{"id":1199,"date":"2009-05-19T21:37:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-20T04:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mangavillage.co.uk\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2012-06-24T20:23:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-25T03:23:52","slug":"leave-it-to-pet-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/2009\/05\/19\/leave-it-to-pet-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave It to PET Volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

PET (which stands for polyethylene terephythalate, a type of plastic) was a simple plastic bottle until nine-year-old Noboru Yamada recycled him.\u00a0 Now PET’s a SUPER ROBOT programmed to protect Noboru at all costs!\u00a0 Whenever Noboru’s in trouble, PET transforms, plugs in, and jets to the rescue!\u00a0 Unfortunately, PET’s “help” usually does more harm than good, proving time and again that just because you call yourself “super” doesn’t mean you have a clue.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>By Kenji Sonishi
\nPublisher:<\/strong> Viz Media
\nAge Rating:<\/strong> All Ages
\nGenre:<\/strong> Comedy
\nPrice:<\/strong> $7.99<\/p>\n

Another entry into the “manga for young kids” category, Leave it to PET <\/em>hits all the right places on a kid’s funny bone. The short, simple stories and cartoonish art will pull them in, but don’t expect any meaningful environmental messages just because there’s a recycling theme.<\/p>\n

Leave It to PET<\/em> is about a boy named Noboru and his recycled robot “friend” called PET.\u00a0 When Noboru took the time to recycle a drink bottle he found, that bottle came back to repay Noboru’s thoughtfulness by doing good deeds for him.\u00a0 This volume is a shining example of the phrase “No good deed goes unpunished”.\u00a0 Noboru’s single act of thoughtfulness has plagued him with PET, a robot who thinks he’s helpful, when he’s really just a nuiscence.<\/p>\n

Even though PET claims to help Noboru, he does everything but.\u00a0 When he first appears, he’s too wrapped up in his own introduction to save Noboru from some bullies.\u00a0 Fixing a slipped bicycle chain ends with a call for a sanitation truck.\u00a0 Charging a cellphone ends up frying it to a crisp.\u00a0 But PET isn’t the only recycled robot to cause Noboru misery.\u00a0 PET has a sister, Alu, from a can Norobu recycled.\u00a0 P-2, is a new, lighter, version of PET, and Tiny Tin, a steel coffee can.\u00a0 All of them are as useless as PET.\u00a0 The only useful one is Plas, a recycled plastic cube that cleans up after PET sometimes.\u00a0 Of course, it’s PET and his friends’ antics and Noboru’s frustation that makes this title so funny.<\/p>\n

There’s no real plot to this title.\u00a0 The stories are short, only a couple of pages long, which is just long enough for Noboru to have a problem and PET completely mess it up.\u00a0 The art is very simple and cartoonish, in a comic strip sort of way.\u00a0 The most detail goes into the different modes PET can change into, such as an RC car or the Ultimate Crusher.<\/p>\n

Parents can feel safe giving this title to their children.\u00a0 There’s only what some might call mild violence in the form of some bullying of Noboru, and some kids getting kicked into the distance by PET.\u00a0 It’s more of a slapstick sort of violence.\u00a0 I mean, even Noboru never kicks PET, even after all he puts him through.\u00a0 Though, if you were looking for some information of recycling, you won’t find it here.\u00a0 The recycling is just a plot device for PET and his friends to exist.\u00a0 Other than some projects at the end of the book using old soda bottles, you won’t find any other enviromental messages.<\/p>\n

So, I don’t have a problem recommending this title to kids.\u00a0 Adults might not be as forgiving.\u00a0 I found much of the humor flat, making me roll my eyes more than laugh about it.\u00a0 But at the same time, I know my kids would love this title and laugh all the way through it.\u00a0 It’s a kid thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PET (which stands for polyethylene terephythalate, a type of plastic) was a simple plastic bottle until nine-year-old Noboru Yamada recycled him.\u00a0 Now PET’s a SUPER ROBOT programmed to protect Noboru at all costs!\u00a0 Whenever Noboru’s in trouble, PET transforms, plugs in, and jets to the rescue!\u00a0 Unfortunately, PET’s “help” usually does more harm than good, proving time and again that just because you call yourself “super” doesn’t mean you have a clue. By Kenji Sonishi Publisher: Viz Media Age Rating: All Ages Genre: Comedy Price: $7.99 Another entry into the “manga for young kids” category, Leave it to PET hits all the right places on a kid’s funny bone. The short, simple stories and cartoonish art will pull them in, but don’t expect any meaningful environmental messages just because there’s a recycling theme. Leave It to PET is about a boy named Noboru and his recycled robot “friend” called PET.\u00a0 When Noboru took the time to recycle a drink bottle he found, that bottle came back to repay Noboru’s thoughtfulness by doing good deeds for him.\u00a0 This volume is a shining example of the phrase “No good deed goes unpunished”.\u00a0 Noboru’s single act of thoughtfulness has plagued him with PET,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[26,83,110,155,208],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews-reviews","tag-all-ages","tag-manga","tag-review","tag-viz-kids","tag-viz-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/files\/2009\/05\/Leave-it-to-PET-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2umma-jl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2652,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/2652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/manga.jadedragononline.com\/village\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}