Miss me /a/?

Terribly. Please rescue us from the mediocrity Kino, we need you.

Also is Kinomod still here? I haven't been here for a while.

>>142393263
Get out of here,stalker

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>>142393545
There was a Kino thread a while back where he posted and had music added to the thread.

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>>142393839

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Praise be onto Kino.

I love you kinomod, please bring back the music

>>142393263
I just realized that kino means cinema in german

>>142393545
He's around still.

>>142393263
Kino is super lewd.

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S2 by Shaft

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>>142393263
>literally spells out the message at the end of each episode, just in case it wasn't glaringly obvious enough
>any tension or hope of growth is destroyed by the fact that Kino's behavior has no consistency at all and she just serves as a puppet to help fist the message into your asshole even deeper
>all while being just quiet and contemplative enough to make certain people think that it's somehow a masterpiece

I almost never use the word "pretentious" to describe a work, but this show is literally the finest example in anime. Feel free to shout me down thanks to your prevailing opinion and mod backing, maybe somewhere it will stick to someone.

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you know Ive been meaning to rewatch this for a long time I think Ill go and re download it.

..

THERE WHERE MOVIES!?

>>142399514
The movies are just long episodes.

>>142399359
That's like your opinion man, everyone is entitled to those and they have a right to voice it if it's wrong.

>>142400305

Oh well, more to watch. that's cool too

>>142399359
This post is about 572 times more pretentious than Kino's Journey

>>142399359
To be fair, the anime is a rather poor adaptation. The only episodes I REALLY like are Three Men on the Rails and A Kind Land, and even then, the animation quality in general isn't anything to write home about. The novels are a bit more subtle and nuanced, not to mention more interesting. There's so many fucking great stories that didn't get animated, not to mention the shifting perspectives to Riku and the Master in her youth. Master especially, /a/ would eat that shit up.

Shame the novels have hit a standstill in terms of translation. If I knew moon I'd pick it up, but unfortunately I don't. Volumes 13-16 and 18 are just sitting there, almost done, but all the translators dropped off. Maybe Untuned Strings will go back to kino after a while, though s/he's currently working through the Allison/Lilia/Etc series. Only like, what, 4 volumes left, too.

>>142393263
It's not fair! What does Mushishi get seasons and not Kino?

>>142399359
Was about to write something similar, but you did it better. The main point of the show was that Kino was a pretty cute tomboy.

>kino thread still alive
I love you guys.

>>142399359
>Show explains itself clearly
That's exactly what pretentious isn't. Contrast with Ergo Proxy, which tried to sit on the throne of hamfisted philosophy 101.

Kino's Journey is very straightforward and easy to interpret, that doesn't make it bad.

>Kino's behavior has no consistency
She looks out for herself and is generally there to observe. It's actually pretty consistent in that regard, with the degree to which she gets involved being varied by her empathy with the people around her. By using her as a mostly neutral observer, she felt more like a real person to me because it's different from the shows with protagonists who love to monologue too much.

>>142401334
Why the fuck would anyone complain about Mushishi getting more seasons? They're completely unrelated studios.

>>142393263
I wish there was more reverse traps in anime.

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>>142393588

A NU CHEEKI BREEKI IV DAMKE

Someone post swimsuit and ice cream.

>>142393263
Is this kino?

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>>142393263
>you will never hold Kino in your arms in the shower just before you make sweet, passionate, wet love to her, savoring the soft touch of every inch of her skin slick with water as she moans and sighs softly into your ear

How do we get the music added to the thread?

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>>142393839
>>142394041
God bless the Kinomod

Watched first half of the show. Maybe I'll pick the rest after finishing 2nd gig.

I won't let this thread die until i get my goddamn music

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Kino shows up in the last anime you watched for three days. How does it change?

>>142408061
>Zeta Gundam
Kino shows up, realizes everyone's an idiot, and leaves. Kamille is stuck with a boner for her for the rest of his life.

Show was extremely interesting, but could definitely use a reboot or s2 with better animation. I like what they were going for with the setting and some of the allusions to the grander scheme of things. That final episode was spectacular.

>>142408061
>Mayoiga
I don't want to think about this.

>>142408061
>Banner of the Stars

Can Hermes travel FTL now? Or does she simply travel from planet to planet normally and ride Hermes for three days and then leave?

>>142408061
>Luluco
There is a lot of references to specific events in the series which are subtly parodied, and Kino is present but doesn't speak too much, but accompanies the main cast thoughout most the episode with Hermes. The episode would also cleverly use the title cards from the anime, as well as some of the ambient songs that were present. Basically another Triggerverse episode but with Kino.

>>142408142
It definitely could do with a do-over in the hands of a more competent studio. In retrospect it really doesn't do the novels justice, and beyond that doesn't even get into the really good shit in the novels, like grenade-loli, dog chapters, young master being a hilarious piece of shit, kino's sniper battle, giant traveling ship ocean country, etc.

>>142408233
Hermes can definitely FTL, read Gakuen Kino. It's canon. Not really. But seriously, it is.

>>142408233
Sure it's spaceship morphing Hermes ala Gakuen.

>>142408291
Are the LNs in English to buy? I wouldn't mind owning them to start getting into Kino.

>>142405236
what is this image

>>142408381
Only the first one.

>>142408291
If there's any chapter that I'd want to get animated, it'd be the (untranslated so spoiler tag) zombie one where she teams up with three other dudes for what is essentially exactly Left 4 Dead. From the concept down everything about it makes me laugh, maybe just from the dissonance.

>>142408381
The only one translated officially was Volume 1 by Yen Press, that was quite a while ago now so I'm not sure if it'd still be in print. For all the other volumes you'd have to read fantranslations or learn japanese.

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>>142408381
Hahaha. Almost! But a certain someone had to fuck up the licensing deal! Because they had to put the book back in chronological order, even after Sigsawa said "what the fuck no that ruins the whole book" and then pulled the license back HAHA THANKS A LOT YOU STUPID FUCKS I'M SO GLAD YOU DIED

But all the LNs from volumes 2-12 are on the internet, at least. As well as scattered chapters from 13-17. Luckily it's all fairly episodic so it doesn't hurt things too much, but still. If I can ever get off my fucking lazy shit fucking ass I'll finish OCRing and re-ordering the original tokyopop release of volume 1, and including some nice TL notes in the back to let you know when tokyopop mistranslated or straight up added random bullshit for no reason.

>>142408541
Haha holy shit that sounds rad. Which volume is that, the latest? Sounds like Sigsawa, that's for sure. I mean we're talking about a guy who wrote a SAO spinoff because "hey I heard this arc has guns, can I write a story about it?" Dude fuckin' LOVES guns.

>>142408061
>XXXholic
I wonder if she is able to visit the shop. Overall not much probably.

>>142408603
I can't understand why Tokyopop did some of the changes they did. I'm all for localizing but what mentality would you need to add in entire new lines of dialogue?

Anyway, it was Vol 16 chapter 1. I could write up a summary if you want.

>>142408926
I think they were aiming for a teen/tween market with it for... whatever reason, so they added extra dialogue explaining things to make it "easier to follow". Fucking tokyopop.

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>>142408150
>I don't want to think about this.
I do; it'd be awesome to see someone with more than half a brain in Nanaki village.

I wanna fuck Kino

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>When the flying machine takes off
>The work of a lifetime
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G986i5ZlH0M
holy shit

>>142399359
and people still miss everything you just quoted

anime is not a medium for people who demand elegant subtlety

it's just not possible to make an elegantly subtle anime without being ripping on it

>>142408061
>Initital D
Hermes is unable to catch up with the AE86, so Kino just leaves.

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>>142408291
Gakuen Kino is love

>>142408926
I ended up writing a summary anyway. It's a bit long. http://pastebin.com/mPEjSUNY

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>>142399359
>literally spells out the message at the end of each episode, just in case it wasn't glaringly obvious enough

>pretentious

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Man, I can't believe Kino no Tabi's been going on for almost 20 years now. I wonder how the author would end the series? I doubt it'd be with a bang. It's one of those things that it seems appropriate to end on a quiet goodbye.

>>142412959
Someday he'll hit a multiple of three and just won't release another one.

>>142412959
Probably something like:
>>142412991
I can imagine Sigsawa continuing Kino until he dies.

>>142408061
Hajime no Ippo

She sits in the crowds while Ippo boxes, hangs out at the gym with Hermes, is aroused by Ippo's gigantic monster dick.

New anime using LN artstyle when? 2003 show is pretty good but Kino's head looks like an egg.

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>>142393263
I miss Kino too much. I wish there were more episodic anime about traveling, too.

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>>142413225
Anime Kino's endearingly cute in a different way. The LN art style's way different from the cover too. Shit's stylistic as fuck.

>>142412959
Eventually he'll start doing the things he said as a joke that happened between normal Kino and Gakuen Kino.

>>142413225
There's not much anime directors around who would make Kino justice.
If only Nakamura was still alive.

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>>142393263
Not at this range

>>142412959

How much time has passed in the Kinoverse, or is it one of those deals where all the stories are outside of any chronology?

She'd be a Christmas Cake by now.

>>142413839
If you really wanted to try you could probably make a haphazard kind of timeline by counting the seasons and comparing them with chapters that are known to have continuity (Land of Mania, Feeding Off Others, Land of Kindness etc) but there's no point as Kino is perpetually 15(?).

>>142413839
Chapter 6 of Volume 3 is Kino 10 years later, with Inid as her apprentice or trying to kill her, I forget.

But, most of the stories are outside of any chronology, but some are definitely linked to each other.

>>142414182
That chapter isn't set 10 years later, Inid is narrating it while reminiscing from 10 years in the future. Tale of Fighting People in Vol11 is also kinda like that.

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>>142413839
It's been at least three or more years since she ran away, so she's at least 16. She does keep things she finds in earlier chapters like Flute and use them from time to time, and Ti stays as part of Shizu's party after she's introduced. The ways stories are introduced though aren't in chronological order in each volume so again I guess time doesn't really matter. I guess there's no real way to keep track of time and the lack of explicit dates is to keep the story timeless and less grounded in reality.

>>142414182
Chapter 6 in volume 3 was about a young girl trying to rob Kino as part of a test to become a pirate, which was her dream. She fails and she becomes an author instead. The author implies at the beginning that it's Kino writing about her youth, but it's actually just the young girl reminiscing about it.

>>142414364
There's a chapter in Volume 18 where she spends an entire winter in a single country, so any chapters in winter have to be a different year from that. Like you said though chronology is barely a footnote in this series.

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>>142414364
>>142414350
I see now. A Tale of Fighting People also has to be one of my favorite stories from the novels, along with the 2 stories that ended with Shizu getting Ti as a companion.

>>142405236
I want to be the guy grabbing Kino's ass.

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>>142415183
You'll never grab it.

>>142414728
Yeah, Fighting People is one of my favourites too. It's been a while since I've read some of the stories, so I've forgotten a lot of them, but that one still sticks out. Others like that for me are Land of Cooking, Tale of Braggarts, Land of Parasites, Safe Land, xxxxx, then the usual suspects (Diva, Ship, Kindness, Adults, etc).
I'm always surprised by how consistently good the stories are.

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>>142415183
You just have to be the man she falls for.

>>142415262
What's the point of a bikini when there's no tits

>>142415183
>>142415262
>>142405236
Please don't sexualize the Kino.

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Kino makes me want to travel.

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>>142415454
It's to accentuate the curves of a healthy body while maintaining a standard of wholeness by covering the naughty bits.

>>142415262
How will so much ice cream fit inside her body? Kino is a fool.

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Thighs

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>>142415575
Superior genetics, plenty of exercise

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>>142399359
>spells out the message
>pretentious
what

>>142413839
I've heard that some of the stories may be from the old Kino's point of view.

>>142408061
>Conrevo
Would be a damn interesting episode. I wonder how she would react upon seeing JUSTICE.

>>142415460
Author does it himself
>>142415262

>>142415919
Which? As far as I can tell that's not the case.
It's a neat concept though. But I doubt it would happen if only to keep Kino Prime a somewhat ambiguous figure.

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>>142415262
dat ass

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>>142415919
Typically, stories featuring Kino make it a point to describe Hermes as a motorrad (Note: A two-wheeled vehicle. Only to note that it cannot fly) and whatever Kino is wearing.
Example:
>Its rider wore thick winter clothing of brown jacket and trousers on top of her normal clothes. She wore a boa winter cap with flaps that completely hid her cheeks. Her hands were covered with thick gloves, while a scarf was wrapped around her face. The yellow single-lens goggles over her eyes concealed her expression.
I can't think of any chapter aside from volume one where Kino's gender is hid explicitly or Kino is described as a tall, lanky man with a black ponytail, glasses, a trenchcoat, and a large backback strapped to his back. I definitely would like to hear about Kino before xxxxx became Kino.

xxxxx's real name is Poppy, like the poppy flowers found around her home town.

>>142416162
>Poppy
This is what I've been thinking too. It works really well.

>>142399359
>heh heh, tough luck rebutting me because I left the thread right after posting this
>heh heh, I sure showed them

>>142416553
He only wanted to ensure that Kino thread will not die

>>142393839
I thought that was just Troid impersonating Kinomod. Could be wrong though, maybe Hiro got him back.

>>142416931
He was never gone, so I don't see why hiro would have to get him back.
Man, it's funny how quickly incorrect rumors spread here.

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I bet Kino would be a lightweight, considering her size and frame and lack of experience with alcohol.

>>142417617
What would a drunk Kino even be like?

>>142417674
Hungry.

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>>142417674
The giggling, bubbly kind that laughs at just about anything and falls over a lot.

>>142417905
Now I want to drink with Kino.
and get shot when trying to get too intimate

>>142417852
That's no different from ordinary Kino.

>>142417905
>falls over a lot
Poor Hermes

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>>142418033
Don't be such a pussy anon, it'd just be a stab wound. Nothing too serious. She'd make it up to you once she sobers up.

Thread music when?

Let's see if we can awaken kinomod again like the last thread. I loved the music.

AWAKEN KINOMOD
W
A
K
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>>142417674
Trigger-happy.

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AWAKEN KINOMOD

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I want to mating press Kino until she passes out while ahegaoing.

Someone explain episode 9 to me.

>>142419257
Remind me, which one it was?

>>142419386
The one with the books.

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>>142419257
Anime original take on one of the chapters where Kino goes to a country full of libraries and shit. She originally reads through several books in a single night and gushes over them the next day with the librarian and when she was about to leave she met a dude who was going to try to traverse through the desert using fucking skis because he wanted to be an author and no one is allowed to write in the country. She sees him off and doubts he'll actually survive and that's it.

The anime episode questions reality and what we make of it and the nature in which the things we regard as real and true are actually what they seem to be. It also has parts of another chapter where Kino and Hermes meet a talking tank. Aside from that, it shares little in common with the actual chapter.

>>142419531
It feels like anime direction intentionally made the story more dreamlike. For example, Hermes almost never directly interacts with people other than Kino (which was common in the LN). It seems almost like Kino imagined that her motorrad is talking.

>>142419531
Your pic related is what confused me about this episode. So it's just her reading a book and not this whole series being just a dream because of the machine right?

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>>142419812
I want to say the art direction in the anime too makes it seem more fairy tailish, as often the character designs are angular, almost blockish in appearance and reminiscent of some sort of fairy tail shit I swear I've seen before.

Also, I like how Hermes' name is pronounced (Air-mess) and he gets mad when people say (Herr-mees).

>>142419936
I mean, there's literally nothing backing that up in the LN at all, and it's a one-off thing in the anime with nothing else indicating otherwise. Kinda want to say it's symbolic of people escaping reality using fiction and Kino being a frail, sick little girl hooked up to a machine letting her live a fantasy life in a book is a visual representation of that metaphor but I guess? Though that came from the manuscript of from the Author, who had written everything of the world and it's implied that the manuscript really is true, it would only really apply to anime Kino since again none of that ever happened in the LN.

Shit's meta as fuck.

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>>142399359
>literally spells out the message at the end of each episode, just in case it wasn't glaringly obvious enough
>Pretentious
Dude, that's like literally the opposite.

>>142418292
>tumblr

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>>142421301
Straight from the artist's tumblr.

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>>142413793
Ha.

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>>142418810
I'd say let him sleep, but he's probably here already.

How steep is the floor for this?

>>142416931
Maybe he came back and was killed, the current state of the moderation doesn't make me feel like he's watching us from the shadows.

>>142423839
What are you talking about? There's no floor.

>>142423853
He's still around.

Wasn't there going to be some new announcement for Kino this year? What did it end up being, pachinko?

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>>142424077
There was rumors for a S2 a couple years ago. Nothing came of it.

>>142423175
That reminds me, what was with those horizontal lines anyways? Looked awful.

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>>142424385
Scanlines. It's stylistic.

>>142424077
A reader participation story on nico was announced

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>>142424385
I loved it. Without it, the artstyle would've been more in focus and it was not good. Scanlines gave things texture and made your brain work a little more to interpret what you're seeing.

It was a cheap trick, and it paid off.

>>142424789
They could've just added a grain filter if they wanted to do that.

>>142424968
The lines just seem really fitting for Kino no Tabi. I don't know why, they just do.

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>>142424968
Scanlines are cooler. That CRT feel.

>>142425031
Because it really is all just a dream and what we're watching is just the screen of the dream machine.

>>142424789
Early 2000s had some experimentation going on when the transition to digital coloring, including realizing how easy it is to run digital filters over things.

>>142425994
>watch an anime from 2003-2006
>dark scene
>225 degree alpha to black linear filter superimposed
fucking hell it looked so terrible. Hell the scenes would have looked better with no filters at all

>>142399359
This might be the first time I've seen my opinion on Kino no Tabi represented anywhere. Thanks anon.

>>142408061
>Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge
She'll probably just hang around and eat at WcDonalds. Maybe lecture Tanaka for his laziness. He'll stay the same, then she'll leave.

>>142424021
Kinomod I know that's you, please put the music on

>>142393263
Is Kino's Journey kino?

>>142428397
Most surely!

>>142393263
Why are all mods complete shit compared to /a/?
This is like the only board where mods do half decent jobs

>>142393263
I need to fucking watch this. And it's on my list too! Why haven't I watched it yet, I have no idea.

>>142399359
>Kino's behavior has no consistency at all
?

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>>142428629
If he doesn't want to like it he won't. Leave him be, him being wrong won't kill you.

>>142417617
>>142417905
That would be amazing but I see her as more of the quick to throw a fit when trying to be taken serious type or more of the touchy feely type

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I want to ride with Kino!

>>142431059
But do you want to go on a journey? With Kino?

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>>142431149
I'd probably be dead in week, but
Yes.

>>142401664
>>142412380
>>142415853
>>142421029
The pretentiousness comes from, as I said in the post, the purposefully slow and quiet atmosphere that tries to create and air of contemplation when there's fucking nothing to contemplate. The explanations prove that it's not deep, the directing is where the pretending comes in.

>>142416553
This one's for (You), chucklehead.

>>142428629
>>142401664
Kino often lets people live, die, or toil in futility just to hammer in the point of the story, even when the situations are similar. Her level of compassion is utterly impossible to gauge because of this, and like I said, there's no development to speak of.

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>>142408061
>GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class

Upon Noda's suggestion everyone starts painting on her bike

>>142431438
So, you're saying it's pretentious because it's not pretentious?

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>>142416162
I've also seen people guess her name was Sakura or Lily before, liking the Poppy idea more than those now

Also anyone know what this is about? http://dengekibunko.jp/title/niconico-drama/
My best guess so far is that it's basically a streamed Drama CD, but it also seems like the audience votes on something.

Hello Kinofriends, any of you read Hitsugi Katsugi no Kuro? It gives me a heavy Kino feeling.

>>142434181
>tries to create an aura of depth and contemplation for beyond what it's complexity actually warrants

The fact that it's simple doesn't make it pretentious, it's the fact that it's simple while trying extremely hard to not seem simple. If you don't understand after this, I'm just going to have to assume that you're illiterate.

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>>142431438
>>142434994

>>142431438
>Kino often lets people live, die, or toil in futility just to hammer in the point of the story, even when the situations are similar. Her level of compassion is utterly impossible to gauge because of this
Can you give examples? I don't remember any inconsistency in that fashion.
>there's no development
Why would you need development in an episodic show?

Has Kinomod ever shown his collection of Kino LN?

>>142401070
>Allison/Lilia/Etc series
Fucking why? I stuck with it halfway into the second season hoping the premise would pay off, but it was terrible, with terrible characters missing the terribly obvious terribly often. I tried reading the first volume, but it was clear the rot came from the roots.

>>142434775
It seemed interesting when I was looking for more anime about traveling, but I wasn't a fan of the art.

>>142399359
Most people, including you, don't seem to understand that in the metacontext of the stories, Kino isn't real. She's a plot device by a grandpa telling his grandson moralistic bedtime stories.

>>142408061
> Gate
Nothing changes you moron, she's an observer. The SDF will explain away the talking motorcycle as tech, the Imperials as magic.

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>>142436409
Really? I fucking love the art

>>142399359
>moeshit fan is retarded
More news at 12

>>142436558
Maybe character design is more accurate, but I'm sure I'll read it at some point.

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>>142436558
It reminds me of a brother's grimm story or something

>>142436306
Eh, I like it, but it's quite different from Kino. More.. anime-y. I can see how you'd dislike it.

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>>142436638
>>142436638
I guess I can see what you mean. It's not a standard manga style.

>>142436955
I know a number of people who aren't really into Kiyuzuki Satoko's style, but personally I love it. Kuro and GA are great.

>>142435747
Can't give many specific examples because it's been years since I watched it, but there are a lot of times when she helps people for no real reason, and other times when she doesn't. I'm 90% sure when she meets the old men who have been building and destroying the railway for their whole lives she doesn't tell them what's going on even though it would cost her nothing and help them immensely.
>Why would you need development in an episodic show?
I'm not saying that you need it, but it would help matters a lot if she started out helping people then slowly stopped, or vice versa, instead of it just being all over the place.

>>142431438
>>Kino often lets people
No, she is explicitly present as an observer at every town. Part of being a traveler is that she can't interfere. She doesn't "let" anyone do anything, they just continue what they were doing and she continues traveling.

>>142437478
Kino's generally more interested by the gains she gets by doing something than the lack of costs for poking her nose in other people's business. The men are content enough doing their thing so she leaves them. Is how I would read that.

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Come back Kinomod.

>>142438823
Keep the thread alive

With all my heart. New season when?

>>142438823
What is she doing. Button that shirt.

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>>142438881
Literally never ever, and it's a shame too.

>>142439459
Even if the main series never gets adapted again, I'd happily take a Gakuen adaptation, which is also a never ever.

post more kino

HE COMES

HE'S BACK!!!

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Music!

AWWW SHIT SON

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Sigsawa has great taste in guns.

ITS HAPPENING!

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YOOOOOO

I'd forgotten about this tab.

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I was in the middle of watching something when the music started playing in the background. If it wasn't so tranquil, I would have had a heart attack.

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>have this open till morning
>friends are quiet
that freaked me the fuck out

>>142440204
SINCE MORNING

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Where were you when it happened again?

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>>142393263
That music almost made me shit myself. Jumped a foot.

STICKY PLS

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>>142440547
Don't ask for too much, just have a good thread.

>tfw you fapped to a Kino flash and now feel guilty about it
She is too pure

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Thanks kninomod.

>>142440886

lmao pruned gtfo with sexualizing the kino.

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>update
>music starts
Bless Kinomod

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>music
ty kinomod

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Music doesnt loop for me.

what is name of this song? Also it didn't loop for me as well.

>>142441478
>not recognizing the Kino ED

>>142441494
pls no bully, i j-just wanted to remember that song for once.

I love Kino's VA

>Kino will never share your sleeping bag

>>142393263
>open thread, expecting music
>yep

Every time.

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>>142441577
beautiful world - ai maeda

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>>142442007
thank you, kind /a/non.

>>142442086
This has been my phone wallpaper since before I even knew who Kino was.

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>>142442137
Here its another one anon

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>>142415460
Speaking of sexualizing the Kino, has anyone managed to track this down yet?

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Thanks Kinomod

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Local traveller not so flat.

>>142434994
>while trying extremely hard to not seem simple
I don't remember any cases of this at all. Care to give an example?

>not the OP

You fucked up.

>>142442475
Somehow I doubt that doujinshi even exists. I can't find any information on it.

>>142442676
Yeah, I can't think of any either. Situations are always portrayed fairly straightforward, with Kino being a mostly passive observer viewing various situations.

I think this kind of assumption comes from the same people who tout evangelion as "deep" when in reality the themes that show explores are very shallow and straightforward, just told in a less-obvious manner than most anime. Seeing as most anime's approach to narrative is to just flat tell you "hey here's everything expositioned for you right nice and orderly for you", because I guess the anime industry thinks its patrons are all mentally five. They're probably right.

>>142442743
The OP sucks

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>>142393263
what the fuck is going on? I almost had a fucking heart attack. Fuck you kinomod. Give me a fucking warning before music starts playing fucking hell.

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>>142442945

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>>142442583
Woah buddy; this is a family-friendly board.

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>>142442945
But not as cute.

>>142443052
I want to go spelunking in Kino's hidden cave

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Kino is Handsome! Handsome!

>>142443225
Kino is for travelling you fucking sick fuck.

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KINO DID 9/11
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY

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>>142442945

You take that right the fuck back!

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Kino has me at gunpoint.

Wat do?

Still haven't gotten around to watching the last episode and the OVAs.

One of these days.

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>>142444107

>city collapses
>They celebrate
>Because they get to start over again

Is this a metaphor for Countries and revolutions?

>>142444227
The last episode was a blast

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>>142442945

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>tfw no land of heroes animated

>>142444296
WHATS WRONG WITH HER FAAAAAACE

>>142444225
Stop trying to rape her

>>142444225
Call her cute.

>>142444225
Throw a tomato.

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>Hears old wise man story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwRTZrsFIzM4

>Recognizes story
>Quick search of plot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diogenes_and_Alexander

>mfw kino teaches me about European history better than schools do

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>>142442945

Am I the only one who refreshes the page for the music while reading through it?

Also ty kinomod

>>142444225
Give her everything she wants.

>>142444225
"yare yare daze"

*teleports behind*

*cuts her right hand*

"that'll be a lesson for ya, bitch"

>>142445319
She pulls out Woodsman and shoots you with her left.

>>142445371
But what stops me from cutting bullets in mid air? Besides, can she really do that? Losing hand in such way must be a great shock.

>>142445371
>thinking an edgemaster ever loses to anything ever.

yare yare daze

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>>142445319
Won't work. Been tried before

>>142445453
You can only parry bullets by following her aim and the motion of her finger on the trigger. At close range it's impossible. You'd have to teleport again but she'd be wise to your tricks now.

Hey Kinomod, when will you make /a/ great again?

Also thanks for the music

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Kino, Ginko, and Snufkin walk into a bar.

Things get a little hazy after that but everyone agrees bars should be made less flammable

>>142445680
>Snufkin and Ginko are smoking in the corner
>Kino is cleaning her guns
>Snuf: Hey nice guns
>Ginko: I like your bike
>Kino: thanks

>>142445680
Is Moomin good? Been thinking about watching it, just dont know if I should go with the 69 or 90 series.

>>142445834
It's pretty good. You can also read the original novels and/or the comic.

WE DID IT, KINOMOD HAS BEEN AWAKENED ONCE MORE

>>142446008
please don't shout

>>142446053
im just happy cause i was the one who originally had the idea of awakening kinomod and it actually happened

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>>142399359
So what should I watch instead?

Also your opinion isn't daring, its just retarded.

>>142401070
>Volumes 13-16 and 18 are just sitting there, almost done, but all the translators dropped off.

I'm one of them. I plan on starting work on 18 within the month. Finally out of class.

>>142446232
I've been waiting this whole time. Take as long as you need, my friend, I've waited longer than this for translations.

Someone will translate R.O.D. one day, right?

How does Kino deal with her wild hormonal pubescent sexdrive

>>142446535
What do you think she's riding a bike for?

>>142446370
>Sign up to translate
>Leave due to personal problems, drop project half way through a single chapter
>Come back months later
>inbox is stuffed
>"ah shit people are sad/angry/wondering if I died"
>6 messages, all of which are encouraging
>no complaints, just "thank you so much for picking up this series"
>haven't done shit yet

I'm gonna do it. I won't let myself not do it at this rate, it's a matter of when. Kinobros are far too nice to me to let down.

>>142446232
Why start with 18 instead of 13?

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>>142446601
God speed Kino Translator

Also make PDF versions if you know how. Downloaded the first 10 from baka already

>>142446614
The plan was that I would work backwards while the other translators worked forwards and we'd meet midway, ending in a faster translation with less risk of fuck-up/double translation. This would work well if we were all active, but we all disappeared. The achronological nature of Kino's journey makes this type of method decent.

>>142446601
>>142446232
I believe in you bros

>>142446723
>while the other translators worked forwards and we'd meet midway, ending in a faster translation with less risk of fuck-up/double translation
Hey

Maybe I can be one of those translators working forwards. I just finished my classes and pretty good with TL
I've only watched the show though so I'll have to read all the other novels first

>>142434685
People vote for story, like a live visual novel. Like this:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AtkdntC8F8g

>>142446601
How many years did I wait for more Kino? When did Tokyopop put out KnT volume 1? 2006? Because I bought it day fucking 1. And every day since I've been waiting for more. I can wait forever if it means more Kino. Goodspeed, anon.

Where can I find the raw novels? Are they still on BT?

Anonymous ## Mod 2016-06-05 05:26:36 Post No.142447075
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>>142446601
Do your best, anon.

>>142446977
I see some on nyaa, but they're rather poorly seeded. Lemme see if I have them kicking around on a hard drive somewhere.

>inb4

>>142447075
Aw shit

TLbro, senpai noticed you

>>142444225
Stop trying to eat her.

>>142446232
I can one up you.

I've already translated every chapter except for three in Vol 19 but I'm too unconfident in my japanese to upload them.

Succeed where I have failed anon.

>>142444258
>>The last episode was a blast
F-fuck you too.

>>142447075

>Kinomod notices Translator

>>142446601
You better deliver now

>>142446614
18 is legal.

>>142446232
>>142446601
>>142446723
Here, namefagging using my bakatsuki name

>>142446817
You'll want to register with the effort on bakatsuki, that's the best place to coordinate. Claim an available chapter, one that is short, and just start working. My first chapter of kino's journey took me about 15 hours of actual reading time to finish, that was after 2 years of Japanese classes. Now I can read a chapter in 30 minutes. Just pick a short one, any one, and give it a shot. Anything is appreciated.

The act of translating it is harder than reading it.

>>142446926
>>142446731
>>142446689
>>142446232
I need to stop being a lazy shit. I'm finally out of college so I need to find new ways to keep my Japanese sharp. I want to translate things for /a/ more regularly to pay them back for all the good years we've had. Thanks for the encouragement, you guys are great.

>>142447075
>>142447176
>encouragement from Kinomod
It's been many a great year since I've felt such kansha. I've put my name, and thus my epeen on the line now.

>>142447163
I've posted my bakatsuki name. Send them to me and I will proofread them and submit them under your name. You are a hero.

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Does anyone have an image of Kino at a kino?

>>142446977
Hey, I had more than I thought in here.
https://mega.nz/#F!f84T3IoR!d2V7RRqv6-VQVzgMsovWPQ

Volumes 1-10, Gakuen Kino 1, and some extra stuff too.

It would be interesting to make every show-centric thread musical.

Imagining a Code Geass thread to JIBUN WOOOOOOOO.

Or Aria to Undine.

>>142447250
>I've posted my bakatsuki name. Send them to me and I will proofread them and submit them under your name. You are a hero.
I'm not sure how to use BT so would you be able to contact me over skype? It's cuttlefriend

>>142447578
If we looped aria BGM on /a/ everyone would become incredibly docile and friendly. Truly a terrifying thought.

>>142447505
Threw the epubs of volumes 2-12 and Gakuen Kino 1-5 in there too. If I ever stop being lazy maybe I'll finish OCRing and reorganizing TP's volume 1 and get it uploaded to the internet.

But damn I'm lazy.

>>142447505
>>142447840
Hey, thanks

>>142446614
>>142446723
I just checked BT's Kino registration page and it looks like a lot of chapters between Volumes 13-18 are already translated. 13 and 14 and 17 are completed more or less, 15 is half translated etc

>>142448193
I double checked and I actually meant volume 19, not 18.

>>142448020
Found the rest of the main series and threw that in there too. Have fun anon.

I watched ep 1 and I'm not sure what to think, kinda different to what im used to watching.

is it worth finishing?

>>142449285
Yes. I wouldn't recommend marathoning it though, it's entirely episodic.

>>142449285
>>142449350
I watched like one episode every 2-3 weeks before bedtime, or when I was tired of that season's harem and shonen and wanted something quieter.

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Time for a traveling teacher story.

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>>142449752
I love this story.

>>142449752
I wonder if this guy eventually went back to traveling round the world to teach or ever revisited those places.

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>>142449752
kinomod has traveled around the world too. He's now living in China.

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>>142450369

How would you know this unless...

Hi based kinomod

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>>142449752
This was sad and happy as fuck.

Just like my Kino no Tabi.

>>142449752
Meh, I never believed this, I still don't. Seems like it's interesting enough to not need exaggeration, yet it's clearly exaggerated or false. So, I think it's false.

>>142393263
I dropped it 12 episodes in

>>142393263
i literally shit my pants afteropening this tab also
MODS MODS MODS

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>page 8
Not just yet kino thread.

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>>142451071
Why would you do something like that

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>>142452574
Pretty sure most people develop PTSD and forget episode 13 never happened

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season 2 when

>>142451071
>Dropping a show right at the ending.

I just cant believe there are people who actually do this.

>>142452644
It was one of the best episodes.

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>>142452750

Indeed. I loved it. Good way to end imo. It answered the time in episode 1 where she mentioned there was that one town she wanted to stay in more than 3 days

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>You will never be strong enough to be Kino's Husband

>>142452943
>missing the colt woodsman
heresy

oh, hey music.

Wow, the music is quite good. Makes me want to watch the show now.

Rewatched recently. Still so good. Forgot about those video lines, was a bit surprised, but by the end didn't notice them anymore anyway.

The music is really nice, maybe it's time to rewatch kino again

>>142434775
>>142436558
>>142436644
Just about my favorite thing ever. I have no idea why this isn't at least as popular as Mushishi. Probably will be eventually, just hasn't had enough exposure yet and people are mostly bandwagoners who can't tell something barely better than average apart from a masterpiece.

>>142437478
>I'm 90% sure when she meets the old men who have been building and destroying the railway for their whole lives she doesn't tell them what's going on even though it would cost her nothing and help them immensely.
Maybe the reason why you think it's pretentious is because, despite the storytelling being heavy-handed and blunt, you still missed the main points of the individual tales entirely. Dumbass.

>>142440625
...said the Kino mod.

>>142454471
>I have no idea why this isn't at least as popular as Mushishi.
What makes you think it isn't?

>>142455068
I've yet to see a thread for it and this is only the second thread in which I've seen it mentioned. The only reason I found out about it to begin with is because it was recommended by Amazon after I bought a few GA volumes. I'd be staggered to discover it's even a fifth as popular as Mushishi.

:stop music:

>>142452644
It happened so absurdly that I couldn't help but laugh. Same happened when she killed those merchants she saved.

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Best thread on /a/ right now.

>>142456155
Oops wrong image. And the one I meant to post is already posted >>142442475

>>142442913
It exists. It was sold on Comiket last Summer. It sold out. It's not anywhere online because the author wasn't satisfied with it or something. There's a bounty on e-h that has all the info on it.

Once opon a time there were characters in anime called Traps and Reverse Traps. People did not know the true gender of these characters until a startling revelation later in the series. I miss those times.

I'm in for a 2nd Season just to see the adventures of Katana Man, Grenade Launcher Loli and their Magic Dog animated.

>>142456249
If the dog's magic what's the motorbike?

>>142456249
I unironically enjoy stories starring Shizu and the Master's group more than stories starring Kino.

>>142456271
>what's the motorbike?

A two-wheeled vehicle. Only to note that it cannot fly.

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>>142456326
Clever little bitch.

>>142456271
The object of Kino's loneliness fueled insanity.

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Where does the music come from?!?!