Shadow Star

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Shadow Star
骸なる星･珠たる子 (The Dying Star and the Jewel of a Girl)
Genre	Supernatural, Drama, Horror
Manga
Authored by	Mohiro Kitoh
Publisher	Kodansha Dark Horse Comics Glénat (formerly) Egmont Manga und Anime
Serialized in	Afternoon Super Manga Blast
Original run	21 July 1998 – 22 December 2003
No. of volumes	12
TV anime
Directed by	Toshiaki Iino
Studio	Kids Station
Network	Kids Station
Original run	7 July 2003 – 29 September 2003
No. of episodes	13

Shadow Star, known in Japan by the abbreviated title Narutaru (なるたる, Narutaru^?) ^[1] is the name of a Japanese manga and of the anime series which was based on the manga. The series was created by Mohiro Kitoh and released in the Japanese magazine Afternoon. The manga was released in North America by Dark Horse Comics with the name Shadow Star. The anime broadcast was in 2003 on the Japanese television station Kids Station. It consists of 13 episodes of 24 minutes each. The anime has been licensed by Central Park Media.

The protagonist of the series is a young girl called Shiina Tamai (玉依シイナ Tamai Shiina). She bonds with a starfish-shaped "dragonet" (baby dragon) whom she calls Hoshimaru (ホシ丸). The series is mainly about the interaction between Shiina and other young people who have also bonded with dragons.

It is important to note that the original Japanese version of the manga contains gruesome material and images, especially towards its later volumes. Despite the young main characters, and the initial look of cuteness, the story quickly transforms into a story filled with graphically brutal and violent themes.

Contents 1 Anime 2 Characters 3 Plot Summary 4 Manga 5 Notes 6 External links

[edit] Anime

Episodes

1. It is a Star Shape
2. Catastrophe during the Daytime
3. The First Black One
4. The Shadow of a Child’s Footprint
5. An Angel’s Play
6. His Words Were True
7. The Scent of Flowers to Those Who Fight and Those Who Die
8. Don’t Close Your Eyes
9. The Life of a Fish, the Life of a Person
10. Things I can do for you now
11. The Invisible Ground Level
12. My Eyes are the Victim’s Eyes; My Hands are the Assailant’s Hands
13. That With Which We Bestow Upon the Children of the Future

[edit] Characters

Tamai Shiina: 6th grade- The protagonist of Narutaru, she acts very mature for her age, does not get the best grades, but is talented at cooking and hard-working. She always tries her hardest to become stronger, often facing newer and more difficult challenges. While outwardly cheerful and optimistic about everything, on the inside the protagonist’s hurt stems back as far as her name, as, in her dream in the first episode she says, “Shiina...That is my name, but you see, I do not like that name. Next time you come, be careful. Do not call me by that name.” Using heart-thumping music of the same three piano keys to further the idea of death, Shiina asks, “Am I going to disappear from this world?” She fears losing those closest to her, but must endure.

Hoshimaru (Round Star): Shiina’s companion, it does what Shiina unconsciously wants to do or have happen. This means that in reality she does not wish to casually speak with Hoshimaru, and that everything Hoshimaru does is actually Shiina’s will, whether for good (flying) or for bad (killing).

Sakura Akira: A ninth grade Junior High School student, she always seems out of place. She likes to hide in the shadows where she can feel protected from the outside world. Living above her family’s restaurant, her parents wish her to try harder and not slack off. Instead of trying to free herself of her timidity, she creates further barriers, with the exception of befriending Shiina. She keeps all of her pain inside, and tries at first to free her of the pain by slitting her wrists, but ends up unleashing her rage on her father by killing him with a dagger.

Tamai Shunji: Shiina’s father, he is a pilot for a company. He and his wife separated years ago, and he lives with Shiina. Once a sensational ace pilot for the National Defense Force, his abilities have diminished since an undisclosed incident involving a dragon. He loves his daughter dearly and wants always to protect her, even though often she ends up protecting him. Shiina: “I’m the daughter of an ace pilot,” Shunji: “That’s wrong, Shiina. An ace pilot is someone who can decide what they can and cannot do with courage.”

Otohime: Appearing on a large dragonet, the Virgin princess is equivalent to a goddess of dragons. She rarely makes appearances, thus seeing her once in a lifetime is a rare event.

Akemi Tomonori (Komori-kun): While to the outside world Akemi was a polite, nice, and popular boy taking care of his weak mother and wanted to become a doctor, in reality he wanted to kill the educated. He tells Akira, “I will make a kingdom lasting a thousand years. I will be the king, and [Sakura] will be my queen. The first thing I would do is kill about five billion people.” He dies at the hands of Hoshimaru after reintroducing immense fear into Akira and Shiina’s hearts. it is not clear that he is dead, because it is said that he disappeared.

Ozawa Satomi: A haughty girl who goes to Banryou (Panda) Private Junior High school, Amapora is her dragonet companion. She wishes to kill people, but lacks the strength, until she finally unleashes her power on civilians, creating a city of dead people. Kuri Mamiko

Takano Bungo: A second year high school student and one of the friends of Komori-kun, his dragonet, Hainvelle, resembles an angel attacks Shiina’s father while flying. A member of his High School’s track team, he often skips class to spend time with Ozawa-san.

Sudo Naozumi: One of Komori-kun’s friends, he is rather calm, yet extreme enough to commit grand theft auto. He sees himself as someone who protects Earth, even though he sends Ozawa-san to kidnap Akira to discover whether she has a dragonet. He believes he can change the world, releasing it of its bonds to tradition, custom, and common sense.

Kaizuka Hiroko (Hiro-chan): A very smart classmate and Shiina’s close friend, bullies torture her for scoring high on exams, while her parents scold her for not receiving perfect marks at home. Only finding solace from Shiina, she cannot approach Shiina about the bullying, but must live with it, until the day she snaps. After experiencing the unfairness in Japanese society, she wishes that everything would disappear. Had someone helped her earlier, she claims she could have stopped.

Ezumi Jun: Her dragonet, Nendo, looks like a broom. She appears briefly and apparently died two years before she meets Shiina. Her dragonet’s ability allowed Kyoji to take her form when his body died. Jun’s body along with Kyoji’s soul merges with the dragonet, causing them to evolve into a full dragon and Otohime.

Tsurumaru Takeo: Shiina confuses him with the writer of a threatening note. His friend Norio has a dragonet who accompanies Takeo often. He helps Shiina and Akira many times, although he does not always understand where his responsibilities should stand. He has five illegitimate children and three girls pregnant during the course of the anime.

Honda Aki: She leads the group that bullies Hiro-chan. Her brother Yasuhito teaches her various ways to torture Hiro.

Shitou Mioko (Mio-chan): A close friend to Shiina, she remains always nervous when she helps bully Hiro because she fears Shiina’s potential reaction. Her lack of confidence in her own strength undoubtedly led to her involvement in the group that bullies Hiro-chan.

Takamura: One of the girls who bully Hiro-chan, she joined out of jealousy for Hiro-chan’s perfect test grades.

Ozaka Mihaya: A classmate of Shiina’s, she bullies Hiro-chan along with other girls out of jealousy.

[edit] Plot Summary

During a break, Tamai Shiina visits her grandparents.  While there, she hears the voice of someone 
calling her, but she does not know the mysterious voice’s identity.  Assigned to draw a picture, she 
learns that her father loved to draw, and upon looking at his old artwork, the viewer sees a very
important image, a picture of a dragonet.  Her father has some connection with this dragonet, but as
of this point, the connection remains unknown.
 
Playing with her friends, Shiina decides to swim to a marker in the ocean.  Upon reaching her goal,
she swims down to the bottom, where she sees an orange and yellow star-shaped creature moving.
Surprised, she loses all of her oxygen and passes out, and others would later find her unconscious on
land.  That night after everyone heads to sleep, she sneaks out and meets the star, who flies through
the air upon encountering her.  At first scared as the star approached her, it stops and offers her
flight, whereby she enjoys herself flying high above the land.  After a carefree flight, she has a
one-way conversation with the creature and names it Hoshimaru.  Suddenly, a giant dragon with a girl
with odd markings all over her body appears before Shiina and Hoshimaru, unbeknownst to them that
this is the Virgin Princess.  Shiina proceeds to leave her grandparents along with Hoshimaru via an
airplane belonging to the company at which her father works.
 
Arriving at home, her father greets her in sadness, as he feared something would happen to her by
separating from him shortly.  She goes to her Chanbara class where she meets Akira Sakura, a timid
girl who is afraid of both pain and hate.  Shiina befriends Akira, but before she asks for her
address, Akira sees Hoshimaru and runs in terror.  Running all the way up to her room, she takes out
a scalpel and attempts to slit her wrists, but gives up after comprehending the pain she would go
through in attempting suicide.  The viewer then sees a dragonet that Akira takes out of a box, a red
and white version of Hoshimaru.
 
The next scene focuses on Shiina and Hoshimaru, and after learning that her father will come home
late, she decides to dine out.  She happens to eat at the diner owned by Akira’s family, but upon
sitting down Akira shows up, and drops the plates.  Picking up the broken glass, she thinks about
suicide, but keeps quiet.  The next shot shows the two in Akira’s room, where she tells Shiina that
she wishes not to be involved with more of the mysterious creatures, whereby she reveals her dragonet
with whom she can channel (telepathic communication).  She tells Shiina of the story of her meeting
with the dragonet, how the dragonet showed her a vision of her falling to Earth.  The being told her
she could fly, but because she would not believe her, she woke up in a bitter scream upon awakening,
vomiting around the floor and knocking herself unconscious.  Her students watch as viewer becomes
aware that this is a common occurrence and they tire of her sickness.  The story returns to Shiina 
and Akira where Shiina tells her they are now friends, whereby Akira cries because this is her first
friend.  As Akira sees Shiina off, the camera focuses on a young boy staring at them, laughing, and
declaring, “Found it.”
 
Heading for a mountain via a bus, Shiina learns that Akira has named her dragonet Aen Soph, Hebrew
for “Without End.”  The camera then moves back and the viewer sees the same person who had spied on
them in the previous episode, sitting a few rows in front.  They proceed to climb the mountain until
they reach an airport, when a mysterious dragonet appears and attacks Shiina.  Pursuing the dragonet,
the mysterious boy appears before Akira.  Intimidating her with perfect understanding of her
situation, he grabs her hand and says, “Cowards, It hurts, huh? You cannot quite cut through to the
artery, huh.  You have to keep cutting with a razor blade, but it hurts too much and you cannot
finish.”  Complementing her beautiful hair, and scaring her to death, he tries to convince her to
join him in conquering the world.  Her alternative is the dagger he gives her, which would easily
slice through her wrists.  Meanwhile, Shiina fights the dragonet after the dragonet knocks Hoshimaru
away in battle.  The dragonet soon leaves, only to return with its master.  After threatening to kill
Shiina with his dragonet, while Shiina rejects the idea of having the will to kill someone,
“Hoshimaru” appears, only for the dragonet to attack.  Suddenly, a scream of pain echoes and
“Hoshimaru” reverts into Aen Soph.  While Shiina tends to Akira, the real Hoshimaru appears, launches
an identical projectile as the psychotic boy’s dragonet at, and kills the boy.  After running away,
Shiina stares into the sky and Akira cries, both in disbelief at having taking part in a murder.
That night Shiina would not have a pleasant night’s rest, but would have memories of the previous
night envelop her mind.  Waking up in a daze, her friend Hiro comes to visit and the two head via bus
to the very spot where the murder took place.
 
In a nearby shop to the mountains, Shiina bumps into a haughty high school student from Panda Private
School, a prestigious all-girls high school.  She and her friend are searching for that boy whom
Shiina had killed the night before.  Nearly avoiding an all out brawl because Hiro holds Shiina back
after an insult by Shiina and a slap by the high school girl, the two pairs split.  Back at Shiina’s
apartment, Hiro tells Shiina that she plans to apply to Panda Private School, and tells Shiina that
if she studies more, she could attend there as well.  However, Shiina already decided things she will
not do in the future, including neither children nor marriage.  That same day she visits her mother,
who wishes her a happy birthday, and then ridicules her for a poor report card.  The loving mother
throws insults at her daughter, telling her, “with such lanky arms and legs, though, whatever you 
wear probably would not look good on you.”  Her mother proceeds to notice how Shiina writes her name
in katakana instead of kanji because Shiina’s name in kanji translates to ________.  The two
separate, Shiina heads down the stairs and leaving, and her mother enters a conference to debrief
army leaders of the current situation with the dragons.  The next scene shows Shiina and her father
eating dinner, where Shiina proceeds to fill herself beyond human capacities, proceeding to vomit it
all out soon after.  Her desire to eat so much presumably derives from her undesirable confrontation
with her mother.
 
The next scene has the girl from Panda Private School, her companion, and another boy meeting at a
karaoke bar, where they discuss a new plot to test their dragons with automatic weapons.  The camera
then shifts to Akira’s place, where Shiina calls, only to have Akira refuse the call because she is
cutting the hair that the boy, the one Shiina killed, liked.  Her father wonders what to do with his
daughter, who does not attend school and suddenly rejects the phone call, but he walks away, unable
to decide to intervene in his daughter’s life.
 
The following morning, Shiina’s father heads to work, where he ships packages via unarmed fighter 
jets.  All of a sudden, an angel-like dragon appears before him and his comrade, operating a 
different fighter jet.  The dragon challenges the two to a fight, in Morse code saying, “Let’s play,”
followed by the exposure of an M-61 machine gun from its right arm.  His companion Ono dies at the
hands of the creature, and the creature then throws a twenty mm automatic cannon shell into his
engine.  He screams out for Shiina, and the screen shifts to Shiina in school, receiving word from a
teacher that her father has gone MIA.  She soon hears a woman’s voice call out her name, and she
suddenly feels her father’s heartbeat.  Shiina’s mother enters a door with the name Tamai Shunji on
it, presumably his hospital room.  Upon entering, she inclines him into detailing what happened, and
he tells her about the dragon and draws a picture, whereby the mother leaves, leaving behind the 
words: “Get better for that girl also.”  Shiina and her fathers company’s president arrive, where she
asks Shiina to attend Ono’s funeral.  Shiina accepts the invitation, leaves the room and heads out of
the hospital, but not before confronting a mysterious teenager who says, “You must be glad your
father is alright.”  Later that night she pays her respects to Ono and his distraught family, and
while talking to a coworker of her father’s, Suzuki, she asks, “Why do people die?” with a gloomy and
rundown look on her face, soon fallowed by “Why are we born?”  The car turns silent as no answer can
come out of Suzuki’s mouth.  Upon arriving home, Shiina sees a person waiting in the shadows in front
of her door, and after further investigation, she reveals herself as Akira.  She received a letter
saying, “Send my regards to Aen Soph and Hoshimaru.”  The camera moves away slowly as Shiina stares
frightened at the bewildering letter.  They enter the apartment and wonder about the man whom
Hoshimaru killed, with Akira mentioning the dead man’s statement: “I have companions.”  Shiina then
deduces that the man from the hospital must own that Angelic dragon, and the two decide to split up,
taking each other’s dragonet and searching the city for the boy.  They switched dragonets to have a
medium of communication, even though Shiina cannot hear Akira’s thoughts, but still Akira can hear
Shiina and can motion to her.  Akira finds the boy and follows him, while Shiina tries catching up
from a distance.  They eventually reach his location and enter the mysterious warehouse-like
building, and he welcomes them into the place.  They follow and soon lay there eyes upon a replica of
the angelic dragonet that attacked Shiina’s father.  They leave the place after receiving no further
information, but that night on a news report, Akira sees a request for information regarding the
whereabouts of that young boy, whose name she discovers as Komori.
 
The following morning she brings a bouquet of flowers to the Akemi house, only to have Sudo Naozumi,
one of the teenagers from the karaoke scene approach her, telling her to come with him else speak
with the police.  Escaping from the pursuing cops, he lets her off at home and tells someone on the
phone that she may collaborate with a dragon.  The next morning Akira heads to school for the first
time in awhile, only to have a plus-shaped dragonet abduct her, leaving her bag behind on the road. 
Waking up in a cabin in the middle of Mount Fuji, Akira sits in the corner afraid of the abducting
dragonet.  Meanwhile, in the city the three friends of Komori: Sudo Naozumi, Takano Bungo, and Ozawa
Sudo discuss their situation, having kidnapped Akira.
 
Upon coming home, Shiina discovers Aen Soph at her door who asks for help, thus Shiina along with
Hoshimaru and Aen Soph fly to Akira’s rescue.   Akira is then taken outside by the dragonet to die,
when Shiina, an unexpected player to the three’s schemes, appears and rescues Akira.  Alone, Shiina
runs from the dragonet Amapora with the help of the Defense Force, which attacks Amapora.  The
Defense Force takes Shiima into custody as they continue their search for the dragonet, where she
soon meets up with Akira who the Defense also has in custody.  Meanwhile, Amapora battles some
helicopters and loses the battle, causing much strain and pain to its human companion, Ozawa Sudo,
and rendering her unconscious.  In the Defense force base Akira takes the soldier’s gun and sticks it
to her head and fires…it turned out not to have ammo inside, so she was disappointed having finally
built up the suicidal courage.  About to have the Defense Force take them home, a helicopter from
above explodes and the angelic dragonet appears.  Realizing that Angel attacked her father, she sends
Hoshimaru out to fight.  Sudo soon wakes up to seek revenge, and when Tsurumaru Takeo shows up
followed by Hainvelle’s (Angelic dragonet) destruction of a helicopter that lands near Shiina, Takeo
introduces his dragonet to save Shiina, Norio.  Hoshimaru notices something odd at the site of
mapora, so it flies back to Shiina and turns itself into a bubble shape that surrounds Akira, Shiina,
and Aen Soph.  Takeo immediately realizes the situation and flees with Norio’s dragonet.  Amapora
releases poisonous spores into the atmosphere that kill all Defense Force soldiers in the vicinity. 
Shiina’s eyes twitch as she looks in horror at the dozens of Defense Force corpses lying on the
ground below her, and Akira cries.
 
Four bombers approach from the base and attack Amapora and Hainvelle, causing mass damage to the two
dragonets and their masters.  Shiina watches in horror from the sky as Hainvelle proceeds to destroy
the planes with a thirty mm Gatling gun.  Soon the poison reaches the nearby city and all the
citizens there die of poisoning in just a few seconds after inhaling the fumes.  As the final planes
are destroyed, some landing in the city, Shiina covers her face, and Takeo tells her, “Don’t close
your eyes, Shiina.  It is your duty, watch, and never forget,” so she opens her eyes, crying as she
watches pilots, holding the same job that her dad once had, die.
 
Akira returns home to her surprised father, who welcomes her openly, but she rejects him, slapping
his hand that he puts on her shoulder.  Conversely, Shiina runs home, clings to her father, and cries
profusely.  Takeo goes to his home where his girlfriend visits him to tell him that she is pregnant.
He tells her that he will take responsibility with support, but not marry her, as he likes her, but
does not love her.  He already has five children under similar circumstances to her.  Shocked, the
girl leaves without speaking a word as Takeo waves to her.
 
Shiina visits Akira, but ends up helping her father as a waitress, when Sudo arrives.  The next day
they all drive to a stream to fish.  Happy to have caught fish, Shiina and Akira do not realize
Sudo’s alternative motive bringing them fishing.  The two are happy at having caught fish, thoroughly
enjoying the moment.  On the ride back, Sudo reveals his true motive in fishing, words that would
hurt them and make them question their own righteousness.  After telling Sudo that fishing was fun,
Sudo says, “Playing with lives is fun, is it not?  Flustered, Sakura says it was but a fish, but Sudo
replies, “Is the life of a fish more trivial than the life of a human?  What you did was no different
than distracting someone before you hit them, fish just cannot complain.  You played around with its
life for your own pleasure.”  He proceeds to invite Sakura to join his group, Shiina wakes up, and
the three separate.
 
One night while practicing telepathy in flight with Hoshimaru, she meets Ezumi Jun, a fellow 
Companion to dragonets.  After crossing Tokyo Bay to Chiba to visit Jun’s old school, the area goes
silent as not even a bug makes a sound.  Out of the water emerges a mysterious large creature, an
immense dragon emerges, and Otohime, in the form of a dolphin with her distinguishing markings floats
towards Shiina, kisses he on the forehead, and leaves.  The next morning, Shiina brings her father to
the hospital for a checkup, but she ends up going into a room where a young boy lay unconscious, one
of Jun’s friends.  Shouko, the cousin of the unconscious boy, was shocked at hearing that Shiina had
met Jun recently, and she told Shiina their story, how the three were very close, her being the young
boy’s cousin.  Returning to Kyoji’s room, her cousin, the two see Jun there, who proceeds to tell
Shouko how she and Kyoji were seeing each other, but he would still stand by Shouko instead of Jun. 
Jun proceeds to invite Shiina out that night, and that night a phone call from a research lab informs
the police that Ezumi Jun died two years ago.  That very night, Jun reveals to Shiina that Jun died
two years back, and in reality she is Koji, and that the body in the hospital is a mere copy using
Nendo’s, her dragonet, powers.  The next morning Shouko visits Shiina and the two visit the lake
where Kyoji, Jun, and Shouko’s old school.  At the beach they see a green dragon with the face of Jun
fly above them with Kyoji resembling the Otohime on its back. Kyoji rides of into the sky as Shouko
watches in tears and self-determination to become stronger.
 
Looking at a collection of old pictures, Akira’s father remembers when her daughter acted normally
around them, wondering where and how he went wrong.  Meanwhile at school, all of the girls have
activated operation, codename: “Ignore Akira”. At Shiina’s school, Hiro-chan, Shiina’s friend, has
bullies, among them is Ozawa, a close friend to Shiina, forcing her to drink an ungodly drink because
she received a 97% on her quiz (She purposely missed the 100%).  After drinking the “liquid” to the
surprise of the bullying girls, they taunt her for kissing up, effectively showing off.  Upon
returning home, her parents scold Hiro for not scoring a perfect and blame it on Shiina, telling her
that they will car her father and disallow any association between their daughter, Hiroko
(Hiro-chan), and Shiina.  The bullies then decide to make her cutoff grade on the next exam a 70%,
else she must have a test tube put into an unmentionable place and then kicked there.
 
Meanwhile at Sakura’s school, Ishida, a boy who likes Akira, helps Sakura to the Nurse’s office,
after she faints while running.  At the empty office, Ishida tells her that he likes her, and in
response, she shyly asks him to have sex with her, but he runs away.  That day Hiro-chan decides to
skip school under the guise of sickness to wait outside of Shiina’s house, and Akira soon shows up
and waits beside Hiro-chan.  While Akira announces that she blames everything that happens to her on
herself, Hiro-chan blames society, saying, “I think the world is at fault.  I think that it would be
better if everything in this world disappeared.”  Hiro then looks in shock as Akira shows Hiro her
wrist scars, Shiina cheerfully shows up at that moment.  The three have a pleasant dinner at Shiina’s
house as they both admire and envy Shiina’s relationship with her father.  The two proceed to leave
the house and separate to go home, but on the road home, the bullies intercept Hiro-chan and bring
her to the school.  At the school they play with a testube in her vagina until Mizushima-kun, a
classmate who likes Shiina, arrives, thus splitting the girls.  After they leave, Hiro asks that
Mizushima not tell Shiina about what he saw.  When she arrives home, her father sends her to her room
for skipping school, and he immediately calls Tamai Shunji, asking him to not have Shiina as a friend
to Hiro anymore.  Hiro overhears the conversation and goes berserk.  Unbeknownst to her father, she
has a dragonet, who she, in her rage, lets loose.  Mizushima arrives and tells her that he will
protect her.  She cries, telling him that had he talked with her earlier, he could have saved her,
but that opportunity has passed.  The screen flashes a bloodstain on her right sleeve.  The following
night Hiro begins her revenge on the bullies.  The first girl, Ozaka Mihaya dies a gruesome death,
her body no longer resembling that of a human.  The second girl and leader of the band dies along
with her brother, who has his head broken in half, first experiencing a load of worms run into her
mouth and then the dragon morphs a finger into a test tube-resembling apparatus with a nail in front. 
Hiro’s dragonet proceeds to stick the “test tube” through her vagina all the way up through her
stomach, as she repeats apologizing until she dies.  The next morning at school, Mio-chan (Mioko),
the friend of Shiina who helps bully Hiro, tries to tell Shiina the truth as she fears for her own
life.  She keeps quite and the screen looks outside as Hiro’s dragonet stares at the school, ready to
attack.
 
Worried about the sudden death of her two classmates, Mioko tells the teacher in front of the class
that she and a few others, including the two who recently died, bullied Hiro.  After the teacher
tells her to pay it no mind, Hiro’s dragonet arrives, grabbing Takamura by the throat, extending its
arm through another window, and dropping her four stories to her death.  The dragonet then takes
knocks Mioko over, breaking her arm, followed by it punching her leg, sending her left leg flying
away.  It grabs her around the waist and slowly kills her as she cries out, “I’m sorry Kaizuka.” 
Hoshimaru arrives and fights the dragonet, getting knocked away, thus Shiina tries to calm Hiro down,
finally admitting that Hiro has this dragonet as a companion.  The dragonet runs after stabbing
Shiina through her hand to an unknown location, while Shiina runs to Hiro’s house for the final
confrontation.
 
Shiina rings on Hiro’s door and the screen shows Hiro smiling as she hugs her father and watches the
events transpiring at school on the news.  As she enters the house, she sees the holes that the
dragonet made and Hiro next to her dead parents.  The dragonet then shows up at Tamai Shunji work
where it takes him hostage.  Upon hearing this on the news at Hiro’s house, Shiina goes insane and
begins choking Hiro, but cannot finish the job.  Hiro obviously feels sorry inside for doing this to
Shiina as she cries lightly during the confrontation.  Before she kills Hiro, she gives up, unable to
kill her best friend.  Hiro responds saying, “You coward.  You cannot save everyone with just
kindness.”  Hoshimaru proceeds to kill Hiro by choking her as Shiina tells it to stop.
  
The screen shifts over to Akira’s house where she has just killed her father with the dagger that
Komori-kun gave to her.  She stands shocked and her mother cries out for her husband as she runs to
his dead body.
 
At the start of the next school term Shiina appears wearing the uniform to Panda Private Junior High
School, having earned her way into an elite school.  She cries in her father’s arms as he tries to 
comfort her saying, “I hope that Hiro-chan will be found safe,” not realizing that Shiina and
Hoshimaru killed Hiro.  She heads for school and smiles as others call her name, thus ends Narutaru.

[edit] Manga

• Volume 1: Starflight
• Volume 2: Darkness Visible
• Volume 3: Shadows Of The Past
• Volume 4: Nothing But The Truth
• Volume 5: A Flower's Fragrance
• Volume 6: What Can I Do For You Now?
• Volume 7: Victim's Eyes, Assailant's Hands

• There are twelve volumes total, as the seven listed are English versions. There have been no new announcements for future English releases due to the series' content and sales.
• Volumes 8 and 9 have been translated in "Super Manga Blast" and have been converted to the "Right to Left" manga reading style.

[edit] Notes

[edit] External links

• Narutaru site at kids station (Japanese language)
• Shadow Star Narutaru (anime) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia
• Shadow Star (manga) at Anime News Network's Encyclopedia