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It is the early 20th century, and Raishin Akabane is a student puppeteer from Japan, who has come to the Walpurgis Royal Academy of Machine Arts in England to study the emerging field of Machinart: a combination of magic and technology with military applications. He is accompanied by a girl named Yaya, who is actually his Automaton: a living machine doll powered by magical circuits specialized in hand-to-hand combat. In the Academy, there is a combat tournament exclusive to the Top 100 students and their automata, to decide who shall be bestowed with the title of "Wiseman", the greatest puppeteer.
This one was filled was action, and Yaya is such a likable character.
(why cant she be my marionette in Mabi q.q)
I like it, definitely keeping this on my watch list this season.
The manga is pretty popular too, its like #65 on the site where I read them on, had no idea this even existed sadly.
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