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“Puppeteer Sakon and his living puppet Ukon solve murders together in Japan.”
Karakuri Zoushi Ayatsuri Sakon
人形草紙あやつり左近
7.38
2,629 rank · 13,484 viewers · 66 favorites
Mystery
Suspense
Detective
Shounen
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Synopsis
Puppeteer Sakon and his living puppet Ukon solve murders together in Japan.
The dark-haired bishounen is Sakon Tachibana, a puppeteer, and the other is Ukon, his favorite puppet, and best friend. Sakon is the (only) grandson of Saemon Tachibana, a national treasure of Japan famous for his manipulation of Bunraku puppets. Ukon is a child doll puppet made in the early Meiji era by the famous female dollmaker Unosuke. Together they run into murders and solve them. (Source: AnimeNfo)
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Community consensus
Derived from 8 sampled reviews
8.6
/10
What 8 viewers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8.5
mode 8
σ 0.99
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.99 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.38
Running avg · Nov 2007 → Nov 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Ayatsuri Sakon is about a boy and his puppet solving murders. That is the story in its entirety. What makes this show stand out amongst others is its usage of Bunraku, a style of Japanese puppetry,...”
- 9 “Ayatsuri Sakon is anime about a young boy puppet master who is skilled at using puppets and soliving cases involving murder. Story:9 The story of Ayatsuri Sakon is About A Young shy boy named Sakon...”
- 10 “Story: One has to be clear about this, a lot of the arcs run into the cliques of the murder mystery genera. Also, there are some that have very big simularities to cases in other Anime/Manga, but...”
Verbosity
Short · 13%
Medium · 63%
Long · 25%
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- Format 26 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 10h 50m all episodes
- Aired Oct 1999 – Mar 2000 Fall 1999
- Source Tv media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-2018 catalog
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- WOWOW Producer