Narutaru and Evil

"Narutaru." It seems like an innocent word, an innocent show. Not much to it - simple. The theme song is light, breezy, featuring harmonicas playing and coloured in by markers, featuring simply drawn adolescent girls marching along, with a comical over sized version of one of the main girls in this ensemble show "destroying" a city. Ha ha ha, something light. Something childish. A prominent feature of the theme song was a little cute starfish guy with oversized eyes, smiling.

You see, ocassionally, my anime club will show anime programs obviously aimed at a younger, even female audience. I took the theme song for a foreshadowing of its kiddy nature.

The theme song ends with a proclamation that this is a "Kid's Station" tv show.

Ladies and gentleman, I don't know what kind of "kids" this "station" could possibly relate to, unless they are the children of serial killers.

Welcome to Japan, boys and girls.

All right, thinking that this is a kids show, I was initially shocked to deal with the two characters discussing the pointlessness of existence. I thought, "Wow, these are dealing with pretty mature themes here for a kids show - but it's a Kids Station TV show, so it's all right."

The next scene wasn't that heavy. Just the girls having a nice meal at the friends house. Ha ha, nothing important.

Then, some bully girls take one of the girls away. I forgot her name, we'll call her X. Now, X was then pinned down by some other girls. Still thinking this is an innocent show, I think, "Well, maybe they'll slap her, or make fun of her, or something else. Hey, it's a kid's show, right?"

Then, I thought to myself, "What are they doing with that test tube?"

And then Satan told me. "Oh dear God, no."

It pains me to write this, but offscreen, the characters gang-raped X with a test tube.

Some blessed part of me denied this - "Maybe they're doing something...anything else!"

Then they said, "Oh, you're getting so wet, X..."

This was not a kid's show. I shuddered, trying desperately to turn my head away. I decided to escape this, and so I went to my bathroom. See previous post for how that went.

So, in this kid's show - two adolescent girls kill their parents, one girl almost kills her friend, (the starfish finishes the job) and a girl, after giving off the creepiest pseudo-incestual vibe since Luke and Leia, is killed after puking up maggots.

If you measure every theme song ever made or that ever will be made, this one has got to be the most inappropriate ever designed.

Don't watch this. It's evil.