Pumpkin Scissors (2006)

Action · Adventure · Animation

Pumpkin Scissors is a manga created and authored by Ryotaro Iwanaga. Originally serialized in Magazine GREAT in 2002 it was later moved to Monthly Shonen Magazine in October 2006. The manga has been licensed by Del Rey. An anime adaptation of Pumpkin Scissors has been released, produced by Gonzo and AIC, which began airing on October 2, 2006 across several Japanese television stations and ended with the 24th episode on March 19, 2007. The series was originally licensed to the North American market by ADV Films for $780,000. In 2008 it became one of over thirty titles transferred from ADV Films to FUNimation, the main distributor of anime in the English speaking world.

IMDb rating: 6.7 (309 votes)
Episode average: 7.6 +0.9 vs IMDb
Seasons: 1
Streaming (US): Crunchyroll
Language: JA
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 1 season indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2006)

7.57 avg 24 episodes 7.8 → 7.6 24 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Invisible Number 9	7.8	16
2	War Relief Unit	7.4	12
3	For That Is a Precious Thing	7.9	12
4	The Cracking Portrait	7.9	11
5	The Frivolous Men	7.5	9
6	Fruitful Times	7.6	8
7	The Manipulators and the Manipulated	7.4	7
8	Burning Snowfields	7.8	7
9	Woman Of The Morning Mist	7.8	7
10	Pumpkins & Scissors	7.6	7
11	The Quiet Quickening	7.4	7
12	Unseen Pain	7.7	8
13	Crude, But Elegant	7.6	6
14	The Flame Still Burns	7.4	6
15	Decisions Run Astray	7.4	6
16	The One Who Slashes	7.6	6
17	The Darkness That Cannot Be Saved	8.0	6
18	A Small Military Power	7.0	6
19	A Sweet Trap	7.0	6
20	Enter the Performers	7.6	6
21	The Puppet & The Idol	7.2	6
22	Lonely Scales	7.6	6
23	And Then, an Alluring Trap	7.8	6
24	The Military, the Commoners & the Nobility	7.6	6