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“Kino and talking motorcycle Hermes travel world, staying three days per country, finding beauty in imperfection.”
Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World
キノの旅 -the Beautiful World-
7.88
1,171 rank · 5,990 readers · 70 favorites
Shounen
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Kino and talking motorcycle Hermes travel world, staying three days per country, finding beauty in imperfection.
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." (Source: Tokyopop)
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Score distribution
median 6
mode 3
σ 3.00
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σ 3.00 · split reception
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 3.00
Running avg · Jul 2022 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “The original is iconic. It's a manga. At least in some form, after many years, I finally got familiar with it. The drawing here is standard, about the plot... I did not expect that there would be a...”
- 3 “If you want the TL:DR then don't read this, the light novels may be better, I don't know but I do know that this manga isn't good. This won't be written in my normal style because I don't think...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 53 × 8 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 04m approx
- Published Mar 2017 – Aug 2020
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M42691 catalog