Good episode. Everything is flowing nicely considering the abridged treatment. I'm doubting any characters other than the main three are getting decent backstories, unless, they tie into one of the three.
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Karakuri Circus Anime
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The 7th episode was enjoyable and has good paralels, Narumi throwing away his humanity while Shirogane becomes more human.
I remember the manga´s creepy narrator saying something similar to that, I wonder if they are gonna add him or not, since he appeared in the first promotional image for the anime.
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Good episode. Like you said, the parallel between Shirogane and Narumi is interesting and Vilma! Welcome to the party. More Vilma x Shirogane, please.
EDIT: And in overly obsessive/desperate for new scanlation news: Someone translated (no scans yet) volumes 26, 27, and 28 into English. Start the scanlation clock!
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I have some issues with this episode pacing, mostly how they arrived at china and we see them already walking with the master´s daughter. Narumi having to explain to us what let to that instead of showing it normally felt weird to me. That said, I really liked the flashback and I am looking foward to the rest of it, perhaps we will get Lucille´s version of the story in the next episode.
And in overly obsessive/desperate for new scanlation news: Someone translated (no scans yet) volumes 26, 27, and 28 into English. Start the scanlation clock!
Good to hear that, I am really glad someone picked up the trasnlation.
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Last episode was enjoyable, but it hurts me a little seeing anime-only watchers commenting on plot holes or weird things that are result of skipping dialogue from the manga, mostly because Karakuri Circus manga strenght was how much thought Fujita put in connecting and foreshadowing lots of things. If they keep at this pace we will reach the half of the manga in less than a half of the anime episodes, wich doesn´t make a lot of sense…
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Thinking about it, this episode would've been in season 2 if there was one. We're getting the basics but I can see how anime onlys would care less about what's happening if we only get blips of character interaction and development from everyone except a certain few.
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Meet Faceless, the newest breakout Karakuri Circus character.
He's dead.Yep, my fears are coming true. You can't cram this much material into thirty-something episodes and have it make sense without major sacrifices. There's no time for any of the supporting characters. There's barely time for Narumi. Why would anyone care about these characters? There's no time to breathe. Remember the soft stone? We're hitting the big beats, but they mean little without the small ones. I give the showrunners points for trying to make it work, but this an abridged series trying to act like it isn't.
Oh well, I'll keep going until they hit where the scanlations stopped like I originally planned. Why? Why do this? I hate unresolved cliffhangers but I'd rather have the studio make a genuine well paced season one and leave it at that than this. So frustrating. Karakuri Circus deserved better than this. I really want to know how this came about. Clearly, someone wanted a legit adaption (I feel the love in the animation and attempts to make it work), but along the way, something happened.
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To be fair, we didn´t know Faceless that much in the manga either, but you are right. Without all the build-up and the arcs to develop the characters, the cool and epic scenes lose strenght. I know the guys making the anime like the manga, mostly because adapting Karakuri was more risky that adapting other manga, but putting so many chapters in so few episodes without hurting the quality of the story wasn´t doable.
Fujita said that everything that wasn´t interesting would be cut, but that shouldn´t include things like characters interactions that make them likeable and help giving them depth. The big strenghts of Karakuri were the cast of secondary characters and how many details were foreshadowed many chapters before, the anime doesn´t have those things and it´s sad.
For example, next episode is Lucille´s moment to shine and be cool, but the anime didn´t make her half as likeable as the manga did and neither gave us time to know her better, so people won´t be as invested as they would be in the manga. Wich is a pity, because she was one my favorite characters in the manga and Paku Romi is amazing as her voice.
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Well, I don't recognize any of the stuff that happened at the end of episode 14 so that's it for me. Overall thoughts: the same that's been said already. Great animation. Great source material, but abridged to hell and back. Long as you don't mind a story moving 80mph, watch it. But, most stories have fast and slow parts for a reason. You have to give the audience time to breathe and process. Oh well, if this leads to more scanlations it was worth it.
This could've been one of the best anime adaptions in years. Damn.
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I am not following the anime anymore, but I heard that some people that only watched the anime still enjoy it, so good for them.
That said, the anime served its purporse for the manga readers, someone started to translate it again exactly where the last translator stopped: https://mangadex.org/chapter/561332/1
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Oh, that´s good to hear, bless those guys.