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 Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus.
Japanese study overview
Karakuri Circus is a Japanese manga of 833,098 characters, with 22,019 unique words and 2,178 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is hard, 3.4 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 22,019 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
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Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 私I×2,574
- 人形Ningyō (neighborhood in Kōnosu city, Saitama prefecture)×1,335
- 言うto say×1,254
- 人間human being×905
- 僕I×832
- 達pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)×825
- 自動人形automaton×798
- 思うto think×721
- 年year×710
- 時time×677
- 今now×626
- 勝win×616
- お坊ちゃま(another's) son×475
- 生命の水water of life×335
- 仲町Nakachō×314
- 鳴海Sahara×309
- 黒賀Kuroga×248
- 貞義Sadayoshi×215
- 人形使いpuppet operator×166
- 破壊者destroyer×120