Narutaru: Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko
Shadow Star☆
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Japanese: なるたる 骸なる星･珠たる子
English: Shadow Star☆
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Type: Manga
Volumes: 12
Chapters: 68
Status: Finished
Published: Mar 25, 1998 to Oct 25, 2003
Genres: Drama Drama, Horror Horror, Sci-Fi Sci-Fi, Supernatural Supernatural
Theme: Psychological Psychological
Demographic: Seinen Seinen
Serialization: Afternoon
Authors: Kitoh, Mohiro (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.311 (scored by 40694,069 users)
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Ranked: #47672
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Popularity: #1573
Members: 12,781
Favorites: 383

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Both start out very childish and cute, but are later incredbly dark, gross, disturbing, and odd. Also both involve strange creatures (and them fighting), school and home life, and both disect their characters. Shadow Star is easily the stronger of the two, but don't brush Alien Nine off, as it is also very good (and a little confusing). 
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Similar themes: An extraterrestrial lifeform (Aliens in Qko-chan and Dragons in Narutaru) lands on earth,The Main protagonists are kids or young teens that met extraterrestrial creatures that they pilot or ride to fight on the war,Emotionally unstable kids,The military is creating plans to fight the aliens and win the war(Although, in Narutaru, Humans are controlling the Aliens), Adults showing no mercy to children (they don't mind hurting children),and many more.. Qko-chan is a bit less violent to Narutaru though. 
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Both are can essentially be defined as 'tragedies', featuring the gradual breakdown of the initially optimistic protagonist throughout the story. 
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Both are suspense themed stories with lots of dark shit in it as well as lots of nice art and character designs too. And some creepy looking creature designs included. 
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There are a number of similarities between these two stories. First of all, both stories feature a young girl of around the same age that find a "critter" with special powers. If you are familiar with one of the two stories, you can kinda know what to expect from the other, as there are comparable story beats between the two. Nonetheless there are enough distinctions that it makes both enjoyable in their own way. I recommend these in case you're in the mood for another one of these kid with a big dangerous secret stories. 
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Kizu is a bit like Narutaru in that it is presents a case of negativity with no definite conclusion. 
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It's clear that The Promised Neverland was inspired a lot by Narutaru. Both, first of all, contain children, with a cute artstyle dealing with many hardships, including gore. Both deal with psychology and characters. They both share the theme of children v.s adults. Both contain a lot of politics, and war themes. While Narutaru is much darker and contains a lot of philosophy, YNN can be considered as a light version of Narutaru for younger readers, with a more understandable politics, less gore and less philosophy and psychology. 
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Because it's from the same author, it uses a similar drawing style (Doh!). And both are kinda creepy, and that's what everybody loves about his stories. 
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Being done by the same author, both have the same feel, art, style and similar genres. Both start as a small, simple and apparently childish story, and develops to amazing plots of epic proportions. Definitely two of the best manga ever written. 
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