The Bipolar Otaku

The Random Musings of Dreistul - Slurpees, Fuzzy Bunnies, Anime, and Lithium...

Thursday, August 14, 2003

I've been watching a new anime called Narutaru, which is based on a manga by Kitou Mohiro. Basic premise is that this girl finds a creature which is star shaped, and she calls it Hoshimaru (round star) because stars you see in the sky are round. But then she starts finding out about other people who have these creatures also... and what they do with them. It's all draw to look like a standard coming of age type of anime... but it really has a lot of psychological overtones and is starting to look more and more like a horror... probably the darkest anime I've seen since Now and Then Here and There....

Like I said, it was based on a manga... in Japan there are at least 8 volumes published by Afternoon KC right now... but in the US, all I can find is that it was serialized by Dark Horse under the title Shadow Star... so basically, if I want to read it, I'd have to by a whole lot of issues of Super Manga Blast.... oh well... I'm sure they'll put out volumes eventually... Oh wait, here are volumes 1-4.... click, click, click, click, click, bought.

Anyway, if you watch anime, try watching this series... right now it's being subbed by Triad and AonE, who happen to be some of my favorite fansubbing groups... [Bittorrents]

hmm... so when did I go back to being an anime reviewer?

posted by JT # 12:37:00 AM

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