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Shadow Star (Manga)
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Definitely not to be confused with the sequel novel to the movie Willow, which is also called Shadow Star. Nor with a certain ninja series whose name is similar to its original title.Narutaru (full title Mukuro Naru Hoshi Tama Taru Ko, roughly "Corpse of a Star; a Precious Child"), published in the United States as Shadow Star, is a manga and anime series with a very deceptive premise. It looks cute, with a perky Naïve Everygirl lead (who transforms into an Action Girl as the plot progresses, though in a most plausible manner) who happens across an adorable star-shaped Mon while visiting her grandparents during summer vacation. The anime opens with the most upbeat theme music imaginable and has a relaxed first episode. Things go downhill from there.The story is told from the viewpoint of twelve-year-old Shiina Tamai, after she acquires the aforementioned shadow dragon, which she names Hoshimaru. Merely being in this creature's company inevitably draws other young people with dragons to her. Shiina, unlike the others, is not telepathically linked to her dragon, and Hoshimaru seems to have a will and personality of his own; meanwhile, not all of the other "dragon bearers" have good intentions, for Shiina or the world at large. While the anime is open-ended to say the least, the manga leads towards an almost Gainax-type ending. Unfortunately, the official English release of the manga was not only flipped and censored, but also incomplete. This leaves English viewers no way to officially experience the half of the story that the anime didn't get to, although some unofficial complete translations do exist.Shadow Star was created by Mohiro Kitoh, who also created the Humongous Mecha series Bokurano; the manga ran in the seinen magazine Monthly Afternoon from 1998 to 2003. A 13-episode anime adaptation aired in 2003, directed by Toshiaki Iino and written by Chiaki Konaka, writer of Serial Experiments Lain and Digimon Tamers. Considering Konaka's resume, he was certainly a perfect match. | |
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Anyone Can Die | |
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Anyone Can Die: Even Shiina herself. Subverted since she is brought back to life by her true shadow dragon: the earth itself. | |
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Gatling Good | |
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Gatling Good: Bungo's dragon Hainuwele packs a mean vulcan. | |
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Rape as Drama | |
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Rape as Drama: Hiro-chan gets raped with a test tube of all things by Aki Honda and her goons. Oni does the same to Aki when he kills her. With a claw. Norio gets raped as part of his torture. | |
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The Artifact | |
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Takaya Mizushima, whose first animated appearance is in episode 12, when he shows up out of the blue to save Hiroko, without any explanation of why he knew to be there, or even who he is, and then only because there was no way around it this time. (Originally, he was Shiina's neighbour and classmate, and a recurring minor character.) | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Shiina gets these a few times. First, after the situation with Hiro-chan. Second, when she finds out Hoshimaru isn't actually her shadow dragon, but Takeo's. Third, when her father dies. | |
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The Runaway | |
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The Runaway: Among the main cast, there's Norio. There's also Kaori, the unlucky young girl whom Takeo deals with in a rather harsh manner when earning his money in one side arc. | |
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Genre Shift | |
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Genre Shift: From a Mons series to a more military based series. | |
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Only Six Faces | |
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Only Six Faces: An interesting example: while supporting characters are easily distinguishable, the primary characters look identical to every other child of their perceived gender, barring hairstyles and accessories. | |
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Full-Frontal Assault | |
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Full-Frontal Assault: In the manga, Mamiko first goes on a killing spree while half naked. Her first targets? The thugs who'd just raped her. | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death | |
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Cruel and Unusual Death: Definitely a few of these in here. Norio's death has to take the cake, though, though Aki Honda's comes off quite close. | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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Ãœbermensch: Naozumi Sudo. | |
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Adam and Eve Plot | |
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Adam and Eve Plot: In the final three pages of the manga, with Shiina's daughter and Mamiko's son. | |
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Nigh-Invulnerability | |
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Nigh-Invulnerability: The dragons are almost impossible to kill, and ordinarily can only die if their bearers die and don't merge with them to become an adult dragon and Virgin Princess. In the manga, the one time a dragon is actually killed (without killing the bearer first) is when Shunji crushes Bungo's dragon in the engines of his fighter jet near the end. | |
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Cute and Psycho | |
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Cute and Psycho: Akira, to some extent, being a sweet and shy girl… Who‘s clearly suffering from the sexual abuse her dad has given her. And later ends up killing him. | |
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Ominous Floating Castle | |
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Ominous Floating Castle: It's not like any bad guys live in it, but even so — one of the manga-only dragons, Baba Yaga's Hut, resembles a kilometre-wide floating house with long claws hanging underneath. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Some of the kids become very aware of the power that their shadow dragons give them, and end up abusing it. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: …But a lot of these kids are either utterly monstrous or broken beyond belief and uses their creatures to cause all kinds of damage. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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Miyoko. Considering that she hangs around Aki Honda and is implied to be beaten by her if she doesn’t go along with what she says, it makes sense. | |
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Girl Posse | |
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Girl Posse: Aki Honda's friends Miyoko, Mihaya and Hiroka are a specially nasty version of this. And do they and their Alpha Bitch get nasty Karmic Deaths as punishment. Only Miyoko, who only helped bully Hiro-chan because she was shit scared of being rejected by her "friends", survives — but is left traumatized and crippled. | |
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong | |
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The Complainer Is Always Wrong: Subverted — Miyoko, the only one of Aki Honda's group who showed any kind of remorse or hesitation about their treatment of Hiro-chan, was right. Had the girls not bullied and raped Hiro-chan, they would've not gotten the fate Oni dealt to them. Well, they would've died in the end, but still... Although they might possibly have survived. The whole point of the manga was Shiina being slowly broken by the events that took place. Hiro-chan wasn't the biggest factor, but it certainly played a role. | |
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IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight | |
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"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Rather cruel subversion. Shiina tries this on Hiroko when she goes mad after all the abuse and gets Oni. It does NOT work. Hoshimaru has to kill her instead or she'll use Oni to kill Shiina's father. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog: The anime adaptation. Most of the cast goes insane and dies in a generally unsatisfying fashion, except for the main character and the vaguely established villains, who vanish off the face of the earth around episode 10. Most of the plot points are Left Hanging, and noone seems to care much. The description that 'nothing much has happened except that a few ineffectual people has died' fits the story like a glove, although this is because the anime only covers the first half of the manga, cutting off right before things start to get really bad. | |
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Captain Ethnic | |
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Captain Ethnic: The only Russian Shadow Dragon we see is based on Baba Yaga's Chicken Leg House and flies through space. The American boy who appears later is a less obvious example. His Dragon looks distinctly like the Spinosaurus from Jurassic Park III, with a painful-looking life-support machine in the center, invoking two of the biggest things America is known for in Japan (and worldwide): blockbuster movies and substandard healthcare. It also looks like a stereotypical European dragon, which is the most common idea of a dragon in America. | |
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Shoot the Dog | |
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Shoot the Dog: Hoshimaru having to kill Hiro-chan when she goes off the deep end and threatens to kill Shiina's father. | |
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Scholarship Student | |
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Scholarship Student: In the manga, Shiina becomes one of these when she enters junior high. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Attempted by a completely fucked up Misono, who tried strangling Shiina to death when she was a small child, blaming her for the then-recent and very weird death of her other daughter Mishou. | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser | |
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Wholesome Crossdresser: Norio, to a degree. | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Bilingual Bonus: 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. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Although given how horrible Shiina's mother is for much of the series, it's probably for the best that she doesn't live with Shiina and Shunji. | |
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Bury Your Gays | |
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Bury Your Gays: Norio gets what has to be the most horrendous death out of anyone. | |
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Mauve Shirt | |
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Mauve Shirt: Ono. Ui might also count if not for the fact she survived that fall. | |
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Break the Haughty | |
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Break the Haughty: Satomi, in the manga. Also, Aki Honda in both anime and manga. | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl | |
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Tomboy and Girly Girl: Shiina and either Akira or Hiroko. | |
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Girlish Pigtails | |
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Girlish Pigtails: Pre-haircut Shiina and Hiroko. | |
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Tomato in the Mirror | |
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Tomato in the Mirror: In the manga. At one point, it's made to look as though Shiina might not be the main character after all, given where Hoshimaru's loyalties really lie. It turns out she still is, though. | |
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Kick the Dog | |
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Kick the Dog: Satomi, when she gets some screentime when she's not hesitant about killing her school friend in order to get Shiina. Also Takeo practices some dog-kicking in his free time, especially on girls. | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism | |
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Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: This series lies on the far, far end of the cynical side. Depending on your view of the world, it can start to feel like wangst. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: See a pattern here? At one point, highschooler Satomi Ozawa uses her shadow dragon Amapola to gas a whole field of soldiers to death with toxic pollen... and that's a relatively mild example! | |
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Crapsaccharine World | |
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Crapsaccharine World: This world gives children access to Bond Creatures of their very own! | |
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies | |
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Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Well, in the manga giant hands come out of the earth and bitchslap all of human existance into dust. | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_454d9422 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_45f5c0d | type |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff" | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_45f5c0d | comment |
Call a Pegasus a "Hippogriff": The series manages to fall into this on two different levels. All of the monsters in the story are collectively referred to as "dragons", even though most of them are closer to Starfish Aliens than anything else. There's only one that does look like a dragon, at least in the sense of being a vaguely reptilian creature with wings. . . but it's called "Tarasque", after a monster from French folklore that it looks nothing like. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_45f5c0d | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_45fe3a2e | type |
Utopia Justifies the Means | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_45fe3a2e | comment |
Utopia Justifies the Means: Naozumi and Tomonori both have their own plans that involve this. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_45fe3a2e | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4655ec83 | type |
Important Haircut | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4655ec83 | comment |
Important Haircut: Akira gives herself one of these early on, after Tomonori tells her she's got beautiful hair. In the manga, Shiina, after having used pigtails for a good part of the story, gets her hair cut to bob length upon entering junior high; by that time, we see that Akira has let hers grow again. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4655ec83 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_46f464b | type |
Well, Excuse Me, Princess! | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_46f464b | comment |
Well, Excuse Me, Princess!: Satomi's relationship with Bungo. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_46f464b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_46f464b | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4852f325 | type |
I Just Want to Be Normal | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4852f325 | comment |
I Just Want to Be Normal: Akira doesn't want to have recurring nightmares and be ill because of her link to her Mon. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4852f325 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4852f325 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_49f20c6a | type |
Gory Discretion Shot | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: The anime does this a lot, especially in the last two episodes. The manga's violence, on the other hand, is much more graphic. Played straight near the end when Shiina's mom gets shot, when she's shot by a shotgun, the resulting gore is not shown. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_49f20c6a | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4b316d47 | type |
Break the Cutie | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4b316d47 | comment |
The French version's like that too. The blurb for that volume mentions that Shiina's "exciting adventures are just beginning!". | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4b316d47 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4b44e74b | type |
Mukokuseki | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4b44e74b | comment |
Mukokuseki: Averted. You can tell by looking that Jane Franklin and the Russians in the manga are, well, not Japanese. Also "The Pedobear" looks somewhat Latin. | |
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-1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4b44e74b | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4cf04991 | type |
SocialDarwinist | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4cf04991 | comment |
Social Darwinist: Tomonori Komori | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4cf04991 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4cf04991 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: In the manga. Shiina breaks entirely and uses her true creature to murder everyone on Earth but herself and Mamiko. From there, it’s the two girls’ job to repopulate the planet with the babies they had, and it’s most likely going to be a long road ahead. The anime gets cut off before it can reach this point. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4e3d253b | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | type |
Smug Snake | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | comment |
Smug Snake: Tatsumi Miyako and Aki Honda. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4f84cdef | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fa637b0 | type |
Surprisingly Creepy Moment | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fa637b0 | comment |
Surprisingly Creepy Moment: Bet you didn’t expect an anime with such a cutesy opening theme to be this gruesome! And don’t even get us started on the manga! | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fa637b0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fc753f | type |
Olympus Mons | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fc753f | comment |
Olympus Mons: Sheol, a.k.a. the Earth itself. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fc753f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fc753f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_4fc753f | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_506bf16a | type |
Sex Signals Death | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_506bf16a | comment |
Sex Signals Death: Genderflipped, because Takeo is the one who dies soon after he and Shiina have sex. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_506bf16a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_506bf16a | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Satomi develops a murderous grudge against Shiina that started just because the latter made fun of the name of her school. In the manga, Naozumi shoots two delinquents to death just for throwing a bag of trash into a river. | |
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1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_50b05d30 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_53136954 | type |
Book Dumb | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_53136954 | comment |
Book Dumb: Shiina. Subverted in the manga, when she gets a scholarship for a very prestigious all-girls junior high. Lampshaded when people speak about how she's the first girl in 14 years to get a scholarship there. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_53136954 | featureApplicability |
-0.3 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_53136954 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_53136954 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_54321e11 | type |
Innocent Fanservice Girl | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_54321e11 | comment |
Innocent Fanservice Girl: Mamiko, though it might be more accurate to call her a Not-So-Innocent Fandisservice Girl. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_54321e11 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_54321e11 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_545d100b | type |
Intelligence Equals Isolation | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_545d100b | comment |
Intelligence Equals Isolation: Naozumi, Tomonori, and Hiro-chan except for Shiina. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_545d100b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_545d100b | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_547bb916 | type |
Living with the Villain | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_547bb916 | comment |
Living with the Villain: Or rather, Going To School With The Villain; Shiina enters the same school that Satomi attends, while Mamiko also enrolls. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_547bb916 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_547bb916 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_55cd4012 | type |
"Everybody Dies" Ending | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_55cd4012 | comment |
"Everybody Dies" Ending: At the end of the manga, Sheol squashes pretty much all of humanity to death, with the only survivors being Shiina and Mamiko. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_55cd4012 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_55cd4012 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_586624e5 | type |
Genius Loci | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_586624e5 | comment |
Genius Loci: The Earth is a shadow dragon, Shiina's specifically. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_586624e5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_586624e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_586624e5 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a365ed2 | type |
Incompatible Orientation | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a365ed2 | comment |
Incompatible Orientation: Norio is utterly devoted to Takeo… Who’s completely straight. Sure sucks to be Norio there. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a365ed2 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a365ed2 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a365ed2 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a4aa505 | type |
Government Conspiracy | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a4aa505 | comment |
Government Conspiracy: There's one keeping the existence of the dragons under wraps in the manga. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a4aa505 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a4aa505 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5a4aa505 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4 | type |
The Casanova | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4 | comment |
The Casanova: Takeo Tsurumaru charms quite a lot of girls (and Norio), including Shiina. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_5e2e55e4 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_63389b0b | type |
Kids Are Cruel | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_63389b0b | comment |
Kids Are Cruel: There are way too many kids in this series that are completely fine with using their creatures to kill people. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_63389b0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_63389b0b | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_643618e5 | type |
Replacement Goldfish | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_643618e5 | comment |
Replacement Goldfish: Very strange example in that Shiina does this to herself. When she is accidentally killed by a stray round from a fighter jet, the Earth (which is actually her real shadow dragon) creates a new Shiina a couple of chapters later. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_643618e5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_643618e5 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6439de78 | type |
Heroic Sacrifice | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6439de78 | comment |
Heroic Sacrifice: In the manga, Shunji sacrifices his life by using his plane (more exactly, its engines) as a weapon to destroy Bungo's dragon | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6439de78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6439de78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6439de78 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_644eca71 | type |
Rich Bitch | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_644eca71 | comment |
Rich Bitch: Subverted. Satomi looks and acts like one, but turns out she's anything but rich, and a big fuss she makes about "elitarism" and social position comes from the fact she's ashamed of failing Banda's entrance exams at first. Also, Aki Honda is a monstrous Alpha Bitch, but she's from a middle-class family. | |
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-0.3 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_644eca71 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_644eca71 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_659ef759 | type |
Implacable Man | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_659ef759 | comment |
Implacable Man: Satomi's dragon Amapola, after "evolving" into its more humanoid form. It takes an intervention from the Virgin Princess to defeat it and save Shiina's life. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_659ef759 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_659ef759 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_659ef759 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: Kitoh really likes to draw bare feet. People are barefoot whenever possible and every individual toe on display is lovingly detailed. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6627695f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6627695f | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_67677940 | type |
Giant Flyer | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_67677940 | comment |
Giant Flyer: The adult dragons. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_67677940 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_67677940 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_67677940 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_69681e01 | type |
Big Brother Instinct | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_69681e01 | comment |
Big Sister Instinct: The Virgin Princess who aids Shiina often in the manga is her older sister Mishou. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_69681e01 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_69681e01 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_69681e01 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | type |
Meaningful Name | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: The Shadow Dragon Sheol. Its name is often referred to as the Hebrew word for Hell, but its true meaning is simply the absence of God. Either one works pretty well considering that Sheol's body is the Earth itself. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6bda9a30 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d332aea | type |
Driven to Suicide | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d332aea | comment |
Driven to Suicide: Akira tries to kill herself twice, but either can't bring herself to do it or gets slapped out of it. Eventually, she may have finally ended her suffering by throwing herself out of her hospital window... which might be the closest thing to a "happy ending" that anyone in the series ever got. | |
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1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d332aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d332aea | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e | type |
Dead Person Impersonation | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e | comment |
Dead Person Impersonation: The Jyun Ezumi that Shiina meets is actually Kyouji, who has taken on her appearance with the help of his shadow dragon; the real Jyun died in an accident two years prior to the story. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_6d7cd3e | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5 | type |
Trauma Conga Line | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5 | comment |
Trauma Conga Line: The final result is only shown in the manga, but even so. Poor, poor Shiina. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_71e8a5c5 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7289a350 | type |
Idiot Hair | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7289a350 | comment |
Idiot Hair: Amusingly enough, Shiina gains one of these after her Important Haircut... after she's stopped being Book Dumb! | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7289a350 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7289a350 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7289a350 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | type |
Covers Always Lie | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | comment |
Covers Always Lie: The first manga volume, complete with misleading blurb on the back of the English version. The French version's like that too. The blurb for that volume mentions that Shiina's "exciting adventures are just beginning!". Also, one of the anime DVD covers has Hiro-chan smiling like a typical Cheerful Child character. She's... not quite like that in canon. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7315fd38 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_74828aea | type |
Killer Rabbit | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_74828aea | comment |
Killer Rabbit: Hoshimaru, pretty much. That cute appearance looks incredibly off-putting when he’s doing stuff like impaling Hiro-chan. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_74828aea | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_74828aea | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_74828aea | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7603b45b | type |
Furo Scene | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7603b45b | comment |
Furo Scene: There's one in the manga, but it's got much more to do with characterisation than fanservice. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7603b45b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7603b45b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7603b45b | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_771f6307 | type |
Brother–Sister Incest | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_771f6307 | comment |
Brother–Sister Incest: Very strongly implied between Aki Honda and her brother Yasuhito. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_771f6307 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_771f6307 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_771f6307 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_780a078e | type |
Self-Made Orphan | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_780a078e | comment |
Self-Made Orphan: When Hiro-chan snaps, the first people she kills with Oni are her own parents. Also, Naozumi may be responsible for the "disappearance" of his parents and older brother. Tomonori might have allowed his ill mother to starve to death. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_780a078e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_780a078e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_780a078e | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78270847 | type |
Curse Cut Short | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78270847 | comment |
Curse Cut Short: In volume 7, Yasuhito exclaims "What the f—" upon seeing Oni. His head is crushed before he can get it all out. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78270847 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78270847 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78270847 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78410584 | type |
She Is Not My Girlfriend | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78410584 | comment |
He Is Not My Boyfriend: Satomi about Bungo. Even 13 year olds don't believe her anyway. | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78410584 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78410584 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) | hasFeature |
Shadow Star (Manga) / int_78410584 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7870735b | type |
From Bad to Worse | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_7870735b | comment |
From Bad to Worse: And worse and worse and worse, until eventually everyone just gets flattened to death. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Shouko gets one of these from Jyun. | |
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What Does She See in Him? | |
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What Does She See in Him?: It is revealed that Aki Sato's boyfriend is not some millionaire or politician, but a humble, ugly (and possibly mildly mentally-handicapped) florist. | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds | |
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Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Hiroko. "Anything I don't like, I'll destroy." Fortunately for the world, she fails. Then again, much later in the manga Shiina succeeds with this trope. It's not pretty. | |
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Tsundere | |
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Tsundere: Satomi Ozawa, especially towards her ex-boyfriend Bungo. Norio qualifies as a male example, though given that his love interest is such a jerk, his deredere side doesn't show much. | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change | |
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Expository Hairstyle Change: Bungo bleaches his hair and starts slicking it back in later manga volumes. Shiina begins the series with Girlish Pigtails, switches to a bob after entering junir high, and has shoulder-length hair after she goes Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds with Mamiko. | |
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Dysfunction Junction | |
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Dysfunction Junction: Having issues with the world seems to be — and may even literally be — a requirement for bonding with a shadow dragon. | |
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Embarrassing First Name | |
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Embarrassing First Name: Shiina writes her first name in katakana because she really hates the way it's written in kanji, which is read as "empty husk" or "a seed that will never sprout". It eventually turns out that the name has a positive meaning after all (Misono didn't want Shiina to "leave" her like Mishou did) and when Shiina finally comes to accept it, she's able to link with her real shadow dragon... the Earth itself. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: In the manga, Shiina is walking around the destruction of the town, a Framing Device in which we learn from flashbacks that Shiina fell into a Despair Event Horizon after her mother, Akira, Norio, Takeo, and Hoshimaru are killed by an angry mob, which summons Sheol to wipe out the Earth. The only people left are Shiina and Mamiko, who are both pregnant. Mamiko tells Shiina that they can rebuild, but if she wants, Mamiko can have Sheol end the world again. Shiina decides not to rebuild, and the last shots of the manga are Mamiko's son and Shiina's daughter running on the beach naked and about to have sex. It can be compared to The End of Evangelion, but it's really much more bleak and nihilistic. Confusing, too. | |
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Mon | |
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Mons: The dragonets, or "shadow dragons", or whatever your translation calls them. | |
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Mature Work, Child Protagonists | |
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Mature Work, Child Protagonists: The manga has a 12-year-old protagonist, but it's clearly aimed towards adults, and has disturbing violence and sexuality to show for it. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: No characters are truly morally good, even those who seem like that at first are utterly broken, dead or both by the end. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
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Villain Protagonist: an alternate interpretation for Shiina from those who believe she and Mamiko went a little too far with their planet-wide genocide. | |
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Cool Car | |
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Cool Car: Almost all of the cars used in the manga are real models, and interesting cars usually get full panels — in Chapter 12, the very uncommon Subaru SVX is shown off this way | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction: Though it's less apparent in later volumes, the series deconstructs the Mon genre in the following ways: Unlike most Mon shows, the series doesn't assume that all the children who get cute monsters are automatically good. Some of the children in Shadow Star have the same misanthropic worldview as Real Life school shooters, and are only too keen to use their shadow dragons to hurt people they consider undesirable. The children have a psychic link to the shadow dragons and share their pain during the battles, leading to physical and mental trauma. The military gets involved when the shadow dragons begin to threaten the population, and the kids are caught in the crossfire. | |
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Wham Episode | |
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Wham Episode: While Akira's introductory chapter/episode makes things quite a bit darker than they initially appeared, it's her and Shiina's encounter with Tomonori that sets the true tone of the series. Hiro-chan's arc and volume 10 of the manga deliver big whams, too. | |
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Kissing Cousins | |
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Kissing Cousins: Shouko's feelings for her cousin Kyouji. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: Well, sort of. The bullies that "broke" Hiro-chan get this, most obviously with Aki Honda, who has all the torments she devised revisited on her tenfold, before being painfully killed. But even the most reluctant, remorseful member of her Girl Posse is incredibly brutalized and only survives because of outside intervention. | |
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Children Are Innocent | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_91672d3e | comment |
Unlike most Mon shows, the series doesn't assume that all the children who get cute monsters are automatically good. Some of the children in Shadow Star have the same misanthropic worldview as Real Life school shooters, and are only too keen to use their shadow dragons to hurt people they consider undesirable. | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be | |
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Half the Man He Used to Be: Happens to Aki Honda and one of the gangsters that rapes Mamiko. | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself: Jyun Ezumi has a broomstick-shaped shadow dragon she calls Nendo. Guess what Nendo means. There's also Satomi's dragon, Amapola, whose name is simply the Spanish word for poppy. | |
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There Are No Therapists | |
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There Are No Therapists: Though if there were, we wouldn't have nearly the same story. | |
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Shapeshifter Weapon | |
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Shapeshifter Weapon: The shadow dragons fight by forming replicas of weapons they've come into contact with, ranging from blades to rocket launchers and everything in between. | |
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All-Loving Hero | |
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Hurting or trying to kill Shiina's father is a very quick way to shift Shiina from All-Loving Hero to Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
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Foreshadowing: There's some in the very first chapter that alludes to Shiina's true dragon. By the end of the first volume, Akira revelas to Shiina that when a shadow dragon links with their partner, it happens psychically, in form of visions and disembodied voices. This is repeated a few times when Shiina meets other dragon users, despise such a thing never happening between her and Hoshimaru. This pretty much reveals that Hoshimaru is not Shiina's dragon at all. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Takeo is like this at times in the manga, even taking a shotgun blast to the chest and barely even flinching. He's far from invincible, though, and eventually succumbs to radiation poisoning. | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Subverted with Tomonori. It's revealed some time after his death that he had a sickly mother he was taking care of, but the reader already knows by then that the sickly were among the sorts of people he wanted to kill off. | |
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Hu Mons | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_a1e77fb9 | comment |
Hu Mons: Most of the shadow dragons are Starfish Aliens that barely resemble any sort of living creature. One of them, however, looks like an attractive female angel with claw-tipped wings growing out of its head. In the "Broomstick" arc, the kid riding the broomstick is also part of the Shadow Dragon. The real child controlling it is in a coma in a nearby hospital until he's able to metamorphose into a Virgin Prince. | |
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Action Mom | |
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Action Mom: Jane Franklin, a manga-only character that joins the cast so she can save her son. | |
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It's All Junk | |
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It's All Junk: Shouko Fukuyama, after being told off by Jyun. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_a4c37cbe | comment |
Mood Whiplash: For just one example, cutting from the cutesy anime opening to the violence and misery that the anime actually contains. Especially in the episode where Oni appears. | |
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Celibate Hero | |
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Celibate Heroine: Although Shiina is pretty young, she's already adamant that she'll never get married or have children. This is subverted in the manga; not only does Shiina develop feelings for Takeo, but she even has sex with him near the end, with their daughter going on to be the new Eve of the "cleansed" Earth. | |
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Healing Factor | |
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Healing Factor: An ability of the shadow dragons, though the bearers don't usually recover so well. | |
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Lonely Rich Kid | |
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Lonely Rich Kid: Hiro-chan. Her only friend is Shiina, she’s constantly bullied for pretty no reason and her parents (mostly her dad) force her to do well in studying and scold her when she gets bad scores. Is it any wonder she snapped? | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: The anime OP song. Enough said. | |
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Harmful to Minors | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_abc60c5d | comment |
Harmful to Minors: From sex to murder, there is buckets of this kind of stuff in this series. | |
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Bond Creatures | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_abe166cc | comment |
Bond Creatures: The shadow dragons. | |
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Alas, Poor Villain | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ac09dc0f | comment |
Alas, Poor Villain: Hiroko may have gone off the deep end, but some would say it's a shame she didn't get a bone thrown to her. | |
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Off-Model | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ac7b87df | comment |
Off-Model: The car chase scene in episode six of the anime. Naozumi apparently drives three different cars, and the patrol car keeps changing. | |
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Scars Are Forever | |
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Scars are Forever: Shiina gets stabbed through her left hand when trying to fend off Oni, which leaves a fairly conspicuous scar there for the rest of the manga. It stays even though she dies and is brought back. | |
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For the Evulz | |
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For the Evulz: Why Aki Honda and the city thugs could be considered to be much worse than the main villains. | |
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Giant Hands of Doom | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_aefa2a04 | comment |
Giant Hands of Doom: The earth sprouts these when controlled by either Mamiko or Shiina. In fact, this is the way humans meet their doom at the end. Seriously. | |
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Abusive Parents | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b11ac9f5 | comment |
Abusive Parents: Shiina, Akira, and Hiroko all have at least one each. It's also implied that Norio and Takeo had them, but never explained in detail. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: In the manga, Tomonori's corpse and his shadow dragon are found by the military and experimented on. Last time they're seen they're hooked-up to machines that keep Tomonori from merging with his dragon and turned into an Otohime, therefore keeping them half-dead. | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b1346878 | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b1e8a3b3 | comment |
Coming of Age Story: A rather dark example, for Shiina. | |
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Genki Girl | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b2f26025 | comment |
Genki Girl: Subverted by Misho, Shiina's older sister, who starts as one of these but doesn't stay genki after Shiina's birth, and dies in very strange circumstances. When she reappears as a Virgin Princess, she's much closer to an Emotionless Girl. Also Shiina herself. | |
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-0.3 | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Mamiko, despite being critically important in the manga, only appears in two anime episodes and doesn't even show up in the ED animation. Takaya Mizushima, whose first animated appearance is in episode 12, when he shows up out of the blue to save Hiroko, without any explanation of why he knew to be there, or even who he is, and then only because there was no way around it this time. (Originally, he was Shiina's neighbour and classmate, and a recurring minor character.) | |
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Turbine Blender | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b95cc514 | comment |
Turbine Blender: How Bungo's dragon meets its end. | |
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Emotionless Girl | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_b9db28ab | comment |
Emotionless Girl: Mamiko Kuri and the Otohimes. | |
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Penny Among Diamonds | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ba0114dc | comment |
Penny Among Diamonds: Satomi and later Shiina herself at Banda Academy. They both have very different ways of handling it to say the least. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Satomi hates it when anyone insinuates that she's weak. Hurting or trying to kill Shiina's father is a very quick way to shift Shiina from All-Loving Hero to Roaring Rampage of Revenge. | |
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Compressed Adaptation | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_bdc94cd9 | comment |
Compressed Adaptation: Sort of — the anime only covers events from the first half of the manga. In condensing said events into 13 episodes, some manga scenes that served as foreshadowing got cut, but the adaptation is otherwise pretty faithful. | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_bdc94cd9 | |
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Ugly Guy, Hot Wife | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_bf74d357 | comment |
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Aki Satou and her fiancé. Shiina's parents. Good thing that their daughters and granddaughter took the looks after Misono rather than Shunji. | |
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Tomato Surprise | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c13c9e38 | comment |
Tomato Surprise: Again, manga only. Why can't Shiina link with Hoshimaru? Because he was never her dragon in the first place, and instead belongs to her ally Takeo Tsurumaru. She doesn't react well to the revelation, bless her. | |
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Otaku | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c38afac1 | comment |
Otaku: Bungo, of the military-nut variety. | |
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Hope Spot | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c3c18143 | comment |
Hope Spot: The last chapter of the manga. Shiina seems to have recovered from her father's death and is living happily with her mother. She and her mother head out to visit Akira in hospital... only for an angry mob to shoot up her mother's car, Akira to fall out of the hospital window in an apparent suicide, Takeo and Hoshimaru to be killed by a gang of thugs—after which Shiina and Mamiko initiate The End of the World as We Know It. Afterwards, Shiina, heavily pregnant with Takeo's (who was dying from radiation poisoning) baby, is shown walking around the ruins of the buildings she used to know, unable to muster up the will to do anything more for the world. | |
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We Can Rule Together | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c420a553 | comment |
We Can Rule Together: Portrayed more credibly than usual. Akira and Shiina receive offers from Hiroko (Shiina), Naozumi and Tomonori (Akira). None go well. | |
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Naïve Everygirl | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c5330897 | comment |
Naïve Everygirl: Shiina is one, at least at first. | |
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Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c5330897 | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c660bc15 | type |
Fan Disservice | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Child sex, underage female nudity... not meant to be actual fanservice, and it shows. | |
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Shout-Out | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out: The chapter Tomonori appears is titled Black No. 1. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c76b215e | type |
Bait-and-Switch Credits | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c76b215e | comment |
Bait-and-Switch Credits: The anime’s opening is animated in a simplistic and cutesy style and features a bouncy, country-ish song. To say that this does not fit the show at all would be an understatement. | |
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Get a Hold of Yourself, Man! | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c87660d5 | comment |
Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Akira pulls this on Shiina, slap included, after her father dies. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c9a71d47 | type |
Innocence Lost | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_c9a71d47 | comment |
Innocence Lost: When the series started, Shiina was just an innocent Genki Girl. Not so much after volume 2. | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ca4e037 | comment |
Dude Looks Like a Lady: Norio is mistaken for a girl several times in the manga. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ca9c252f | type |
This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ca9c252f | comment |
This Is Something I've Got To Do Myself: In the manga, Shiina accepts missions too dangerous for a girl her age, saying she feels she's gotta do it. | |
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I Just Want to Be Special | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cb83d23b | comment |
I Just Want to Be Special: On the other hand, Shiina surely does want to be special and have a Mon to call her own. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cbf05a02 | type |
Vagina Dentata | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cbf05a02 | comment |
Vagina Dentata: Norio's dragon is named this; fittingly enough, its head does look a bit like a toothy vagina. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cbfd6e47 | type |
Flying Broomstick | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cbfd6e47 | comment |
Flying Broomstick: Jun Ezumi's dragon. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cd83fa5b | type |
Spoiler Opening | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_cd83fa5b | comment |
Spoiler Opening: The intro isn't as innocuous as first appears, and even references some manga-only twists. i.e., Hiroko's first appearance features a malicious-looking Aki and several "100%" on the background, implying Aki's "role" as her bully and the reason why. | |
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Just Plane Wrong | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ce1c73e2 | comment |
Just Plane Wrong: No, the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force doesn't actually have A-10 Thunderbolts. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ceec4df5 | type |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_ceec4df5 | comment |
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Played with; when Hiro-chan finally breaks, she uses her dragon to go on a bloody rampage, killing everyone who ever wronged her. Then she moves on to anyone who stands in her way or she simply happens to dislike. However, she remains eerily calm through the whole thing, even as she attempts to kill Shiina's father. She just seems repressed to the point of being physically incapable of articulating her anger and can only channel it though the monstrous Oni. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d001c42c | type |
Anti-Villain | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: 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 pre-insanity Hiroko, who does genuinely feel bad about killing. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d0bf8a6d | type |
No Periods, Period | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d0bf8a6d | comment |
No Periods, Period: Averted. In the manga, 13-years-old Shiina gets her first period right after she dies and is subsequently reborn in the island where her grandparents live. Also, Naozumi discovers that it's Satomi's time of the month after she passes out and wets herself when her dragon is cut up by an attack chopper's rotor blades. Akira is taunted by some girls at school because of her period and she mentions that she did just have it. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d397657d | type |
Hoist by His Own Petard | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d397657d | comment |
Hoist by His Own Petard: In the anime, Tomonori is killed when Hoshimaru replicates his own Push Dagger and spears him with it (as opposed to the broken plane strut used in the manga). A bigger example from both versions would be the way Aki Honda is killed by Oni, mirroring the way she tortured Hiro-chan. It's interesting to note how the anime plays this up twice. While Oni merely used its claws in the manga, in the anime it transforms its finger into the shape of the infamous test tube before doing the deed. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d45c0b86 | type |
Refuge in Audacity | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d45c0b86 | comment |
Refuge in Audacity: The anime opening shows stuff like Hiro-chan getting bullied by Aki Honda in such a cute and comedic way… | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d53ad027 | type |
Cheerful Child | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d53ad027 | comment |
Also, one of the anime DVD covers has Hiro-chan smiling like a typical Cheerful Child character. She's... not quite like that in canon. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d71073b5 | type |
Subverted Kids' Show | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d71073b5 | comment |
Subverted Kids' Show: Though targeted to a seinen audience, this is the only explanation for the tone of the opening as compared to the subject matter. All the characters are cheerily illustrated, dancing to a bubblegum folk sound. Are you ready for this, kids? | |
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The End of the World as We Know It | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d71d51fd | comment |
The End of the World as We Know It: Only in the manga, though. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d73f1bba | type |
Enlightenment Superpowers | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d73f1bba | comment |
Enlightenment Superpowers: A seriously dark take on the trope. To wit, in order to link with a shadow dragon, a person must go through either a high-grade trauma in order to, or simply realize by themselves, that they're better off without anyone else to hurt them anymore. The degree of which varies by individual. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d7fc9fd0 | type |
Vitriolic Best Buds | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d7fc9fd0 | comment |
Vitriolic Best Buds: Takeo and Norio. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d88e125e | type |
Our Dragons Are Different | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_d88e125e | comment |
Our Dragons Are Different: Indeed. They start off as cute starfish-shaped creatures, but their adult stages can be anything from Winged humanoids to borderline eldritch abominations. In fact, the only one we see that really looks like a "typical" dragon is the one belonging to the American kid in the manga. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_daa59ba1 | type |
Puppy Love | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_daa59ba1 | comment |
Puppy Love: Canonically, Bungo and Satomi when they were younger, though their relationship is bittersweet at best and downright icky at worst. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_dae5c997 | type |
Action Girl | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Shiina’s not afraid to step in when it counts, even if Hoshimaru can’t link to her. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_db2f3581 | type |
All Girls Want Bad Boys | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_db2f3581 | comment |
All Girls Want Bad Boys: Might explain some of Takeo's popularity among the ladies. | |
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| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_dbfd6b8 | type |
Lyrical Dissonance | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_dbfd6b8 | comment |
Lyrical Dissonance: The relentlessly cheery opening "Nichiyoubi no Taiyou" ("The Sun of Sunday") has lyrics about someone sitting in a park waiting for someone else who will never show up, with the implication that the other person is dead and the singer is struggling to cope with that loss. This actually serves as good foreshadowing for the actual tone of the series. | |
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A God Am I | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_dc1761bd | comment |
A God Am I: Naozumi certainly thinks he is. | |
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They Would Cut You Up | |
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They Would Cut You Up: Why Akira would rather keep the shadow dragon issue hush-hush. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: In the manga, eventually crossed by Shiina, after she watches everyone she loves die horribly. The End of the World as We Know It follows. | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On | |
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Please Put Some Clothes On: Most people's reaction to Mamiko. | |
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Mama Bear | |
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Mama Bear: Jane Franklin's son Robert is an ill boy who has been captured by the military alongside his dragon. His Action Mom joins forces with Takeo and Shiina, and she will NOT stop until she rescues her kid. Heartbreakingly, she succeeds in getting Robert back... but the poor boy falls victim to his illness in her arms. | |
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Dub Name Change | |
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Dub Name Change: Bungo is renamed Kazuyuki in the Dark Horse manga volumes, probably just because it anglicizes better than ''Bungo''. The last few chapters they translated (which never made it into English graphic novels) changed his name back to Bungo, though. Also, Tomonori is called Akinori on Central Park Media's page for the anime, possibly due to their translators misreading the kanji for his name. | |
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Going Commando | |
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Going Commando: Mamiko never wears panties. | |
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Deus Angst Machina | |
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Deus Angst Machina: The plot can really feel like it's running on Murphy's Law at times. It's particularly bad for poor Akira, as there even seems to be a literal conspiracy to keep her from ever being happy again in the manga. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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Art Evolution: The art in the second half is noticeably less stiff and awkward than in the first. | |
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Five Rounds Rapid | |
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Five Rounds Rapid: What the JSDF does to combat the dragons. It doesn't work; only once is one successfully killed, but that one was rammed by an airplane before going down. | |
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Torches and Pitchforks | |
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Torches and Pitchforks: How most people react after learning that not only are the monsters real, but some of them are responsible for the nuclear apocalypse. | |
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Calling the Old Man Out | |
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Calling the Old Man Out: Years after her father's sexual abuse crippled her emotionally, Akira called him out by killing him. | |
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Happily Ever Before | |
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Happily Ever Before: Things get so much worse after the point where the anime ended. | |
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Determinator | |
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Determinator: Norio refuses to give up on helping Takeo, even when being tortured. | |
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Unexplained Recovery | |
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Unexplained Recovery: 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. Might be explained by how her and Mamiko's shared actual dragon, Sheol, is the Earth itself. | |
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Hate Sink | |
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Hate Sink: Aki Honda is amongst one of the worst examples of Alpha Bitch in anime/manga history despite how she never had a bigger, villainous role compared to certain others, and she was written on purpose as well, she has no redeeming qualities and only existed to drive Hiroko insane and have her killed to show how far Hiroko has fallen into insanity. | |
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Shrinking Violet | |
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Shrinking Violet: Akira, to the highest degree. Makes sense considering what she’s been through. Miyoko. Considering that she hangs around Aki Honda and is implied to be beaten by her if she doesn’t go along with what she says, it makes sense. | |
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One-Steve Limit | |
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One-Steve Limit: Averted, since there are two minor yet notable characters named Aki; apart from the nasty Alpha Bitch Aki Honda, there's also Tatsumi Miyako's Sexy Secretary, Aki Sato. | |
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Locked Out of the Loop | |
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Locked Out of the Loop: In the anime, it's implied that Shiina didn't tell her father that Hiroko died and was the one behind his almost death. | |
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Redemption Equals Death | |
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Redemption Equals Death: Misono. Right after the readers get to see her side of the story, as well as having her reunite with Shiina and patch things up, she's shot to death while trying to save her from an angry mob. | |
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Sealed with a Kiss | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_f3aa6298 | comment |
Sealed with a Kiss: The very last scene of the manga shows Shiina's daughter and Mamiko's son kissing, with the implication that they are the last humans left on earth, similar to Adam and Eve. | |
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Creepy Child | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_f3d5d15f | comment |
Creepy Child: Well, creepy teens, but the effect is still the same. | |
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Grotesque Cute | |
| Shadow Star (Manga) / int_f9facc81 | comment |
Grotesque Cute: As events turn darker and darker, Hoshimaru's cute design starts to look increasingly out of place. Also Cute Monster Girl Hainuwele, a doll-like armless angel that can spout weapons from its Claw-wings. | |
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Beware the Nice Ones | |
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Beware the Nice Ones: Hiroko aka "Hiro-chan", who as soon as she gets her own dragon, Oni, uses it to murder the Alpha Bitch of her school, her brother/lover, the Alpha Bitch's Girl Posse and the parents that cared more about her grades than her emotional well-being, all of them in very gruesome and creepy manners. Hoshimaru must kill her in the end since Hiro-chan has become that insane. Also another of Shiina's buddies, Akira Sakura, who eventually killed her abusive and rapist bastard of a father. Naozumi and Tomonori are both considered particularly nice boys by the people who know them superficially, but are secretly (well, not exactly secretly in Naozumi's case) sadistic egomaniacs with dire plans for the world. Finally, Shiina herself. After having her best friend Akira horribly injured in front of her and her mother and boyfriend murdered by angry mobs, all of it one chapter after her father's Heroic Sacrifice, she finally snaps and decides to end the world by sprouting gigantic hands from the earth and bitchslap every single soul to death. | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter | |
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Ridiculously Cute Critter: Hoshimaru looks this way, at least. | |
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Cut Short | |
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Cut Short: 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 what was coming next. Or both. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: Mohiro Kitoh is a big aviation nut and his knowledge of aircraft shines through with his depictions of Shiina's dad's work and the JASDF. He nails down some lesser known characteristics of Down's Syndrome during a brief appearance by a minor character with the condition. Said character is a florist who has managed to earn several minor government contracts for state funerals and such because of his meticulousness. People with Down's often become almost superhumanly good at certain tasks because the fact they know they're mentally challenged makes them more careful about things and work harder than a neurotypical person would think they need to. Kito is a fluent Russian speaker, so Shiina occasionally would wear a T-shirt that says "Samolet", or "Plane". The chapter in Moscow is written with his original research. | |
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