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Karakuri Circus (Manga)
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Title Karakuri Circus
Kanji/Kana からくりサーカス
Rōmaji Karakuri Sākasu
Volumes 43
Author Kazuhiro Fujita
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday

Karakuri Circus (からくりサーカス, Karakuri Sākasu) also known as Le Cirque de Karakuri, is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kazuhiro Fujita.

Plot[]

The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Harlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.

History[]

The manga began serialization in issue 1997-32 of Weekly Shonen Sunday, released on July 9, 1997. It ended in issue 2006-26 of of same magazine, released on May 31, 2006. It spanned 425 chapters, which were combined in 43 volumes.

In 1997, an anime commercial was created and aired on TV to promote the series.

Manga Guide[]

Volumes[]

# Release date Volume
1 December 10, 1997 Volume 1
Volume 1

List of Chapters:

2 February 18, 1998 Volume 2
Volume 2

List of Chapters:

3 April 18, 1998 Volume 3
Volume 3

List of Chapters:

4 August 8, 1998 Volume 4
Volume 4

List of Chapters:

5 October 17, 1998 Volume 5
Volume 5

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6 January 18, 1999 Volume 6
Volume 6

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7 March 18, 1999 Volume 7
Volume 7

List of Chapters:

8 May 18, 1999 Volume 8
Volume 8

List of Chapters:

  • Act 7: Karakuri ~ A Man
    • 6: The Aqua Vitae
    • 7: Those Who Became Shirogane
    • 8: The Mechanical Vampires
    • 9: A Fighting Man
    • 10: The Wind and The Light
    • 11: The Fight Against Flavio
    • 12: Screams
    • 13: Blood
    • 14: The Curtain Goes Down
  • Act 8: Karakuri ~ Machinery
    • 1: The Shirogane Village
9 August 7, 1999 Volume 9
Volume 9

List of Chapters:

  • Act 8: Karakuri ~ Machinery
    • 2: Once Upon a Time 1
    • 3: Once Upon a Time 2
    • 4: Once Upon a Time 3
    • 5: Once Upon a Time 4
    • 6: Arlequino's Arrival
    • 7: The Soft Stone
    • 8: Temporary Curtain Drop
  • Intermission
    • 1: Smiles
  • Act 9: Karakuri ~ The Princess of the Automations
    • 1: The Curtain Rises
    • 2: Elise
10 November 18, 1999 Volume 10
Volume 10

List of Chapters:

  • Act 9: Karakuri ~ The Princess of the Automations
    • 3: Baron Gunther
    • 4: A Princess's Punch
    • 4: The Automation Princess
    • 5: Guy and Lucille
    • 6: The Legendary Shirogane
    • 7: The Debutantes Ball
    • 8: Two Elises
    • 9: A Ball in the Midst of the Flames
    • 10: The Princess of the Automations
    • 11: Temporary Curtain Drop
11 January 18, 2000 Volume 11
Volume 11

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Knife-Wielding Vilma
    • 1: The Curtain Rises
    • 2: A Chance Meeting with Vilma
    • 3: The Hitman Arrives
    • 4: Knife & Marionette
    • 5: A Temporary Curtain Close
  • Circus ~ Candidate for Enrollment
    • 1: The Curtain Rises
    • 2: Nakamachi Circus in a Pitch!
    • 3: A Temporary Curtain Close
  • Karakuri ~ Silver Smoke
    • 1: The Curtain Rises
    • 2: To America
12 April 18, 2000 Volume 12
Volume 12

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Silver Smoke
    • 3: The Zonapha Ward
    • 4: Hell
    • 5: Mask
    • 6: Paulman and Students
    • 7: Shirogane-O
    • 8: Demonic I
    • 9: Demonic II
    • 10: Demonic III
    • 11: A Brief Curtain Close
  • Intermission ~ Two People Far Apart
    • 1: First Part
13 June 17, 2000 Volume 13
Volume 13

List of Chapters:

  • Intermission ~ Two People Far Apart
    • 2: Second Part
  • CIrcus ~ Masaru and Shirogane's Peaceful Days
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Ryouko, the Rival
    • 3: Ubukata Houan
    • 4: Houan vs. Shirogane
    • 5: Temporary Closing
  • A Momentary Karakuri Circus
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Performance Preparation
    • 3: Parallel I
    • 4: Paralel II
14 August 9, 2000 Volume 14
Volume 14

List of Chapters:

  • A Momentary Karakuri Circus
    • 5: Parallel III
    • 6: Parallel IV
    • 7: Parallel V
    • 8: Parallel VI
    • 9: The End of Parallel
    • 10: Moment's Begining
    • 11: Moment's End
    • 12: Temporary Closing
  • Karakuri ~ Bai-Jin and Bai-Yin
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: To the Village
15 November 18, 2000 Volume 15
Volume 15

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Bai-Jin and Bai-Yin
    • 3: Arrival
    • 4: Memories
    • 5: The Pale Pink Cascade
    • 6: Meeting
    • 7: Francine
    • 8: Angel
    • 9: Heaven and Hell
    • 10: End of the Dream
    • 11: Birth of the Soft Stone
    • 12: Angel's Departure
16 January 18, 2001 Volume 16
Volume 16

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Bai-Jin and Bai-Yin
    • 13: The Automata Attack
    • 14: Chain of Revenge
    • 15: That Person
    • 16: To the Spring of Life
    • 17: Master's Attacking Fist
    • 18: Temporary Closing
  • Intermission
    • 1: The Last Page
    • 2: Guy in the Nakamachi Circus
    • 3: Shirogane's Crisis in the Nakamachi Circus
    • 4: Another Closing Bell
17 April 18, 2001 Volume 17
Volume 17

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Final Act
    • 1: A Place With a View of the Tent
    • 2: Departure of the Shirogane-O
    • 3: The Shirogane Head for the Sahara
    • 4: Rule
    • 5: Admission to the Midnight Circus
    • 6: Fanfare
    • 7: First Match
    • 8: Doll Medicine
    • 9: Merry-Go-Round Olsen vs. Narumi I
    • 10: Merry-Go-Round Olsen vs. Narumi II
18 July 15, 2001 Volume 18
Volume 18

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Final Act
    • 11: Women
    • 12: Women's Blood
    • 13: Substitution
    • 14: The Two Acrobat Brothers vs Ming-Xia and Fatima I
    • 15: The Two Acrobat Brothers vs Ming-Xia and Fatima II
    • 16: Downward
    • 17: Intermission
    • 18: Intermission, and the Third Match
    • 19: The Red Sand Dune
    • 20: The Four Doors
19 October 15, 2001 Volume 19
Volume 19

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Final Act
    • 21: One Person From Three
    • 22: Commander Faceless I
    • 23: Commander Faceless II
    • 24: Indomitable
    • 25: Rolling Thrasher
    • 26: La Machine Infernale
    • 27: Dimitri Ivanov I
    • 28: Dimitri Ivanov II
    • 29: Within and Without
    • 30: The Center Room
20 December 15, 2001 Volume 20
Volume 20

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Final Act
    • 31: Resonant Feelings
    • 32: A Final Flash
    • 33: Confluence
    • 34: Black Blood (First Part)
    • 35: Black Blood (Second Part)
    • 36: Au Revoir, Lucille
    • 37: 6:00
    • 38: 7:10
    • 39: 7:49
    • 40: 8:42
21 February 15,2002 Volume 21
Volume 21

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Final Act
    • 41: 9:20
    • 42: 9:52
    • 43: 12 Minutes to 11
    • 44: Approaching Midnight
    • 45: 18 Minutes Remaining
    • 46: 10 Minutes Remaining
    • 47: 6 Minutes Remaining
    • 48: 3 Minutes Remaining
    • 49: Midnight
    • 50: Final Moments of the Doll Francine
22 May 15,2002 Volume 22
Volume 22

List of Chapters:

  • Karakuri ~ Final Act
    • 51: The Last One
    • 52: The Starry Sky
    • 53: The Curtain Falls for a Moment
  • Intermission
    • 1: The People of Nakamachi Circus
    • 2: Masaru's Story
    • 3: Shirogane's Story
  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Masaru Returns to the Starting Point
    • 3: The Karakuri Mansion of Karuizawa
    • 4: Download
23 July 15, 2002 Volume 23
Volume 23

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 5: The Suitcase
    • 6: The Second and the Third
    • 7: The Past is in Motion
    • 8: The Mansion of the Kuroga Village Head
    • 9: Into Shouji Saiga's Memories
    • 10: Bai Yin and Shoujirou
    • 11: The First Shirogane
    • 12: Two People
    • 13: A Meeting
    • 14: Angelina
24 Septembr 15, 2001 Volume 24
Volume 24

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 15: The Burning Brothel
    • 16: Resolution Amidst the Flames
    • 17: Rain
    • 18: A Journey Together
    • 19: Into the Next Memory
    • 20: A Visitor of the Meiji Era I
    • 21: A Visitor of the Meiji Era II
    • 22: Doll Francine
    • 23: Guy
    • 24: Maman
25 November 15, 2002 Volume 25
Volume 25

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 25: The Shattered Arm
    • 26: Hold Me
    • 27: Doll Francine Comes to the Kuroga Village
    • 28: Labor Day
    • 29: Birth Day
    • 30: Happy Days
    • 31: A Smile (First Half)
    • 32: A Smile (Second Half)
    • 33: Nighttime in Kuroga Village
    • 34: I Understand, Maman
26 February 15, 2003 Volume 26
Volume 26

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 35: The One Who Destroyed 200 Bodies
    • 36: In the Well
    • 37: Then, History to Modernity
    • 38: Shadows
    • 39: The Identity of the Shadow
    • 40: 3 Years Ago
    • 41: Kuroga Village, 1997
    • 42: Sadayoshi vs Shouji
    • 43: Sadayoshi's Plan
    • 44: Counterattack
27 April 15, 2003 Volume 27
Volume 27

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 45: Between Three Years Ago and Now
    • 46: The First Year
    • 47: The Hidden Stage
    • 48: The One Who Has Memories of the Ancient
    • 49: Circles of a Lost Time (Part 1)
    • 50: Circles of a Lost Time (Part 2)
    • 51: Circles of a Lost Time (Part 3)
    • 52: The Worst One
    • 53: The Demon Appears
    • 54: Faceless Appears
28 July 15, 2003 Volume 28
Volume 28

List of Chapters:

  • Circus ~ Final Act
    • 55: "o"
    • 56: Jack-o'-lantern's Counterattack!
    • 57: Masaru Stands Up!
    • 58: Masaru's Roar
    • 59: Black Sun
    • 60: Raijin
    • 61: Beginning of the Game
    • 62: Temporary Closing
  • Intermission
    • 1: "Can't Go Back!"
    • 2: "Can't Protect"
29 October 15, 2003 Volume 29
Volume 29

List of Chapters:

  • Intermission
    • 3: Wandering Shirogane
    • 4: Astonishment
  • Main Part ~ Reunion
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: At the Sea, Late at Night
    • 3: Shirogane's Descision
    • 4: Temporary Closing
  • Main Part ~ Welcome to Kuroga Village
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Heima
    • 3: Reasons
    • 4: Masaru and Heima
30 December 15, 2003 Volume 30
Volume 30

List of Chapters:

  • Main Part ~ Welcome to Kuroga Village
    • 5: Before the Puppet Contest
    • 6: The Day of the Contest
    • 7: The Puppet Contest Begins
    • 8: Success Breaker
    • 9: Legend Breaker
    • 10: Big Trouble
    • 11: Drunk Masaru
    • 12: Assault Under the Snow
    • 13: Begin!
31 March 15, 2004 Volume 31
Volume 31

List of Chapters:

  • Main Part ~ Welcome to Kuroga Village
    • 14: The Beginning of Two Battles
    • 15: Bubble the Scarlet
    • 16: Voice
    • 17: Winner Decided
    • 18: Temporary Closing
  • Main Part ~ Days With Narumi
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Bus Hijack
    • 3: Scream
    • 4: Explosion
    • 5: Narumi's Void I
32 June 15, 2004 Volume 32
Volume 32

List of Chapters:

  • Main Part ~ Days With Narumi
    • 6: Narumi's Void II
    • 7: Narumi's Void III
    • 8: Narumi's Void IV
    • 9: And Thus, She Kisses The Blade
    • 10: Temporary Closing
  • Main Part ~ Spring at Kuroga Village
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Flower Field
    • 3: Myojin-sama's Cave
    • 4: Unlucky
    • 5: Renge Field
33 August 15, 2004 Volume 33
Volume 33

List of Chapters:

  • Main Part ~ Spring at Kuroga Village
    • 6: The Final Trial
    • 7: Myojin-sama
    • 8: Temporary Closing
  • Main Part ~ Summer at Kuroga Village
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: The Opposite of "Evolution"
    • 3: Sylvestre
    • 4: Nakamachi Circus Comes to Kuroga Village
    • 5: Test of Courage Contest
    • 6: Test of Courage, Kiku and Masaru
    • 7: Before the Summer Festival
34 November 15, 2004 Volume 34
Volume 34

List of Chapters:

  • Main Part ~ Summer at Kuroga Village
    • 8: Summer Festival
    • 9: The Reason of the Genius
    • 10: Answer to the Question
    • 11: Into the Ring
    • 12: Temporary Closing
  • Intermission
    • 1: Testament I
    • 2: Testament II
    • 3: Blackness (Nigredo)
  • Deus Ex Machina
    • 1: Opening Bell
    • 2: Silver Godess
35 January 15, 2005 Volume 35
Volume 35

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36 March 15, 2005 Volume 36
Volume 36

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37 June 15, 2005 Volume 37
Volume 37

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38 August 15, 2005 Volume 38
Volume 38

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39 November 15, 2005 Volume 39
Volume 39

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40 January 15, 2006 Volume 40
Volume 40

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41 March 15, 2006 Volume 41
Volume 41

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42 June 15, 2006 Volume 42
Volume 42

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43 September 15, 2006 Volume 43
Volume 43

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Editions[]

The manga was reprinted and collected in multiple editions:

  • My First Wide: Collected into 16 volumes, released from 2008 to 2010.
  • Wide-ban: Collected into 23 volumes, released from July 2011 to April 2013.
  • Bunkoban: Collected into 22 volumes, released from May 2017 to February 2019.
  • Kanzenban: Collected into 8+ volumes, released from September 2018 to TBA.

My First Wide[]

Wide-ban[]

Bunkoban[]

Kanzenban[]

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