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Pet Shop of Horrors Director: Toshio Hirata Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Animated, Dolby Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 95 minutes Studio: Urban Vision Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2001-02-27 Buy from Amazon

Customer Reviews: Total numer of reviews: 24 Average rating: 5.0 "Shadows of the heart" This movie is dark, creepy and more than a little bit cynical. I saw this a few years ago and loved it! he grants your heart's deepest desires but there's always a twist and that's what makes this anime so cool and sets it apart from anything else out there. This title however is obviously not suited for young audiences, you wouldn't want to give them nightmares about carnivorous bunnies, now do you? So if you're looking for something different, give this one a try--it's definitely worth it ^.^ "A NICE SHORT SERIES" I liked this anime alot. This short series is about a pet shop that sells bizzare pets ending up in killing their masters due of breaking their contracts. Truly nice in a way,its too bad though that it didnt have a better ending episode. "This is good.... the manga is better" What can I say, Petshop of horrors is just so different from everything else you can find out there now. I love it in so many ways, and not just because it features a girly boy with chinese dresses, lipstick and nails as big as my head. However, my love does have bounds. This is great, but if you see it, you will find it has some... short comings. The stories seemed like they are packed into the 45 minutes or however long and you want more. That's why I recommend the manga, which is coming out soon. It's just so much easier to understand and you learn so much more about everyone's favorite tea drinking misanthrope. So, to make a long story short, if you're unsure, buy this. If you think afterwards "Wow that was great, but what about this thing? And that? I want more D/Leon!", get the manga. Plus, the manga has a character in it affectionately called Papa D, and it just doesn't get any better than that. "Entertaining, mysterious, eerie." Again, my intuition served me well when I decided to buy this on whim. Actually, I had seen the cover before, and was intruiged by the dark, mysterious picture. When I read that the host of the Pet Shop was also an effeminate Count who dressed in drag, I was even more curious. This series is excellent, for lack of better words. It also leaves you with a true sense of eerieness, because the characters in the film do not find any happiness or respite, except for in the last segment, but even that has a very eerie premise in itself. The Count is very fascinating, and I love his voice in the original Japanese. He has a perfect repose, sinister beneath the cool, pleasant exterior. I think the man who did the dubbing for the American voice didn't realise this and tried to sound too effiminate without that essentially sardonic undertone that the Japanese voice incurs. "Horrific indeed..." I always loved this anime, from the moment I rented it. Q-chan [the name of the twinkie-bat thingie that Cound D has] is so sweet, especially when he tries to pull the strawberry [his favorite food] off of the cake, and Count D is always adorable, especially when he's fawning over his sweets. ^_^ Leon is a detective from New York, who happens to find a lead on one ofo his cases one day that sends him to Chinatown. Particularly, a tiny pet shop. He goes into the depth of the shop and finds the owner, who he mistakes for a woman at first. The owner is D, who takes Leon's accusation of secretly being a dealer of drugs and slaves without batting an eye. All he sells are love and dreams, he explains to the annoyed blonde detective. Love and dreams. After all, it's just a pet shop. Or is it? The series is four episodes long, translating four stories from the manga [Despair, Daughter, Dual, and Delicious] into an animated format. I think the manga, which has ten volumes, goes into more character depth and is a bit better, but then again, that's because it has the time to do so. D and Leon's relationship grows, and Q-chan is shown to be... Well, something else entirely. And the manga also has Papa D, the utter freak who is the Magneto to Count D's Xavier, in a way. Bottom line, the manga's better, but this is good.