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Gakuen Kino

“Kino becomes a magical gun-wielding girl battling monsters at high school with incompetent rival Shizu.”

Gakuen Kino

23,781 rank · 952 readers · 5 favorites
Parody School Action Comedy Fantasy
2006 - Present · Light novel
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Synopsis

Kino becomes a magical gun-wielding girl battling monsters at high school with incompetent rival Shizu.

Spinning off from a joke in the afterword to volume four of Kino no Tabi, the story finds Kino attending a high school with her talking cell phone strap, Hermes. When students start turning into monsters, Kino transforms into a gun toting magical girl, but her efforts are thwarted by the incompetent would be rival hero claiming to be her partner, Shizu.

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A Light novel Publication

  • Published Jul 2006 – ongoing
  • Source Light novel media type
  • Ref. BS-M7531 catalog

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