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“Kino and Hermes travel the world, experiencing beauty in imperfection during three-day stays in each country.”
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World
キノの旅 -the Beautiful World-
8.78
55 rank · 22,619 readers · 557 favorites
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Kino and Hermes travel the world, experiencing beauty in imperfection during three-day stays in each country.
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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Derived from 8 sampled reviews
9.9
/10
What 8 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 0.33
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σ 0.33 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.13
Running avg · Dec 2007 → May 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “This book is a lot like the anime. It follows it extremely closely. I did not give it an art rating because it is a novel... It follows the storys in a different order then the anime. But if you've...”
- 10 “"The world is not beautiful. Therefore it is." From the start this story is bring us to many perspective of world , where there is many type of of people with a lot of different reason surrounding...”
- 10 “This was a great read from start to finish. The story of Kino and her Journey with Hermes through the odd, dangerous, frightening, yet beautiful world. Every place she goes is another view through...”
Verbosity
Short · 38%
Medium · 63%
Long · 0%
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A Light novel Publication
- Published Mar 2000 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M0388 catalog