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Karakuri Circus
| Alt Names: |  からくりサーカス 傀儡马戏团 Gánh Xiếc Quái Dị Le Cirque de Karakuri |
| Author: | Fujita Kazuhiro |
| Artist: | Fujita Kazuhiro |
| Genres: |  Action Drama Fantasy Psychological Romance Shounen Tragedy |
| Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
| Status: | Ongoing |
| Description: | Katou Narumi (19) suffers from Zonapha Syndrome, a rare ailment that stops his breathing unless he makes people laugh. He's been forced to abandon his training in Chinese kenpo and return to Japan, where he now works as a clown. The only problem: he's not very funny. One day he meets Saiga Masaru (11), the recent inheritor of a huge fortune, who gives him the first laugh he's gotten all day. When he realizes Masaru is being pursued by assassins, he steps in to protect the boy, only to discover that instead of conventional weapons, the assassins wield huge, eerie puppets. They soon encounter the mysterious Shirogane (age unknown), who controls a puppet of her own, and claims she was sent from France by Masaru's late grandfather to protect him. Their paths intertwine and diverge, splitting into two stories: Karakuri and Circus, puppets and performers, tears and laughter. The strange circus of living dolls that spreads Zonapha Syndrome, the human puppets known collectively as the Shirogane, and the puppeteers whose undying grudge set in motion both sides of this performance. |
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Hooooooooooooly shit, this manga's realness is going into outer space.
Thanks for the chapter ^^
Masaru dad looked really creepy at the last page O_o
Dont think that is right for the story until now you can trace the saiga lineage a little and masaru's dad being bai jin would be a little over the top, but all the saiga family could be descendants of him in some way, and now we know that masaru existence is a plan that have been brewing for a long time now.
inb4 Bai Jin = Masaru's dad.
inb4 the 'Karakuri (Mechanism; Machinery; String Puppet) Circus' title refers to how mostly everything happening in the story is due to Bai Jin - that is, it's all part of his 'Puppet Circus'. I mean, he created the Automata and Francine, who then caused the 'Zonapha Syndrome' to apppear, which then resulted in the Shirogane being born, which ended in that whole conflict.
Hint: One of the keys (the only one clearly shown) had the alchemical symbol for 'earth'.
Thirty years ago? No idea what's up with Masaru's dad.
This wimp boy is pissing me off!!
Great chapter. Posh Shirogane, yes please! Guessing we'll get everyone's initial reaction a flashback.
Happy 100th scanlation Funnuraba!
She also remained a kid for 80 years, and then hit her 20s all of a sudden in less than 10 years... so there are plenty of weird things going on here.
This is still an adventure shounen manga. Once Part Three starts things will pick up.
OH, FUUUUUUUUUUUU--
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Also, I wanna say that Eleonore is actually Masaru's aunt, making her his grandpa's daughter that he had with Angelina.
Can't we just have that European princess be the heroine of the story, and abandon the whole circus segment? I won't go on a tirade about how boring these filler chapters are, but it is rather sad to see such a good manga be laden by these completely unnecessary parts which only serve to extend the length of the manga. A better option, in my opinion, would be to let these parallel stories play out at the first page of the chapters (similar to what they do in One Piece).
Oh well, the author has to eat so who can blame him. Not me at least, who is sitting here complaining about free stuff.
So Masaru can't remember his father's face, huh?
You might say he was...Faceless?
I believe it's an actual plot point.
I hope that Shirogane looking so similar to Francine is only an artistic "accident" and nothing else, things are sad enough for poor old Narumi.
Filler? Nah, Slice-of-Life.
Didn't the fortune teller Shirogane say a circus would destroy the Midnight Circus, or something like that? Team Masaru is gonna whoop ass eventually.
Or, die trying.Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand the filler circus is back, dammit lets hope it is short lived and we go back to Narumi.
This series provide us with the best of manga action packed scenes, slice of life, drama, comedy and much more, i love Masaru story as much as i love the shirogane wars against the automata, the bittersweet, often dramatic and not less cruel adventures that masaru and Co. live put more variety to all this amazing world that is constructed.
I will admit in the begining i didnt like Masaru much, he had and still has some flaws that i dont like but with each chapter that boy is really progressing, this is what true character development is about.
Guy: *calls Shirogane HQ* How's the war going?
George: We won.
Guy: Woo hoo!!!
George: But everyone died.
Guy: Oh no...I'm out of wine!
Ha ha ha ha, you can't fool me author, I know this happiness will never last!
Man, Fujita really went all-out with the art for those last pages.
I actually really really like that brush-stroke style with its suggestion of shapes and complete absence of shading.
George was useful...*brain explodes*