Kino's Journey
Cinema trip ( japキノの旅, cinema no Tabi ) is a light novel series of the Japanese authors Keiichi Sigsawa and Illustrator Kohaku Kuroboshi. The series has also been implemented as an anime television series, cinema, radio drama series and video game.
The work is about the travels of a girl with a talking motorcycle, and can be classified in the genre science fiction, fantasy, adventure and drama.
- 5.1 Films
- 5.2 Radio Plays
- 5.3 Video game
Content
The 15- year-old girl cinema (キノ) traveling with her talking motorcycle Hermes (エルメス) through the world. She wants to visit as many countries and stays in each of three days to get an idea. Previously they lived in the land of adults and should succeed their parents there, but arrives as a traveler named Kino there, she decides to like him to explore the world and takes on his name.
Cinema is equipped with several firearms and knives, but this only used when it is necessary. It forms on the trip with Hermes a team, since both alone could not drive. You try as possible not to interfere in the affairs of their host, even if not always successful. Visit countries with modern societies, as well as antique, some in war, political upheaval or alienating society models.
Conception
The individual chapters of the work telling independent stories. Here, each chapter describes a new country, the genre it changes depending on the history of science fiction over fantasy to westerns and adventure. Change The narrative perspectives. About the main character cinema of the reader learns only gradually more.
The light novel are attached to each band four colored drawings, and several in black and white.
Light Novel
The light novel series was published from March 17, 2000 in the magazine Dengeki hp the publisher MediaWorks in Japan. Later, the series was also published in eleven volumes. The anthologies sold in Japan more than 5.6 million times. Another volume, entitled cinema no Tabi -the Beautiful World - Gekijo no Kuni - CINEMA (キノの旅-the Beautiful World -劇場 の 国- CINEMA ) was to film later released in a limited edition in Japan.
The series has been translated into Chinese and Korean. Tokyopop published the series since 2006 in the USA. In November 2006, the first volume was published by Tokyopop in German, so far, four appeared.
Under the title Gakuen Kino appeared in the magazines Dengeki hp, Dengeki p, h and Dengeki Dengeki hpa a spin-off series with cinema as a schoolgirl. This was later collected in one volume, also published in Chinese and Korean.
In March 2003, an artbook appeared to series of drawings by Kouhaku Kuroboshi in Media Arts. For more Artbooks followed in March 2005 and December 2007.
Anime
In 2003 produced A.C.G.T. for Light -Novel a 13- episode anime television series. Directed by Ryutaro Nakamura, the character design is by Shigeyuki Suga and artistic director was Masayoshi Banno. The broadcast in Japan took place on 8 March 2003-8. July 2003 by the broadcaster WOWOW.
The series was sent by the transmitter Animax Asia, ImaginAsian TV and The Anime Network In English. ADV Films released the anime in the U.S. on DVD, Madman Entertainment in Australia. The series appears at Kaze, in Italian at Media Film In French.
ADV Films released the anime on DVD in Germany as Kino's Journey.
Synchronization
The German -language synchronization was made by the German Dubbing film mbH.
Music
The music of the TV series was composed by Ryo Sakai. The header title All the Way Mikuni Shimokawa and comes from the credits song Beautiful World by Ai Maeda.
Other adaptations
Movies
2005, the movie theater was no Tabi: . Nani ka o suru tame ni - life goes on - (キノの旅 何か を する ため に- life goes on -. ) Produced, which came in Japanese theaters on February 19. It has a length of 30 minutes.
Followed in 2007 by Kino no Tabi: Byōki no Kuni - For You - (キノの旅 病気 の 国- For You ), Premiere was on April 21, 2007 The film with a length of 28 minutes was produced by Studio SHAFT. .
Radio plays
A radio drama series for light novel was sent in 2001 on the radio program Dengeki Taishou. In December 2001, the radio play for customers of the magazine Dengeki hp by e -mail was ordered.
In audio cinema Aya Hisakawa and by Junko Noda Hermes was spoken.
Video game
Tycoon produced two digital Novel video games for the Playstation 2 to cinema trip. The first appeared under the title Kino no Tabi -the Beautiful World - in July 2003, in November 2003, again in a different version. December 2005 was World, brought out the second game, cinema no Tabi the Beautiful II. This was followed in March 2007, in turn, a modified version.
Reception
The magazine Newtype USA chose the Light Novel Book of the Month in November 2006 and described making it as inviting and addictive. According AnimeOnDVD it attracts a into the story and allowed to witness the journey.
According to Brigitte Schönhense Splash Comics cinema trip is simply told, but full of interesting characters and twists in the plot. Despite the simple language this was not childish or mediocre. The issues were serious, it related to human characteristics and relationships. Disturbing is that the main characters were introduced in the first volume in each chapter and no red thread connect the stories. Later in the series but the dip is no longer on, it would create a connection between the individual stories. The stories were possible to grab the reader, the atmosphere of the individual chapters is tight.