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Shadow Star, known in Japan as Narutaru (なるたる), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Mohiro Kitoh, originally serialized in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Monthly Afternoon from 1998 to 2003. The Japanese name is an abbreviation of Mukuro Naru Hoshi, Tama Taru Ko (骸なる星 珠たる子), which roughly translates to Corpse of a Star; A Precious Child. In North America, it was licensed by Dark Horse Comics and serialized in Super Manga Blast!. A 13-episode anime adaptation by Planet was broadcast in 2003 and was released in English by Central Park Media. The protagonist of the series is a twelve-year-old girl named Shiina Tamai. She bonds with a starfish-shaped dragonchild (baby 'shadow dragon'), whom she names Hoshimaru, after a planet she found that orbits a dying star in her dreams. Together, they enter into a secret world of cruelty, violence, and genetic experimentation, all put into motion by an alien race called the Shichinin Misaki, or Seven Purifications, who plan to have seven chosen humans evolve into dragons by killing them with either suicide or alien intervention, making them into a new species to start a new civilisation on Earth.
