A small store specializing in exotic animals has opened on New York's China Street. The shopkeeper is a mysterious man known as "The Count", and the store seems to have everything, but - if you're disillusioned and looking for a way to fill your empty heart, beware ...... The Count can give you what you want, and if you're not devoted enough to your pet, "It's a great pity that it's the customer who's in breach of the contract. The Count will give you what you want, and if you don't take enough care of your pet, "Unfortunately, it is the customer who has violated the contract, and the store will not be held responsible," the Count will surely say with a smile. And don't worry, there's another important character: Mr. Reo, the police officer, who always seems to be involved with the Count himself and all his customers who have "died". The horror is unfolding ......

Any story that doesn't fall into clichés has something to offer. The biggest theme in "Pet Shop of Horrors" seems to have a compassionate view of the whole planet, but then she implements the portrayal on one ordinary person after another, and each story has no depressing heaviness, and some of them are very light and humorous. But at the end of the story she very skillfully lets us know, perhaps unintentionally, what we have destroyed. There are many times when no one can criticize us, but after all, life should be a little more careful.

Count D, who wears a Chinese-printed tunic and has more delicate features than a woman, runs a pet store on China Street in some city, bringing you fantastical animals, mystical experiences, and smoky aromas that vaporize human desires and original sins.

In the world of fiction, animals are often used to symbolize the negative character of frenzy and lechery, such as the legend of the werewolf and the blood-sucking bat in the West, and Zeus in Greek mythology, who often disguises himself as various kinds of animals to meet his lover; in the East, there are myths of the ghosts and monsters in the disguise of animals such as vixens, Taotie, Morou, and snake demons, which are also loaded with stigmas of the vile character of human beings. The Japanese system of demons and ghosts was introduced from mainland China, and the "Nihon Reiki" (日本灵异記) is a synthesis of Buddhist scriptures, Chinese novels about gods and monsters, and Tang legends. In the Edo period, the civilian writing style flourished, Ueda Akisei set Japanese folklore and Chinese gods and monsters of the story of the great, writing 『Rainy Night Story』 book, popular for a while, so that the creation of Japanese monsters and monsters flourished, and is still the main type of creation in popular literature.

From the point of view of the evolution of Japanese literature, spirits and ghosts have always occupied a very heavy proportion of legends. In the early days, these ghosts and monsters appeared along with the "talking" form of Buddhism, and were used to educate the believers in order to achieve the purpose of preaching and propagating the Dharma. Even in The Tale of Genji, the culmination of the Heian period's storytelling literature, there is a fragment of a ghostly tale. With the evolution of the times, the stories of gods, ghosts, and demons gradually departed from the scope of Buddhist propagation, and combined with the social events of the time, and became the objects of karma in war stories and popular books, not only reinforcing the moral values of the society of the time, but also becoming one of the topics of discussion among the people. City culture and customs were then merged with monster stories, either talking about love or revenge, or recording the joys and sorrows of the common people. To say that this Greek mythology world is the human nature of the world of God, and the eastern forest of monsters may be the human nature of the devil!

Western horror stories are characterized by indiscriminate, sudden, brutal and bloody killings, and human beings are unpredictable and powerless to resist. Even the image of God in the Bible is temperamental, even to the believers to kill the child sacrifice, with absolute power. Roland Barthes used to think that the Western form of food and drink, the use of knives and forks implied a brutal and bloody cultural trait, while the Oriental food and drink attacked the use of spoons and chopsticks, gentle and elegant. However, it is a pity that Barthes for the Oriental contact and insights are not deep enough, otherwise he would understand the Orientals do not want to move the knife on the table behind the blood, with the eyes of the bloodless make service to the culture of the surface, the bones of the Orientals did not civilized to where.

"Pet Shop of Horrors" in each short story are in English D for the beginning of the word for the title, through the central theme of the story, in fact, the Japanese people love love (desire) and death. As a girl's manga, the theme is inevitably love. The word "love" in Japanese does not only refer to the love between a man and a woman, but also refers to the feelings towards people and things in general. Wrong love is as terrible as poison. In the third story of the first episode, "Daughter," a doting mother ignores Count D's warning and feeds her daughter's pet rabbit, who looks like her dead daughter, poisoned candy, resulting in an uncontrollable situation. Parents' "doting" on their children is the sweet poison that poisons the children themselves. In the fourth episode of the fifth series, Dance, a dancing star who loves her partner fiercely, lets her eyes burn with jealousy, and dances with the knife of death, blading herself and her love.

This is not a scary horror manga at all, it's a fable that kind of brings tears to your eyes.

It's not the pets that are scary, it's the people, the greed and ignorance of the human heart. What makes people shed tears is the unpredictability of human ruthlessness, affection, amorousness, promiscuity and desperation, like a jungle full of emotional crisis traps. Count D, the owner of the horror pet store Ark, watches the greed of human beings and the gradual extinction of animals under desire. A comic like this is more poignant and realistic than horrifying. The proposition that the author attempts to crawl through is not a species entanglement between animals and humans, but a test of human emotions and civilized phenomena against the world of animals and the laws of survival.

The comic creates a heterogeneous space containing myths, imagination and the past, where people and things are constantly born and reincarnated in the midst of a torrent of time, and we travel through the past and present with Count D's eyes. This man with the mysterious femininity of the East and the cold temperament of the West, together with the animals on Noah's Ark in the West, drift in the human world, with the impermanence and spontaneity of the Western gods, and shuttle in the Eastern cycle of reincarnation. Giving dreams and love.

Ready to get your hands on this rare pet? Be aware that if you don't feed it properly, the cute pet can turn around and eat you! Be careful with pets and love.