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Pet Shop of Horrors

1999 · 1 season

A hushed, unsettling stroll through a shadowy Chinatown curio shop, where each elegant, tragic tale leaves a lingering chill.

Created by
Matsuri Akino
Genres
Sci-fi & fantasy, Animation, Mystery
Starring
Toshihiko Seki, Masaya Onosaka, Satsuki Yukino
Overview
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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Created by
Matsuri Akino
Genres
Sci-fi & fantasy, Animation, Mystery
Starring
Toshihiko Seki, Masaya Onosaka, Satsuki Yukino
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Tone
  • eeriestrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • death
  • mystery
  • betrayal
  • fate
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • anthology
  • serialised
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror6
Humour2
Realism3
Romance1
Tension6
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
sci-fi & fantasy, animation, mystery
Created by
Matsuri Akino
Written by
Yasuhiro Imagawa
Starring
Toshihiko Seki, Masaya Onosaka, Satsuki Yukino
Length
1 seasons, 4 episodes, 23 min each
Network
TBS
Country
Japan
Languages
Japanese

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