8.0
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
Kino's Journey (2003)
Kino's Journey (2003)
Overview
In Kino's Journey, the protagonist, Kino, accompanied by a talking motorcycle named Hermes, travels through a mystical world of many different countries and forests, each unique in its customs and people. She only spends three days and two nights in every town, without exception, on the principle that three days is enough time to learn almost everything important about a place, while leaving time to explore new lands.
Starring Cast
Rating & Dimensions
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Center
Political: Center
Diversity: Moderate
Female Combat: Yes
Viewer Rating
8.0
Overview
In Kino's Journey, the protagonist, Kino, accompanied by a talking motorcycle named Hermes, travels through a mystical world of many different countries and forests, each unique in its customs and people. She only spends three days and two nights in every town, without exception, on the principle that three days is enough time to learn almost everything important about a place, while leaving time to explore new lands.
Starring Cast
Detailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Center
Primary
Kino's Journey maintains a neutral stance by primarily focusing on philosophical observations of human nature and diverse societal structures, consistently presenting moral and political dilemmas without advocating for a specific ideology or solution.
Kino's Journey features a protagonist with an ambiguous gender presentation and explores a wide array of diverse societies and human behaviors. The narrative offers philosophical critiques of various societal structures and human nature, rather than explicitly focusing on or critiquing traditional Western identities.
Secondary
The show features female characters who engage in and win close-quarters physical combat against male opponents. Kino uses a knife in gladiatorial matches, and Shizu's Master is shown defeating men with a sword.
Kino's Journey does not feature identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. While the protagonist, Kino, presents as gender non-conforming, this is framed as a personal choice for freedom and survival, not an exploration of queer identity or specific LGBTQ+ experiences within the narrative.
Kino's Journey does not depict transsexual characters or themes. While the protagonist, Kino, has an ambiguous gender presentation, this is a result of her chosen identity and rejection of societal norms, rather than a transsexual identity. No other characters or plotlines address gender transition or transsexual experiences.
Kino's gender presentation is ambiguous, but the character's canonical birth gender (female) is consistent with the source material and revealed within the narrative. The portrayal does not change Kino's established gender from the source.
The characters in Kino's Journey (2003) are consistently portrayed in the anime with appearances that align with their depictions in the original light novel series. There is no instance where a character canonically established as one race is depicted as a different race.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
User Ratings
8.3
7.8
Critic Ratings
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