Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Nanika wo Suru Tame ni - Life Goes On.

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Synonyms: Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World - Life Goes On, Kino's Journey Movie

Japanese: 劇場版キノの旅 -the Beautiful World- 何かをするために -life goes on.

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Feb 19, 2005

Producers: None found, add some

Licensors: None found, add some

Studios: A.C.G.T.

Source: Light novel

Genres: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy

Duration: 29 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

Statistics

Score: 7.74¹ (scored by 25,114 users)

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Ranked: #1137²

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Popularity: #2908

Members: 57,095

Favorites: 49

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Synopsis

After running away from the grim future that awaited her back in her home country, a young girl takes upon a new name and identity—inspired by the man who sacrificed his life to help her escape. Alongside her newfound companion, a talking motorcycle, the two find themselves a new home in the forest—where lives an elderly woman with an expertise in guns. Under the woman's care, the girl is trained in marksmanship and motorcycle handling among other various skills needed to survive.

Although the girl is happy with her current life, her guilt regarding her savior's death continues to build within herself. She still feels responsible for her savior's death, and considers the consequences of using his name as her own. In doing so, she is denying her own identity and existence by trying to replicate another person's life, instead of living her own.

Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Nanika wo Suru Tame ni - Life Goes On. follows the journey of a young girl as she begins to come to terms with her new identity.

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Characters & Voice Actors

Kino

Main

Maeda, Ai
Japanese

Hermes

Main

Aigase, Ryuji
Japanese

Shishou

Supporting

Midori, Junko
Japanese

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Abe, Shoujirou

Producer

Oosawa, Nobuhiro

Producer

Watanabe, Takashi

Producer

Hatakeyama, Takurou

Assistant Producer

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Opening Theme

"All the Way" by Mikuni Shimokawa

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Ending Theme

"Hajimari no Hi" by Ai Maeda

Reviews

Jan 6, 2021

EpisodicFan

Recommended

This will be a shorter reviews because of the length of this movie, which I sincerely can hardly refer to as such in full honesty. Clocking at barely 30 minutes, it would be more appropriate to refer to this piece as an extended episode. That should not be taken under any circumstance as a criticism; as episodes go, this would be one of my favorites.

The premise is that of an origin story for Kino. I am confidant when I say that Kino is one of the best characters I've had the pleasure of being introduced to in a long time, and I have concluded after ... some meditation that my appreciation of her does not stem from her mysterious past as much as it does from the role she has adopted within the world she inhabits. So, being able to take a peek into her backstory and seeing a much more different person than the one I came to know over the first series was fascinating. It is still her, but so much softer, much more innocent and, for lack of a better word, feminine. At no point during this movie could I attribute to Kino the androgynous nature that permeates her character, and considering how this short is entirely focused on her personal development, this was a wonderful decision on the part of the writer.

I also have to say that I was not the biggest fan of the earlier part of her backstory. I did enjoy it quite a bit, and probably upon further reflection I will come to understand and like it more, but my first impression was mixed. With this new glance, I must say that I carry with me a much deeper satisfaction.

The pacing benefited from the longer run time. I must praise how easy it was for me to immerse into every scene when they were given just the right amount of time, never going on for too long or too short. It makes me wish that the original series had been granted more 30 minute long episodes; I'm sure they would have benefited from them, even though I believe that they did make great use of their 20 minutes. So, perhaps I could be wrong.

The major theme of finding your own identity is approached from a very interesting angle. Rather than Kino defining herself as her own person, she decides to take on the role on the original Kino, even changing the pronoun she uses to refer to herself. I will not tackle this idea from a gender related position because, while it does have a place, I believe that's not the focus. This is Kino embracing the idea of becoming a traveler, of continuing the journey just where the first Kino left it. After all, she left with her life and his coat the place where he died; it is not far fetched to say that the name of Kino is still being carried across the world, under a different person, but still moving.

Finally, I need to go into spoilers for this whole paragraph. I might have missed something, but I am pretty sure that Master set Kino up to kill that crazy old lady without having to leave the forest. If that is so, then I must applaud that decision because of its ramifications. Kino, upon returning home to her master, does not condemn her actions nor seem to hold any resentment towards her, and she of course realizes she was used. She just accepts it and reaffirms her assertion to become a traveler. At the same time, this point goes to show that she's finally decided on leaving Master, when just a few days before she intended to stay with her forever. I believe, and I say this as someone who has not read the LNs, that her trust has been compromised, and that after considering herself to be ready, she intends to leave for good. This sets up a great precedent for the Kino we met in the series proper: she comes, she sees, she appreciates, and then she leaves. That attitude of bearing little resentment and instead dropping out of the map commences here, which I believe is something to be admired.

I leave a higher score on this movie just because it is an individual piece and as such it is much easier to judge, whereas the whole show had plenty of highs and lows that, in my humble opinion, kept it from being a masterpiece. Not to say that this is, but it is one of the best stories Kino No Tabi had to offer, and one I was entirely happy with. I need to gather a stronger emotional reaction to offer a 10, so it gets the next best thing. Highly recommendable to everyone who liked the original, and if you didn't watch it, this is not that bad a place to start, to be honest.

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Aug 5, 2022

The_Zubes

Mixed Feelings

My second review, my first being the original Kino no Tabi.

Going to keep this one very short and sweet:

--- CONTAINS SPOILERS---

This went way too fast. I enjoy origin stories, but the true origin story happened in episode 4 of the original Kino no Tabi.

The content of this 26 minute episode --without the OP and ending-- would have fared better in 3 episodes instead of 1. This is how I would have broke it down:

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Sep 30, 2017

VeiledEdge

Not Recommended

This first Kino's Journey special serves as exposition to the main series, kind of, and does nothing else. And even the exposition that it does accomplish is not only unwarranted but unnecessary. It was also disappointing considering I was expecting the special to show exactly how Kino became so impressive at combat. So let's discuss those two aspects of the series. Its unwarrantedness, and its unsatisfying narrative. For this review, I will assume you watched the main series, as both of those subjects require knowledge of certain episodes in the series. Also, this review might get a little spoilery. I will not explicitly spoil the ...