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%%* MagnificentBastard:
** D himself, promoted from TheTrickster.
** His father, from ManipulativeBastard.
** [[spoiler:His grandpa Count D, from TheChessmaster.]]
** D himself, promoted from TheTrickster.
** His father, from ManipulativeBastard.
** [[spoiler:His grandpa Count D, from TheChessmaster.]]
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** Things get ''really'' weird in ''Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo'', which starts imposing the "rules" of the animal kingdom directly on to humans. Take the first story, "Domestic": [[spoiler:A victim of domestic violence dies, and it's treated as a happy ending by Count D because she protected her son instead of using him as a human shield.]] The pet the woman gets is not to save her life, but to save her child and her status as a "good mother". The Count has no remorse for his actions [[letting her die instead of just saving both of them]], because that is Nature's Way. It becomes increasingly difficult to tell if this is a strategy to dehumanize the Count after he becomes notably more compassionate in the first series (which would be in-universe Values Dissonance), or whether Akino herself supports this view. [[HerHeartWillGoOn Men don't get off lightly either]] -- see "Double-Booking".
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** Things get ''really'' weird in ''Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo'', which starts imposing the "rules" of the animal kingdom directly on to humans. Take the first story, "Domestic": [[spoiler:A victim of domestic violence dies, and it's treated as a happy ending by Count D because she protected her son instead of using him as a human shield.]] The pet the woman gets is not to save her life, but to save her child and her status as a "good mother". The Count has no remorse for his actions [[letting [[spoiler:letting her die instead of just saving both of them]], because that is Nature's Way. It becomes increasingly difficult to tell if this is a strategy to dehumanize the Count after he becomes notably more compassionate in the first series (which would be in-universe Values Dissonance), or whether Akino herself supports this view. [[HerHeartWillGoOn Men don't get off lightly either]] -- see "Double-Booking".
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* SpiritualSuccessor: Has one in the form of ''Manga/Dolls1995''. Both manga revolve around mysterious merchandise (pets in ''Pet Shop of Horrors'', living, life-sized Plant Dolls in ''Dolls'') that are sold by enigmatic shopkeepers who issue warnings on how the customer needs to treat their new family member. Both series are episodic and focus on a new customer each chapter (although PSOH also has an overarching plot). The stories in both manga range from horrific and depressing to heartwarming and uplifting. And finally, both manga are gorgeously drawn, featuring lots of CostumePorn.
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overly biased even for YMMV. overgeneralizing fan opinions. very one-sided opinion of shin pet shop storylines and characters.
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* ReplacementScrappy: Some fans are less than enchanted with Leon's replacement in ''Pet Shop Of Horrors: Tokyo'', Wu Fei. Most fans seem to agree that even if they like Wu Fei, they'd still rather have Leon back. Judging by what a ChewToy he turned out, either Matsuri Akino disliked him Wu Fei too, or she was just pleasing the audience that missed Leon so.
* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Pet Shop Of Horrors Tokyo'' is widely seen as a lackluster followup.
* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Pet Shop Of Horrors Tokyo'' is widely seen as a lackluster followup.
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* ReplacementScrappy: Some fans are less than enchanted with Leon's replacement in ''Pet Shop Of Horrors: Tokyo'', Wu Fei. Most Many fans seem to agree that even if they like Wu Fei, they'd still rather have Leon back. Judging by what a ChewToy he turned out, either Matsuri Akino disliked him Wu Fei too, or she was just pleasing the audience that missed Leon so.
* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Pet Shop Of Horrors Tokyo'' iswidely seen by some as a lackluster followup.
* {{Sequelitis}}: ''Pet Shop Of Horrors Tokyo'' is
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** Things get ''really'' weird in ''Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo'', which starts blatantly imposing the "rules" of the animal kingdom directly on to humans. Take the first story, "Domestic": [[spoiler:A victim of domestic violence dies, but it's treated as a happy ending by Count D because she protected her son.]] The pet the woman gets is not to save her, but to ensure that she fulfills her role as a woman and mother: defending her young to the last. The Count has no remorse for his actions, [[spoiler:basically sending her to her death,]] because that is apparently Nature's Way. It becomes increasingly difficult to tell if this is a strategy to dehumanize the Count after he becomes notably more compassionate in the first series (which would be in-universe Values Dissonance), or whether Akino herself supports this view. [[HerHeartWillGoOn Men don't get off lightly either]] -- see "Double-Booking".
** Also, our very first introduction to Count D in the manga chapter "Dream": Angelique's actions were no doubt seen as selfish and overly emotional to a Japanese audience, but to Americans she seemed to be motivated by love for her pet, and her punishment came across as over-the-top cruel. Yes, she broke the rules. But even if she hadn't, her bird would still have been eviscerated, and Count D ''never even warned her''.
** Also, our very first introduction to Count D in the manga chapter "Dream": Angelique's actions were no doubt seen as selfish and overly emotional to a Japanese audience, but to Americans she seemed to be motivated by love for her pet, and her punishment came across as over-the-top cruel. Yes, she broke the rules. But even if she hadn't, her bird would still have been eviscerated, and Count D ''never even warned her''.
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** Things get ''really'' weird in ''Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo'', which starts blatantly imposing the "rules" of the animal kingdom directly on to humans. Take the first story, "Domestic": [[spoiler:A victim of domestic violence dies, but and it's treated as a happy ending by Count D because she protected her son.son instead of using him as a human shield.]] The pet the woman gets is not to save her, her life, but to ensure that she fulfills save her role child and her status as a woman and mother: defending her young to the last. "good mother". The Count has no remorse for his actions, [[spoiler:basically sending actions [[letting her to her death,]] die instead of just saving both of them]], because that is apparently Nature's Way. It becomes increasingly difficult to tell if this is a strategy to dehumanize the Count after he becomes notably more compassionate in the first series (which would be in-universe Values Dissonance), or whether Akino herself supports this view. [[HerHeartWillGoOn Men don't get off lightly either]] -- see "Double-Booking".
** Also, our very first introduction to Count D in the manga chapter "Dream": Angelique's actionswere no doubt may have been seen as selfish and overly emotional to a Japanese audience, but to many Americans she seemed to be motivated by love for her pet, and her punishment came across as over-the-top cruel. Yes, she broke the rules. But even if she hadn't, her bird would still have been eviscerated, and Count D ''never even warned her''.
** Also, our very first introduction to Count D in the manga chapter "Dream": Angelique's actions
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[spoiler:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, sad, he says, [[spoiler:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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* FanNickname:
** D's grandfather (the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D, [[spoiler:Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, Lord D, [[spoiler:and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
** [[spoiler:The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same as Reborn!D]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen above.
** D's grandfather (the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D, [[spoiler:Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, Lord D, [[spoiler:and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
** [[spoiler:The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same as Reborn!D]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen above.
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* ValuesDissonance:
** ''Pet Shop of Horrors'' runs into a ''lot'' of values dissonance, as many of its episodes have an odd, twisted kind of moral to them. They often come off as Count D being a bloodthirsty bastard rather than an Aesop-dispenser. Sometimes, it's unclear if this is dissonance between Western and Japanese values, Count D's and the other characters' values, or the readers' and the mangaka Akino's values. But in most cases, we're clearly ''supposed'' to find Count D's values unconventional and shocking.
** A good example is one episode where the man who has "vengeance" visited on him is implied throughout to have murdered his wife by pushing her over the railing of a cruise ship. [[spoiler:Turns out she jumped, because she overheard him talking to the woman he was actually in love with. It seems that she was a huge bitch who always had to have whatever she wanted, and she decided she wanted him and railroaded him into it. She became "heartbroken" at their words and killed herself.]] The story still seems to treat him as if he's to blame, and his fate is treated as a [[spoiler:KarmicDeath.]]
** Things get ''really'' weird in ''Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo'', which starts blatantly imposing the "rules" of the animal kingdom directly on to humans. Take the first story, "Domestic": [[spoiler:A victim of domestic violence dies, but it's treated as a happy ending by Count D because she protected her son.]] The pet the woman gets is not to save her, but to ensure that she fulfills her role as a woman and mother: defending her young to the last. The Count has no remorse for his actions, [[spoiler:basically sending her to her death,]] because that is apparently Nature's Way. It becomes increasingly difficult to tell if this is a strategy to dehumanize the Count after he becomes notably more compassionate in the first series (which would be in-universe Values Dissonance), or whether Akino herself supports this view. [[HerHeartWillGoOn Men don't get off lightly either]] -- see "Double-Booking".
** Also, our very first introduction to Count D in the manga chapter "Dream": Angelique's actions were no doubt seen as selfish and overly emotional to a Japanese audience, but to Americans she seemed to be motivated by love for her pet, and her punishment came across as over-the-top cruel. Yes, she broke the rules. But even if she hadn't, her bird would still have been eviscerated, and Count D ''never even warned her''.
** ''Pet Shop of Horrors'' runs into a ''lot'' of values dissonance, as many of its episodes have an odd, twisted kind of moral to them. They often come off as Count D being a bloodthirsty bastard rather than an Aesop-dispenser. Sometimes, it's unclear if this is dissonance between Western and Japanese values, Count D's and the other characters' values, or the readers' and the mangaka Akino's values. But in most cases, we're clearly ''supposed'' to find Count D's values unconventional and shocking.
** A good example is one episode where the man who has "vengeance" visited on him is implied throughout to have murdered his wife by pushing her over the railing of a cruise ship. [[spoiler:Turns out she jumped, because she overheard him talking to the woman he was actually in love with. It seems that she was a huge bitch who always had to have whatever she wanted, and she decided she wanted him and railroaded him into it. She became "heartbroken" at their words and killed herself.]] The story still seems to treat him as if he's to blame, and his fate is treated as a [[spoiler:KarmicDeath.]]
** Things get ''really'' weird in ''Pet Shop of Horrors: Tokyo'', which starts blatantly imposing the "rules" of the animal kingdom directly on to humans. Take the first story, "Domestic": [[spoiler:A victim of domestic violence dies, but it's treated as a happy ending by Count D because she protected her son.]] The pet the woman gets is not to save her, but to ensure that she fulfills her role as a woman and mother: defending her young to the last. The Count has no remorse for his actions, [[spoiler:basically sending her to her death,]] because that is apparently Nature's Way. It becomes increasingly difficult to tell if this is a strategy to dehumanize the Count after he becomes notably more compassionate in the first series (which would be in-universe Values Dissonance), or whether Akino herself supports this view. [[HerHeartWillGoOn Men don't get off lightly either]] -- see "Double-Booking".
** Also, our very first introduction to Count D in the manga chapter "Dream": Angelique's actions were no doubt seen as selfish and overly emotional to a Japanese audience, but to Americans she seemed to be motivated by love for her pet, and her punishment came across as over-the-top cruel. Yes, she broke the rules. But even if she hadn't, her bird would still have been eviscerated, and Count D ''never even warned her''.
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* FandomSpecificPlot: Due to the sad ending, 90% of the fanfics have Leon finding D after the latter casts him off his boat, and this time D lets him stay.
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** The original manga drops Anvils about animals in general. In general, there were a number of heavy-handed Aesops about human/pet relationships and how people need to see their pets as companions to be loved rather than stupid animals to be exploited or abused, as any animal rescue show can attest.
** A particularly harsh one was dropped with the chapter "Dreizehn", which ends with a short passage in the back reflecting upon the fact that some people refuse to acknowledge Dobermans with natural ears because ''[[RealityIsUnrealistic they don't look like real Dobermans]].''
** A particularly harsh one was dropped with the chapter "Dreizehn", which ends with a short passage in the back reflecting upon the fact that some people refuse to acknowledge Dobermans with natural ears because ''[[RealityIsUnrealistic they don't look like real Dobermans]].''
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion[[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion[[spoiler:That's [[spoiler:[[ArmorPiercingQuestion That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's [[ArmorPiercingQuestion[[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]].you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]].you?]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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** D delivers a CharacterFilibuster to Alice's mother. He confronts her for breaking the rules and feeding sweets to the rabbit he sold them. When Alice's mother admits she didn't want to make Alice said, he says, [[ArmorPiercingQuestion [[spoiler:That's how you killed the real Alice, didn't you?]]]]. As Leon reacts with confusion, D reveals that he knows [[spoiler:Alice was a SpoiledBrat who eventually became a drug addict because her parents would never refuse her anything. When she was hospitalized and sent to rehab, Alice's mother slipped her cocaine when her daughter begged. This would lead to her overdose. All her mother can do in the present now is say that she didn't want Alice to ever hate her, but D remains cool. It's quite a heavy-handed but necessary message that you don't enable your children, and you ''don't'' give them addictive drugs!]]
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* DesignatedHero: For a given value of "hero". D's attempts at teaching people a lesson might be justified as LaserGuidedKarma... except he's also been known to get innocents killed as well, such as that fiasco with the rabbits.
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* DesignatedHero: For a given value of "hero". D's attempts at teaching people a lesson might be justified as LaserGuidedKarma... except he's also been known to get innocents killed as well, such as that fiasco with the rabbits. Leon has certainly called him out for this, saying that his pets are dangerous.
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* HoYay: Leon and D.
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* HoYay: Leon and D. In fact, Leon's partner Jill teases him about getting dumped when D foregoes getting a special dessert mouse from Leon in favor of talking to a chef who made a childhood dessert.
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** D is sympathetic when telling a grandmother that [[spoiler:her father made a deal with her to be spared from the horrors of the HOlocaust by erasing her memories and giving her a new identity]], . We find out in the finale that [[spoiler:D's own ancestors were wiped out, leaving himself, his father and grandfather as the only survivors]]. D knew exactly how [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] was feeling.
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** D is sympathetic when telling a grandmother that [[spoiler:her father made a deal with her his grandfather to be spared from the horrors of the HOlocaust Holocaust by erasing her memories and giving her a new identity]], .identity, so foolproof that she was never arrested and sent to a camp]], telling her the truth before she died. We find out in the finale that [[spoiler:D's own ancestors were wiped out, leaving himself, his father and grandfather as the only survivors]]. D knew exactly how [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] was feeling.
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* HarsherInHindsight:
** D is sympathetic when telling a grandmother that [[spoiler:her father made a deal with her to be spared from the horrors of the HOlocaust by erasing her memories and giving her a new identity]], . We find out in the finale that [[spoiler:D's own ancestors were wiped out, leaving himself, his father and grandfather as the only survivors]]. D knew exactly how [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] was feeling.
** One chapter features an aquarium enthusiast named Jody being murdered. The fish tell D that Mellow, a fish on a digital computer, witnessed the killing; Mellow is also the name of a woman who visited Jody, according to neighbors. [[spoiler:Thanks to a hint from D, Leon realizes that Jody was trans and Mellow was the name for their alternate identity as well as their digital fish, hence the motive for the murder being a date who was a transphobe]]. Note that the killer is portrayed as completely in the wrong. These days, the rise of trans women being murdered is quite sobering with how ''Pet Shop of Horrors'' treats the topic seriously.
** D is sympathetic when telling a grandmother that [[spoiler:her father made a deal with her to be spared from the horrors of the HOlocaust by erasing her memories and giving her a new identity]], . We find out in the finale that [[spoiler:D's own ancestors were wiped out, leaving himself, his father and grandfather as the only survivors]]. D knew exactly how [[spoiler:Elizabeth]] was feeling.
** One chapter features an aquarium enthusiast named Jody being murdered. The fish tell D that Mellow, a fish on a digital computer, witnessed the killing; Mellow is also the name of a woman who visited Jody, according to neighbors. [[spoiler:Thanks to a hint from D, Leon realizes that Jody was trans and Mellow was the name for their alternate identity as well as their digital fish, hence the motive for the murder being a date who was a transphobe]]. Note that the killer is portrayed as completely in the wrong. These days, the rise of trans women being murdered is quite sobering with how ''Pet Shop of Horrors'' treats the topic seriously.
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Cut trope and not YMMV
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* DevelopmentHell: The mythical live-action movie.. Considering other anime/manga-to-Western-movie transformations, though, this might be for the best.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: 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''.
* FanNickname:
** D's grandfather (the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D, [[spoiler:Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, Lord D, [[spoiler:and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
** [[spoiler:The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same as Reborn!D]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen above.
* FanNickname:
** D's grandfather (the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D, [[spoiler:Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, Lord D, [[spoiler:and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
** [[spoiler:The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same as Reborn!D]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen above.
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* MagnificentBastard:
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* {{Anvilicious}}: ''Shin Pet Shop of Horrors'' on motherhood, so much...!
** The original series revolves around love of some form (romantic, family, friends, ext.).
** The original series revolves around love of some form (romantic, family, friends, ext.).
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* {{Anvilicious}}: {{Anvilicious}}:
** ''Shin Pet Shop of Horrors'' on motherhood, somuch...!
much.
** The original series revolves around love of some form (romantic, family, friends,ext.etc.).
** ''Shin Pet Shop of Horrors'' on motherhood, so
** The original series revolves around love of some form (romantic, family, friends,
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* DevelopmentHell: The mythical live-action movie...; considering other anime/manga-to-Western-movie transformations, though, this might be for the best.
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* DevelopmentHell: The mythical live-action movie...; considering movie.. Considering other anime/manga-to-Western-movie transformations, though, this might be for the best.
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: 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''...
* FanNickname
** D's grandfather(the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D,[[spoiler: Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, Lord D,[[spoiler: and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
** [[spoiler: The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same Reborn!Dee]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen above...
** And not only of "justice" as of ''Shin Pet Shop of Horrors''...
* FanNickname
** D's grandfather(the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D,[[spoiler: Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, Lord D,[[spoiler: and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
** [[spoiler: The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same Reborn!Dee]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen above...
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* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: The basic premise of the series--D's idea of "justice" is more than slightly skewed.
** Andskewed, and not only of "justice" as of ''Shin Pet Shop of Horrors''...
Horrors''.
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** D'sgrandfather(the grandfather (the ''real'' Count D): [[GratuitousJapanese Sofu]] D,[[spoiler: Q-chan]]
D, [[spoiler:Q-chan]]
** D's father: Dee, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Papa]] D, LordD,[[spoiler: and, D, [[spoiler:and, when he dies and is reborn at the end, chibi/mini/baby-D]]
**[[spoiler: The [[spoiler:The new D Chris meets: Young D, if not a case of Young D being the same Reborn!Dee]]
as Reborn!D]]
** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seenabove...above.
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** Taizu for Wu-fei Liu/Rau, even when it makes no sense, as seen
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* {{Macekre}}: Tokyopop's first four volumes.
** The rest of the volumes also suffer from mistranslations and additions that weren't in the original.
* MagnificentBastard: D himself, promoted from TheTrickster; his father, from ManipulativeBastard; [[spoiler:and his grandpa Count D, from TheChessmaster]].
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/PetShopOfHorrors Now Here]]
* ReplacementScrappy: In ''Pet Shop Of Horrors: Tokyo'', some fans are less than enchanted with Leon's replacement, Wu Fei. Most fans seem to agree that even if they like Wu Fei, they'd still rather have Leon back.
** Wu-fei is becoming a ChewToy: either Matsuri Akino dislikes him too, or she's just pleasing the audience that misses Leon so.
* [[Sequelitis]]: ''Pet Shop Of Horrors Tokyo'' is widely seen as a lackluster followup.
** The rest of the volumes also suffer from mistranslations and additions that weren't in the original.
* MagnificentBastard: D himself, promoted from TheTrickster; his father, from ManipulativeBastard; [[spoiler:and his grandpa Count D, from TheChessmaster]].
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/PetShopOfHorrors Now Here]]
* ReplacementScrappy: In ''Pet Shop Of Horrors: Tokyo'', some fans are less than enchanted with Leon's replacement, Wu Fei. Most fans seem to agree that even if they like Wu Fei, they'd still rather have Leon back.
** Wu-fei is becoming a ChewToy: either Matsuri Akino dislikes him too, or she's just pleasing the audience that misses Leon so.
* [[Sequelitis]]: ''Pet Shop Of Horrors Tokyo'' is widely seen as a lackluster followup.
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* {{Macekre}}: Tokyopop's first four volumes.
** Thevolumes especially, but the rest of the volumes also suffer from mistranslations and additions that weren't in the original.
*MagnificentBastard: MagnificentBastard:
** D himself, promoted fromTheTrickster; his TheTrickster.
** His father, fromManipulativeBastard; [[spoiler:and his ManipulativeBastard.
** [[spoiler:His grandpa Count D, fromTheChessmaster]].
TheChessmaster.]]
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/PetShopOfHorrorsNow Here]]
You know it.]]
* ReplacementScrappy:In Some fans are less than enchanted with Leon's replacement in ''Pet Shop Of Horrors: Tokyo'', some fans are less than enchanted with Leon's replacement, Wu Fei. Most fans seem to agree that even if they like Wu Fei, they'd still rather have Leon back.
** Wu-fei is becomingback. Judging by what a ChewToy: ChewToy he turned out, either Matsuri Akino dislikes disliked him Wu Fei too, or she's she was just pleasing the audience that misses missed Leon so.
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* MagnificentBastard: D himself, promoted from {{Trickster}}; his father, from ManipulativeBastard; [[spoiler:and his grandpa Count D, from TheChessmaster]].
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* MagnificentBastard: D himself, promoted from {{Trickster}}; TheTrickster; his father, from ManipulativeBastard; [[spoiler:and his grandpa Count D, from TheChessmaster]].
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* NightmareFuel: The extra story about D's experiences with the Holocaust. Most of it is shown through his interactions with [[spoiler: Eva Braun]], but it's incredibly creepy what all is implied, especially if one knows what really ''was'' happening. And then, there's the scene at the end where [[spoiler: Eva rides her pet Kirin to be reunited with Hitler.]] When [[spoiler:the Kirin]] tells her that the lights she sees are from Germany burning and "the deaths of millions of Jews" and that Hitler was the cause of it, she just smiles and says "How... beautiful!"
** [[spoiler:"Eva Braun got her wish. She was the Devil's wife...for two days."]] Brrr...
** In one story, a couple who recently lost their daughter are sold a pet rabbit that looks just like her. Because the daughter look-alike smiles and pleads for candy and cookies, they feed them to her, even though D specifically tells them to only feed her vegetables. [[spoiler:Upon eating the cookies, the rabbit begins binging on more junk food, until two smaller rabbits burst out of her stomach.The story then cuts to a couple of children playing in a park, until they realize that [[OhCrap they're surrounded by some hostile-looking rabbits]]. It turns out that the rabbits spawned from the first one will keep eating everything they can (including ''people'', making the fate of those children pretty horrible to think about), and the police get countless reports about rabbits attacking people. Meanwhile, the police find the wife who adopted the first rabbit, severely injured and in shock from watching her husband die in front of her. We then find out the fate of their actual daughter - they indulged her constantly until she became a shoplifter and a drug addict, eventually dying from the latter habit.]]
** A model seeking a shortcut to weight loss is offered a "diet pill" by a glamorous fellow model... which eventually causes her to [[spoiler:shed her skin and transform into an insect creature right smack in the middle of the UncannyValley]]. It's made especially effective by being set up in contrast to one of the more heartwarming stories.
** [[spoiler:"Eva Braun got her wish. She was the Devil's wife...for two days."]] Brrr...
** In one story, a couple who recently lost their daughter are sold a pet rabbit that looks just like her. Because the daughter look-alike smiles and pleads for candy and cookies, they feed them to her, even though D specifically tells them to only feed her vegetables. [[spoiler:Upon eating the cookies, the rabbit begins binging on more junk food, until two smaller rabbits burst out of her stomach.The story then cuts to a couple of children playing in a park, until they realize that [[OhCrap they're surrounded by some hostile-looking rabbits]]. It turns out that the rabbits spawned from the first one will keep eating everything they can (including ''people'', making the fate of those children pretty horrible to think about), and the police get countless reports about rabbits attacking people. Meanwhile, the police find the wife who adopted the first rabbit, severely injured and in shock from watching her husband die in front of her. We then find out the fate of their actual daughter - they indulged her constantly until she became a shoplifter and a drug addict, eventually dying from the latter habit.]]
** A model seeking a shortcut to weight loss is offered a "diet pill" by a glamorous fellow model... which eventually causes her to [[spoiler:shed her skin and transform into an insect creature right smack in the middle of the UncannyValley]]. It's made especially effective by being set up in contrast to one of the more heartwarming stories.
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* NightmareFuel: The extra story about D's experiences with the Holocaust. Most of it is shown through his interactions with [[spoiler: Eva Braun]], but it's incredibly creepy what all is implied, especially if one knows what really ''was'' happening. And then, there's the scene at the end where [[spoiler: Eva rides her pet Kirin to be reunited with Hitler.]] When [[spoiler:the Kirin]] tells her that the lights she sees are from Germany burning and "the deaths of millions of Jews" and that Hitler was the cause of it, she just smiles and says "How... beautiful!"
** [[spoiler:"Eva Braun got her wish. She was the Devil's wife...for two days."]] Brrr...
** In one story, a couple who recently lost their daughter are sold a pet rabbit that looks just like her. Because the daughter look-alike smiles and pleads for candy and cookies, they feed them to her, even though D specifically tells them to only feed her vegetables. [[spoiler:Upon eating the cookies, the rabbit begins binging on more junk food, until two smaller rabbits burst out of her stomach.The story then cuts to a couple of children playing in a park, until they realize that [[OhCrap they're surrounded by some hostile-looking rabbits]]. It turns out that the rabbits spawned from the first one will keep eating everything they can (including ''people'', making the fate of those children pretty horrible to think about), and the police get countless reports about rabbits attacking people. Meanwhile, the police find the wife who adopted the first rabbit, severely injured and in shock from watching her husband die in front of her. We then find out the fate of their actual daughter - they indulged her constantly until she became a shoplifter and a drug addict, eventually dying from the latter habit.]]
** A model seeking a shortcut to weight loss is offered a "diet pill" by a glamorous fellow model... which eventually causes her to [[spoiler:shed her skin and transform into an insect creature right smack in the middle of the UncannyValley]]. It's made especially effective by being set up in contrast to one of the more heartwarming stories.[[NightmareFuel/PetShopOfHorrors Now Here]]
** [[spoiler:"Eva Braun got her wish. She was the Devil's wife...for two days."]] Brrr...
** In one story, a couple who recently lost their daughter are sold a pet rabbit that looks just like her. Because the daughter look-alike smiles and pleads for candy and cookies, they feed them to her, even though D specifically tells them to only feed her vegetables. [[spoiler:Upon eating the cookies, the rabbit begins binging on more junk food, until two smaller rabbits burst out of her stomach.The story then cuts to a couple of children playing in a park, until they realize that [[OhCrap they're surrounded by some hostile-looking rabbits]]. It turns out that the rabbits spawned from the first one will keep eating everything they can (including ''people'', making the fate of those children pretty horrible to think about), and the police get countless reports about rabbits attacking people. Meanwhile, the police find the wife who adopted the first rabbit, severely injured and in shock from watching her husband die in front of her. We then find out the fate of their actual daughter - they indulged her constantly until she became a shoplifter and a drug addict, eventually dying from the latter habit.]]
** A model seeking a shortcut to weight loss is offered a "diet pill" by a glamorous fellow model... which eventually causes her to [[spoiler:shed her skin and transform into an insect creature right smack in the middle of the UncannyValley]]. It's made especially effective by being set up in contrast to one of the more heartwarming stories.
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