Pet (manga)

Pet
First tankōbon volume cover
ペット
(Petto)
Genre
Manga
Written byRanjō Miyake
Published by
MagazineBig Comic Spirits
DemographicSeinen
Original runJuly 29, 2002 – October 27, 2003
Volumes5
Anime television series
Directed byTakahiro Omori
Written bySadayuki Murai
Music byHideyuki Shima
StudioGeno Studio
Licensed bySentai Filmworks
Original networkTokyo MX, BS11, AT-X
Original run January 6, 2020 – March 30, 2020
Episodes13

Pet (Japanese: ペット, Hepburn: Petto) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ranjō Miyake. It ran in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Big Comic Spirits from 2002 to 2003. An anime television series adaptation by Geno Studio was broadcast from January to March 2020. The series was streamed worldwide by Amazon Prime.

Plot

In ancient China, martial artists had developed a psychoactive technique that allows its users to enter the subconsciousness of the human mind by manipulating their enemies' memories via their "Peak", where their most treasured memories are visible and their "Valley", where their most negative memories are suppressed. Later during the 21st century, an organization called "The Company" are tasked with retrieving and securing the descendants of said martial artists by turning them into "Pets", mindless hitmen against various targets who might pose a threat. Tsukasa and Hiroki, a master/pet duo who goes by the name Tsubushiya follows orders from the company as they slowly begin uncovering its secrets as well as a plot involving colleague Satoru and his former foster father, Hayashi.

Characters

Hiroki (ヒロキ, Hiroki)
Voiced by: Keisuke Ueda[4]
Tsukasa (司, Tsukasa)
Voiced by: Kishō Taniyama[4]
Satoru (悟, Satoru)
Voiced by: Yūki Ono[4]
Hayashi (林, Hayashi)
Voiced by: Yasuyuki Kase[4]
Katsuragi (桂木, Katsuragi)
Voiced by: Shunsuke Sakuya[5]
Jin (ジン, Jin)
Voiced by: M.A.O[5]
Ron (ロン, Ron)
Voiced by: Kōji Yusa[5]
Company President (社長, Shachō)
Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita[5]

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Ranjō Miyake, Pet was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Weekly Big Comic Spirits from July 29, 2002,[6][7] to October 27, 2003.[a] Shogakukan collected its chapters into five tankōbon volumes, released from January 30 to December 25, 2003.[10][11] Enterbrain released a remastered edition in 2009.[12][13]

Volumes

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN
1 January 30, 2003 (Shogakukan)[10]
October 26, 2009 (Enterbrain)[14]		978-4-09-186651-6
978-4-04-726088-7
2 January 30, 2003 (Shogakukan)[15]
October 26, 2009 (Enterbrain)[16]		978-4-09-186652-3
978-4-04-726089-4
3 May 30, 2003 (Shogakukan)[17]
November 26, 2009 (Enterbrain)[18]		978-4-09-186653-0
978-4-04-726126-6
4 September 30, 2003 (Shogakukan)[19]
December 25, 2009 (Enterbrain)[20]		978-4-09-186654-7
978-4-04-726210-2
5 December 25, 2003 (Shogakukan)[11]
January 29, 2010 (Enterbrain)[21]		978-4-09-186655-4
978-4-04-726278-2

Anime

An anime television series adaptation of the 2009 remastered edition was announced in March 2018.[13] The series was originally scheduled to premiere in October 2019,[22] but it was delayed to air from January 6 to March 30, 2020 on Tokyo MX, BS11, and AT-X.[5] The series is directed by Takahiro Omori and written by Sadayuki Murai, with animation by Geno Studio. Junichi Hayama is handling the character designs,[4] and Twin Engine is producing the series. It was streamed worldwide by Amazon.[13] TK from Ling Tosite Sigure performed the series' opening theme song "Chō no Tobu Suisō" (蝶の飛ぶ水槽), while Memai Siren performed the series' ending theme song "image _____".[23][24] The series ran for 13 episodes.[25] In December 2020, Sentai Filmworks announced the acquisition of the series for home video and digital release in North America.[26]

Episodes

No. Title[27] Original air date[28]
1"The Crushers"
Transliteration: "Tsubushiya" (Japanese: 潰し屋)		January 6, 2020 (2020-01-06)
2"Views of The Peak"
Transliteration: "'Yama' no Keshiki" (Japanese: 「ヤマ」の景色)		January 13, 2020 (2020-01-13)
3"Jobs"
Transliteration: "Shigoto" (Japanese: 仕事)		January 20, 2020 (2020-01-20)
4"A Trap for Hayashi"
Transliteration: "Fukuro no Hayashi" (Japanese: 袋の林)		January 27, 2020 (2020-01-27)
5"Locks"
Transliteration: "Kagi" (Japanese: 鍵)		February 3, 2020 (2020-02-03)
6"Back Door"
Transliteration: "Urawaza" (Japanese: 裏技)		February 10, 2020 (2020-02-10)
7"Revenge"
Transliteration: "Ribenji" (Japanese: リベンジ)		February 17, 2020 (2020-02-17)
8"Intrigue"
Transliteration: "Sakubō" (Japanese: 策謀)		February 24, 2020 (2020-02-24)
9"The Way The Wind Blows"
Transliteration: "Kaze no Michi" (Japanese: 風の道)		March 2, 2020 (2020-03-02)
10"Broken Fish Tanks"
Transliteration: "Kowareta suisō" (Japanese: 壊れた水槽)		March 9, 2020 (2020-03-09)
11"Reunion"
Transliteration: "Saikai" (Japanese: 再会)		March 16, 2020 (2020-03-16)
12"Carrier Pigeon"
Transliteration: "Denshobato" (Japanese: 伝書鳩)		March 23, 2020 (2020-03-23)
13"Rainbow"
Transliteration: "Niji" (Japanese: 虹)		March 30, 2020 (2020-03-30)

Notes

  1. ^ The series finished in the magazine's 48th issue of 2003 (cover date November 10),[8] released on October 27 of the same year.[9]

References

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