows consisting of supernatural parables made to be lessons and food-for-thought for the viewer. This trend is even present in anime. Case in point Petshop of Horrors, a 4 episode OVA produced by Madhouse in 1999. This collection of horror stories is quite Twilight Zone-esque in nature, with each episode being a stand alone parable. While the shows does have some things working against it, it is still a treat for fans of this type of show.
The 4 stories are connected are by a petshop that secretly deals in strange creatures that come with a set of rules that the owner must follow... or the shop will not be held accountable for what happens to them. Yeah, this sounds a lot like Gremlins now (the shop is even in Chinatown),…
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What a fun little show. 4 episodes of about 22 minutes each. It didn't really feel like an anime but it was still good. It could best be described as a mix of Needful Things and Tales From the Crypt. Not really eerie or creepy but more of a show of human nature and people getting their just desserts when they follow their desires with little regard for the rules.
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The anime was short stories about the clients who purchased the pets, showed the consequences of breaking the contract, and a detective trying to pin all his cases on the petshop owner. It's a good anime if you are bored with nothing else to do and want a slightly good scare.
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Today I'll be reviewing Pet Shop of Horrors . I've wanted to see this 4 episode series, animated by Madhouse, for a long time now. But I only recently got to watch it, once the DVD was re-released (and you can bet I watched it as soon as I got the DVD home from the store). I heard a lot of good things about it, and luckily it lived up to them all. Pet Shop of Horrors is an OVA that was originally released in Japan in 1999, and first released in the US by Urban Vision in 2000. It is based on a manga by Matsuri Akino, and the OVA was directed by Toshio Hirata.
Pet Shop of Horrors is largley an episodic horror series, although there is one little overarching story. Each episode involves someone or a group of people aproaching Count D, the owner of a creepy petshop in China town, for a pet. B…
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Short anime series- it is four episodes you have really no idea as to the back story to Count D and his pet shop. Basically people buy rare items out of this shop in China town and even though they are given a strict set of rules to follow, the buyers alway break them. It is yet another insightful look into how humans are insatiable in nature and let our emotions overrule our common sense. Instead of Pet Shop of Horrors it should be Pet Shop for Idiots. Count D tells the buyers not to do "a" and soon they do "a" and something happens. The fun part of the anime is to watch how they screw things up. I wish there were more episodes because it is half way decent.
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This anime should be watched expecting nothing at all, it may not be developed as other series and it seems like if the budget was really limited but keeping all those issues aside, it’s a really interesting anime to watch.
It doesn’t compare to the actual manga, but the chapters selected for the anime are the more interesting. Though there are two main characters, count D (do not mistake him for Dracula) and detective Leon Orcot (those two have a really funny love/hate relationship), the real characters are those involved with the story of each episode.
Each episode has a different story line, they may be short but are profound and always giving a message at the end. It’s a dark and full of mystery anime, but the stories provide a positive impact.
The technical featur…
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When compared side-by-side with the manga of the same name, the Pet Shop of Horrors anime suddenly looks shoddy and duct-taped together. However, as a stand-alone anime it is very unique.
Each episode can be watched without having any background knowledge of the series, as they are all their own story, similar to anime such as pokemon were it is easy to jump in at any point in the series. However, this is also a drawback, as were there should be a pause to explain something further or in more detail, the show chugs along over it, crossing its fingers and hoping that the audience will understand.
As dark anime go, Pet Shop of Horror doesn't necessarily have a unique concept, but the overall story is unique. It's easy to become lost in the episodes, which provide a unique "this-could-reall…
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Pet shop of horrors. Really didn\'t know what to expect from this anime. I knew it would be creepy because it\'s about Count D.. obviously a sort of dracula type person who keeps pets in a pet shop. Obviously.. there\'s something dodgy about this shop because these "pets" have these rules that the owners that buy them have to abide by, or they suffer the consequences. Which to Count D\'s knowledge, is why he gets them to sign a contract, so if they don\'t follow the rules, it wouldn\'t trace back to Count D, because he informed them of what they should or shouldn\'t do.
One police officer, who is keen to figure out why all of these strange things are happening in chinatown when people come out of the pet shop with all of these "pets".
Not one of my best animes, not because it was 4 episo…
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