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| It was a Nice Back story Episode. Little Kino was looking cute. |
Mikoshiba-sanFeb 6, 2016 10:15 AM
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| I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. 1. Kino really is a girl. 2. Kino isn't really her name. 3. I would have thought she had the surgery considering ep2. 4. I am wondering if Hermes is all in her head. I started the show just accepting that machines can talk. Now I'm not so sure. |
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| I did not expect any of this, but the quote about the birds from the first episode makes a lot more sense now. It's unfortunate that we didn't get to learn more about the original Kino. The way our Kino took on the original's name reminds me of how some superheroes have multiple incarnations. (That's not to say she's a superhero.) BurntJelly said: 4. I am wondering if Hermes is all in her head. I started the show just accepting that machines can talk. Now I'm not so sure. I'm not sure either. There have been times where other people reacted when Hermes spoke, and where they didn't react. |
| Kino was so cute as a kid! That town was really messed up. Wtf. |
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| It was nice to see a backstory, but Kino's (previous Kino) decision was a bit stupid lol. |
| So she is a girl , and there's million of ways to avoid a knife attack but nice some back info on kino |
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| Wow, those were some mad mad people. kinda creepy tbh. Good episode. |
| What a horrible country that force "adults" to become robots Poor Kino :( So she took his identity It's final fantasy 7 all over again This is not a beautiful world at all, it's horrible world |
Rayl1ghtJun 29, 2017 10:04 AM
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| Very Walden Two, a story about free will in which the civilians only want what they have access to, that which they cannot obtain is removed completely from their desires. Are these adults happy with such limited free will, forced to do what they hate but enjoying what they hate nonetheless from the lack of ability not to? Well... that's definitely a loaded question, the most I can say is that it seems monstrous from the outside at the very least. Do we need a deeper level of freedom to access true happiness, or can we be happy living like robots? If you liked the subject matter of this episode I recommend Gunslinger Girl, a major theme of the anime is that very question. This and the last episode of Kino were interesting, I loved the presentation at the end when og Kino's singing started to play. This is show is truly a beautiful melancholy. |
| The fact that Kino is a girl was the most shocking thing in this episode xD |
One Piece episode 914 & 915 & 1027 were a mistake and 957 brought the salvation - FMmatron |
| Nice timing for Kino's backstory, wow, his country was fucked up. I feel so bad for original Kino, he was a cool man. |
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| While the last episode had a bit of darkness to it. And dealt with some heavy themes. It was also comparatively lighthearted throughout. For all the ruined lives there was a thread of humor that pervaded the little stories we saw. This episode was just really dark and made me very sad. I didn't imagine Kino would have a happy origin story. But this was just tragic. And I usually hate it when anime tries to garner sympathy through horrible parents. It's the oldest narrative trick in the book to make your protagonist abused or straight up orphaned. So the audience pities them. But here it felt interesting and earned. It's not the beginning of the series and we've gotten used to every town having a gimmick. The gimmick of this town was REALLY dark and explained directly why her parents were so horrible. At the point they're willing to ram her through with a knife as defective goods. You're not even surprised, it seems like the logical turn. In what felt almost like a town attacking the ideals of communism. That working for the betterment of the state is all that matters. (Not saying that's how I feel in my political ideology. Just seemed to be what the episode was getting at.) I think the most interesting thing about the episode to me. Was how necessary was Kino V1s sacrifice. I mean sure Kino V2 gets to lead a fuller life now and that's definitely a good thing. Preserving her innocent young life was definitely his main goal. But part of what drove him to interfere in the first place. Was feeling sad that Kino V2 wasn't going to get to have a full childhood. They're lobotomized when they turn a certain age. And while at least it was of her own volition. And based off choices she made. I don't think you can say Kino V2 is a kid anymore. Though they do still have their emotional little moments at big events in their journey. I guess what I'm getting at. Is anyway you slice it, Kino V2 was doomed to have her childhood cut short. |
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| Really good origin story! As I said before those episodes where Kino is center of the story are great, those where she's just an observer sucks. Have to say her city was pretty wacky.. to try to kill small girl like that. Also, I thought before that all motorads usually talks and I would swear those slavers heard it talking before but... now I'm not so sure. To me Hermes seems more like the result of her trauma, her inner voice if you will. |
| Well that was a screwed up place she came from, no wonder why she doesn't want to settle anywhere. |
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| Another dark episode. In the land of adults children have their inner child extracted at the age of twelve to become adults. Interesting how stupid and unempathetic adult logic sounds. I was glad to see that Kino was able to escape. Well, this is how she met Hermes and became a traveler herself (just like the 'old' Kino). I am looking forward to the next episode! |
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| Adult Kino.... NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO :( |
| I actually teared up a bit for adult Kino, one of the saddest scenes I have ever witnessed in Anime. |
| Another great philosophical episode, and in here Kino actually looks like a girl. Good backstory for Kino and Hermes. Another 5/5 episode in my opinion. |
| So that was Kino's backstory with the first Kino and Hermès... really beautiful |
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| Kyaa~~ she said , i wonder if she love that kino guy |
Loli world is just a cute world full of cute meat |
| Societies like these DO actually exist within our current era. I've once seen a video of a child beheading on the Internet, it was some kind of sects of muslim/arab rituals. What shocked me about that video wasn't the beheading of the six year old girl itself, but the atmosphere of the event itself, people were actually happy and celebrating while watching the poor girl losing her head, the girl herself didn't even feel a threat from such an atmosphere. That surreal feel of the video reminded me of this episode, a mixture between joy and brutality. It wasn't even a joy of revenge upon the child, nor a joy of a psychopass of inflicting a violence. A sociopath might not feel guilt after doing something "wrong" such as inflicting suffering upon a human being, but knowing in the first place that they DID made the other suffer, on the other hand, hese societies believe that such a suffering is... okay. One can't even feel guilt if they think what they do is not something wrong in the first place, it is like killing a cow while having a happy conversation with the family. These people aren't even inherently brutal, they simpliy have different perspective from you and me about what makes a doing brutal. |
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| Kino is a non-binary girl? That's cool. |
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| Wow this was good. Didnt expect to get an origin story at this point |
| "This emotion is mine alone. It is for Madoka alone." - Homura or how I would descripe Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica. |
| Personally I'm not very excited to learn Kino's backstory as I don't find her to be a very interesting character. It may be deliberate she doesn't have a very strong presence to let the stories of the countries stand more on their own than through the lens of a stronger personality and/or it's appropriate in a series about perception and reaction to the world rather than action on it. That just leaves me not caring much to know where this traveler started out life, though. There might be a more complex explanation for there being a backstory to a character who doesn't need one: I'm aware Kino's Journey originated as a series of novels although I haven't read them. If this story is adapted from them, which is more likely than not, I think it lost something in the adaptation to animation. In a novel the fact that the "Kino" in this story is not the same character as in the others could easily be missed by the reader and may be impossible to tell depending on how its written. The reader would likely mistake the young girl as another one-shot character like the man from the telepathic country or the hermit scholar or anyone else and been completely shocked when "Kino" dies and the little girl escapes the country only to find out she was the main character of the series all along. The misapprehension the reader is enticed into plays into the series' theme of how one reacts to the world but in animation it's obvious from the start that this is a flashback of the main character due to character design and voice-acting. I read some people were genuinely confused as to Kino's sex but I've always taken her for a girl so the grown man in this story is obviously not her even aside from the little girl having the same eyes and voice as the Kino from the other episodes. |
| And that’s how the story began! Pretty cool one too. Didn’t know Kino was a girl though 0_0 |
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| Nice metaphor with some real life societies. The concept of being an "adult" is nothing more than a set of behaviours fabricated by governments and powers in order to control people, no matter how deranged and insane those behaviours might be. Someone who doesn't do what they tell them will never be considered an adult. Also, i don't think her original name even matters, and it was a good choice to not having it mentioned at all. It was given to her from the society which wanted to strip her of her own identity. It's a name which symbolize the person that fucked up country wanted her to be. To make an analogy with the Matrix movie, the main character calls himself Neo because he wants to chose his own identity instead of the name Anderson he was given by the matrix. |
Lux_VacuiApr 25, 2021 6:29 PM
| lol the adults were all dumb because they were most, if not all children with adult like robot bodies |
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| kino trans icon. changed their name and everything |
| So Kino turns out to be a reverse trap, huh? xD But dayum, she could have developed into a quite magnificent young lady as a girly girl Very interesting concepts again. For some reason, it feels like the countries are doing extreme exaggerations of concepts and twist those, in this case what it means to be an adult. True, you can do jobs even when you don't like those, but that's not a sign of being an adult, but rather of a personal choice or rather: lack of a choice Children being the property of their adults is taking the abortion debate to an extreme. Reminds me on some reason thread in CD, lol Anyway, what are the red flowers called? Seems like it was a hint to Kino's original name |
| 3 mediocre episodes and we finally get one that's actually great. Kino's backstory was awesome and it's nice to see how she (I guess?) succeeds her predecessor |
| Also totally shocked when the parents literally tried to stab Kino, my god that was sinister |
| Kino's a girl now. Well, her country is pretty shitty damn. RIP OG Kino traveller, who gave his life to save a girl. Dunno if hermes is an auditory hallucination or real. That country was messed up. her parents too messed up. |
 Without change,we end up becoming the very person we hate. I was dead until the moment I met you. I was a powerless corpse pretending to be alive. Living without power, without the ability to change my course, was bound to lead me to a slow death. |
| What a fucked up country This anime never ceases to impress me, amazing episode |
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