Make sure to only give water and vegetables to all your trick or treaters this Halloween or terrible things could happen! Sully, Tori, and Austin present our 2025 Halloween episode with a review of the 4-episode anime series Pet Shop of Horrors based on the manga by Matsuri Akino. We are also completely serious about reviewing all of Hetalia: Axis Powers if we reach over $1,000 per month on Patreon. Only you can make that happen, listener! Inflict upon us the greatest horror conceivable this Halloween. (For the record, we released this before Anime World Order released their latest episode in which they also review Pet Shop of Horrors, but apparently not before they recorded said episode, but who is keeping track anyway because now you’ve got TWO Pet Shop of Horrors podcast reviews to listen to. And look, if you’re not already listening to AWO if you’re listening to us, what are you doing?!)
Have you seen Pet Shop of Horrors? Which episode was your favorite? Let us know by sending us an email at thirdimpactanime@gmail.com and we’ll discuss it on the show.
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Time stamps:
- 00:00:00 – Introduction and opening question chat
- 00:09:45 – Pet Shop of Horrors discussion
- 00:33:23 – Pet Shop of Horrors background and history
- 00:48:28 – Pet Shop of Horrors discussion (cont.)
- 01:22:31 – Final thoughts and the English dub discussion (it’s dated!)
- 01:30:12 – Outro
Music used in this episode:
- Melody by LEGOLGEL (Pet Shop of Horrors ED)
- D by Kazuhisa Yamaguchi & Ichirou Imai (Pet Shop of Horrors OST)
- Damage by Kazuhisa Yamaguchi & Ichirou Imai (Pet Shop of Horrors OST)
- Delicious by Kazuhisa Yamaguchi & Ichirou Imai (Pet Shop of Horrors OST)
- Hello Zepp by Charlie Clouser (Saw OST)
A collection of things we brought up:
- The Monkey
- Merlin’s Shop of Mystical Wonders
- The Sword in the Stone (1963)
- Osgood Perkins
- Stephen King
- MST3K
- The Devil’s Gift
- Earnest Borgnine
- Pet Shop of Horrors
- Toy Story
- Final Destination
- KaiserBeamz
- Cymbal-banging monkey toy
- Adventure Time
- One Piece
- King Ghidorah
- Matsuri Akino
- Apple Mystery
- Horror M
- Tokyopop
- Sentai Filmworks
- ADV Films
- Urban Vision
- Yoshiaki Kawajiri
- Demon City Shinjuku
- Wicked City
- Ninja Scroll
- Cutie Honey
- Madhouse (studio)
- Project A-ko
- PlayStation
- Castlevania
- Mononoke
- Needful Things
- Sailor Moon Crystal
- Naoko Takeuchi
- Spirited Away
- Lupin the Third: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine
- Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
- Kenji Nakamura
- Space Dandy
- Pop Team Epic
- Dracula
- Phantom Thief Jeanne
- Toshio Hirata
- The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
- Metropolis (2001)
- Unico
- Kimba the White Lion
- Barefoot Gen
- Yasuhiro Imagawa
- Giant Robo: The Day the Earth Stood Still
- Mobile Fighter G Gundam
- Berserk
- Getter Robo Armageddon
- Hiroshi Hamasaki
- Steins;Gate
- Made in Abyss
- Texhnolyze
- Perfect Blue
- Paranoia Agent
- Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
- Satoshi Nishimura
- Hunter X Hunter
- Bleach
- Pluto
- Kazuhisa Yamaguchi
- Ichirou Imai
- Guilty Gear
- Discotek Media
- Viz Media
- Toshihiko Seki
- Trigun
- Descendants of Darkness
- Zatch Bell!
- Bleach
- John DeMita
- Naruto
- One-Punch Man
- Hunter x Hunter
- JAG (TV Series)
- Masaya Onosaka
- Pokémon
- Detective Conan
- Sailor Moon
- Dragon Ball Z Kai
- Hetalia: Axis Powers
- Alex Fernandaz
- Dallas (TV Series)
- The Cheetah Girls
- Resident Evil
- Delicious in Dungeon
- Saw (film)
- Chainsaw Man
- Barbie
- Spider-Man
- If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
- Mark Hamill
- The Shape of Water
- Littlest Pet Shop
- Mao Zedong
- Adolf Hitler
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Harry S. Truman
- World War II
- Quilin
- Twin Peaks
- Mark Frost
- The Lord of the Rings
- David Lynch
- Gremlins
- Time Warp
Third Impact Anime 
[…] Pet Shop of Horrors is the Gremlins-inspired tale of Count D, a beautiful man who sells exotic creatures to people from his store in Los Angeles Chinatown and looks positively faboo doing it. Revel in the anecdotes of Gerald admitting how in the late 1990s/early 2000s, male anime fans would totally watch stuff like this and completely fail to pick up on any sort of fujoshi baiting aspect to it whatsoever. Look, that was COMMONPLACE back then! (For the record, we recorded this before Third Impact Anime released their latest episode in which they also review Pet Shop of Horrors.) […]
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