Narutaru: Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko
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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). 

Both stories certainly don't skimp on the violence with which children can be involved in. Especially given that the start of it all is an encounter with a bizarre and somewhat cute creature who becomes their friend. 

Both of these manga start quite harmless with cutesy artstyle, but quickly turn into more brutal storyline as the children suffer. 

- People with the power of a god trying to rule this world and change it by their own convictions - Heavy psychological conflicts - Well-rounded characters with interesting minds - Deaths. Many deaths. 

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. 

Both are can essentially be defined as 'tragedies', featuring the gradual breakdown of the initially optimistic protagonist throughout the story. 

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. 

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. 

Kizu is a bit like Narutaru in that it is presents a case of negativity with no definite conclusion. 

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. 

Do you enjoy the mental breakdowns of adolescents? Do you take pleasure in witnessing otherworldly creatures perform direct, brutal attacks on our modern society? The universes of the Boogiepop light novels and the Narutaru manga share these lovely features, and so both are to be thoroughly recommended to those of you who enjoy gritty, macabre high-school adventures. 

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. 

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. 

Gantz is humans vs aliens where as Narutaru is humans vs humans using aliens.  

If you liked Narutaru for the depravity and apocalyptic feel of it, Arigatou feels very much the same way. They're both dark trainwrecks, albeit Narutaru is a supernatural one.  

Both are cute, but dark, and depict a particular kind of violence. Narutaru is deeper, has more mature themes, and is more focused on interactions. Milk Closet is more straightforward and the children are younger so several issues from Narutaru don't feature here at all.