In all those years I never expected them to adapt a manga that was unknown to me, as soon as I saw the ad, I fell, I was anxious, it was like a dream... But reality turned into a nightmare. I hate this anime sincerely, it manages to worsen the original material in every way, I have nothing against the manga of karakuri circus, I even think the manga a masterpiece, but this anime drives me mad.
At first it seemed very harmless, but this anime cut super important details soon after, the introduction of Narumi about his illness is forgotten and turned into a joke, the fear of Masaru being a person alone (including important point of the manga later), the fail worldbuilding of the karakuri mansion, and a ridiculous ending of the first arc, seriously that they traded a huge, sharp stone for lumps of wood?THIS DONT MAKE THE LESS SENSE, even more as Masaru survives a fire.
The next arc is cruelly perforated and summed up in an idiotic way, nakamichi circus has a poor characterization in this anime, empty characters, conflicts removed, and all of them influence who masaru becomes in the future, Liese had a 1-volume bow itself, here it does not exist, it simply becomes a bad character. The start of the arc Automata can be even worse, narumi wake up at the hospital zonarpha even makes sense, but this leave questions unanswered, how the automatons have heard of him without him at least act before? Guy is a wasted character and poorly featured, he looks like a serious character than the fun character himself that was in the manga, making things rotten, all the characterization and importance of Lucille was cut because an incompetent screenwriter did not think that skipped an important arc (yes, France), Vilma is one of the few characters introduced in an acceptable way, even if they cut the development of it. As if they were not enough remove more characters in the nakamichi, they remove the George, who was the important piece in the Zonarpha Hospital, including he had confrontations that were cut. The part of China, was horrible, they adapted in the worst possible way, Liang became a nobody, they removed the introduction from her, they removed all the DRAMA she had, they removed the confrontation with the dog shirogane, and at the last moment, they do battle in the mountain look ridiculous and rushed, the midnight circus arc is a giant shit, they cut the VIKING, the German, the Russian... They gave shallow depths to the shiroganes, and all this leanes towards the worst development of Narumi, then several deaths were din't impact (and totally fillers moments), THE LUCILLE IS AN EXAMPLE OF WASTED CHARACTER, how do you want me to care about the character if they do not even build it right? Its end is ridiculous, this arc ends simply in THE HALF! THEY DIN'T ADAPT THE END, they were in vol 21 and cut to events of vol 29, destroying all Lore of Karakuri.
Now we focus again on Masaru and I still say that his journey is rushed here, until it went well in the revelations, but the scenes began to get more stupid, leaving the characters idiots, until they were adapting the Saiga bow well, only that the anime has self-destructed, involving Eleonore in the middle, okay it makes sense for her to look for him, but her arrival comes much later, there's no logic to it here, to just rush the plot, and in fact they did it. They removed scenes of Masaru discovering about his father's whereabouts FOR AN IMBECILE AND USELESS PERSECUTION of Guy, as if that were not the worst, the Masaru simply falls off the cliff, fainting and returning to memories of the past, THIS IS STUPID AND THAT DOES NOT MAKE SOME SENSE, is so stupid that it becomes offensive(is a filler scene, but one of the worst I've seen), is useless, even because Masaru wakes up in the house anyway (error of continuity). The revelation of Faceless was still reasonable, although they cut important information, the problem is that after that point the anime part pro final arc, they skipped a whole arc that served as development of Masaru to go to the final bow, dude fuck this anime, it's ironic the fact that Masaru cares about peoples he's never seen in his life, while in the manga he cared because they helped him, and now we're off to the final arc.
Suddenly the anime want to characterize Liese, this is so bad because the anime has not even built her story before, apart from the mistakes of continuity between Masaru change clothes, Masaru only uses that green coat on the arch of Kuroga Village ( but haha they cut the arc again), the anime still tries to sell a redemption of the automata, HOW CAN I HAVE A REDEMPTION OF CHARACTERS THAT HAVE ONLY HAD 1/5 SCREEN TIME? This is useless, you just do not care about the character or anything. After this introduction the anime again tries to pregrar development in a character that we never had (Liang, George and Guy), the worst that have a nice battles, but an anime not only lives struggles to sustain itself, George had a horrible characterization in the anime. Later we see the battle in the castle of Faceless, where Liese appears to be a huge joke of the anime forcing itself to be interesting, the confrontation of Masaru and Faceless has no impact whatsoever, it is totally harsh, its psychological battle too, some infodump is up added here, but it only reminds me of how wasted the Aqua Vitae concept in the anime, Masaru already knows how to control puppets, and he took MONTHS(manga) in the kuroga village... Nothing here makes sense, with the unfolding of the plot they insert a character who tells how he met Narumi, but here's the problem, showing Narumi flashbacks in a certain arc, and you know what that means? ANIME HAS ADAPTED EVENTS THAT NEVER HAPPENED, totally out of order leaving a huge hole in the story, the staff writers do not care about the story.
Narumi and Shirogane's relationship is bad, the anime cuts off moments they both talked at Nakamichi Circus, they put a SUPER IMPORTANT character on the plot and turn it into a nobody, Guy's death is really beautiful, if the anime shows the kind of person that he really is, I would love to see this, Guy was a sarcastic man, and in the anime he does not pass any of that. Vilma's death too, she's a character wasted in the plot, I no longer care about her, and her death did not take anything away from me. The fight of Nakamichi family automatons was fortunately very well conducted, I felt immersed to a character for the first time, after Colombine had the worst destiny in this anime, its relation with Masaru is totally obfuscated and mounted only here. The last battle with Narumi and Masaru is really pleasant to see, it was the only episode of the anime that I was happy, although hurried, the outcome of Narumi and Eleonore was also cool, but things get worse going forward, the last battle is terribly punctured and summarized in a few words, which harms all the time, because of the rushed rhythm, the villain has a poor character development, the final scenes are the Masaru telling Eleonore to sing, SERIOUS THAT HER DON'T QUESTION BECAUSE HAVE TO SING ? This is stupid enough to make me mad, Jin's ending was cool, but what good is it to do something beautiful if your script sucks? One does not survive just from epic ost.
the end of my review, the living proof that this anime does not care about any characters presented is the ending, the end of the manga shows the outcome of all the characters in the series, showing its consequences and what happened, NOW IN THAT PIECE OF SHIT, THEY SO ANIMATED THE NARUMI, ELEONORE AND MASARU ENDING! Forget the other characters that existed, Liang, Liese, nakamichi brothers... Everything is gone, I hate this anime from the bottom of my heart, this anime is useless, it did not deserve to exist at all. Maybe a little bit, it was the anime that boosted the new manga scans, I'm grateful they continued to translate the manga, it's really good to read the full story. If you want to see a shounen like Fullmetal Alchemist or something that shows you the true entertainment, just read the manga from Karakuri Circus, I strongly recommend, do not watch this anime, it is quite painful to see a good manga being destroyed in a miserable way, I still expect a remake with +70 episodes in other future, this anime sins at everything that an anime shounen needs, is a story full of script holes and very few characters, this anime is an INSULT to the manga and the fans themselves.
Just read Karakuri Circus, dont watch.
