Karakuri no Kimi

We've fallen on dark, desperate times when I somehow find myself watching and subsequently writing a review for a 41 minute, quarter-century old anime movie that no one else has heard of and there are FOUR reviews for prior to my own. That's about one every five years!

Puppet Princess isn't the worst of the worst, but talking plainly it came out in 2000, looks like it came out in the mid 90s at best or even the late 80s, is short, doesn't have time to develop characters or plot points or provide any emotional depth whatsoever and might as well not have a soundtrack at ... all. Aside from being able to say "I've seen that" or being the hardest of the hardcore old school anime or martial arts anime fan, there's simply no reason to go back and watch this now.

It is, in every way, somewhere under the umbrella of mediocre. Some things it might do the tiniest smidge above mediocre. Many other things it may do a smidge below mediocre. But putting it all together, and now considering how far removed it now is as we approach 2024, it's just an utterly middling, mediocre, forgettable, skippable movie from a bygone era. I don't feel like I've completely wasted my time watching this, as it's short enough to not care even if I had, but there's no reason for me to ever watch this again and there's probably no reason for you to watch it at all. Of course, since no one has heard of this, my wife and I will probably be the only people to read this review anyway.

OBJECTIVE RATING- I don't know. Very difficult to do two plus decades after the fact. Mediocre.
PERSONAL ENJOYMENT RATING- 5-5.5