Narutaru
Narutaru ( なるたる ) is a Manga drawn and scenarized by Mohiro Kitoh. It was adapted in Anime in 2003 (series of 13 episodes)
He tells the history of a twelve year old child, fray a little by chance with the unloading of creatures Extraterrestres with broad of the Japan. Work distills a contrasted environment, with drawings and light screens but of the topics and very dark scenes. One can see thus there scenes of Viol, Suicide ideological, and speeches violent one of certain characters, calling upon for example the massacres of the Khmer Rouge.
Publication and its stop in France
In 1999-2000, the editor of manga Glénat undertakes the publication of the manga of Narutaru , to suddenly stop it at the end of two volumes. A Polémique indeed burst during the publication: the childish drawings of the first volume, in spite of a worrying environment, quickly leave place to scenes of pure horror, true heart of the intrigue of this series. Not having envisaged such a reversal of the history, Glénat decides to stop the publication.
Among the readers, a debate settles: some consider that, considering the surprisingly violent character of this work, the stop of the publication was essential. Others think that a simple opinion of reservation to an adult public should have been enough. a third category argues that the work of Glénat was not serious, since they chose to publish without precautions this obviously insupportable series for the young public as of the second volume.
To take stock and to confront the various points of view having milked with this polemic, the magazine Animeland devoted to it an article of a page entitled “Naru Taré? ”
Others mangas whose publication was stopped or missed being it
Narutaru is not the only series to be stopped on the French market. Thus, I" L, a series on the Basketball, was stopped during more than one year before being begun again by another editor. The short stories of Rumiko Takahashi putting in scene cruelty, Rumiks Worlds, were given up and to date any more did not find editors. Certain series, on the contrary, in spite of their unpopularity and their weak pulling, were carried out in the long term. It is the case of a series like Dragon Head, from which last volumes were drawn with less than 4000 specimens.
With time, the stop of publication seems to be an increasingly rare phenomenon.