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Narutaru (Manga)

Narutaru

Alternative Titles

English: Shadow Star
Synonyms: Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko, Narutaru: Shadow Star
Japanese: 骸なる星・珠たる子

Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 12
Chapters: 67
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 21, 1998 to Dec 22, 2003
Authors: Kitoh, Mohiro (Story & Art)
Serialization: Afternoon

Statistics

Score: 7.831 (scored by 1487 users)
Ranked: #15722
Popularity: #786
Members: 3,404
Favorites: 171
1 indicates a weighted score
2 based on the top manga page.

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Popular Tags

drama horror supernatural

Synopsis

Shiina Tamai, an energetic sixth-grader, found a star-shaped creature on the seabed during her visit to her grandparents' house. She befriended it and found it has some supernatural powers, such as flying and incredible strength. However, what seemed like a dream may turn out to be her worst nightmare as she meets other kids who have similar creatures and dark, destructive desires...

Related Manga

Adaptation: Narutaru: Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko

Characters

 Hoshimaru
Hoshimaru
Main
 Shiina
Tamai, Shiina
Main
 Hiroko
Kaizuka, Hiroko
Supporting
 Norio
Koga, Norio
Supporting
 Mamiko
Kuri, Mamiko
Supporting
 Satomi
Ozawa, Satomi
Supporting
 Akira
Sakura, Akira
Supporting



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Sep 15, 2008
Master_M2K
Shadow Star (Narutaru) is a unique blend of Supernatural, Military, Action & Drama with a really promising story, which was let down by the way things concluded. Just like this mangaka’s other works, Shadow Star revolves around kids but that doesn’t make it any less disturbing.

It all begins when an energetic young girl named Shiina Tamai discovers a star-shaped creature, whilst visiting her grandparents over the holidays. Ever since then she becomes involved in some strange and dangerous incidents, involving other kids who have similar creatures to hers. It is later explained that these things are known by the term Dragon Child/Shadow Dragon and the read more
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Jun 27, 2012
HikaruIzumi
Shadow Star is probably the most well done manga I've read and could have a code name “100 ways how to mentally break young teens”. Cute monsters and young girls? Why not make their life hell and make them fight for their lives in a battle that is seemingly lost even before they try? Why not add a psychotic group of young teens that want to rule world with “cute” monsters of their own and give “cute” another meaning the most ugly and bloody way? That’s pretty much Shadow Star.

Story: 10/10
Everything begins when Shiina finds a weird creature, Hoshimaru (as she names it), and keeps read more
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User Recommendations

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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Both titles are very very depressing. Bad things just keep happening to the characters of the story, though Shadow Star (or Narutaru) is without a doubt much more depressing, so far...

Both are from the same mangaka.

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