Description
Karakuri Circus (Japanese: からくりサーカス, Hepburn: Karakuri Sākasu , "Mechanical Puppet Circus") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita. It was serialized in Shogakukan's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday from July 1997 to June 2006, with its chapters collected in 43 tankōbon volumes.
The story is centered around a young boy named Masaru Saiga, who inherits a massive fortune and aspires to become a puppeteer; Narumi Katō, a kung-fu expert who suffers from Zonapha syndrome (a strange illness that stops his breathing unless he makes people laugh); and Shirogane, a silver-haired woman and Masaru's caretaker who controls the puppet Harlequin. They must fight against the battling automatons (auto-mannequins) and save the world from the Zonapha syndrome. Karakuri Circus was adapted into an anime television series by Studio VOLN, which ran for 36 episodes from October 2018 to June 2019. In addition to the anime series, a mobile game was launched in December 2018 and stage play ran in January 2019.
By March 2018, the Karakuri Circus manga series had over 15 million copies in circulation.
