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Synonyms: Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World
Japanese: キノの旅 -the Beautiful World-
English: Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World
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Type: Light Novel
Volumes: Unknown
Chapters: Unknown
Status: Publishing
Published: Mar 10, 2000 to ?
Genres: Adventure Adventure, Drama Drama, Fantasy Fantasy
Serialization: None
Authors: Sigsawa, Keiichi (Story), Kuroboshi, Kouhaku (Art)

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Score: 8.561 (scored by 34943,494 users)
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Ranked: #1172
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Popularity: #967
Members: 21,924
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Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one girl and her bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, her unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, it is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is."

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Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World appeared on the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! rankings under the Best Light Novel category three times: 2nd place in 2006, 5th place in 2007, and 6th place in 2008. As of October 2014, the series has sold more than 8 million novels.

Tokyopop published the first novel of the series in English on October 3, 2006; however, due to issues with the licensors, they were unable to release further volumes. The series has also been published in German, Chinese, Korean, and Thai.
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May 9, 2025
Gindokusei
Recommended
Preliminary (109/? eps)
Kino's Journey is a masterpiece, and I mean it in every sense of the word. I'm currently on volume 12, and at this point, I've read over 100 Kino stories, and not one of them has been bad. Shoot, not one of them has even been mid; they all range from good to fantastic, which truly is a testament to Keiichi Sigsawa's ability as a writer. The numerous concepts and ideas he comes up with for the countries Kino travels to are incredibly impressive, and the way he executes them is equally as impressive. His prose, while simple, is effective and makes Kino a breeze ...
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May 31, 2023
Greewiki
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Preliminary (114/? eps)
journeys are shown throughout multiple series but never really expanded on such a level as Kino's. Kino is an observer, a character whose name represents wandering spirit, and her only companion is a motorcycle named Hermes, who acts as her other side to perfect her harmony with not only herself but the connection to the world. Kino's character is a complex look into the nature of the world and the nature of man, but it's also an outlook on a perfect human who's freed themselves from internal bias to finally take in the beautiful world as an observer. This character's structure is the best I've ...
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Dec 31, 2021
abystoma2
Recommended
Preliminary (156/? eps)
Kino’s Journey is, without a doubt, one of the best written works I’ve read. Not just among light novels, but among all of them. And I’ve read quite fuckton of them.

It’s hard to pull of a collection of short stories with consistent quality. And it gets exponentially harder the longer the series is. Yet here it is, with over 20 volumes and still ongoing, and I can’t say there was even a single tale I disliked, with stories going from arena fights through slice of life documentary photography to zombie apocalypse. This is what true 10/10 is like.

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