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Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga)
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Pet Shop of Horrors is a Horror/Fantasy josei manga by Matsuri Akino, which first ran in Missy Comics DX from 1995 to 1998. Despite the title, the manga only rarely focuses on horror, instead slowly building up the relationships between its characters in a magical setting. The four-episode anime adaptation produced by Madhouse chose to focus largely on the horror, and re-imagined four chapters from the manga series.Pet Shop of Horrors is the story of a peculiar shop in the Los Angeles Chinatown, and the clients that visit it. The store's proprietor is an effeminate and sinister man only known as "Count D". He sells both normal animals and mythical creatures to people who visit his Dysfunction Junction. These animals and creatures can appear human to clients who are searching for something in life — a pet to help them get over the loss of a child, for example, or to cope with unrequited love. Count D uses his pets to teach their human caretakers a lesson, making them sign a contract stating they'll take good care of their new friends. Almost inevitably, they don't. The outcome is rarely pleasant, although some stories (especially those involving pets given to children) do have very heartwarming endings.Enter Leon Orcot, a young and inexperienced LAPD detective, who has noticed the correlation between some very messy deaths and the victims' visit to the titular pet shop. Leon takes to spending more and more time at the shop as the series progresses, developing a peculiar yet close relationship with the guy he's supposed to be investigating for murder.When Leon's traumatized and mute little brother Chris arrives to stay with his sibling, D becomes the boy's babysitter. Along with the animals of the pet shop, Leon and D become the boy's new family, and they gradually open up to each other. The cast additionally consists of Jill (Leon's detective partner), Tetsu (a teenaged Tao Tieh goat-demon with a crush on D), Pon-chan (a little tanuki girl), Hon Long (a three-headed dragon girl) and Q-chan (D's bat familiar). However, D's affection for Leon and Chris doesn't stop the pet shop's body count from increasing — and when D's Evilutionary Biologist father turns up after many years, Leon finds himself drawn into a desperate attempt to save all of humanity.Tokyopop's translation of the first few volumes added swears, mistranslated many names and sound effects, included many typographical errors, and generally altered the source material. After four volumes, a new translator was hired, who immediately asked the manga's fan translation community on Yahoo Groups for help. As a result, the remaining six volumes of the series have a more accurate translation, although they, too, are riddled with flaws and egregious mistranslations. Much of the manga's text is also full of untranslatable jokes: D's speech in Japanese often states one thing in hiragana (ex. "innocent bystanders"), but something quite different in kanji (ex. "mere mortals"). Finding an annotated fan translation is still highly recommended to fully enjoy the series.The manga has a sequel, Shin Pet Shop of Horrors (New PSOH, or PSOH:Tokyo, in English), with the action moved over to Shinjuku's Red Light District in Tokyo. There are also two prequels: Pet Shop of Horrors: Passage Hen, set in 19th century France with D's grandfather as the lead, and Pet Shop of Horrors: Hyouhaku no Hakobune-hen, centering on D's father.Has no relation with Little Shop of Horrors, so no, you won't find giant man-eating plant monsters here. | |
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Moon Rabbit | |
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Moon Rabbit is used as a metaphor for why technology can be a burden, saying that humans "killed" the Moon Rabbit, the Moon Princess, and all the other mythological creatures of the moon by landing on the moon and showing none of them are real. Chris then cheerily replies "That's not true! They were all hiding!" which is appropriate considering Count D's Petshop is full of "mythical" creatures masquerading as pets. It also helps D gain more faith in humanity in general which is a good thing because both D and Count D himself are actually monitoring mankind to see if/when they will be ready to join the rest of the animal world in harmony. Very appropriate considering one version of the Moon Rabbit has the rabbit pounding medicine to heal Humanity's wickedness and "wounds". | |
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IAmAHumanitarian | |
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I Am a Humanitarian: Chef Wong, from Dessert. Of course, it's because he's actually a totetsu in a human's body, but that doesn't make it any less creepy. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Volume 10, D suffers from it after getting shot by Vesca Howell and falling into a river; grandpa saves him by summoning visions of extinct species to motivate him once more to fight against humankind. | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything?: The idea and the title almost sounds almost exactly like Little Shop of Horrors. Both works take a rather cynical look at human nature, and revel in their characters being karmically punished by peculiar creatures. | |
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Character Overlap | |
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Character Overlap: D turns up to have tea with the lead character and his posse of animals in Genju No Seiza, Petshop's sister series. And in Shin PSOH (PSOH Tokyo), we have this guy from some other series that takes care of the petshop for a while. Femto-kun, all over both Petshop mangas. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: Count D's contracts say how to take care of the pets: what should be fed to the pet, that no one except the owner(s) can see them and in what way the pet should be kept. | |
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Phenotype Stereotype | |
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Phenotype Stereotype: Both Leon and Chris are blond-haired, blue eyed, all-American boys. Doesn't stop with the Orcot brothers, though: their aunt, uncle, two cousins, and their mom. Arguably, Jill is there too, and Agent Howell, and... well... Nearly anyone in the first manga, period. | |
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Anime Chinese Girl | |
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Anime Chinese Girl: The Kirin chooses this form. It's appropriate, considering the Kirin is a Chinese mythological creature. While many other "pets" look like adults, the Kirin looks like a young girl with bound feet, wearing a lavishly ornate outfit, flowered headdress, and imposing makeup. | |
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In the Hood | |
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In the Hood: Count D to differentiate him from both his son and grandson D who are told apart from their hair lengths. The length of Count D's hair or whether he even has hair is unknown. | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners | |
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Leon and D, or alternatively... Also applies to D's dad and FBI agent Vesca/Weskar Howell, rubbing off on readers on an almost Generation Xerox level. | |
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Fairytale Motifs | |
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Fairytale Motifs: Eva's storyline parallels to the Hans Christian Andersen's Tear Jerker Fairy Tale, "The Little Mermaid". | |
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Fantastic Nature Reserve: The Count's shop. | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child! | |
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Maternal Death? Blame the Child!: Poor Chris gets this from not only his cousin Sam, who cruelly calls him a murderer for his mother's Death by Childbirth, but Leon had those feelings as well judging by how he flinched and pulled away when Chris tried to touch his arm. | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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It's a family thing, really... | |
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Mysterious Parent | |
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Mysterious Parent: D's dad and grandfather AKA the real Count D. | |
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Oblivious to Love | |
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Also from the first manga: the fisherman and the mermaid, Pon-chan and Hon Long for Chris, T-chan and Mary (sidestory not in the Tokyopop version) as well as T-chan and D, the vampire Marquis Alexander and Isabelle, etc.; and it gets worse in the new manga. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Leon's mother died giving birth to Chris and their father(s) is/are never mentioned. D has daddy issues of his own. | |
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Only You Can Repopulate My Race | |
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Only You Can Repopulate My Race: Offered to D's dad and Vesca Howell; this trope was abused thoroughly this one time, much like Mistaken for Pregnant above. | |
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Mayincatec: A Peruvian terrorist group called the Hand of Quetzalcoatl. | |
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Damsel out of Distress: Dreizhen's human, a blind girl named Karen, grapples with her uncle when he prepares to shoot her and her dog, only to tell "Dora-chan" to run. Karen says that her life isn't worth it compared to his. Dreizhen obviously refuses. | |
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Artists Are Not Architects: While Akino's backgrounds are generally beautiful, there are times when perspective and distance are just off. | |
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Somebody Else's Problem: If you violate your contract, then have fun dealing with your pet. | |
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Age-Appropriate Angst: Chris' guilt over "killing" his mother (she died in childbirth) is a major part of his characterization, and he becomes a bit of a woobie as a result. Leon, however, who was actually raised by the late Ms. Orcot until he was 18 or 19, never really goes in to his reaction to her death. | |
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"Freaky Friday" Flip | |
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"Freaky Friday" Flip: D lets a mermaid switch bodies with him for a while, so that she can go to the shore to contact her human boyfriend again. Hilarity Ensues when Leon, who doesn't know what's going on, finds a seemingly amnesiac D and a hot naked mermaid. | |
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Costume Porn | |
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Costume Porn: Pretty much every single anthropomorphized animal has a jaw-droppingly gorgeous outfit, sometimes based on real-world folk costumes, or designs by Erte, or pure fancy. Rich folds of embroidered cloth, ropes of pearls, elaborate hair or headdresses... it's a cosplayer's dream come true or nightmare depending on how you look at it. | |
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Secret Test of Character | |
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Secret Test of Character: Kelly Vincent, in a rare subversion of the prevalent Downer Endings in the series, passes with flying colors when he asks the Kirin to ensure the happiness of his best friend's wife over ambition. His reward? He wins the girl AND gets to be President of the United States. Aspiring jockey Betty Sandoval is tempted by D to sell her precious but deaf horse, 1,000 Deaths, in order to get money to enter in a race. She turns down the offer but when her father has health problems, Betty goes to D to try and arrange a trade yet none of the horses have the same place in her heart that 1,000 Deaths does so D rewards her loyalty to her horse by funding their entry in the upcoming race. It turns out that 1,000 Deaths is the direct descendant of one of the first great racing horses which means she's always been destined for greatness despite her deafness. And Betty's unwavering devotion in her horse helps her dreams come true. The only sad part of the story? D never did get the horse with the pretty eyes... The tiger scroll chapter. Ends badly for all. Including D and the tiger cub. Pandora and the Eye of Persia. Really, you could argue that D is putting most of his customers through such tests. Selling their "pets" is a chance for them to come to terms with their grief, or their guilt, to have a new beginning of some kind or another. It just so happens that most of his customers fail. Leon gets one through his investigations. While he suspects D is a criminal using the pet shop as a front, D understands that Leon is just doing his job as a cop, he's fundamentally a good person, and his suspicions aren't completely wrong. In one case, for example, D uses a butterfly to help Leon come to terms with a friend's death and appreciate the life he has, and in another Leon makes sure that Chris has a happy Christmas. Leon despite himself rises to each occasion, which is why D saves his life after D's father mortally wounds Leon. Chris seems to be having an ongoing one over the series after Leon takes in his kid brother and D invites Chris to stay at the pet shop. He can see the magic shop creatures and befriends them; Chris's kindness and innocence convinces D that there is hope for humanity. Even though later on Chris loses the ability to see the creatures in their true form after he decides to return to a normal life, he becomes a successful FBI agent that reconnects with D's heir/father. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: The first series ends with Leon saving humanity from a deadly plague and surviving his serious injuries, but has left his job and is now searching the world for D after he vanished. Chris grows up to become a successful FBI agent, who meets up with D's heir, a younger "clone" or possibly D's de-aged father, as part of an investigation involving another of the Shop's pets. Happens again for Shin with D taking off right as Leon finally catches up with him forcing the former detective to continue the chase. | |
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Someone to Remember Him By | |
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Someone to Remember Him By: Happens several times. If a woman gets pregnant in this series, the father is probably dead or about to die. In the episode where Count D and Chris get kidnapped by the grieving girlfriend of a man Leon shot on duty, the end of the episode reveals that she is pregnant with her lost boyfriend's child. In SPSOH, a woman living in denial of her husband's death gets a chance to see him one more time during the Bon festival of the dead. At the end of the three days, right before he returns to the land of the dead, he informs her that she "won't be alone from now on." Later, she is revealed to be three weeks pregnant... by her four-months-dead husband. Also in SPSOH, a dowdy would-be novelist gets transported to success and fame by one of D's pets granting her good fortune. She even meets a wonderful man who recently underwent the same rags-to-riches journey, with a suspiciously similar pet. The good fortune is brought to a crashing end when both her pet and her new lover die on the same day... but both she and the surviving pet are pregnant. | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters | |
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Humans Are the Real Monsters: As far as Count D and his family are concerned. | |
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Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4ac8b81f | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4b32995a | type |
Friend-or-Idol Decision | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4b32995a | comment |
Friend-or-Idol Decision: The young leader of a terrorist group has D kidnapped so he can lead them to the lost city of El Dorado, when they get there, D tells him that in order to gain entrance to the city he must sacrifice his pet jaguar. He ends up choosing not to go through with it. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4b32995a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4b32995a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4b32995a | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Kelly Vincent, in a rare subversion of the prevalent Downer Endings in the series, passes with flying colors when he asks the Kirin to ensure the happiness of his best friend's wife over ambition. His reward? He wins the girl AND gets to be President of the United States. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4f4372e9 | type |
Early-Installment Weirdness | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4f4372e9 | comment |
Early-Installment Weirdness: The first few chapters are more standalone compared to the rest of the series, though they do lay the foundation of suspicious deaths that leads Leon to meet D for the first time. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4f4372e9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4f4372e9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_4f4372e9 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5028baf2 | type |
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"? | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5028baf2 | comment |
What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: D confesses this to Monica when it's revealed that she loves him and wants his love in return. Although it's never explicitly stated whether he genuinely doesn't understand it, or whether he doesn't want to admit he understands it. Evidence points to the latter. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5028baf2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5028baf2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5028baf2 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: The reason why D and his family think poorly of humanity in general and are the last of their kind. Long ago their race were praised and worshiped for being able to communicate with animals and acted as a bridge between them and mankind. One day a prince attempted to marry one of them but was rejected, angry he spread rumors that painted them as monsters and that they were no better than animals, turning public opinion against them and leading his people into wiping them out. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50f99b8c | type |
Older Sidekick | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50f99b8c | comment |
Older Sidekick: Chin to Wu-Fei, in SPSOH; arguably also a potential Battle Butler. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50f99b8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50f99b8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_50f99b8c | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_52c77876 | type |
Mark of the Supernatural | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_52c77876 | comment |
Mark of the Supernatural: Count D has one gold and one violet eye. This may be an indicator that he's a supernatural being. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_52c77876 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_52c77876 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_52c77876 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5541da8c | type |
Lotus-Eater Machine | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5541da8c | comment |
Lotus-Eater Machine: The pets are the living embodiments of this, though they quickly become a means of creating a Self-Inflicted Hell. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5541da8c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5541da8c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5541da8c | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_57efd4c4 | type |
Growing Up Sucks | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_57efd4c4 | comment |
Growing Up Sucks: Even if Chris hadn't regained his voice when he did, he would still have lost the ability to see the pet shop's true form as he grew up. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_57efd4c4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_57efd4c4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_57efd4c4 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_598ad6e2 | type |
Even the Guys Want Him | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_598ad6e2 | comment |
Even the Guys Want Him: Direct result of the above; happened to his father too back when he was a university student, in a hilariously obvious way; and then grandpa and that wedding proposal... | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_598ad6e2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_598ad6e2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_598ad6e2 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | type |
It's All My Fault | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | comment |
It's All My Fault: Chris's situation. He blames himself for his birth mother's death and feels that his adopted sisters do as well, which is why Leon takes him in, despite not having a child-friendly apartment until D cleans it. Chris also can't talk, although thanks to D he can communicate telepathically with Leon and with the animals in the shop. There Are No Therapists, though there is magic. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5ad80bf8 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5d68a369 | type |
Horror Hates a Rulebreaker | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5d68a369 | comment |
Horror Hates a Rulebreaker: Every episode involves Count D and his petshop of very rare and very exotic pets, many of which often can appear human to clients who are searching for something in life - a pet to help them get over the loss of a child, or to cope with unrequited love. Count D's contracts always include specific instructions in regards to taking care of these pets, including things that they are not to do. And when these rules are inevitably broken, Bad Things tend to happen to the clients as a result. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5d68a369 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5d68a369 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5d68a369 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5f146203 | type |
Dissonant Serenity | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5f146203 | comment |
Dissonant Serenity: D, though it might be a mask — case in point, Dynasty. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5f146203 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5f146203 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_5f146203 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6108858f | type |
Cheeky Mouth | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6108858f | comment |
Cheeky Mouth: Averts this like the plague, except for some cartoony expressions. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6108858f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6108858f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6108858f | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_61375e57 | type |
BigDamnKiss | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_61375e57 | comment |
Big Damn Kiss: D and Tetsu. Leon is disgusted by it. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_61375e57 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_61375e57 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_61375e57 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_62434fe2 | type |
Sanity Slippage | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_62434fe2 | comment |
Sanity Slippage: It's safe to assume that Jason was slowly losing it when he was spending time with his mermaid, since it resembled Evangeline. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_62434fe2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_62434fe2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_62434fe2 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_63389b0b | type |
Kids Are Cruel | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_63389b0b | comment |
Kids Are Cruel: Most children in the series cruel, but there are a few exceptions. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_63389b0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_63389b0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_63389b0b | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_643618e5 | type |
Replacement Goldfish | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_643618e5 | comment |
Replacement Goldfish: "Daughter", the first animated story, involves a rich family taking a very rare species of rabbit home that looks just like their lost daughter. Things go well, but then they break one of the rules... Jason buys the "fish" that looks like Evangeline, as a means of atoning for his guilt for her suicide. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_643618e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_643618e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_643618e5 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_648fe274 | type |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_648fe274 | comment |
But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Subverted; when a woman kidnaps D and Chris, Leon lies to his superior that he doesn't remember shooting her husband in self-defense, but he has a flashback to her grief. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_648fe274 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_648fe274 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_648fe274 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | type |
Missing Mom | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | comment |
Doesn't stop with the Orcot brothers, though: their aunt, uncle, two cousins, and their mom. Arguably, Jill is there too, and Agent Howell, and... well... Nearly anyone in the first manga, period. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_66dfe36a | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_67fedd35 | type |
Bizarrchitecture | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_67fedd35 | comment |
Bizarrchitecture: The pet shop. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_67fedd35 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_67fedd35 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_67fedd35 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6a85e9e1 | type |
Dub-Induced Plot Hole | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6a85e9e1 | comment |
Dub-Induced Plot Hole: In "Discovery" there's a scene where D treats Leon's wound, which Leon remembers also happening in what he assumes was a dream. That is significant, as realizing it wasn't a dream is part of Leon's final acceptance that D is not exactly a normal human. Nevertheless, in Tokyopop's "translation", Leon just remarks that D is as weird as a tattoo artist he once shacked up with, something the "translator" seems to have pulled out of their ass. Along with D apparently not remembering the "dream" in question, which is just ridiculous. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6a85e9e1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6a85e9e1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6a85e9e1 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6c3d1777 | type |
Magic A Is Magic A | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6c3d1777 | comment |
Magic A Is Magic A: D is able to fully recover from mortal injuries, but he can't cure minor ones. When he hears that the "blood of a God" is needed at one point, he calmly slits his own wrist to provide it. But when he breaks a nail... | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6c3d1777 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6c3d1777 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6c3d1777 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Evangeline's real death. She found out that Jason still loved Louise, even after marrying Evangeline, and threw herself off the ship. Medusa. After her lover removes her blindfold and dies upon looking into her eyes, she decides to take her own life by looking at her reflection. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6d332aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6d332aea | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6dc502d1 | type |
Big Brother Worship | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6dc502d1 | comment |
Big Brother Worship: Count D's younger sister seems to have this. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6dc502d1 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6dc502d1 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6dc502d1 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6ef09297 | type |
Masquerade | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6ef09297 | comment |
Masquerade: Count D and his family, along with the animals. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6ef09297 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6ef09297 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_6ef09297 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7241785e | type |
You Can't Fight Fate | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7241785e | comment |
You Can't Fight Fate: Hammered home incessantly. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7241785e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7241785e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7241785e | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74828aea | type |
Killer Rabbit | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74828aea | comment |
Killer Rabbit: With actual flesh-eating bunnies. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74828aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74828aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74828aea | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74a7d2d | type |
Creator's Culture Carryover | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74a7d2d | comment |
Creator's Culture Carryover: The setting is in Chinatown of Los Angeles, but the original manga and anime has people speaking Japanese. In one case, Leon is able to get beer from a vending machine, which does not exist in America. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74a7d2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74a7d2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_74a7d2d | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_776a06eb | type |
All Myths Are True | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_776a06eb | comment |
All Myths Are True: Unicorns, Kitsune, Phoenixes, and Vampires all exist in the PSoH universe, not to mention the fact that the pet shop's animals appear and talk as humans. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_776a06eb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_776a06eb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_776a06eb | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_77e73dc7 | type |
Food as Bribe | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_77e73dc7 | comment |
Food as Bribe: Sometimes Leon can bribe D with pastries to assist him with cases. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_77e73dc7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_77e73dc7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_77e73dc7 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d152a2d | type |
Agent Mulder | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d152a2d | comment |
Though Leon becomes an Agent Mulder to the even more skeptic FBI Agent Howell | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d152a2d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d152a2d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d152a2d | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d89315b | type |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d89315b | comment |
"The Reason You Suck" Speech: When D confronts the mother in “Daughter”, he coldly tears into her for being such an irresponsible mother that she caused her daughter’s death. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d89315b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d89315b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7d89315b | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | type |
Almost Kiss | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | comment |
Almost Kiss: D loves getting a bit too close to Leon's face. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_7eb49b31 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83c7baa0 | type |
Step Servant | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83c7baa0 | comment |
Step Servant: In one story, a young woman who was formerly a hostess from the Philippines ends up Happily Married to a much older man and has a child with him. For some time, she and her son enjoy a life of blissful luxury, until her husband has a stroke and is unable to remember any of his family or care for himself. His other children (who are all as old as the woman is) nearly turn her and her son out, but ultimately keep her as a servant, while considering her child to be inferior because of his mixed nationality. Even when offered a chance to leave though, the woman refuses to abandon her husband. In the end, her husband dies and leaves a note in his will that his dementia was faked and, impressed by the woman's devotion to him, he leaves her one half of his vast estate, with the other half to be divided amongst his other squabbling children. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83c7baa0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83c7baa0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83c7baa0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83cef301 | type |
Right for the Wrong Reasons | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83cef301 | comment |
Right for the Wrong Reasons: Leon about how D is unscrupulous, thinking him to be a common criminal instead of a Fantastic Aesop enforcer. The first anime episode displays this perfectly, when he accuses D of selling drugs to Alice Haywood while investigating the girl's death and the strange pet shop. Although he is right in that D did sell something of question to the Haywoods, it was actually a rabbit that eats human flesh if it goes off its diet of raw vegetables. As the series goes on, however, Leon starts to see D's true nature, and the federal authorities applaud him for starting to see it. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83cef301 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83cef301 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_83cef301 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_8485d41a | type |
Interspecies Romance | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_8485d41a | comment |
Interspecies Romance: Robin Hendrix and Medusa to the point where even D is surprised to learn that Medusa took her own life after Robin's suicide. Also from the first manga: the fisherman and the mermaid, Pon-chan and Hon Long for Chris, T-chan and Mary (sidestory not in the Tokyopop version) as well as T-chan and D, the vampire Marquis Alexander and Isabelle, etc.; and it gets worse in the new manga. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_8485d41a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_8485d41a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_8485d41a | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_853b7948 | type |
Ambiguously Evil | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_853b7948 | comment |
Ambiguously Evil: Count D. He runs a business with dangerous, but tamable pets and he has customers sign contracts, which places full responsibility of prospective disasters onto the pet owners. There are times where pets are teaching the owners important lessons, but D is still cold when he witnesses their failure to follow through on the contract. He also regards the pets to be more important than human life. | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_853b7948 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_853b7948 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) | hasFeature |
Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_853b7948 | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_853e45d1 | type |
Mistaken for Pregnant | |
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Mistaken for Pregnant: A chapter in SPSOH tells the story of some swallow eggs that make women pregnant with a girl upon eating them, Wu-fei health-checks all of his employees (trying to catch D with diabetes or the like), D's results get switched with another person's, and.... | |
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What Happened to the Mouse? | |
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What Happened to the Mouse?: In SPSOH, what happened to Leon after the two sidestories? This get somewhat resolved by the end of the story: he shows up at the shop right as D pulls another of his disappearing acts before leaving to try and track him down again. It gets fully resolved at the end of the entire manga. It turns out that Leon has been trailing Count D across the world and has quit his job as a detective to do so. But he's not doing it out of revenge or to apprehend D; he's simply trying to return an important scroll D left behind at the end of the first manga. | |
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Agent Scully | |
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Agent Scully: In spite of the steadily increasing volume of evidence, Leon simply refuses to believe that there are supernatural forces at work, instead trying to come up with "realistic" explanations. Though Leon becomes an Agent Mulder to the even more skeptic FBI Agent Howell | |
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Alas, Poor Yorick | |
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Alas, Poor Yorick: Alas poor man from OVA 2, whose head we see cradled lovingly by the mermaid replacement of his dead bride. | |
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Spell My Name with an S | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_89a17726 | comment |
Spell My Name With An S: The translator probably didn't realize that like Leon, Chris and Jill, agent Howell is also named after a Resident Evil character, Wesker. He ended up romanizing his name as "Vesca". Woo-Fei, aka Taizu, is his last name Rau/Lau/Liu? And isn't Wu more appropriate either way than Woo? Leon and Chris: Orcot or Alcott? T-chan, or Tetsu or Tet-chan...? This is just a case of Translation Convention. In Japanese it's "Tet-chan", it was localized in the English translation as "T-chan". | |
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Hair-Raising Hare | |
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Hair-Raising Hare: An early chapter (and the first episode of the OVA) has a rich couple who lost a daughter visiting Count D's shop and taking home a very rare species of rabbit that looks exactly like said daughter. Unfortunately, their love for their daughter leads them to break one of the rules of D's contract, and much rabbit-horror ensues. | |
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Audience Surrogate | |
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Audience Surrogate: Jill. | |
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Forgot Flanders Could Do That | |
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Forgot Flanders Could Do That: Tetsu goes from a being a cunning murderer to being a cute, child-like comic relief after his first appearance. In one of the final volumes, however, he's briefly shows as a bloodthirsty demon again, when the situation calls for it. | |
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Multiple Head Case | |
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Multiple Head Case: A three-headed Chinese dragon in Count D's petshop, they each have different personalities. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: A running theme throughout the series, most obviously when someone obtains a pet that required a contract and breaks any of the rules. | |
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Laser-Guided Karma | |
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Laser-Guided Karma: One orphan, a rich heiress, has gone blind from the trauma of losing her parents especially on realizing she had seen her uncle Edward murdering them. D offers her a seeing eye dog named Dreizhen, who protects her when the killer returns and takes a bullet. She in the meantime treats Dreizhen kindly and is pleased when her friends say he is cute, as he blushes. She regains her sight in time to see a normal, injured Dobermann pinscher, and they end up becoming friends for life. | |
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Outliving One's Offspring | |
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Outliving One's Offspring: In "Daughter" two parents, the Langfords are mourning the loss of their child Alice to drug addiction that Mrs. Langford enabled. When D offers them a Replacement Goldfish claiming it's a rabbit, Mrs. Langford sobs and insists that it's Alice brought back to them. In the anime this is taken further, where they thank D for bringing Alice back to life. | |
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Odd Couple | |
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Odd Couple: Leon and D. | |
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Cerebus Rollercoaster | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_98ce3773 | comment |
Cerebus Rollercoaster: Chapters can have good, downer, or bittersweet endings. An example of a "good" ending would be a girl buying a dog that saves her from a relative trying to kill her for her inheritance. A Bittersweet one would be a mother dying to save her child. | |
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Contemplate Our Navels | |
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Contemplate Our Navels: Don't get D started, whatever you do. You'll be there for years. Leon gets a serious case of this illness at the end of the manga. | |
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More Expendable Than You | |
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More Expendable Than You: Karen and Dreizhen pull this in the climax of their story. As Edward prepares to shoot them both, Karen grapples with him and tells "Dora-Chan" to run for it and get help. Dreizhen gives a clear "NEIN!" and charges because he promised to protect Karen with his life. | |
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And You Thought It Was a Game | |
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And You Thought It Was a Game: Leon is aware that D is dangerous, but he seriously underestimates how dangerous. Good thing D likes him... Chris, however, is totally unaware of the darker side of D's nature, but if anything, his innocence protects him. Wu-fei knows, though... and falls victim to D's cases often. Far too often. To the point of death, even. But, of course, it's always an illusion | |
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Rule of Three | |
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Rule of Three: The pet contracts. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: A phoenix, oddly enough, who makes a human suffer through several lifetimes, allows her to fall for each and every member of D's family time and again, has her die alone thanks to love ignorance, and then goes back over to D and his family to gloat about it. The phoenix was a gift to that human in her earlier lifetime, when she was a princess in a foreign country. D's great great grandfather Count D gave it to her as a wedding present, to grant her a wish. All the girl wished for though was the heart of D's great great grandfather. Since the phoenix couldn't grant that wish, she was stuck reincarnating and dying until her wish was granted. Still doesn't excuse it for not telling D about the early death clause though. | |
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Agent Peacock | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_a859f080 | comment |
Agent Peacock: D. | |
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Mascot | |
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Mascot: Q-chan, Pon-chan and T-chan. | |
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Obfuscating Disability | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_aa07ca54 | comment |
Obfuscating Disability: A elderly man in a Shin chapter is revealed to have been doing this for several years to see how his family would react to his condition and is very disappointed at the result: his adult children forced his wife, who is younger than them, into being his caretaker and maid for their home or else she and their son will be kicked out, treat both of them horribly, and attempt to cut her out of her husband's will by having the man (who as far as they knew had a decreased mental capacity and couldn't legally agree to it) sign divorce papers. | |
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Dramatic Irony | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_ab5eea65 | comment |
Dramatic Irony: PSOH thrives on this, but the most obvious example is when Leon reassures himself that vampires don't exist... while the reader, through D's perspective, sees that the vampire in question is sitting on the couch behind Leon, in bat form. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_ac4ac8e5 | comment |
Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: All chapter names begin with the letter "D". | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For | |
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Be Careful What You Wish For: When one of Leon's friends goes rogue and shoots himself during a criminal raid, Leon says he wishes he had died instead. Count D, via a magical butterfly, shows Leon how empty his life would be with that scenario, since Chris wouldn't have been born, the pet shop wouldn't be in its usual spot, and Leon would have nothing to look forward to except a bullet in his head. Leon wakes up from the "dream" shaken but able to handle his guilt. | |
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Spoof Aesop | |
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Spoof Aesop: The basic premise of the series—D's idea of "justice" is more than slightly skewed, and not only of "justice" as of Shin Pet Shop of Horrors. | |
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Love Triangle | |
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Love Triangle: In Dust, there's one between Yatsu, Hitomi, and Anastasia. One would think the dog Anastasia would lose but it turns out Hitomi loses when Yatsu and Anastasia both go over the cliff and a dog similar to Yatsu shows up with Anastasia to return to the pet shop. | |
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Sweet Tooth | |
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Sweet Tooth: Count D has this. Leon often uses brings over sweets in order to get information out of D. | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Count D and his grandson D. | |
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Humanity on Trial | |
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Humanity on Trial: The pet shop clients and, friendship with Leon notwithstanding, D's the prosecution... Humans Are the Real Monsters: As far as Count D and his family are concerned. | |
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Tomato Surprise | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_c13c9e38 | comment |
Tomato Surprise: Q is not his pet. Q is his grandfather the real Count D. But he doesn't know that. Neither do we, until the end. | |
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Character Focus | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_c1725854 | comment |
Character Focus: Leon, in Doom. Wu-fei, in either volume 4 or 5 of Shin PSOH. T-chan, in a sidestory that didn't appear in the Tokyopop version of PSOH. Chris in the other sidestory, as well as the first chapter he appeared in and the second Christmas chapter...; he's popular! | |
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Irony | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_c335b9ec | comment |
Irony: In "Dual", Kelly Vincent though kind and empathetic, admits to Nancy how useless those kinds of traits are in the face of politics compared to charisma and power. What gets him to pass his Secret Test of Character is choosing to wish for Nancy's happiness over his own ambition. | |
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Actually, That's My Assistant | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_c48a0fe6 | comment |
Actually, That's My Assistant: Despite serving as the caretaker of Count D's Petshop, the D that is the main character is not Count D. The actual Count D is his grandfather. | |
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_c5b47b36 | comment |
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: D mentions that he sold a pair of canaries to Karen. That she's intact in mind, body and spirit shows that she passed his previous test. He's certainly impressed enough to offer her a guide dog who will also serve as her bodyguard, after her canaries die in the fire that Edward set while murdering har parents. Even lampshaded when he reassures Leon that Dreizhen is not another "weird pet". | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Pet Shop of Horrors (Manga) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: To Gremlins, at the very start of the manga. The names of the three recurring human characters? Leon, Chris and Jill. And Wesker Howell. The Honlon sisters are referred to by the name of Ghidora at one time, which is Godzilla's three-headed dragon enemy. In one omake: D cosplaying as a Team Rocket member, pokeball and all, claiming to want a Pikachu in the end notes of one of the volumes of the manga. There are near constant mentions of The X-Files in later volumes. | |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday | |
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The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: The pet shop, which can make a labyrinth out of a tiny building and that can be packed up and moved on remarkably quickly. Wu Fei, in Shin PSOH, lampshades this at some point in one of the first two volumes. | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Another example is in the last volume. While on the run from the FBI, D hitches rides from people. Most of them end up dead, because they thought D was a young woman and tried to rape him, but there's a notable exception. D stays with an elderly couple who are lonely because all of their children have moved out. They too think D is a woman, but treat him like a daughter and spoil him. They even discuss asking him to move in if he has nowhere else to go. D declines their invitation, but he does leave them a gift as thanks for their kindness: a happy puppy who will provide them companionship. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Count D's son and grandson (nicknamed D by everyone). | |
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Jedi Mind Trick | |
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Jedi Mind Trick: D uses this on a security guard of a zoo sperm bank. | |
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Sex by Proxy | |
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Sex by Proxy: Leon is tricked into sleeping with two girls in one night, unaware that they're plant spirits who use him to spread their pollen. Basically, they had plant-sex through him. | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance | |
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Uncanny Family Resemblance: Played for both comedy and drama with D's sister in "Donor" - she looks so much like him that Leon mistakes her for D at first. She turns out to be a modified ape, created by D's father as a organ donor for D, and raised to believe that she was a genuine person. | |
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Death by Childbirth | |
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Death by Childbirth: Leon's and Chris' mother dies during childbirth. The story justifies this by mentioning that not only was she pregnant very late in life, but she wasn't in the best of health to begin with. | |
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Precious Puppy | |
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Precious Puppy: Some of the pets are this, with Daisy being an utter Moe. Dreizhen is full-grown as a Dobermann pinscher, but he looks utterly adorable when licking away Karen's tears. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
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What the Hell, Hero?: One of the driving points of the series, more so in the anime; Leon hates that D sells dangerous pets to clients, and says that the shop is not liable. He makes good points about how they seem to be Disproportionate Retribution and can cause a moral hazard. | |
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Psychotic Smirk | |
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Psychotic Smirk: D, and he does it with style. It's a family thing, really... | |
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Killing in Self-Defense | |
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Killing in Self-Defense: One mother, who had an abusive parent whom she murdered in self-defense, was scared of doing the same to her daughter, and would take it out on the family pets. (In one case she did let a bird go before she could do damage.) D mentions that abuse is cyclical, and that the mother was to be pitied more than feared. Her husband then faces the reality that their child Julia is going to become abusive to animals as well, not because of abuse, but because It Runs in the Family. | |
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Affectionate Nickname | |
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Affectionate Nickname: Karen's friends nickname Dreizhen "Dora-Chan". He blushes as she giggles. It becomes a Meaningful Echo when she tells him, "Dora-chan! RUN!" as her uncle prepares to murder her, and Dreizhen acts on his bodyguard instinct. | |
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Artistic License | |
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Artistic License: Dreizhen the Doberman has typical cropped ears, but as a human, they're the exact opposite: he only has the outer ear flap and earlobe, which are the parts that are cut off of Dobermans' ears. Possibly intentional; since humans already have upright ears, switching the cut to give him droopy ears makes him look more doglike in human form. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Historical In-Joke: One kirin owner was Eva Braun, Adolf Hitler's lady; they name him Blondie. | |
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In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves | |
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In Your Nature to Destroy Yourselves: D and his family acknowledge this. They also want to accelerate the process... | |
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Translation Convention | |
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This is just a case of Translation Convention. In Japanese it's "Tet-chan", it was localized in the English translation as "T-chan". | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: A woman in Shin is initially a subversion of this, having a reoccurring nightmare where her abusive ex tracks down her and their son and when the man goes to kill her, she uses her own child as a human shield. In the end, when the man finds them for real she sacrifices herself to protect her son. | |
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Last of His Kind | |
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Last of His Kind: A few of the pets end up being part of a species that are on the brink of extinction or the last living specimens. This is also the case for D and his family. | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers | |
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Star-Crossed Lovers: The mole teenagers that are heirs of two Yakuza gangs. | |
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Suicide, Not Accident | |
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Suicide, Not Accident: In "Delicious", the story with the mermaid adapted into OVA, the singer Evangeline Blue is said to have "accidentally" fallen overboard during her wedding night at a cruise ship. The truth is she jumped on her own out of spite at finding out her husband still loved his old girlfriend. | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown | |
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Friendly Local Chinatown: Averted; Leon's superior reminds him that they don't have much authority there and that the tougher Leon is to the people, the more difficult they will act towards him. | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality | |
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Blue-and-Orange Morality: D demonstrates this due to his preference for animals over humans, not batting an eye when humans die but caring when the animals do. In the second volume, a queen comes to him and asks him to destroy a "bastard" that we are led to believe is a human fetus conceived in a womb of her husband's mistress, and says it's because of the promise his grandfather made. D does the deed with disgust, with Leon assuming that he murdered the human princess. What he actually did was steal the last two eggs of an endangered bird species, destroy the sperm samples, and let it enter extinction. | |
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It Was Here, I Swear! | |
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It Was Here, I Swear!: When the police and the FBI raid the petshop after D has left, Leon is shocked at finding only a small storage room instead of the vast underground maze. In that same chapter, Chris calls Leon and confesses what he saw as well, probably still in unbelieving shock that the petshop is gone. Happens yet again in Shin when D very quickly vacates the premises when informed that Leon has tracked him down, just barely avoiding the former detective. | |
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No Ending | |
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No Ending: The sequel manga leaves three plot threads hanging, namely Leon's pursuit, Chris's framed drawing, and Wu-Fei's accidentally rejected kirin. The first two are from the first manga, making it more frustrating that Akino has, once again, ended up without a magazine to publish in, having to hurry to the end of the manga... The third was just a further kick on the face to the resident Chew Toy. | |
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All Just a Dream | |
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Wu-fei knows, though... and falls victim to D's cases often. Far too often. To the point of death, even. But, of course, it's always an illusion | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | |
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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: In the first chapter, a spoiled rich girl adopts a human-looking bird called a Sterlizia, and ends up growing very empathetic towards it that she decides to selflessly give him a mate so he won't be lonely. However, she finds out the hard way that the female mate had cannibalized him in order to give birth. | |
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Promotion to Parent | |
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Promotion to Parent: Leon to Chris. | |
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Undying Loyalty | |
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Undying Loyalty: Daisy, the dog for her human Maggie. When Maggie fails a Secret Test of Character by adopting Daisy, treating her as something to boss around and getting jealous when her family likes Daisy better, the latter saves her from a fate of joining D's children that are left in the shop. All of the dogs in the dog chapters, really. Dreizhen, the doberman-turned-bodyguard, takes a bullet to save his mistress from her evil uncle Edward. Anastasia, the borzoi in SPSOH, is at first so loyal to her servant handler rather than her wealthy owner that this threatens to get her in trouble. At the end of that story, Anastasia even complies with the handler's wish to save his girlfriend at the cost of his own life... then leaps off the cliff after him. She even turns him into a dog so he can be with her. Rudy the caretaker of a young Filipina woman’s older husband who offers to take her away from the man’s evil children from his previous marriage. When she refuses, he accepts and instead helps the man reveal he was faking his dementia and Rudy returns to his original form, a mutt puppy. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: The first series epilogue. | |
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Easily Forgiven | |
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Easily Forgiven: After Leon nearly arrests D, suspecting him in a murder case only to be told he's wrong, D invites him for tea. He even makes sunny-side eggs on toast since Leon has revealed he hates sweets. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: D comes under danger of this a few times, though he either deals with it himself or is saved by his pets before it goes beyond innuendo and/or threats to that effect. Xiao Fua fights back against her Boss/attacker. She escaped the rape, but loses her life. | |
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Cherry Blossoms | |
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Cherry Blossoms: Happens once, with the painting of a blooming cherry tree on a kimono. | |
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious | |
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You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Karen addresses Dreizhen by his full name, while her friends call him Dora-chan. The only time she uses the Affectionate Nickname is when her uncle is holding her hostage and threatened to shoot Dreizhen as a witness to the real culprit. | |
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Doting Parent | |
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Doting Parent: Viciously deconstructed in "Daughter". The parents lacked any will to discipline their daughter Alice and could never say no to her, not even when she became a delinquent and a drug addict. This ultimately led to Alice's death by overdose when her mother caved in and gave her more drugs instead of helping her rehabilitate... and once they take home a pet from D's shop, they prove that they still haven't learned their lesson! Also deconstructed in "Durableness", where Sandra's constant doting on her daughter, Julia, not only leads to issues with her husband, who is more strict, but as Sandra's past is revealed, it becomes clear that her overly doting behavior stems from her terrible relationship with her own mother who she accidentally killed in self-defense as a child. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Although D dislikes humanity as a whole, he does have a soft spot for genuinely kindhearted people, especially if they like and are kind to animals. Chris is the biggest example in the series, to the point where D practically becomes a Parental Substitute. Another example is in the last volume. While on the run from the FBI, D hitches rides from people. Most of them end up dead, because they thought D was a young woman and tried to rape him, but there's a notable exception. D stays with an elderly couple who are lonely because all of their children have moved out. They too think D is a woman, but treat him like a daughter and spoil him. They even discuss asking him to move in if he has nowhere else to go. D declines their invitation, but he does leave them a gift as thanks for their kindness: a happy puppy who will provide them companionship. There's also Monica, a young girl who's already been reincarnated by a phoenix four times because the phoenix could not grant her what she truly wants, which is Count D's heart. D is genuinely upset that he can't return Monica's feelings, because unless he can she's doomed to keep reincarnating in a vain effort to get his love. He has a frank conversation with her that he wants to love her and help her, but he doesn't know what love is. Monica dies at the end of the story, which fills D with grief and regret. However, the phoenix informs him that he broke the cycle because this time Monica did get his heart. This makes D smile. | |
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Shown Their Work: All those animals, mythical and otherwise! ...and the fact that Akino has not yet run out of one-word titles beginning with D. Taking the animals and folklore one step farther, Akino also dedicates a portion of the back of each manga to explaining about the creatures used and how they fit into folklore or the story. Just like in "Daughter", real bunnies have harsh dietary restrictions and can easily die if they're fed improperly, with human sweets being among the worst foods you could possibly give to a rabbit. | |
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