Petshop of Horrors! Damn! (And some random stuff.)

[tiggymalvern]

A few days ago, I read the final volume (10) of the Petshop of Horrors manga. It left me just... gobsmacked.

I loved this series already. I loved it for being dark and twisted, for being about a strange, dangerous non-human guy living a life full of secrets and his changing relationship with a guy who starts out as his enemy (Spotting any trends yet? Nope?). I loved it for being an utterly warped (a)morality tale, with people who commit innocuous and accepted 'mistakes' coming to very sticky ends. I just plain loved it.

And then I read the final volume, where so many things happen so damn fast and it never stops hitting you with the boggle. I read some things that I'd seen in a few of the fics and I'd assumed they were clever bits of fanon, and they're not, they're damn well canon, and why the hell isn't everybody reading this and where are all the fics for it? It just begs to be written, the way everything's left, the way everything changes and dangles, and I am just awestruck. Seriously.

The anime OVAs, BTW, do not even begin to convey what the manga is really about. They're all about the morality(?) plots and not at all about the characters, where the manga is merely a beautifully dark setting for the people.

And now that I have had my say on that, I progress to silliness.

You scored as Marvin Martian. "Welcome to Planet X!" You are very smart and organized. You are good at making lists and ordering things chronologically. You would rather read the book than watch the movie. Sometimes, your imagination runs wild, and you find yourself in your own little world isolated from everything else, but having an overactive imagination was never a crime. </td> Marvin Martian 75% Wile E. Coyote 67% Elmer Fudd 58% Henry Hawk 58% Foghorn Leghorn 42% Bugs Bunny 42% Sylvester Jr. 42% Daffy Duck 33% Porky Pig 33% Petunia Pig 33% Taz 17% Sylvester 17% Yosimite Sam 17% Tweety Bird 8% Which Looney Tune Are You? created with QuizFarm.com

Which I guess says just about everything, really. Obsessive? Me?

Comments

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I think the 'something' is probably a better word than alien. It's left kind of woolly.

If I hadn't already found Trigun, I'd write Petshop. I have a couple of half ideas. But I also have multiple Trigun plots which are more developed and Petshop, however good it is, isn't quite enough to usurp them.

I guess one of us will have to visit the other again if you want to read the end then!

[mistressrenet.livejournal.com]

So I guess I have to start reading Petshop of Horrors, huh? It'll save me from Prince of Tennis, anyway. XD

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Just think - you'll be able to read it all right away, no irritating waiting around for the ending XD

[hidden-hero.livejournal.com]

MWAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH!

Told ya.

*wickedly knowing grin*

...some series are just ...perfect.

AND yes...finding petshop ff is difficult...VERY VERY difficult...and why more people don't has been a mystery to me for a year.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

You did tell me, and yes, you are evil! Or maybe I'm just an easy sell in a Mexican XD

[mac-lynn.livejournal.com]

Well, start writing. ^.^ I'd *love* to see some PoH fanfic. I just love that couple. Hmmm. Time to make a new icon. Hee.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Hey, I already have a list of WIPs thiiiiiiiiiis long! I could write PSoH, I could, but honestly I'd really rather not!

[mac-lynn.livejournal.com]

But, why?! ^.^ I guess not enough people have been inspired yet. Keep working on it. You never know who might suddenly decide to jump in.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

That was pretty much teh evil plan, yeah. Get some of those talented people on my flist to write it for me! :-)

[andmydog.livejournal.com]

I loved it for being dark and twisted, for being about a strange, dangerous non-human guy living a life full of secrets and his changing relationship with a guy who starts out as his enemy... I loved it for being an utterly warped (a)morality tale, with people who commit innocuous and accepted 'mistakes' coming to very sticky ends.

Oh hell. Just what I need. Another fandom.
Because with an outline like that... hell. Now I have to.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Yes, you really do XD

[glass-bullet.livejournal.com]

I love that series. Q-chan is so cute o_o! I don't know why I haven't written any fanfiction for it yet.. maybe I will. :o

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

Q-chan is so cute o_o!

Well, kind of. Kind of creepy too, of course, since this is Petshop we're talking about!
If you do write fic, I *will* be there XD