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Narutaru  
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Description
The story could basically be split into two halves. The main story is about Tamai Shiina, who is an energetic middle-school teenage girl. She visits her grandparent's over the summer where she runs into a very strange creature. Shiina has had lots of strange dreams as of late and also when she was younger, and this strange creature is somewhat related to her visions. She names the small cuddly star-shaped creature, Hoshimaru.

Little did she know that this cuddly creature is really part of herself. After her vacation, Shiina goes back to her home, living with her father. She runs into other children with similar creatures the following days. However, these children have developed their creatures, and they have complete control over them. They mostly use these creatures for their own destructive pleasure and not for good. There is a group of teenagers that all have these strange creatures, and they plan to basically conquer the world, creating a utopia of whatever they desire. Will they succeed? Will Shiina ever develop Hoshimaru?
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Type
Manga

Related Series
N/A

Associated Names
Нарутару
なるたる
なるたる ~骸なる星・珠たる子~
星星公主
Mukuronaru hoshi, Tamataru ko
Naru Taru
Shadow Star
The Star That Died And the Jewel Of A Girl

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Latest Release(s)
v.9-12 by Gantz_Waitingroom (1436d ago)
v.10 c.50c (v2) by Manga-Sketchbook (1910d ago)
v.12 c.63-67 (end) by Manga-Sketchbook (1911d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
12 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?
Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter
Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1.
Ends at Vol 6

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Narutaru by Master_M2K

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3 topics, 12 posts
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User Rating
Average: 7.7 / 10.0 (226 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.62 / 10.0
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Last Updated
February 9th 2013, 3:30am PST


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Year
1998

Original Publisher

Serialized In (magazine)
Afternoon (Kodansha)
Super Manga Blast (Dark Horse)

Licensed (in English)
Yes

English Publisher
Dark Horse Comics (On hiatus since volume 7)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #1208 decreased(-2)
Monthly Pos #1665 increased(+624)
3 Month Pos #2889 increased(+24)
6 Month Pos #3118 (No change)

List Stats
On 297 reading lists
On 598 wish lists
On 496 completed lists
On 39 unfinished lists
On 136 custom lists

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Discussion about manga's ending 628 days, 22 hours, 29 minutes ago
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yay, finally finish!   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by whitespade
January 22nd, 2012, 10:15am
after all the bad review on the ending and the rushed/axe conclusion, i thought its going to be terrible, but it is actually quite okay. sure i cant make head or tail of it, but theres certain feeling that everything is either going to be okay or stay the same cos nothing can be worse that what had happened. so atleast, a tentatively optimistic ending?

one of the gripe i have about this manga is the faces. they all tend to look alike, with differing hairstyle. another one is the misleading catagories here. honestly this cant be called gore. might as well say naruto / bleach is gore cos that have way more blood than this. the plot is okayish with quite a few thread left tangled but for this story i suppose just the 'atmosphere' is enough. though of course unexplained happenstance still bug me. and the philosophy of the kids are just way over the top. what, dragons only come for broken children? and they all Japanese?

all in all, a good manga to read as long one dont take it seriously.
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One of the best manga   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by Tetsuki
April 17th, 2011, 10:02am
I can't really understand why all of you call it a bad ending. I don't think it is one. It is a conclusion and a new beginning. Any other ending would have been unrealistic and not satisfing. I don't even think that this concept of the world is wrong. In the end we are the threat.
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Way to much fanfare for this series   
Rating: N/A
by RoronoaJoestar
February 18th, 2011, 10:22am
After finally finishing this series (and getting through that crappy ending) I have to say, it's now what I expected, but not in a good way.
Alot of people go on about the level of violence and gore in the series, but it's really not that bad, at least not compared to series like Berserk, Dorohedoro or early JoJo. As for the overall plot, it just seemed like Kitoh was trying way to hard to push the level of drama and "oh, we're kids, but were all evil and whatnot" in the series, and at the end he just made every possible bad outcome happen for no real reason other then to force bad things JUST for the sake of bad things happening, like he's trying to make his work as depressing as possible without thinking about anything else. I'm not trying to say anything about Kitoh, but the man needs to focus more on making a solid plot, rather then just a depressing atmosphere.
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Outrageous   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by wuhugm
January 25th, 2011, 9:03pm
Starts off like a happy manga about kids, soon people start killing and all hell breaks loose

All Kitoh Mohiro's works are about children who goes crazy, it's hard to swallow, all kids act like adults and do outrageous things

Well, personally I like this and Bokurano, though they always get that kind of ending, but it's fun nevertheless
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Probably the greatest manga I have ever read   
Rating: N/A
by lordyupa
October 25th, 2009, 10:07pm
You've probably heard about Narutaru. It gets a lot of press because it starts out seeming happy and friendly, and then pretty soon the s*** starts hitting the fan hard, the body count starts to rise, and everyone says "holy crap, I wasn't expecting this!" It's true, the book does do that, but that's just surface. The reason Narutaru is so great it hurts is because it seamlessly integrates a keen-eyed deconstruction of manga archetypes, a chilling comment on the amorality of supposedly innocent children, a meditation on the nature and use of power, and a misanthropic, apocalyptic vision of failure on both the global and personal scale.

Far from simply being "evil pokemon," Narutaru is a brutally honest and devastatingly powerful treatise on humanity's ultimate failure that will leave a lifelong impression on anyone who reads it.
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Intriguing.   
Rating: N/A
by thommers
April 5th, 2009, 5:12am
I liked it a lot. I understood it too, first time reading.
Then again, I'm a sucker for 'ambitious' projects by comic makers.
The ending was a little choppy, but for some reason, it seemed proper for this, everything was going downhill as it was.
But for those of you who didn't understand it, pay attention closely. Rebirth was a big topic in the series.
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Well...   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by kirabook
January 8th, 2009, 8:53pm
It was alright in the beginning because, well, it seemed like an interesting "adventure" would be starting. It's such a weird series... i can't even explain it well. For me it is hard to follow and for a psychological goes SO into depth that nobody knows what's happening. The story even lost the antagonist right after he basically started the worlds destruction (won't spoil too much). And even for a tragedy, the ending didn't even seem like he/she spent time to really end it right. So I rated it a 6, but it will probably go down futher when I have time to cotemplate how much I really didn't like it.
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worst manga, don't read it   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by newbie56k
December 6th, 2008, 1:58pm
complete garbage, had soo much potential at volume 1 but failed to realize it. it just became emo afterwards, bunch of emo-kids who got superpowers and felt emo about the world so they wanted to destroy it and 'restart it'.
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the main girl character didn't do anything, she just ran around the entire story watched ppl die and in the end she gets pregnant and is all like 'lets restart the world.. teehee (and she finally became emo too)'..


EPIC FAIL

... Last updated on December 6th, 2008, 2:01pm
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Just Finished It Recently   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by herseil
September 10th, 2008, 3:53am
Not really bad actually. I liked the whole main idea of the story and it was really promising at the beginning, it also contains a lot of violence and a whole deep and kind of weird plot (gonna take more than just 1 reading to understand it).
The artwork itself is pretty good for the beginning till the end.
But still, like those previous comments the ending was just too confusing. Looks like the mangaka is too ambitious to finish this title with such an ending. The last chapter is like having a whole volume cramped into it.
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Needed a better Ending   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by Dragonfiremule
September 5th, 2008, 7:14am
I agree with the post below me. The Ending was really quite confusing. Everything was happening too fast with practically no explanation.

However, the rest of the manga was really quite wonderful and interesting. I just wish the ending was better.
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