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Shadow Star Narutaru

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Alternate titles: Narutaru

TV (13 eps) | 2003 | Planet

While visiting her grandparents on a remote island, Shiina Tamai, our young protagonist, inadvertently finds a strange star shaped creature, which she names Hoshimaru. This creature, while seemingly harmless and unusual, holds many secrets. As Shiina and her new friend Akira soon find out, their creatures are much more than they seem to be...and against their will, they are thrown into a dangerous and hostile situation of trying to save the world from others who would use their dragonets to enslave it.

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Alternate titles: When They Cry - Higurashi

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Alternate titles: Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku

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Alternate titles: Evangelion

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