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Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Clockwork Circus
Japanese: からくりサーカス


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 43
Chapters: 426
Status: Finished
Published: Jul 9, 1997 to May 31, 2006
Genres: Adventure Adventure, Mystery Mystery
Demographic: Shounen Shounen
Serialization: Shounen Sunday
Authors: Fujita, Kazuhiro (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.961 (scored by 19891,989 users)
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Ranked: #8352
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Popularity: #2323
Members: 9,466
Favorites: 235

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Manga: Fourteen
Both stories include lore-centric worlds with a new mystery around every corner, a collection of charming and menacing characters you can't help but root for, and absolutely batshit insane stories written by authors who were probably on crack. Karakuri Circus focuses largely on worldbuilding and crafting its secrets to be revealed hundreds of chapters away, while Fourteen goes full force into its madness from chapter 1. It's like an immovable object versus an unstoppable force, but if the object was an incel puppet master with a dog and the force was a Cambridge University professor with 12 PhDs and the head of a chicken. If  read more 
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Manga: Sengoku Youko
While these two stories may not seem very much alike at first, they do have some deep-rooted similarities. Both are shounen to the core and incorporate the importance of smiling and laughing as one of their central themes respectively. Additionally, both stories are extremely creative and they escalate and develop in ways and directions that you would have never expected at the start, oftentimes switching between main characters and point-of-views. Similar to every other Mizukami manga, Sengoku Youko has a really big cast of wacky and unique characters and Karakuri Circus is the same way. Some characters get fleshed out more than others (particular ones get lots of  read more 
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Manga: Rave
Both have pretty cool and charismatic characters and are some of the few fighting shonens with kicking ass girls... 
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Manga: Yoru no Uta
Both stories feature mechanical dolls that are used for fighting, and both have darker undertones. Also made by the same mangaka. In a way it could be said that Yoru no Uta is sort of prototype for Karakuri Circus. 
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