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Pet Shop of Horrors

Pet Shop of Horrors

19996.91 Season4 EpisodesEnded

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?

Produced by Masao Maruyama
NetworksTBS

Top Cast

Toshihiko Seki

Toshihiko Seki

Count D (voice)

Masaya Onosaka

Masaya Onosaka

Leon Orcot (voice)

Satsuki Yukino

Satsuki Yukino

Jill (Voice)

Themes & Keywords

detectivemermaidpolicesupernaturalcursetragedyanthropomorphismbased on mangadark fantasyanimejoseihorror

About Pet Shop of Horrors

Pet Shop of Horrors is a sci-fi & fantasy, animation, mystery series that first aired in 1999 exploring themes of detective, mermaid, police, supernatural, curse, tragedy. it stars Toshihiko Seki, Masaya Onosaka, Satsuki Yukino. 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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