Akino Jasmine is the author.
A small store specializing in exotic animals opened on China Street in New York. The name of the store is "Count D's Pet Shop", and the store manager is a mysterious man who calls himself "Count D". The store seems to have all kinds of animals, but - if you're disillusioned and looking for a way to fill your empty heart, be careful... ...The Count can give you what you want, and if you don't take enough care of your pet, "Unfortunately, it's the customer who violated the contract, and the store won't be held responsible," the Count must have said with a smile on his face. And don't worry, there's also an important character: Mr. Leo, the criminal police officer, who always seems to be involved with the Count himself and his "dead" customers. The horror of the plot is unfolding ...... Any story that doesn't fall into the cliché category has something to offer. Pet Shop of Horrors" in the biggest theme seems to have a compassion for the whole planet, but she will portray the object in one after another ordinary people, each story is not depressing sense of heaviness, and some are also 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 cautious. Count D, with a Chinese-printed tunic and a look more delicate than a woman's, runs a pet store on China Street in a city somewhere, bringing you fantastical animals, mystical experiences, and smoky aromas that vaporize human desires and original sins.
D yo~(2 photos)In the world of fiction, animals are often used to symbolize the negative character of frenzy and lechery. The legend of werewolves and blood-sucking bats in the West, and Zeus in Greek mythology often disguises himself as various animals to meet his lovers; the myths of ghosts and monsters in the East in the disguise of animals, such as vixens, tautets, pikas, and snake devils, 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, and Ueda Akisei, who combined Japanese folklore and Chinese stories of gods and monsters, wrote the book "Rainy Night Story", which was popular for a while, making the creation of Japanese demons and monsters more and more prosperous, and it is still the main type of creation in the popular literature. From the evolution of Japanese literature, it seems that spirits and ghosts have always occupied a very important proportion. In the early days, these ghosts and monsters stories appeared with the form of Buddhist "speech", which was used to educate the believers 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 is the world of human nature of the gods, and the Oriental forest of monsters may be the human nature of the devil! Western horror stories are characterized by indiscriminate, sudden, brutal and bloody killings that are unpredictable and defenseless. Roland Barthes used to think that the Western form of food and drink, the use of knives and forks implies a brutal and bloody cultural trait, while the Oriental food and drink attacked with spoons and chopsticks, gentle and elegant. However, it is a pity that Bart's contact with the East and insights are not deep enough, otherwise he would have understood the Orientals do not want to move the knife on the table behind the blood, with the eyes of the blood of the service culture of the surface, the bones of the Orientals did not civilized to the point. As a girl's manga, the theme inevitably cannot be separated from the category of 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 mother who dotes on her daughter ignores Count D's warnings and feeds her pet rabbit, which looks like her daughter's pet rabbit, candy poison, 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, blasting herself and her love. This is not a scary horror manga at all, but a fable that will make you cry. It's not the pets that are scary, it's the people, the greed and ignorance of the human heart. What makes people cry are the unpredictable variations of people's ruthlessness, affection, amorousness, promiscuity, and desperation, like a jungle full of emotional crises and 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 objects 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. Give dreams, give love. Ready to get your hands on this treasured pet? Be careful, if you don't feed it properly, the cute pet will eat you up! Be careful, pets are like that, and so is love.