History Manga / Narutaru

* DroppedABridgetOnHim: Norio drops this on [[spoiler:the city thugs that break into his and Takeo's home. It does ''not'' end well for him '''''at all'''''.]]

* TallDarkAndBishoujo: Satomi

*** Compare PuellaMagiMadokaMagica's opening.

''Naru Taru'' was created by MohiroKitoh, who also created the HumongousMecha series ''{{Bokurano}}'', while the anime was penned by ChiakiKonaka, writer of ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' and ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. [[MindScrew This]] [[{{Deconstruction}} should]] [[HarmfulToMinors tell]] [[SchmuckBait you]] [[FromBadToWorse something]].

''Naru Taru'' was created by MohiroKitoh, who also created the HumongousMecha series ''{{Bokurano}}'', while the anime was penned by ChiakiKonaka, writer of ''SerialExperimentsLain'' and ''DigimonTamers''. [[MindScrew This]] [[{{Deconstruction}} should]] [[HarmfulToMinors tell]] [[SchmuckBait you]] [[FromBadToWorse something]].

''Naru Taru'' was created by MohiroKitoh, who also created the HumongousMecha series ''{{Bokurano}}'', while the anime was penned by ChiakiKonaka, writer of ''SerialExperimentsLain'' and ''DigimonTamers''. [[MindScrew This]] [[{{Deconstruction}} should]] [[HarmfulToMinors tell]] [[SchmuckBait you]] [[ItGotWorse something]].

** The French version's like that too. The blurb for that volume mentions that Shiina's "[[BreakTheCutie exciting]] [[NightmareFuel adventures]] are [[ItGotWorse just beginning!]]".

** CrapsackWorld: And as [[ItGotWorse things get worse and worse]], it eventually stops trying to appear cute.

* '''''ItGotWorse''''': Oh, damn yeah.

* {{Casanova}}: Takeo Tsurumaru

* AdultChild: Tatsumi Miyako is a little like this; Sato even calls him out on it at one point.

* AlphaBitch: Aki Honda has to be one of the nastiest Alpha Bitches ''ever'' created. Akira also has her own personal Alpha Bitch in Hibiki Shimura, although her taunts seem tame in comparison to what [[CompleteMonster Honda]] does.

* KidsAreCruel: Very, ''very'' cruel. This is a series where ''sixth-graders'' can be {{Complete Monster}}s.

** Amusing/frustrating aversion in the French edition: the publisher, Glénat, picked it up in the late 90's as a {{shonen}} (no really), [[DidNotDoTheResearch thinking it was a nice, harmless little Mon series]]. They pulled the plug after just the first two ''tankoubon'', probably after somebody pointed out what happens later on (that manga & anime were under flak in France at a time due to a combination of MoralGuardians and [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids gross mismarketing]] didn't help). It took ten years for them to republish it, this time under their more appropriate {{seinen}} imprint, so far apparently uncut and unmodified.

!!This series contained examples of:

* {{Deconstruction}}: Though it's less apparent in later volumes, the series was a massive and brutal deconstruction of the {{Mon}} genre.

''Naru Taru'' (''Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko'' - also known as ''Shadow Star'' in the US) is a manga and anime series with a very deceptive premise. It looks cute, with a perky NaiveEverygirl lead (who transforms into an ActionGirl as the plot progresses, though in a most plausible manner) who happens across an adorable starshaped {{Mon}} while visiting her grandparents during summer vacation. The anime opens with the most upbeat theme music imaginable and has a relaxed first episode. [[ItGotWorse Things go downhill from there.]]

''[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Definitely]] [[IReadThatAs not to be confused with]] [[{{Naruto}} another manga/anime series with a vaguely similar name]].''

** The French version's like that too. The blurb for that volume mentions that Shiina's "[[BreakTheCutie exciting]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel adventures]] are [[ItGotWorse just beginning!]]".

* CutShort / LeftHanging: The anime ended halfway through the story, giving very little closure; either there wasn't enough of an audience to keep going, or the producers were afraid of tackling [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel what was coming next]]. Or both.

* BilingualBonus: In episode 2 Mamiko is wearing a T-shirt with a russian word "Самолет" (Airplane) on it. It could be a [[Foreshadowing]] if it wasn't in Russian.

* SapientCetaceans: This show briefly depicts a dolphin "Virgin Princess", that is, one whose mind has been taken over by a dragon. This would imply that in-universe, dolphins are intelligent enough to control dragons.

* ActorAllusion: Junji's CV had done Camille in MobileSuitZetaGundam, they all believe in RammingAlwaysWorks.

** This trope has Naru Taru written all over it.

* IGotBetter: [[spoiler:Shiina, in the manga. Getting cut in half by vulcan rounds would be a totally unambiguous death in normal circumstances... but then Shiina is mysteriously ''reborn'' at the island where her grandparents live.]]

* HimeCut: Satomi.

** FridgeHorror: [[spoiler:Shiina had sex with Takeo]], who at the time was dying of radiation poisoning. Do the math.

* AntiVillain: [[GreyAndGrayMorality Might be debatable, who should be called a "villain" here]], but still Bungo Takano appears as one of the most decent, emotionally stable and good-natured characters in the manga, after Shiina, her father and [[spoiler:pre-insanity]] Hiroko, who does genuinely feel bad about killing.

* {{Bowdlerise}}d: The manga received a fair amount of edits when it was released in English, with Dark Horse removing entire pages from one volume and getting Kitoh to redraw a certain infamous scene from the same; only seven volumes were even published in America.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: ... ahahahahaha.