To understand why Narutaru is so bad, you'll have to read it yourself, however I urge you not to, because then you'll just get blue balled like I did. The premise is interesting, however it doesn't bother doing anything new. There are a few instances where the characters are intriguing, sure, and the structuring was cool in certain areas. An example would be the group dynamics for all the characters, they all belong to a group, while everyone is working for their own purposes. The series doesn't really treat it's characters as a collective, but rather just specific cases. I'm not gonna lie that I did skip certain sections of the manga, but that's because the pacing is really egregious. There's not much in terms of character development in this manga, the characters just never learn, or bad things happen to them just because.
The philosophical portion of this manga is weak. If you've seen any psychological anime or manga, it's all basically the same shit. This manga is seriously just Evangelion, with The 7 Psychics from Yu Yu Hakusho as the antagonists, with meaningless shock horror. It feels like this manga doesn't even have a point, the gore or whatever happens to the characters isn't insightful, and every conversation that talks about a characters "ideals" or what have you feels forced, like projection from the author onto the audience.
The Art Style sucks, it has this bubbly Pokemon art style, people call this a deconstruction of the Mon genre, which isn't really accurate. The only thing it could've possibly subverted is just being tailored towards a different demographic. The art style is especially heinous, in the fact that you it makes the tonal whiplash of the manga all the more apparent. There's down time, and then some fucked up shit happens, rinse and repeat, all the while this manga looks like some generic CLAMP shit. I'm only giving it a 3 because Kitoh IS competent when it comes to machinery like cars and planes, however: don't ask me how this is possible, but this dude can't draw in perspective to save his life. I have no idea how you can learn how to draw detailed planes right, but can't even draw a point of view shot of looking up a stairwell.
Spoilers ahead, but honestly, don't read this manga:
The worst part however, was the ending. The ending was rushed, and some BULLSHIT. The main character does a complete personality 180 and nothing makes any sense. Every character is quickly killed, for no reason, other than to justify the main character resetting Earth. This manga is seriously conflicting, it could've been cool, if the ending didn't just invalidate the entire story, and wasn't just so damn edgy and meaningless. The only "point", I could possibly divulge from this manga, is self reflection, but that's a cop out answer, because the philosophy is trite, the characters don't act like humans do, and this is a dumb fantasy story that doesn't seem to know it's target audience.
