This is one of the worst adaptation to ever come out in recent memory. Not only it's a bad anime, but it's also an insult to the original manga by Fujita-sensei which is considered a classic in Japan.
Let's go over the biggest problem: it's rushed like hell.
How rushed? Well...
Imagine if you had to adapt JoJo part 5 into 13 episodes...
Or HxH into 24 episodes...
Or FMA into 16 episodes...
Or... Well, you get the idea.
The original manga is 43 volume long. This anime is 36 episode.
This means that even if they adapted a volume per episode, it wouldn't do
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Alternative Titles
Japanese: からくりサーカス
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Type:
TV
Episodes:
36
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Oct 11, 2018 to Jun 27, 2019
Premiered:
Fall 2018
Broadcast:
Thursdays at 22:30 (JST)
Licensors:
Sentai Filmworks
Studios:
Studio VOLN
Source:
Manga
Demographic:
Shounen
Duration:
24 min. per ep.
Rating:
PG-13 - Teens 13 or older
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#34842
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Popularity:
#1706
Members:
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Your Feelings Categories Dec 2, 2018
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[Story 8/10] The story is great. It's simple and original. It may sound stupid at first, but trust me, you'll get used to it. [Art 10/10] It's just beautiful and smooth. Everything looks good to the eye and all the colors are greatly combined. [Sound 9/10] The sound is also fantastic. Themes are great and match the scenes, and the opening is one of the best of the season. ... Dec 4, 2018
We’ve seen shounen about ninjas, pirates, wizards, but I bet you haven’t seen one about the circus?!
Karakuri Circus is the latest shounen revolving around puppets and the circus. It sounds interesting conceptually and Karakuri Circus is more grounded than your typical battle shounen, however it still falls into the same pitfalls that plagues most shounen. Story: (4/10) The story is about a boy named Masaru who has inherited his late father’s fortune. However, a group of people wielding these mysterious puppets are after him trying to get their hands on it. Through a sequence of events he meets Narumi and his puppeteer guardian named Shirogane. Together they ... Jun 27, 2019
Over the past decade since I’ve been reading manga, there’s one author that I always felt underappreciated. Kazuhiro Fujita is the manga artist responsible for works such as Ushio and Tora and Moonlight Act. It’s not his first rodeo of having an anime adaptation. Ushio and Tora got the treatment of a 3-cour show (with a split break) based on his manga. Both series ran a large chunk of chapters before their conclusion. Karakuri Circus takes place in modern Japan focusing on a young boy named Masaru Saiga.
The story itself contains elements of action and dark fantasy while the plot revolves with three protagonists. ... Jun 27, 2019
People evolve. We venture beyond our comfort zones, adapting and adjusting to new environments. In the end, we become better versions of ourselves. However, for the shirogane (masters of magical puppets), this is not the case. Defined by their silver hair, slim figures, and seemingly ageless bodies, they’ve been fighting monsters for hundreds of years. Their reasoning for this lies within a traumatizing event from long ago; this event permanently affected them. While the seasons change, the shirogane stay the same. It's apparent in their fighting style (the manipulation of puppets). With the issues they confront, the shirogane insist on an approach that’s not only
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Jan 15, 2019
SOOOO UNDERRATED. i really enjoy this anime it oddly gives hunterxhunter vibes idk how but its mt opnion the story is so fit and everything is connected
in the first episodes you wont understand that much but trust me it all will be shown in the next episodes...the art is likeable not like those 2018 animes that they draw characters to look childish and stupidly personality big eyes and etc... i really like the art and the colors..the sounds are great makes the fights scensess more exiting...enjoyment is perfect..no episode made me feel bored its just all exiting and holds u to the next episode...overall 10\10 ... Jun 27, 2019
I would like to preface this review by saying that I have yet to read the Karakuri Circus manga, so I will be discussing the show on its own merits, rather than comparing it to the manga. That said, there are lots of elements to Karakuri Circus that make it clear that it cut out a lot of stuff from the manga. This anime serves as a case study as to what happens when you adapt a great manga (or, at least, I assume it’s great based on what I’ve seen of the anime) from 42 volumes into 36 episodes. As you might imagine, the
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Jun 30, 2019
Finally the 36 episode long anime has ended and it ended with a clean ending, not something that every anime does which always leaves an open ending, that the good part, the bad part about this anime was that to run for 36 episode was just too much of a chore, since we have to see a lot of back stories and info dump that were seemingly pseudo-science by nature, in one episode about the backstory of Yin and Bin it was 1758, that was the " Renaissance" that was the time that moden medicine was starting to develop in it's early stage, that was
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Apr 10, 2019
Story (8/10)
The theme of the story is interesting and I haven't seen an anime that centers around puppets. Although, the story development could be improved because in most of the episodes that I've seen so far, certain arcs are skipped through and multiple new characters are being introduced in almost every episode with little to no introductions. With that being said, the story is interesting and you'll get used to the fast paced development. Art (9/10) The art is beautiful, reminds me of art styles from older anime's. There's great detail in almost every scene and character, you could tell that the animators/artists worked hard into portraying ... Jun 28, 2019
This story is about tragedy, friendship overcoming tragedy through love and tragedy, and revenge. Oh! Specially to remind you what happens when you cock-block someone. The character development is amazing and very strong and so is the plot. It has a bunch of mysteries that all get revealed, and through the story there are two full circles that are nicely done through characterization. What do I mean by that? Well by the end of the series you will get why.
This is a story heavily involving puppets and circuses and alchemy. What Puppets, revenge, circuses, alchemy and forms of immortality or reincarnation do not interest ... May 15, 2019
That moment when it all just stops making any God damn sense.
I really liked the first episode. Even recommended to my friends. But oh boi that it took me for one heck of a ride People might enjoy it but I hate it. Its like a long bad roller-coaster ride which you think you'll enjoy initially but as it goes on, you keep feeling sicker and sicker and by the end of the ride, you start throwing up. And it's also so unpredictable but in such a way that you start questioning yourself that why did you start watching this. There's is just too ... Aug 27, 2019
I'll start by saying that I think this series is a blast. If you like shonen anime like I do, especially the kind that hit you in the feels and hold no punches, I highly recommend it.
Karakuri Circus is an adaptation of a shonen manga from the 90s, coming from the same author of Ushio to Tora. It tells the story of Masaru, a kid raised by a rich family who just inherited a big fortune, since the father of the household died in a car crash. As a result, Masaru is being pursued by two separate groups of puppeteers who control super strong puppets ... Jun 27, 2019
Karakuri Circus peeked my interest all the way back in the fall of last year. It was another work from the mangaka behind Ushio to Tora, which while rushed as an anime I still enjoyed. So with Karakuri Circus coming out I knew I had to check it out.
The first episode actually blew away my expectations. It looked good, really good. It kind of gave me this Hunter x Hunter vibe which is a high compliment. For the next few episodes the story continued at an appropriate pace and any worries I had for the series were at the back of my mind. All was ... Jun 12, 2020
This adaption is pitiful its pathetic compared to the manga and to me after a fair 20 episodes it was straight up unwatchable and I've watched quite a lot of amines.
You might be wondering whats the problem? It's the plot, it doesn't seem to be following any of the manga at all and instead jumps from one chapter to 3 chapters after that. Secondly, its horrendous rushed, it chopped around 15 chapters and skewed it awkwardly into a single episode. If you haven't read the manga most likely you'll get lost after around 3 episodes. The only saving grace was the art, it clean and smooth. The ... Jan 19, 2019
This show is good, but it has the potential to be great. the first episode was one of the most hype things i have ever watched, and i was extremely excited for the series, and it lost that for me.
Don't get me wrong, its still good and i like it still, but the story feels...off. The villains are a joke, so much is just out of left field, and the fights are a bit too long for how simple they are. However, there is a lot of good in this show, I am 100% going to be watching out of the mangaka in the ... Dec 23, 2019
This was a 36 episode anime that really shouldn't have been that long. It followed the adventures of Masaru Saiga, a billionaire heir who inherits his father's wealth after his death. With the help of lover of kids and certified Jesus Christ, Narumi and the mysterious and beautiful doll like Shirogane, he tried to uncover his dead father's weird secrets and evade the weird puppet creatures coming after him. It had some pretty good points and a lot of bad, but let's look at the good first.
I liked some of the characters in Karakuri circus. The protagonists were well established and developed. They had back ... Jun 27, 2019
I genuinely thought this story was pretty okay. It wasn't some God-tier kind of thing, but the concept was more or less unique and the plot was kind of a roller-coaster. That said, it's major flaws was just adding way too much extra stuff. Even for the crazy plot that this has, I'm pretty sure all of the characters had some tragic backstory for some reason and then it was roped in to the story in a way that felt like they did it just because. Not everyone has to have a dead family member or life-threatening disease to be an interesting character, sure some
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Apr 30, 2020
✪ Genre: action (gunfights, martial arts, swordplay), drama, mystery, proxy battles, shounen, superpower (human enhancement), with elements of romance (love polygon, unrequited love)
✔Positive Aspects✔ ◧ Character development: by far the most intriguing, and, eventually, satisfying aspect of the series. Even though the series started balls-deep in action, which persists up until the 14th episode, it started, gradually, building the protagonists and antagonists up (even some deuteragonists were included). The series meticulously started filling in their personal histories (some of which were dating 2 centuries back), their current motivations, the intentions behind their actions (at both the situational and the broader level). and their thought processes. ... Jun 23, 2019
I don't care about people saying about they cut too much from the manga. As person who rarely read manga they did amazing job even though they cut.I haven't felt like this in long time watching anime this anime packed with whole everything made me cry, laugh and again cry tear jerking anime. Highly recommend this anime and this is my first review so..I don't care about people saying about they cut too much from the manga. As person who rarely read manga they did amazing job even though they cut.I haven't felt like this in long time watching anime this anime packed with whole
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May 17, 2020
Karakuri Circus adapts a long-running shonen fighting manga. Most adaptations of this type usually drag out their material, either stalling with filler as it threatens to catch up to the source material, or adapting a very small portion of it for an episode. But a decently paced adaptation usually runs at about the same chapter to episode ratio across the board.
One Piece, My Hero Academia and Hunter X Hunter(2011) all cover their first 100-120ish chapters within the first 58-63 episodes. Stardust Crusaders is a little snappier, covering 148 chapters in 52 episodes, but it also did the least filler of all of these. I ... |