What are we watching: Kino’s Journey

What’s it about: Kino, a 15-year-old traveler, forms a bond with Hermes, a talking motorcycle. Together, they wander the lands and venture through various countries and places, despite having no clear idea of what to expect. After all, life is a journey filled with the unknown.

Throughout their journeys, they encounter different kinds of customs, from the morally gray to tragic and fascinating. They also meet many people: some who live to work, some who live to make others happy, and some who live to chase their dreams. Thus, in every country they visit, there is always something to learn from the way people carry out their lives.

It is not up to Kino or Hermes to decide whether these asserted values are wrong or right, as they merely assume the roles of observers within this small world. They do not attempt to change or influence the places they visit, despite how absurd these values would appear. That’s because in one way or another, they believe things are fine as they are, and that “the world is not beautiful; therefore, it is.”

Studio: A.C.G.T.

Director: Nakamura, Ryuutarou

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDm6cLP83us

Where can I watch it: https://twist.moe/a/kino-no-tabi-the-beautiful-world/1 https://www12.9anime.ru/watch/kinos-journey.3012/ep-1 https://nyaa.si/view/1069013

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I don't think it was a subversion of Kino's origina story.

    I think the intention here was honestly just... Something horrible.

    This is, to Kino, the place that she has visited that most felt like home to her. It was the only place of anywhere she has ever been that she was going to break her rule for. It was, in her short time there, the home she had to run away from but without the evil that she ran from.

    I don't think the series is trying to give you the position to take, it's trying to lead you to asking the right questions and I think that in criticising it at times it intends for that outcome to occur, it intends for the audience to criticise the show for being neutral, or Kino for taking on her neutrality position where it is obvious to us that intervention is the moral good.