Back سيرك كاراكوري Arabic سێرکی کاراکوری CKB Karakuri Circus Spanish Karakuri Circus French Karakuri Circus Italian からくりサーカス Japanese 꼭두각시 서커스 Korean Karakuri Circus Portuguese 傀儡馬戲團 Chinese
| Karakuri Circus | |
 First tankōbon volume cover, featuring (from left to right) Masaru Saiga, Éléonore Saiga and Narumi Katō | |
| からくりサーカス (Karakuri Sākasu) | |
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| Genre | |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kazuhiro Fujita |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | July 23, 1997 – June 14, 2006 |
| Volumes | 43 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Satoshi Nishimura |
| Produced by | Shōta Wada |
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| Music by | Yuki Hayashi |
| Studio | Studio VOLN |
| Licensed by | Sentai Filmworks |
| Original network | Tokyo MX, BS11 |
| Original run | October 11, 2018 – June 27, 2019 |
| Episodes | 36 |
Karakuri Circus (Japanese: からくりサーカス, Hepburn: Karakuri Sākasu, lit. '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 a 36-episode anime television series by Studio VOLN, broadcast from October 2018 to June 2019. 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.
- ^ Komatsu, Mikikazu (October 12, 2018). "Karakuri Circus will Also Get Stage Play Adaptation in January 2019". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on January 1, 2019. Retrieved November 2, 2018.
- ^ Chapman, Paul (April 5, 2019). "Puppets and Panic Run Wild in Karakuri Circus TV Anime Trailer". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on July 31, 2019. Retrieved December 10, 2019.