Naru Taru
| Naru Taru | |
|---|---|
| Original title | な る た る |
| genre | Drama , horror |
| Manga | |
| country |
 Japan
|
| author | Mohiro Kitoh |
| publishing company | Kōdansha |
| magazine | Afternoon |
| First publication | March 25, 1998 - October 25, 2003 |
| expenditure | 12 |
| Anime television series | |
| title | Naru Taru - Mukuro Naru Hoshi, Tama Taru Ko |
| Original title | な る た る ～ 骸 な る 星 ・ 珠 た る 子 ～ |
| Country of production |
Japan
|
| original language | Japanese |
| year | 2003 |
| Studio | planet |
| length | 23 minutes |
| Episodes | 13 |
| Director | Toshiaki Iino |
| music | Susumu Ueda |
| First broadcast | July 7th - September 29th 2003 on Kids Station |
Naru Taru ( Japanese な る た る ) is a manga by Mohiro Kitoh , which, despite its content that appears childlike at first glance, tells a complex, dark and violent science fiction story with depth of character. An anime in the form of a television series was also produced.
Naru Taru is the abbreviation of the words Mukuro Naru Hoshi, Tama Taru Ko ( 骸 な る 星 ・ 珠 た る 子 ), which translates as " the children bound to the dying star ".
action
The twelve-year-old Shiina Tamai lives alone with her father Shunji in an apartment. He is a pilot with the Motoki airline and his daughter likes to cook for him. As every year, Shiina goes to a small island to see her grandparents on vacation. The bright and friendly girl is happy to see the other children on the island again and soon finds herself at the sea with them. Although they warn the other children about the current, Shiina swims to a torii that protrudes from the water. When she went underground, she discovered a cute star-shaped creature on the sea floor. A moment later, Shiina almost drowns.
She wakes up and realizes that the star creature must have saved her. In the evening she goes to the sea to thank her new boyfriend. She names the creature with the name Hoshimaru ( Eng . "Round star"). On the return flight from the island, Shiina gives Hoshimaru out as a backpack. But she has no idea that he is a dragon child, a not yet fully grown bone dragon. The earth is threatened by bone dragons and several children have close ties with their dragon children.
Akira Sakura is a shy and scared girl and also has a dragon child. Shiina meets Akira in the kendo club. Despite Akira's reluctance, Shiina quickly becomes friends with her. Akira is shocked when she sees Hoshimaru. Akira's dragon child looks like Hoshimaru. The middle school student named him Ain Soph . She locks this in a box because, unlike Shiina, she is connected to her dragon child. When Akira's dragon child flies, she feels the flight as if she were floating in the air.
Publications
In Japan the manga was published from March 1998 to October 2003 in individual chapters in the manga magazine Afternoon in issues 5/1998 to 12/2003, where series such as Eden and Blame! were published. From August 1998 onwards , twelve anthologies with individual chapters were published by Kōdansha .
In German laid Egmont Manga and anime all the twelve volumes from 2001 to 2006. Although the manga for the publisher from 2500 to 3500 copies sold per band earned a profit and the sixth volume are censored because of violent scenes had, the series was not canceled. However, the individual volumes were published every six months to yearly.
Naru Taru was also published in other countries , but was very often discontinued after only a few volumes. In France, Glénat published the manga from 1999 to 2000, but it was discontinued because of the violence in the sixth volume after the first two volumes. In the US, Naru Taru appeared under the name Shadow Star .
filming
From July to September 2003, the TV station Kids Station produced an anime called Naru Taru - Mukuro Naru Hoshi, Tama Taru Ko , which is based on the first six volumes of the manga. This also begins very harmlessly and turns out to be unsuitable for children in the course of the plot, although it was broadcast on Kids Station. The anime comprises 13 episodes and was also released in the United States.
synchronization
| role | Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) |
|---|---|
| Shiina Tamai | Asami Sanada |
| Akira Sakura | Mamiko Noto |
| Hiroko Kaizuka | Sakura Nogawa |
| Hoshimaru | Satsuki Yukino |
| Tomonori Komori | Akira Ishida |
| Takeo Tsurumaru | Eiji Miyashita |
| Naozumi Sudo | Hideki Tasaka |
| Bungo Takano | Hisayoshi Suganuma |
| Satomi Ozawa | Kaori Tanaka |
| Norio Koga | Kohki Akaishi |
| Shunji Tamai | Nobuo Tobita |
Awards
In 2004 the manga was nominated for the Max-und-Moritz-Preis in the category Best German-Language Comic Publication, Import , but could not prevail against Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis .
Web links
- Narutaru in the Manga Info of the University of Frankfurt
- Naru Taru at Kids Station (Japanese)
- Naru Taru at Kodanclub (English)