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なるたる [Naru Taru] #2

Shadow Star 2 - Darkness Visible

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Teenagers Shiina and Akira have become fast friends, due in no small part to their bonds with two shape-shifting alien star-creatures. But their small friends are not the only visitors from beyond, nor are Shiina and Akira the only kids connected to them. Roaming the skies are powerful and dangerous Shadow Dragons, and one is linked with a schoolmate of the girls, a malevolent boy with murder in his heart — and a deadly, flying dragon at his command to make it happen!

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 22, 1999

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Mohiro Kitoh

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1,981 reviews201 followers
September 29, 2016
Conosciamo Komori, che prima si "introduce" ad Akira e poi affronta Shiina ritenendo che lei sappia qualcosa sulla principessa. Mentre Shiina a quanto pare è la persona dotata di cucciolo di drago meno informata al mondo... meno anche dei governi, visto che scopriamo che sia l'America che il Giappone hanno ovviamente preso atto della loro esistenza e stanno pensando alle contromisure.
Meno della mamma di Shiina, adorabile quanto un pugno nello stomaco, rigida e fredda, consulente dell'esercito sui draghi.
Meno del gruppo di compagni di Komori che si mettono sulle sue tracce, e che incrociano brevemente la strada di una Shiina rimasta colpita e spaventata dall'incontro con il ragazzo.
E meno, purtroppo, del padre di Shiina, che incrocia con i caccia un ennesimo cucciolo di drago -questa volta di forma umanoide, e in grado di generare armi- finendo disperso.

La virata cupa prosegue, alimentata incessantemente dal pessimismo e dal cinismo dimostrato dai ragazzini.
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Author 9 books4,876 followers
November 15, 2023
Time to see what others like her are like. Dragons, eh? More like skate-board ancient aliens who choose really messed up people. Only our hero seems to be at all normal. Between suicidal or sociopath types, so far, I'm worried to find out that every dragon and their person is seriously messed up.

We're getting somewhere, now.
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December 6, 2025
A dark take on the Pokémon and Digimon genre. This saga gets real dark as the story unfolds. Don’t be caught off guard by the subversion of the pocket monster genre. What starts as an action girl series winds up in a weird place reminiscent of Evangelion. Only half the story made it into the English translation. I’m uncertain if it was the strong material, lack of sales or the loss of licensing that brought about its premature end.
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