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| THIS IS AN ANIME ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS THE MANGA BEYOND THIS EPISODE. ---------------------------------------- Shadow Star Narutaru was a pretty entertaining show, all things considered. Unfortunately, the anime introduced to many characters and subplots and really didn't have the time to finish all the plot threads. That being said, this final 2 episode arc was pretty good and kind of disturbing. A elementary school kid, much less Shina's best friend, goes on a killing spree and Shina does her best to stop her. Overall, i'll have to give the series a 6/10 because of unresolved plots and underused characters. But, Shadow Star Narutaru did have some interesting ideas and was far more than just a shock fest like some people claim. |
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insan3soldiern said: That being said, this final 2 episode arc was pretty good and kind of disturbing. A elementary school kid, much less Shina's best friend, goes on a killing spree and Shina does her best to stop her. That's all you got out of the last two episodes? No wonder you only gave it a 6/10. This wasn't NGE where the final two episodes are spent reviewing all the character's already obvious psychological problems. One of my favorite things about Naru Taru was that it almost never explicitly states what is wrong with a character. These last two episodes were an especially good example. By putting Hiro in almost parallel yet opposite situations it offers us a great opportunity to examine their contrasting personalities. |
DrHouseMay 16, 2010 8:10 PM
| Wonder who said hi to Shiina at the end. |
AlexSadist-sama said: Wonder who said hi to Shiina at the end. I'd like imagine it's Akira... (Just trying to convince myself that someone other than the pathologically moronic lead had at least some semblance of a happy ending) |
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| Argh. I could handle Evangelion's drop-off ending which left a few things unanswered, but this clearly didn't fit into 13 episodes. It had so much potential but pretty much took a normal plot, beginning middle and end, and just sliced it right in half; ending in the middle. Hiro reminded me of Higurashi's characters, interestingly. Just that it wasn't her doing the killing, but someone else. And speaking of Evangelion, when it threw Kaworu into the story relatively late, it was executed at least somewhat well. The opening in Narutaru implies Hiroko was going to be an important character in the series; she enters late and leaves early. Not a smooth execution. Generally, it seems like it would've been a good series if it wasn't rushed. If each "arc" (if you could call it that, 1-2 episodes with different "arc"-like plots each) was twice as long it'd have been done better. I'll pity it with the 7/10. But I wonder if the manga actually settles several things. |
HaibaneRenmeiFanMay 26, 2011 2:36 PM
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| -.- ugh crap enidng -.- felt really unfinished and anime is quite depressing also -.- cant give over 6.. so 6/10 |
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| just because they didnt have the money to fill in the gaps doesn't mean the story sucks, use your freaking imagination people. The story was really epic 10/10, but sadly i wished they filled in those gaps, and finished the story :( |
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| This was too short, but for how it played out, Shadow Star Narutaru surprised the hell out of me, even though I already knew of its twist on the "kids with monsters" idea. Giving it a 7/10 for now. Might go up after I figure out what the hell I just watched. Also, damn the opening for being so catchy and upbeat. |
| Interesting anime, I hate myself for watching Shadow Star Narutaru this late :/ Watched many "freak" shows and this was actually pretty good against others shows, but something was missing from the end... - Why Akira killed her father? - Shiina's father said that Hiroko is missing... (I know that they don't believe her that Hoshimaru killed her, and that would make Shiina suspect) Somehow I got feeling that I need to read manga, but... oh well About Hiroko... It's pretty sad, that normal very intelligent girl got traumatized so much that it driven her insane. But still, those "bullies" needed for punishment, but no need to kill them. "bullied peoples become bullies" fit somehow to this show, but on this show it was like: "bullied peoples become killers" She made herself even worse person than those bullies... 5/5 |
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| 4/10 ...a waste of time! A pile of crap! review said: "It turns into the most distrubing, scary, dark, insane, and twisted anime series ever made!" That is if all the shows you've watched before are "G" rated. Come on...you mean to tell me that soldiers dying from poison gas is dark and scary? Shiina being thrown around by a dragon's child in third(I think) episode was insane?(what is insane is how she didn't sustain any injuries) Oh, right...the scared faces of Akira and Shiina gazing upon those atrocities...man, was that some hard core psychological drama or what. Even explaining why I am so disappointed in this show feels like a waste of time. Maybe it's because I truly believed the review and was expecting to see all the disturbing stuff promised but only got an episode's worth of it. Or maybe because this show really is the failed attempt to develop a not-so-bad idea. |
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ChaosLegion said: 4/10 ...a waste of time! A pile of crap! review said: "It turns into the most distrubing, scary, dark, insane, and twisted anime series ever made!" That is if all the shows you've watched before are "G" rated. Come on...you mean to tell me that soldiers dying from poison gas is dark and scary? Shiina being thrown around by a dragon's child in third(I think) episode was insane?(what is insane is how she didn't sustain any injuries) Oh, right...the scared faces of Akira and Shiina gazing upon those atrocities...man, was that some hard core psychological drama or what. Even explaining why I am so disappointed in this show feels like a waste of time. Maybe it's because I truly believed the review and was expecting to see all the disturbing stuff promised but only got an episode's worth of it. Or maybe because this show really is the failed attempt to develop a not-so-bad idea. Totaly agree with you. Not sure why i watched it till the end maybe i was hoping for something good lol... |
Spaidy_ said: ChaosLegion said: 4/10 ...a waste of time! A pile of crap! review said: "It turns into the most distrubing, scary, dark, insane, and twisted anime series ever made!" That is if all the shows you've watched before are "G" rated. Come on...you mean to tell me that soldiers dying from poison gas is dark and scary? Shiina being thrown around by a dragon's child in third(I think) episode was insane?(what is insane is how she didn't sustain any injuries) Oh, right...the scared faces of Akira and Shiina gazing upon those atrocities...man, was that some hard core psychological drama or what. Even explaining why I am so disappointed in this show feels like a waste of time. Maybe it's because I truly believed the review and was expecting to see all the disturbing stuff promised but only got an episode's worth of it. Or maybe because this show really is the failed attempt to develop a not-so-bad idea. Totaly agree with you. Not sure why i watched it till the end maybe i was hoping for something good lol... Same. I think my expectations were way too high. I'm very disappointed but ah well, at least I gave it a chance. |
| I think people here are penalizing the show because it didn't hold to the gossip they heard, which is stupid in my opinion. The series wasn't designed to be Elfen Lied so why be harsh towards it for failing to be something it wasn't trying to be? The show was a character study in which each character as a psychological and/or social problem, heck that's even a requirement for having a Dragon's Child. And in my opinion it did a great job at presenting the characters and their issues to the very end. |
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| 4/10 i will check the manga because I'm guessing the story is unfinished,there's a lot of characters left but overall the show was pretty bad and boring sorry |
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| what the fuck happened after ep 9? it's like they just start showing random fillers.. what the shit man.. |
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| I'm almost certain it was Mio-Chan who called out to Shiina at the end. On the Wikipedia page it says that she survives the attack but needs to use a wheelchair but obviously there can be tweaks for minor things like this in an adaption. Also the voice sounds like a match. I was a bit baffled by Shiina's change of hairstyle in this scene. Presumably she decided to in order to look more mature but she now has ahoge?! It's a crying shame the second half of the original manga wasn't adapted... Late edit: I found it ironic that Shiina, who Hiro-Chan's father felt was a delinquent, got into Banda Academy while his daughter... definitely didn't. Maybe Shiina tried to get partially redeem her friend's death? |
PreFuturism-0Nov 17, 2012 1:42 PM
| Yeah this anime... The premise is an excellent one and the psychological deficiencies of all the characters is a nice detail, but this really needed to be about three to four times longer. If the main plot and subplots had been finished this could have been a good, no great, anime. When putting together its shortcomings and its originality I come up with a 6/10. And I'm really reaching to go that far. Also the OP is damned amazing |
| I thought the voice at the ending belonged to Hiro-chan, I'm not convinced myself, though^^. |
| Pretty fucked up ending but well that's what I liked about these few last episodes, made it score slightly higher for me, in all this anime was rather on the boring side as it had a quite bad pacing but in the end it wasn't garbage! |
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| The teacher looks like Jon from Garfield. |
| I really wish this would've been 25 episodes. The plot went absolutely nowhere. It introduced all of these characters only to do nothing with them. I'm also disappointed that we had no explanation on what happened to Akira at the end. The last episodes picked up, but they had nothing to do with the 11 episodes before that... 3/10 for me. |
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| Idk what made me watch this, curiosity I guess. I like other types of horror so I can't really say I liked this, too much drama. The interesting part was the "dragons" (aliens?) but it's not explored well. I didn't care for the usual misanthrope drama "the world is terrible cause people were bad to me and I didn't even tell anyone or react so I'm gonna turn to the dark side" theme, which I think is the major anime theme. Since I can't yell at characters how dumb their reasoning is (not that they would listen considering all the mental illness and personality disorders), I have to just watch the crazy villains tell their silly fascist theories and as the mentally unstable friends finally snap. I wish Shiina would just meet a good strong friend without twisted morals and mental health issues, but I guess the aim is to tempt her to the dark side too. Obviously the story was chopped up from the manga so a lot didn't make sense. I liked Shiina and creepy-cute Hoshimaru and wanted to know what happens to them so I'm kinda interested in the manga. But if it's just trauma after trauma to turns teens into psychos I don't think I have the patience. (from info I saw this seems to be the whole series deal so bleh) Oh I liked the songs they used, specially the ending theme |
SpieluhrMay 7, 2015 7:52 PM
| tsuntsun >>> deredere |
| I think the main reason why my final thoughts on this series are more positive then most people is because I'm aware that the anime actually really only adapted like half the manga, which is why it feels so disjointed and completely unfinished. Honestly think this would be a really good one to get a re-boot/re-release where they adapt the full thing this time... |
| It had a really interesting premise but kind of lost itself near the end by becoming an anti-bullying campaign. Still pretty good all in all, but I guess i'll have to read the manga to know the rest of the story. It wasn't creepy or disturbing at all though, that's the entire reason I started this anime in the first place haha. |
| What a great show. I was entertained until the end. The only thing I don't get is Akira... she just killed her father! Maybe she has no control over her dragon child anymore and it is taking control over her like the other girl :( Too bad that it ended somewhere in the middle. I'm really curious about the manga now :) 10/10 from me. |
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| I basically read the manga to see if it gets any better and if the monsters are explained but it's more of the same, just kinda crazier and kinda sloppy |
| tsuntsun >>> deredere |
| Kinda get the feeling Akira was sexual abused which is why she killed her father, need to read the manga now, liked the eerie vibes to this series, music was really good at creating a creepy atmosphere. |
| Garboooo ending.. I expect way better than this cheap o'l third rate crap |
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| Well it got me curious enough to think about reading the manga. Liked how it was like Bokurano in putting adolescents in situations only adults would normally be in. Too bad it seems like a lot of things were censored though. |
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| this last arc was awesome. 7/10, it started kinda slow. i'd have liked if it was a couple of episodes longer, that ending felt kinda weird. still, i did expect that considering Konaka wrote this. |
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| Really entertaining watch, but I'm not quite satisfied with the conclusion. I hope the manga offers more answers. 6,5/10 as of now. |
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| That was a truly awful ending to an Anime that just had far too much crap stuffed into it. So many plot threads are introduced, only to never come up again. For those final two episodes to be the finale? Just an incredibly disappointing ending. This series spent far far far too much time teasing it's sinister side without actually going all the way with it to the very end. And when it did, it happened with a character that is basically added in at the last minute. Making any and all the rest of the series feel like an afterthought. Also I'm no gore hound or anything but when this series is often compared to Elfen Lied then I expected the violence to be somewhat more explicit. Instead outside of the shock factor of children being murdered the actual violence in this series is practically non-existent on screen. Blood being reserved for just crimson smudges on clothes and faces. I didn't have high expectations but I liked the idea of these cute looking 'dragon child' monsters and the series potentially being quite brutal but it fails to deliver really at all. It's all baseline basic revenge at the end for the most part. Unfortunately I feel this is a bad bad series, there was potential for so much more in my opinion. 3/10 |
| I guess there's no need to read the manga at all. Although last few episodes feel disjointed, they did drop enough hints how the series heading. |
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| oh boy what a crap anime, 3/10. |
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| It really feels like they planned it out for 26 episodes and we only got 13 and the ending suffers for it. There's no weight to it. Like, there's no real resolution to any of their emotional journeys, other than Hiroko who seeks revenge and destruction. Akira's issues with bullying were way more subtle to begin with, but we didn't see enough. Only her interaction with her male classmate, and the killing of her parents at the very end. I wanted to like this more, but it felt like a lot was left out. It's a character based series with so much going on that it drowns the characters out. Maybe I'll read the manga. |
syncrogazerApr 2, 2021 5:25 PM
| so whats the moral of the story? it was definitely entertaining and i was kinda enamoured with akira and the ost was good too and i was being caught off guard like all the time but yeah at the end of the day... either everything flew over my head or it really turned out to be a nothing burger yeah the bullying plot was pretty hardcore tho, i get it, i was bullied too, i kinda wished a monster would devour the bullies... but then in the show it happened for real lol |
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| If only they kept this momentum with the other episodes. I would say this desperately needs a season 2, but I'm glad it's over. |
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