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Shadow Star Narutaru (TV)

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© Mohiro Kitou / Kodansha. © Narutaru Production Committee / Kids Station


[ adapted from Shadow Star (manga) ]

Alternative title:
Narutaru
Narutaru ~Mukuro naru Hoshi·Tama taru Ko~ (Japanese)
Shadow Star
なるたる ~骸なる星・珠たる子~ (Japanese)
Age rating: Teenagers (May contain bloody violence, bad language, nudity)
Plot Summary: During her summer holiday at her grandparents house Tamai Shiina, a young and cheerful schoolgirl, meets a strange looking creature. They befriend each other and Shiina names it "Hoshimaru - The Round Star". When Shiina returns home efter the summer to go back to school she starts meeting other kids that also have befriended a strange creature like Hoshimaru. But she soon finds out that not all these creatures and their masters are as friendly as Hoshimaru.
Video:
User Ratings: 375 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 12 votes (sub:10, dub:2)
 Excellent: 37 votes (sub:32, dub:5)
 Very good: 85 votes (sub:73, dub:12)
 Good: 86 votes (sub:66, dub:14, raw:2, Ger.sub:1, Fre.sub:1, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 Decent: 60 votes (sub:56, dub:4)
 So-so: 32 votes (sub:25, dub:5, edit.dub:1, raw:1)
 Not really good: 18 votes (sub:14, dub:3, raw:1)
 Weak: 16 votes (sub:14, dub:2)
 Bad: 17 votes (sub:14, dub:3)
 Awful: 5 votes (sub:4, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 7 votes (sub:4, dub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 811 users, rank: #724
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.4642 (Decent+.46), std. dev.: 2.1752, rank: #2547
Weighted mean: 6.445 (Decent+.44), rank: #2382
Bayesian estimate: 6.47302 (Decent+.47), rank: #2126
Running time: 23 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2003-07-07 to 2003-09-29
Opening Theme:
"Nichiyoubi no Taiyou (The Sun of Sunday)" by the-Neutral
Ending Theme:
"Kairo (Circuit)" by biniou
Trivia: We have 1
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    Shadow Star Narutaru - DVD Collection (DVD 1-4) 2006-07-25 (from $37.49)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Toshiaki Iino

Series Composition: Chiaki J. Konaka

Script: Chiaki J. Konaka

Music: Susumu Ueda

Original Manga: Mohiro Kitoh

Character Design:
Keiji Hashimoto (Ryuu Mukuro)
Masahiko Ohta

Art director: Akira Ito

Theme Song Performance:
biniou (ED)
the-Neutral (OP)

 

Asami Sanada as Shiina Tamai

Mamiko Noto as Akira Sakura

Sakura Nogawa as Hiroko Kaizuka

Satsuki Yukino as Hoshimaru

Akira Ishida as Tomonori Komori

Chizuru Fuyuki as Misono Tamai (eps 4-5)

Eiji Miyashita as Takeo Tsurumaru

Hideki Tasaka as Naozumi Sudou

Hisayoshi Suganuma as Bungo Takano

Kaori Tanaka as Satomi Ozawa

Kouki Akaishi as Norio Koga

Nobuo Tobita as Shunji Tamai

Satsuki Yukino as Mamiko Kuri

Chafurin as Lieutenant Watanabe (eps 7-8)

Anri Katsu as
Boy A (ep 11)
Pilot C (eps 7-8)

Chifuyu Yonemura as Shouko's mother (ep 10)

Harumi Asai as Hiroko's mother (ep 11)

Haruo Satou as Hiroko's father (eps 11-12)

Hideki Ogihara as Kura (ep 1)

Hikaru Tokita as Takaya Mizushima (eps 12-13)

Hiroka Nishizawa as
Nurse A (ep 10)
Shimura (ep 11)

Hirotaka Nagamatsu as Male student (ep 2)

Kahoru Sasajima as Aki Honda (eps 11-12)

Kouki Akaishi as Satoru (ep 1)

Kousuke Takaguchi as Pilot B (ep 8)

Kunihiko Higashi as
Shopkeeper (ep 6)
Sumino-sensei (eps 5,11-13)

Kunihiro Kawamoto as
Police officer (ep 7)
Voice of radio (ep 8)

Masaya Taki as Akira's Father (eps 2,4,6-9,11,12)

Masayuki Katou as Fishing man A (ep 9)

Megumi Kobayashi as
Chiomi Kawamura (ep 9)
Female student (ep 2)
Housewife (ep 6)
Kouka Takamura (eps 11-13)

Megumi Kojima as Mihaya Ozaki (eps 11-12)

Naoko Suzuki as Shouko Fukuyama (ep 10)

Ryuuzo Hasuike as Customer A (ep 9)

Satoru Tsugawa as Customer B (ep 9)

Satsuki Yukino as Jun Ezumi (ep 10)

Sho Saito as Shiina's grandmother (ep 1)

Shoko Tsuda as President (eps 5,13)

Takamasa Oohashi as
Male student (ep 6)
Pilot D (ep 8)
Soldier B (ep 7)
Yasuhito Honda (ep 12)

Takayuki Suzuki as
Ono (ep 5)
Sports Chanbara instructor (ep 2)

Takurou Nakakuni as
Detective Ikoma (ep 10)
Reporter (ep 13)

Toru Sakura as Suzuki (eps 1,5)

Toshifumi Maeda as Soldier C (ep 7)

Toshiyuki Kusuda as Soldier A (ep 7-8)

Yasuo Iwata as Shiina's grandfather (ep 1)

Yoshiharu Kurauchi as Fishing man B (ep 9)

Yuki Shouji as Akira's mother (eps 6,7,9,11,13)

Yukitoshi Tokumoto as Pilot A (ep 7)

Yuu Amano as Male student (ep 2)

Yuuki Tai as
Ishida (ep 11)
Pilot B (ep 7)

Yuuya Yoshikawa as
Female student (ep 2)
Kanoko Takada (ep 9)
Miyoko Shitou (eps 11-13)
Nurse (eps 5,10)
Reporter (ep 6)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Planet

Broadcaster:
KIDS STATION
TBS (rerun)

Production: KIDS STATION

English staff 
English cast 

ADR Director:
Kip Kaplan
Ross Lefko

Translation: Keisuke Okamoto

Executive producer: John O'Donnell

Producer: Stephanie Shalofsky

Dubbing Coordinator: Ross Lefko

DVD Coordination: Eric Thomann

DVD Menu Design: Michael Chin

DVD Premastering: Michael Palan

In House Production:
Alex Shum
Marc Landers
Richard Lee

Mix Engineer: Kip Kaplan

Recording engineer: Kip Kaplan

Script Adaptation:
Kip Kaplan
Ross Lefko

Subtitling: Marc Landers

Video Production Manager: Tim Werenko

 

Flora Stanberg as Hiroko Kanzuki

Kelly Ray as Shiina Tamai

Renee Gloger as Akira Sakura

Frankie Rome as Takano

Jamie McGonnigal as Norio Koga

Josh Mosby as Shunji Tamai

Renee Goldstein as Satomi Ozawa

Bella Hudson as Misono Tamai

Bruce Aarons as Grandfather

Carolyn Castiglia as Grandmother

Dan Green as
Hiroko's Father
Ishida's Friend

Lisa Ortiz as Jun Ezumi

Marc Thompson as
Akira's Father
Satoru

Michael Mercer as Sudo

Ross Lefko as Kura

Wally Cole as
Instructor
Suzuki

Walter 'Barney' Barnes as Akinori Komori

Carol Lewis

Karen Rousso

Sherrie Fell

Tim Werenko

English companies 

Audio Post Production: Audioworks Producers Group

Broadcaster: Anime Selects

Distributor: U.S. Manga Corps

Licensed by: Central Park Media

Recording Studio: Audioworks Producers Group

 
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