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TopicRobazoid Ranks 275 Anime and Top 100 Anime Characters (recommend me stuff too)
Mobilezoid
08/08/22 4:22:30 PM
#124:


237. Karakuri Circus
https://myanimelist.net/anime/37447/Karakuri_Circus_TV
Fall 2018 (36 episodes)
My Score: 2/10, MAL Score: 7.13/10
Best Character: Saiga Shirogane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijRbTRRwJYk

Premise: Katou Narumi suffers from a bizarre disease that can kill him unless he makes people laugh. Hes also a martial arts master, and he begins protecting Saiga Masaru, a young boy on the run from evil puppets.

The Good: The first few episodes of Karakuri Circus were legitimately great. They set up the three main characters and the conflict well. Shirogane was my favorite, a mysterious circus performer who wielded a powerful battle puppet and was dedicated to protecting Masaru. It was a focused story with clear motivations and lots of fun elements.

The Bad: After the first few episodes, Karakuri Circus goes off the rails and never recovers. The main characters who worked so well together split up. The plot also became an unfocused mess. It used flashbacks and several dozen characters to try and tell a grand story of good versus evil spanning centuries, but the whole thing is just so poorly paced. At one point, Narumi goes from surviving an airplane crash in Japan to being deep in the jungles of China months later without anything in-between. Even when neat moments happened, they never felt earned and it was difficult to care. The animation quality also varied between decent and terrible. Some battles were good while others were just a series of still images like a slideshow.

Overall: Karakuri Circus had a strong beginning, but the story quickly became too big for it to handle. The pacing was way too fast, and what was happening was too silly to take seriously. Every so often there was a fun puppet fight, like one with a gigantic sawblade merry-go-round on its head, but those never outweighed how boring and nonsensical everything else was.

COMING UP TOMORROW:
236: This anime is nothing more than a cheap forgery.
235: This anime shouldve died six years ago.
234: This anime got distracted playing board games and missed its deadline.

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