Shadow Star 4 - Nothing But The Truth

なるたる [Naru Taru] #4

by Mohiro Kitoh

Shiina and Akira are awkward, self-conscious teenagers, struggling with school and self-esteem whose lives change forever when they encounter and bond with small, cuddly extraterrestrial creatures, two of a menagerie of spaceborn entities now on Earth, including terrifying Shadow Dragons, flying beasts of vast and lethal powers. But Shiina and Akira are not the only ones with such unearthly familiars, and an underground network exists of such Earthling/alien mates - but is their aim to protect the planet or destroy it? And will a trigger-happy Earth military care one way or the other?

Genres: Manga, Horror, Science Fiction, Comics, Fantasy, Drama

160 pages, Paperback

First published January 21, 2000

Reviews

[Tanabrus · Rating 4 out of 5]

Si delineano due schieramenti contrapposti: da una parte il gruppo di Sudo e Komori, che sembra più inumano e pronto al massacro (e oltre al pugnale di Komori scopriamo che nei loro ranghi hanno anche l'angelo che aveva quasi ucciso il padre di Shiina), dall'altra i due ragazzi incontrati nel numero scorso, Tsurumaru e Norio (e anche qui, comunque, Tsurumaru non sembra certo avere tutte le rotelle a posto... ma almeno non ha ucciso nessuno, che si sappia noi, e anzi ha salvato Shiina).
In tutto questo, la principessa del primo numero dove si pone?
Quanto reggerà Shiina senza essere scoperta dall'esercito?

Comunque per quanto Shiina e Hoshimaru siano in deficit rispetto agli altri a causa del loro scarso legame, visti gli effetti dei colpi subiti sui corpi di Takano e sopratutto di Ozawa...

[Bradley · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm getting seriously icky vibes off of all these kids. So apparently helpful, and yet death, lies, destruction falls in their every wake. So far, this manga is living up to the weird. I can only hope it pays off spectacularly later.

[Marlon Deason · Rating 3 out of 5]

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.

[isabelb · Rating 5 out of 5]

never read i want to
so bad lol
it's kills me that i can't read

[Kalysto]

on y voit davantage le potentiel de destruction des ryugais sans qu'ils soient pourtant invincibles