Karakuri Circus Anticipation

[Stark700]

Manga 'Karakuri Circus' is getting a TV anime adaptation. (creator of Ushio to Tora, Kazuhiro Fujita)

Plot:

The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.

Official site
https://karakuri-anime.com/

Source:
http://moetron.news/post/17168468483...-fujitas-manga

[iko_uwais]

another blast from the past, excellent. This manga is pretty good as well, really hope it will get a good studio and staff, don't want another disappointment like Houshin Engi

[Guardian Enzo]

Wow, what is it with Fujita's old long-dead manga franchises getting anime? Not that I'm complaining.

[Renchan]

Holy-- I can't believe I'd see the day Karakuri Circus get animated.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Someone in high places really has a boner for Fujita's 90s mangas hard enough to order anime adaptation of them .

The recent Ushio to Tora anime is a decent-to-great adaptation. Here's hoping Karakuri gets the same treatment, if not better. After all, the manga has 43 volumes which is longer than Toriyama's Dragon Ball manga. They need to be all-out in adapting this. My dream would be the same people who brought us HxH (2011), JoJo or the aforementioned Ushio to Tora anime.

[Guardian Enzo]

Probably be one-cour and SHAFT...

[shmaster]

Totally not looking forward to this after what happened to Ushio to Tora.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by Guardian Enzo

Probably be one-cour and SHAFT...

Definitely one of the worst-case scenarios that I'm prepared for .

Originally Posted by shmaster

Totally not looking forward to this after what happened to Ushio to Tora.

I think UTT anime is decent. You can even say that some (if not many) episodes of the anime are great adaptations of some events in the manga. The fact that UTT can be considered astronomically lucky to get an adaptation at all in the millennium era makes me even more grateful that the anime turned out as good as we got, flaws and all.

It could've been so much worse, like the current Hoshin Engi anime .

Oh, and AKIKAN's wish from back then in Ushio thread actually came true :

Originally Posted by AKIKAN

I love this anime adaptation of Kazuhiro Fujita's probably most famous work. I hope we'll see anime adaptation of Karakuri Circus too.

[LG-MAX 2.o]

I do not know this manga, is it a battle shounen?

[Guardian Enzo]

I think the Ushio anime is quite good, given the scheduling constraints they were up against.

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by LG-MAX 2.o

I do not know this manga, is it a battle shounen?

In a way, yes. One of the protags (Narumi) is a martial artist while the other protag (Shirogane) is a puppet-master with her rather-scary puppet, Arlequin. Both work together to protect Masaru almost throughout the series.

Many of the battles themselves are puppet-oriented. Imagine some fights done by Kankuro, Sasori or Granny Chiyo from Naruto and you'll get the idea. But like UTT, there's a good story in it too.

If you're interested, there's also animanga about another puppet-master called Karakurizoushi Ayatsuri Sakon that tells the story of Sakon and his puppet, Ukon.

[Nightengale]

Karakuri Circus is one of my favourite shounens. Seeing it get an adaption makes me really happy.

At the very least, I would hope that the story does a faithful and non-rushed adaption all the way till the Sahara Desert Arc.

[Kanon]

This is amazing news. I hope it will get a high enough number of episodes for a proper adaptation.

[Eisdrache]

I forgot the exact number but didn't this have an insane amount of volumes?

[Renchan]

Originally Posted by Eisdrache

I forgot the exact number but didn't this have an insane amount of volumes?

43 volumes.
Well, there are few good stopping points as far I remember. It shouldn't be too hard if they want to do incomplete or multi-season adaptation.

[Stark700]

Studio VOLN is animating it.

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/new...eaming/.129201

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

The music sounds right. Still don't know about the animation. We'll see how it goes.

[moodie]

Ya the key visual looked straight outta a madhouse production. Idk how anyone in their right mind sees SHAFT with that color design. Guess ppl want to do more useless bashing.

Anyways I trust Voln before of the staff lets hope its 3 cours.

[Stark700]

3-cour (36 episodes)

http://moetron.news/post/17219699171...s-will-have-36

[Obelisk ze Tormentor]

Originally Posted by Stark700

3-cour (36 episodes)

http://moetron.news/post/17219699171...s-will-have-36

With 36 episodes, I think there's a good stopping point in the story if they aim for another season, but I'm also prepared if they want to cram everything in those episodes.

If it's the latter, let's hope they have damn good scriptwriters & directors to pick the best story elements from the manga, tie them together well and execute it with enough grace and style.