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Gakuen Kino

学園キノ

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

Light novel

Parody, School, Action, Comedy, Fantasy2006 - Present

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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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Reel · 01 Cat. №BS-M7531

A Light novel Publication

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

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