Pet Shop of Horrors(TV show/series, 1999)

Name: Pet Shop of Horrors
Genre: Animation, Mystery
Released: 1999
Rating: 3.6

Original title: "ペットショップ・オブ・ホラーズ / ペットショップオブホラーズ" (Japanese/JA)

TV-MA

| 22min per episode | Genres: Animation, Mystery

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 4 episodes

Rating: 3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

Pet Shop of Horrors is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Matsuri Akino. It was serialized in Ohzora Publishing's Apple Mystery, and later in Bunkasha's Mystery M from 1994 to 1998, with its chapters collected in ten tankōbon volumes. The series focuses on the eccentric Count D, proprietor of a mysterious pet shop located in the heart of Chinatown, and the numerous patrons who visit his supernatural shop. The series was licensed in North America by Tokyopop. A four-episode anime television series produced by Madhouse was broadcast in 1999. A second manga series, titled Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo (known as New Petshop of Horrors in Japan) was serialized by Asahi Sonorama (and later Asahi Shimbun Publications) in Mungekan from 2004 to 2009, and later published as a webcomic on Yahoo! Comics's Horror & Fantasy Club site from 2009 to 2012. Its chapters were collected in twelve volumes. The manga was also licensed in North America by Tokyopop, who only released eight volume from 2008 to 2011. A spin-off series, titled Pet Shop of Horrors: Passage-hen, which follows Count D's grandfather in Fin de siècle Paris, was irregularly published in HarperCollins Japan's Mugentō (2013) and Harlequin Original (2015–2017); five volumes were released. Another spin-off, title... ()

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About Pet Shop of Horrors

Welcome to the most magnificent pet shop in Chinatown! Operated by the shadowy Count D, the shop specializes in rare and hard to come by pets... but with each sale comes a contract. And if that contract is broken, watch out! Detective Orcott has linked many odd and unexplained deaths to Count D's shop. Will he solve the mystery or fall prey to it?

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Pet Shop of Horrors Seasons and Episodes

03/01/1999Season 1 - 4 episodes

#1 | 03/01/1999Daughter

A rich couple has lost their only daughter, Alice. Fortunately, Count D is able to acquire a very rare species of rabbit that looks exactly like Alice. The couple is overjoyed and immediately takes the rabbit home. But their love for Alice makes them breach one of the contract's terms.

#2 | 03/08/1999Delicious

The popular idol singer Evangeline Blue and her manager Jason are about to be wed on a luxury ship when Evangeline "accidentally" falls overboard, her body never to be found. The heartbroken Jason travels to Count D's to pick up a pet that Eva had supposedly ordered. But to his surprise, the pet turns out to be a very large rare species of a Fish. But looks like a mermaid who looks exactly like Eva.

#3 | 03/15/1999Despair

Actor Robin Hendrix was a one-hit wonder. After the phenomenal success of his debut movie, Robin couldn't get any more acting jobs. It seemed he'd been stereotyped by the very role that made him famous. To top it off, his wife has left him. Robin loves keeping pet reptiles, and so he goes to Count D's to pick up an additional pet to cheer himself up. But Count D has something special for Robin: a very rare species of reptile known as Medusa, with the face and upper body of a beautiful woman, but the lower half of a large lizard.

#4 | 03/22/1999Dual

Roger Stanford comes from a long line of successful politicians, but is considered the bad apple of the family due to his carefree and womanising ways. His faithful assistant, Kelly Vincent, is determined to make Roger the president of the United States, even if it means making a pact with the legendary animal called the Kirin, who grants the wish of its sovereign through the blood of others. Count D just happens to have one Kirin in stock.

Additional Information

Production country: Japan

Original language: Japanese (JA)

Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)

Translated into 9 languages: English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Italian (IT), Korean (KO), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 03/01/1999

Last episode released on: 03/22/1999

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Petshop Of Horrors"

"Petshop of Horrors"

Keywords: police, based on manga, curse, supernatural, anime, dark fantasy, detective, josei, tragedy, anthropomorphism, mermaid

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