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I'm Giving Up on Karakuri Circus [message #381493] Thu, 28 February 2019 19:37
Dave Baranyi is currently offline  Dave Baranyi
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I’m dropping “Karakuri Circus” at the halfway point.. In this case the halfway point is episode 18 out of 36. That’s a lot of episodes to watch before giving up but I just can’t get myself to watch this any further.

The series started out being a fair amount of fun with a promising premise. A recently orphaned rich kid is running away from assassination and kidnapping attempts when three strange things happen to him. First he runs into an assassin who uses larger than life-sized puppets as weapons. Simultaneously a very strong and skilled martial arts master (who is suffering from a disease that will kill him unless he can get people to laugh at him) decides to protect the boy. Then a mysterious silver haired girl who also controls a killer puppet shows up and declares that she will defend the boy with her puppet.

The situation and the battles become more complex until the boy reaches a point where he decides that he will learn to take responsibility for himself.. At that point the story splits into two parallel lines and starts to suffer from a fatal attack of Flashback Hell that is being delivered weekly by means of Maudlin Melodrama Overkill.

My biggest problem with the seemingly endless flashbacks is that I don’t care at all about the origin stories of the ancestors of the main characters. None of the flashbacks have revealed anything that couldn’t have been revealed in an aside by one of the characters. So I’m saying farewell and saving myself from 18 more episodes of aggravation. My final rating is D+.

Dave Baranyi
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