Kono Yo no Owari e no Tabi
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Kono Yo no Owari e no Tabi

Alternative Titles

Synonyms: Journey to the End of the World
Japanese: この世の終りへの旅


Information

Type: Manga
Volumes: 1
Chapters: 12
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 25, 2002 to Aug 25, 2003
Genre: Fantasy Fantasy
Theme: Psychological Psychological
Serialization: AX
Authors: Nishioka Kyoudai (Story & Art)

Statistics

Score: 7.241 (scored by 21632,163 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #55442
2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #3591
Members: 5,785
Favorites: 124
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Ranked #5544Popularity #3591Members 5,785
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Volumes: /1
Chapters: /12

Synopsis

A nameless man sets out on a journey to go away from his repetitive and boring life after realizing how mundane it truly is. He finds unbelievable things, terrible things in his journey. A journey that is started must be completed: the journey to the end of the world.

Characters

Traveller
Main
Village Woman
Supporting
Village Elder
Supporting

Reviews

Apr 30, 2022
I really liked this work that wanted to imply several social issues through surrealism and absurdism : the fact that the issues are treated only on the surface is a mark of absurdism.
Their nature is showed on another aspect, all of this seems to be a piece of art about how it is to not understand anything about reality and what it implies : social norms and habits.
That way, the character isn't made to be liked or anything, he is just a tool to represent absurdism : one of my favorite philosophical thesis.
I got annoyed by the placement of the text, the ...
Feb 3, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Esta review está em inglês e português / This review is in English and Portuguese.

ENGLISH:
Well, this is what I have to say about Kono Yo no Owari and no Tabi:

For starters, it's a synesthetic manga, a story about a boy with epiphanies.
His art is cartoonish, which I liked for its different style and having a beautiful Worldbuilding, but which is not very visible in its expressiveness.
He's pretty fast, even though it's a short manga.
Some ideologies and acts that go on are rather brief foundations.
And there isn't even development to be more of a psychedelic journey manga, which is pretty lazy to develop just the protagonist.
...
Jul 14, 2021
FunnyFunny
this is gonna be a half assed review.

story (2/10) : man, i see many comments about this 'deep' story and meaning, but for me its like the author went on drugs. maybe i'm just dumb. i can't even make a summary for it please ;-;

art (3/10) : the author has a sort of creepy and unique artstyle, it reminds me of greek/egypt writing (?) it's clean and easy to understand (can't say the same about the plot though)

character (2/10) : uuuh??? all i can tell is that they're all mentally ill. is the main character supposed to represent an emotion? humans in general? life? i ...

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Pande91 - Oct 22, 2023
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Oct 22, 2023 4:21 AM
this should have been as popular as junji ito's stuff
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