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I'm 22 episodes into Karakuri Circus. I'm far enough along that I'll probably still finish it, but, man, this show is nonsense. The first four episodes were a neat and cohesive story about a boy being chased by evil puppets, protected by an acrobat and a guy with a disease where he dies unless he makes people laugh. That was fun, but it feels so long ago now. I don't know what the fuck is happening anymore, there have been multiple full flashback episodes about some history-spanning fight between good vs evil and I just can't care about any of it. The pacing is also way too fast and constantly jumping around. I swear, with no scene transition or explanation between them, one character went from surviving an airplane crash in Japan to being in the jungles of China months later. It's sad when a neat idea makes all the wrong decisions as if it's trying to purposefully avoid being good.

One of the evil puppets had a literal life-sized merry-go round attached to his head, and sawblades came out the sides and he used them to cut people. Why couldn't the whole anime have been about zany puppet fights like that instead of this weird reincarnation destiny romance... thing.