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Kinos Reise ( Japanese キノの旅 Kino no Tabi ) is a light novel series by the Japanese author Keiichi Sigsawa and the illustrator Kōhaku Kuroboshi . The series was also known as anime - TV show , movie, radio play series and video game implemented.

In the form of parables, the work is about the travels of a girl on a talking motorcycle and can be classified into the genres of adventure and drama .

content

The 15-year-old girl Kino ( キノ ) travels the world on her talking motorcycle Hermes ( エルメス ). She wants to visit as many countries as possible and only stays three days each to get an impression. She used to live in the land of adults and was supposed to succeed her parents there, but when a traveler named Kino arrives there, she decides how to explore the world and takes his name.

Kino is equipped with several firearms and knives, but only uses them when necessary. She forms a team on the trip with Hermes, as neither of them could drive alone. They try not to interfere in the affairs of their hosts as much as possible, even if this does not always succeed. You visit countries with modern societies as well as ancient ones, some at war, political upheaval or alien social models.

Conception

The individual chapters of the work tell independent stories. Each chapter describes a new country, with the genre changing depending on the story from science fiction to fantasy to westerns and adventure. The narrative perspectives also change. The reader only gradually learns more about the main character cinema.

When creating the character Kino Keiichi Sigsawa was influenced by the Ginga Tetsudō 999 series from the 1970s. The author came to the talking motorcycle Hermes because he has a passion for motorcycles and cinema should not only be a means of transport, but also a travel companion. The illustrator Kōhaku Kuroboshi was selected by the publisher.

The light novel comes with four colored drawings per volume and several in black and white.

Print publications

Author Keiichi Sigsawa entered the 1999 Dengeki Bunko light novel contest, an imprint of MediaWorks, with the first story in the series . As one of the best-placed submissions, the series was published on March 17, 2000 in Dengeki hp magazine in Japan. She later moved to Dengeki Bunko Magazine . The series has also appeared in 21 volumes so far. In 2003 an art book on the light novel was published in Japan, designed by Kōhaku Kuroboshi and containing illustrations for other of his works. For the film, another volume with the title Kino no Tabi -the Beautiful World- Gekijō no Kuni -KINO- ( キノの旅 -the Beautiful World- 劇場の国 -KINO- ) was released in limited edition in Japan .

The series has been translated into Chinese and Korean. Tokyopop has been publishing the series in the US since 2006 . In November 2006 Tokyopop published the first volume in German, four have been published so far.

Under the title Gakuen Kino , the magazines Dengeki hp , Dengeki p , Dengeki h and Dengeki hpa published a spin-off series with Kino als schoolgirl. This was later summarized in one volume and also published in Chinese and Korean. In March 2003, an art book on the series with drawings by Kōhaku Kuroboshi was published by MediaArts. Further art books followed in March 2005 and December 2007.

A manga adaptation of the light novel has appeared in Shonen Magazine Edge for the first time since March 2017 . It is written and drawn by Iruka Shiomiya.

Film adaptations

In 2003 produced ACGT for Light-Novel, a 13-part anime - television series from a screenplay by Sadayuki Murai . Directed by Ryutaro Nakamura , the character design is by Shigeyuki Suga and the artistic director was Masayoshi Banno . Nobuhiro Osawa was the responsible producer. The broadcast in Japan took place from March 8 to July 8, 2003 by the station WOWOW at 6:30 p.m.

ADV Films released the anime in Germany on DVD as Kino's Journey . The series was broadcast in English by Animax asia, ImaginAsian TV and The Anime Network. ADV Films released the anime on DVD in the US, Madman Entertainment in Australia. The series is published in French by Kaze and in Italian by Mediafilm.

A second anime series, which tells more recent stories from the light novel, was created in 2017 at Studio Lerche under the direction of Tomohisa Taguchi . The scripts were written by Yukie Sugawara and the character design was created by Ryoko Amisaki . The series has been shown on Japanese television since October 6, 2017 and published via streaming via the online platform Crunchyroll , including with German and English subtitles.

synchronization

The German-language dubbing of the first series was made by Deutsche Synchron Filmgesellschaft mbH.

role	Japanese speaker ( seiyū ) first series	Japanese speaker second series	German speaker first series
movie theater	Ai Maeda	Aoi Yūki	Isabelle Höpfner
Hermes	Ryuji Aigase	Sōma Saitō	Jesco Wirthgen

music

The music for the first TV series was composed by Ryo Sakai . The opening title All the Way is by Mikuni Shimokawa and the closing song The Beautiful World by Ai Maeda.

For the second series, Yoshiaki Dewa composed the soundtrack and the opening credits were underlaid with the song here and there . The closing song is Satō-dama no Tsuki ( 砂糖玉の月 ), both songs are by Nagi Yanagi .

Movies

In 2005 the film Kino no Tabi: Nani ka o suru tame ni -life goes on.- ( キノの旅何かをするために -life goes on.-) was produced, which was released in Japanese cinemas on February 19th. It is 30 minutes long and tells the story behind the series in which Kino embarks on its travels.

In 2007, Kino no Tabi followed: Byōki no Kuni -For You- ( キノの旅病気の国 -For You-), the premiere was on April 21, 2007. The 28-minute film was produced by the SHAFT studio.

Further adaptations

Radio plays

A radio play series on the light novel was broadcast in 2001 on the Dengeki Taishou radio program. In December 2001, customers of Dengeki hp magazine could order the radio play by e-mail.

In the radio play, Kino was spoken by Aya Hisakawa and Hermes by Junko Noda .

Video game

Tycoon produced two digital novel video games for the Playstation 2 to travel to cinemas . The first appeared under the title Kino no Tabi -the Beautiful World- in July 2003, in November 2003 again in a different version. December 2005 the second game, Kino no Tabi II -the Beautiful World- , was released. A modified version followed in March 2007.

reception

By 2017, the anthologies of the series had sold over 8.1 million copies in Japan. Newtype USA magazine voted the light novel Book of the Month for November 2006, calling it inviting and addicting . The Anime Encyclopedia compares the anime's stories with The Pilgrim's Progress or The Littlest Hobo and sees references to the more sophisticated New Wave of Science Fiction . The calmly told stories with little action, only used when necessary, are a pleasant change from many other series full of action. And at the same time, Kinos Reise offers not just “gloomy nonsense” in its quiet moments, but rather profound and meaningful symbolism. In addition, the story of cinema is a variant of the coming-of-age film , in which cinema explores the world around itself as a young person and seeks its place, but the series offers an as yet unseen approach to this subject. Young audiences can easily identify with cinema, which primarily embodies an average young person. In addition, there are picturesque backgrounds and economical animations, which are often simply superfluous. In the West, however, the series had problems marketing it because the main character is atypically female.

The German AnimeDVD praises the design and the "mysterious" drawings that "inspire the imagination". The sub-title "Beautiful World" stands in stark contrast to the often violent, gloomy content. The manga scene writes of Kinos Reise as an "extremely surreal anime that is difficult to compare". The episodes have a gloomy atmosphere and would be reminiscent of classic moral games, but never drift into depressive and "always contain an unobtrusive, optimistic message". It does not suit every taste, but is "a delicacy" "for friends of sophisticated anime". On the occasion of the German DVD release in 2006, Animania criticized the German dubbing of Hermes , which was inappropriate and sounded unmotivated. Cinemas synchronization, however, was well done. The technical implementation is not objectionable and the series itself is described as "demanding, almost artistic", "without appearing aloof". Both the philosophical approach and the good animations make the series stand out from the crowd and stay with the audience "because of the moving ending [...]."

According to Splashcomics' Brigitte Schönhense, Kino's journey is told simply, but full of interesting characters and twists in the plot. Despite the simple language, it is by no means childish or uneventful. The issues are serious, it is about human characteristics and relationships. It is annoying that the main characters are newly introduced in each chapter in the first volume and that there is no common thread connecting the stories. In the further course of the series, however, this no longer appears, there would be a connection between the individual stories. The stories manage to grab the reader, the atmosphere of the individual chapters is tight.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Brigitte Schönhense at Splashcomics about Volume 1 of the Light Novel

↑ ^a ^b Brigitte Schönhense at Splashcomics about Volume 2 of the Light Novel

↑ ^a ^b Chih-Chieh Chang: Interview: Kino's Journey creator Keiichi Sigsawa. Anime News Network, September 1, 2005, accessed November 2, 2017 .

↑ Animania 06/2005, p. 80f. (via the artbook `` the Beautiful World '')

↑ Kino's Journey Novels Get 1st Manga Adaptation Next Month. Anime News Network, February 16, 2017, accessed November 2, 2017 .

↑ ^a ^b ^c Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 341 f .

↑ Newtype USA Jun 2003, Volume 02, Number 06. P. 28f.

↑ ^a ^b AnimeDVD Vol. 4 Sept./Oct. 2003, p. 6.

↑ 注目アニメ紹介：「キノの旅」人気ラノベが再びテレビアニニメにキノとエルメスが旅に - 毎日新聞 . In: 毎日新聞 . ( Mainichi.jp [accessed on November 2, 2017]). 注目アニメ紹介: 「キノの旅」人気ラノベが再びテレビアニメにキノとエルメスが旅に -毎日新聞 ( Memento of 7 November 2017 Internet Archive )

^ Newtype USA on Volume 1 of the series

↑ Manga scene No. 17, p. 25.

↑ Animania 03/2006, p. 26.

↑ Animania 08-09 / 2006, p. 38.

Web links

Official site for Kino no Tabi (Japanese)
Website to light novel of ASCII Media Works (Japanese)
Anime News Network about the anime

[splash1-1] Brigitte Schönhense at Splashcomics about Volume 1 of the Light Novel

[splash2-2] Brigitte Schönhense at Splashcomics about Volume 2 of the Light Novel

[:0-3] Chih-Chieh Chang: Interview: Kino's Journey creator Keiichi Sigsawa. Anime News Network, September 1, 2005, accessed November 2, 2017 .

[4] Animania 06/2005, p. 80f. (via the artbook `` the Beautiful World '')

[5] Kino's Journey Novels Get 1st Manga Adaptation Next Month. Anime News Network, February 16, 2017, accessed November 2, 2017 .

[animeenc-6] Jonathan Clements, Helen McCarthy: The Anime Encyclopedia. Revised & Expanded Edition . Stone Bridge Press, Berkeley 2006, ISBN 978-1-933330-10-5 , pp. 341 f .

[7] Newtype USA Jun 2003, Volume 02, Number 06. P. 28f.

[:1-8] AnimeDVD Vol. 4 Sept./Oct. 2003, p. 6.