Half-baked, spooky, creature-of-the-week fare from a bizarre pet shop in Chinatown. The hurried plots and insufficiently developed characters make sustaining interest difficult.

No major plot, so far, but rather a collection of poorly structured and unfocused pseudo-horror stories, with the series' main character, the Count, at the center.

Given the amount of episodes, "Pet Shop's" desperation to develop its characters quickly and forcefully spoils genuine intrigue.

The animation is, at best, decent. The stunning imagery is surprisingly distracting - too vibrant for horror.

Writing toward the classic American horror genre, the script fumbles around idioms and mis-handles potential nail-biting moments.

The speech is a bit too dry for animation. Many of the characters lack distinctive inflections and pitches in their voices to indicate idiosyncrasies. The insouciant Count, however, has a befitting HAL-9000 accent.

A little language, some gruesome violence, implied eroticism and female nudity.

The Count dons a sumptuous Chinese wardrobe.

Leon wears a distracting and silly single-starred sweatshirt. One would anticipate Detective Leon to press on his star at some given point to activate his super powers.

You gotta appreciate lines like "You didn't sell him another man-eating rabbit, did you?"

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