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Consistently Good
"Kino's Journey" is an introspective show of the highest quality, though one does have to get used to the peculiar 'fairy-tale' quality of the stories, which involve modern technology and engage some very modern issues, but somehow seem to have taken place long ago in a far country. The story as a whole has no plot and I think the disks could actually be watched in any order, but it's best to start the series with disk 1, because having gone through all that, by the time you get to this disk you'll be so primed for the sort of things that happen in Kino stories, that you'll be on the edge of your seat for the entire last episode, waiting for the axe to drop. Due the highly ambiguous style of the Japanese dialogue, the dub and subtitled translations differ significantly from each other and are somewhat like watching two different variations of the same story, like different performances of the same music. Definitely a show worth watching multiple times.

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I'm Taking My Journey Consciously...
The final installment of Kino's Journey is a beautiful close to what has been a wonderful journey.
The first episode is a set of tales on the road. We meet a man who has served a long prison sentence for murder, and wants to make amends to the woman whose fiance he killed. But is redemption through survivors of your violence just, or selfish. We meet a woman who preaches pacifism after her lover was slain by a gun, and her traveling companion who secretly slays any who would dare harm her. We meet "The Master" who taught Kino to live on the road. We meet a wise man who is the first to tell you that he is nothing of the sort. Is self-consciousness the cause of human evil, or is desire? What does it mean to be without desire?
The second episode takes us to a country that claims to be utterly peaceful. Kino soon learns that the peace has come at a monstrous price. Two nations on the verge of annihilation had concocted a twisted resolution to their problem. Rather than kill each other, they would kill an unarmed innocent race, and tally the score for the war. Is the sacrifice of the innocent justifiable when it saves the lives of others?
The final episode of Kino's Journey is set before the first. We had heard of a country where Kino had wanted to stay longer than the normal three days. In this episode, we find Kino journeying to that land. She had heard of a country where the people were inhospitable to travelers, and wanted to see for herself why that was. There, she encounters a nation of kind people, and meets a young girl who is not that different from herself before her travels began. Kino and Sakura become fast friends. But the country has a sad secret, and when the three days are over, Kino learns that it was the pride of the people that made them what they were. Kino vows to continue the journey, and we leave where we came in, with Kino and Hermes in the desert, silently waiting in the rain.

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One of the Best Anime's I have ever seen!
Kino's Journey is definitly one those series that completely changes you in a way. I read an article about it just before the first volume came out, and it wasn't one of those gotta have right now type of anime, and the review was modest and mellow. But I kept thinking about it, like I had this feeling that it would be special. Then a month later a love of mine bought volumes one and two as a gift for me. I guessed at that point I was ment to watch this series.
Then I watched the whole series and was struck hard with emotion and intrigue. The writer of this series was amazing in the way she tells the stories of these people and countries that passes through Kino's journey, and how it drips with irony. Kino and Hermes themselves work beautifully together, as Kino keeps your mind in the clouds and Hermes brings you back to the sad truth of human life.
I was one of those people who was caught off guard by the series ending so soon, but it ended soooo... good! I can admit that I cryed because you never want it to end.