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[[File:Narutaru_3154.jpg|frame|[[A Girl and Her X|A girl and her]] [[Eldritch Abomination]]]]
{{quote|''"When you don't fit in anywhere in the world, what should you do? Carve yourself to fit the world...? ...Or carve the world to fit ''you''?!"''|'''[[Social Darwinist|Tomonori Komori]]'''}}
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''Naru Taru'' was created by [[Mohiro Kitoh]], who also created the [[Humongous Mecha]] series ''[[Bokurano]]'', while the anime was penned by [[Chiaki Konaka]], writer of ''[[Serial Experiments Lain]]'' and ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''. [[Mind Screw|This]] [[Deconstruction|should]] [[Harmful to Minors|tell]] [[Schmuck Bait|you]] [[It Got Worse|something]].
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* [[A God Am I]]: Sudo certainly thinks he is.▼
* [[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.
* [[Action Girl]]: Shiina.
* [[Action Mom]]: Jane Franklin, a manga-only character.
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Junji's CV had done Camille in ''[[
* [[Adam and Eve Plot]]: In the final three pages of the manga, with {{spoiler|Shiina's daughter and Mamiko's son}}.
** [[Fridge Horror]]: {{spoiler|Shiina had sex with Takeo}}, who was dying of radiation poisoning at the time. Do the math.
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** There was also some Bowdlerisation in the anime adaptation. Many of the more shocking events happen off-screen, and the anime is even reluctant to show blood most of the time.
*** Though to be fair, many of the shocking events aren't shown because they don't happen (due to aforementioned missing second half).
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Shiina's friends Hiroko Kaizuka and Akira Sakura. Shiina herself steadily goes through this throughout the manga, and at the end {{spoiler|is as broken as broken gets after losing everything and everyone she ever cared about, and bringing about [[The End of the World
** Averted by Norio Koga, which is impressive given what ends up happening to him. Sure, he was {{spoiler|raped to death}} but he didn't dwell on his situation, and instead {{spoiler|focused on helping out Tsurumaru and Shiina by taking out bombers, despite the giant pedophile on his back.}}
* [[Break the Haughty]]: {{spoiler|Satomi, in the manga. Also, Aki Honda in both anime and manga.}}
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* [[Dead Little Sister]]: {{spoiler|Or better said, dead ''older'' sister - Misho, Shiina's older sister who died right after Shiina was born and became one of the Virgin Princesses. She's basically the reason Misono is the way she is.}}
* [[Dead Person Impersonation]]: {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Death
* [[Deconstruction]]: Though it's less apparent in later volumes, the series was a massive and brutal deconstruction of the [[Mon]] genre.
* [[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.
** And don't forget Takaya Mizushima, whose first animated appearance is in episode 12, when {{spoiler|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 [[The Artifact|there was no way around it this time]]. (Originally, he was Shiina's neighbour and classmate, and a recurring minor character.)
* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: In the manga, eventually crossed by {{spoiler|Shiina, after she watches everyone she loves die horribly. [[The End of the World
* [[Determinator]]: {{spoiler|Norio}}
* [[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 {{spoiler|there even seems to be a ''literal conspiracy'' to keep her from ever being happy again}} in the manga.
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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". {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Emotionless Girl]]: Mamiko Kuri and the Otohimes.
* [[The End of the World
* [[Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas]]: Subverted with Tomonori Komori. {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Bungo bleaches his hair and starts slicking it back in later manga volumes.
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* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Pre-haircut Shiina and Hiroko.
* [[Go Out with a Smile]]: Played with. {{spoiler|Norio's dying smile is ironic because he's regretting that he could never tell Takeo his real feelings. Also, he's ''not'' smiling when Takeo comes home to find his severed head.}}
▲* [[A God Am I]]: Sudo certainly thinks he is.
* [[Going Commando]]: Mamiko ''never'' wears panties.
* [[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.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Shiina gets these a few times. {{spoiler|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.}}
* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|In the manga, Shunji sacrifices his life by using his plane (more exactly, its engines) as a weapon to destroy Bungo's dragon}}
* [[Hoist
* [[Hope Spot]]: {{spoiler|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
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Akira doesn't want to have recurring nightmares and be ill because of her link to her Mon.
* [[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.
* [["I Know You
* [[Idiot Hair]]: Amusingly enough, {{spoiler|Shiina gains one of these after her [[Important Haircut]]... ''after'' she's stopped being [[Book Dumb]]!}}
* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Mon]]: Satomi's dragon Amapola, after "evolving" into its more humanoid form. {{spoiler|It takes an intervention from the Virgin Princess to defeat it and save Shiina's life.}}
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* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Mamiko Kuri.
* [[Littlest Cancer Patient]]: {{spoiler|Poor little Robert Franklin...}}
* [[Living
* [[Lolicon]]: Can't really get away from it. Two pregnant young girls are {{spoiler|all that's left of humanity}} in the end of the manga. And [[Squick|let's not]] explore the [[Shotacon]] territory of this series.
* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]: Hiro-chan.
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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.
* [[Please Put Some Clothes On]]: Most people's reaction to Mamiko.
* [[Rape
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: Shouko gets one of these from Jyun.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Misono. Right after we 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.}}
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* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Though if there ''were'', we wouldn't have nearly the same story.
* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: Why Akira would rather keep the shadow dragon issue hush-hush.
* [[Twelve-Episode Anime|Thirteen Episode Anime]]: Though these thirteen episodes left out half of the plot of the manga that it's based on.
* [[This Is Something He's Got to Do Himself|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.
* [[Tomato in
* [[Tomato Surprise]]: Again, manga only. {{spoiler|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. [[Heroic BSOD|She doesn't react well to the revelation]], bless her.}}
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Shiina and either Akira or Hiroko.
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