History WMG / KinosJourney

This is also why, in the MagicalGirl themed SpinOff ''LightNovel/GakuenKino'', Riku the talking dog gets to be human, but Hermes is stuck as a talking ''cell phone charm'' (Kino doesn't even have a real cell phone) - he can't have anyone recognizing him.

* Remember, tropers, no anime is complete without at least one character under suspicion of being [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya Haruhi]]. [[DrinkingGame Take a sip!]]

* A lot of the settings are implausible even if it takes place in a fantasy world.

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It lines up with her restless nature and near pathologic wanderlust, it explains her immense combat and survival abilities, and it explains why all of the countries she visits are so eclectic (they aren't different nations but different ''[[AlternateUniverse planes]]''). It also explains her disconnection with other people and her deep connection with Hermes, since only Planeswalkers, [[EldritchAbomination The Eldrazi]], and ''[[MechanicalLifeforms constructs]]'' (like a sentient motorcycle) can cross The Blind Eternities. We also have a probable point of when her Spark ignited: [[spoiler: her desperate flight from The Land of Adults]]. Possible Mana colors: Red (passion, freedom, creativity, destruction, fire), Green (life, survival, independence, tradition, nature), and/or Blue (intelligence, invention, engineering, stoicism, water).

* Actually, Hermes talks to [[spoiler: Riku the dog]] away from Kino. But maybe he wasn't really talking either!

* [[spoiler: Nymia, the young inventor girl]] from episode 8 ("Land of Wizards -Potentials of Magic-") talks to Hermes too. (Calling him 'Motorrad' and all.)

* This is similar to another WMG above. Kino has morals and will stick to it but tried to be uninvolved and neutral as much as possible. Because she's just an outsider, a traveler.

And that leads to the point of this WMG: Kino does have a moral compass beyond neutrality, and she does disapprove of killing without motive/against those who are defenseless, but most importantly, she dislikes those who take away freedom from others and force them to do things against their wishes, probably something she learned [[ItsPersonal due to her own experience in her home town]] where when someone were to become an adult they were also forced to follow and do a mundane task for the rest of their lives. And while she won’t go out of her way to “impose” her own moral beliefs, as show in the countries that were in peace because they slaughtered the nearby villages, if she IS put in a situation where she is forced to make a moral decision, she will take the one option that leads to the least amount of deaths for those who are innocent and the most freedom possible for them.

As well as looking awfully similar to one another, it is possible the woman didn't remember much about being sent away from the castle, as she says her father left them. She may have been told this as a cover story. In addition, she is the only person the King actually kills himself in the matches we see, and right before he has a panicked look on his face when she mentions the white flowers her mother wanted to see before she died. It's possible that the Queen loved white flowers too, and with the sharpshooter woman mentioning them, King Yukio simply put two and two together or jumped to conclusions.

[[WMG: Kino is a [[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering Plasneswalker]].]]

It lines up with her restless nature and near pathologic wanderlust, it explains her immense combat and survival abilities, and it explains why all of the countries she visits are so eclectic (they aren't different nations but different ''[[AlternateUniverse planes]]''). It also explains her disconnection with other people and her deep connection with Hermes, since only Planeswalkers, The Eldrazi, and ''constructs'' (like a sentient motorcycle) can cross The Blind Eternities. We also have a probable point of when her Spark ignited: her desperate flight from The Land of Adults. Possible Mana colors: Red (passion, freedom, creativity, destruction, fire), Green (life, survival, independence, tradition, nature), and/or Blue (intelligence, invention, engineering, stoicism, water).

It lines up with her restless nature and near pathologic wanderlust, it explains her immense combat and survival abilities, and it explains why all of the countries she visits are so eclectic (they aren't different nations but different ''[[AlternateUniverse planes]]''). It also explains her disconnection with other people and her deep connection with Hermes, since only Planeswalkers, The Eldrazi, and ''constructs'' (like a sentient motorcycle) can cross The Blind Eternities. We also have a probable point of when her Spark ignited: her desperate flight from The Land of Adults.

* Possible Mana colors: Red, Blue, and/or Green.

Hear me out. It lines up with her restless nature and near pathologic wanderlust, it explains her immense combat and survival abilities, and it explains why all of the countries she visits are so eclectic (they aren't different nations but different ''[[AlternateUniverse planes]]''). It also explains her disconnection with other people and her deep connection with Hermes, since only Planeswalkers, The Eldrazi, and ''constructs'' (like a sentient motorcycle) can cross The Blind Eternities. We also have a probable point of when her Spark ignited: her desperate flight from The Land of Adults.

The apparent agedown (the books in particular describe Hermes' voice as being like that of a young boy) is for {{shipping}} purposes, natch.

Some of the towns and "countries" she visits interact, but there's way too many differences for most of them to be geographically anywhere near each other. She'll visit a medieval village one day and then arrive in a technologically advanced civilization the next, and neither will even realize the other is within [[strike:motorcycle]] Motorrad distance.

[[WMG: Kino is travelling through her own mind.]]
Several of the towns she visits could be seen as representing parts of the mind. The Land of Visible Pain (Ep 1) is empathy and is in the state it's in because Kino is not very empathetic. The sad country is self explanatory, the Land of Prophecies is prediction and foresight, the Coliseum is violence and conflict, the Three Traders in the Snow is about selfishness, and so forth. Kino is retreating into her mind to escape the pressures society puts upon her to 'grow up,' as suggested in the Land of Adults.

This is hardly wild guessing, but Kino clearly wants to avoid having any traits that mark her as anything at all besides a traveller. Through her clothes and demeanor, she defies any gender identity; and she refuses to be defined as either a child or an adult. This is most likely something necessary for her to remain the impartial observer that she makes herself.

* Actually, Hermes talks to [[spoiler:Riku the dog]] away from Kino. But maybe he wasn't really talking either!

* [[spoiler:Nymia, the young inventor girl]] from episode 8 ("Land of Wizards -Potentials of Magic-") talks to Hermes too. (Calling him 'Motorrad' and all.)

Yes. Believe it or not the worlds of Kino's Journey and Adventure Time are one in the same. How? Well it's simple. After the bomb from the Mushroom War was set off the world went into complete chaos. But over time people managed to rebuild society...well in a way. This is why all the countries in Kino's Journey are so different and even have different levels of technology. People scattered and all tried to rebuild civilization their own way, groups of people stayed separate for a while because they feared another Mushroom War. Eventually they forgot why they were separate in the first place.

As well as looking awfully similar to one another, it is possible the woman didn't remember much about being sent away from the castle, as she says her father left them. She may have been told this as a cover story. In addition, she is the only person the King actually kills himself in the matches we see, and right before he has a panicked look on his face when she mentions the white flowers her mother wanted to see before she died. It's possible that the Queen loved white flowers too, and with the sharpshooter woman mentioning them, King Yukio simply put two and two together, or jumped to conclusions.

As well as looking awfully similar to one another, it is possible the woman didn't remember much about being sent away from the castle, as she says her father left them. She may have been told this as a cover story. In addition, she is the only person the King actually kills himself in the matches we see, and right before he has a panicked look on his face as if he recognised her as his daughter.
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Several of the towns she visits could be seen as representing parts of the mind. The land of Visible Pain (Ep 1) is empathy and is in the state it's in because Kino is not very empathetic. The sad country is self explanatory, the land of prophecies is prediction and foresight, the coliseum is violence and conflict, the three traders in the snow is about selfishness, and so forth. Kino is retreating into her mind to escape the pressures society puts upon her to 'grow up,' as suggested in the Land of Adults.

The visual style of the characters varies wildly from characters such as Kino, who look like normal anime characters, to more 'abstract' designs for many incidental characters, such as the priests in the land of Prophecy or the poet in the Sad land. The 'real' characters are people Kino has met in reality; the 'abstracts' are constructs or personifications of her mind (see above), or figments of her imagination or the fantasy world she travels.

In the coliseum episodes, the king did not recognize Kino because of her drastically changed appearance, which also explains his request to marry her. He didn't recognize Shizu without a makeover, so it makes sense that he wouldn't recognize Kino with one.

As well as looking awfully similar to one another, it is possible the woman didn't remember much about being sent away from the castle, as she says her father left them. She may have been told this as a cover story. In addition, she is the only person the King actually kills himself in the matches we see, and right before he has a panicked look on his face, as if he recognised her as his daughter.

[[WMG: The woman Kino faced in the semifinals of the Coliseum arc and Shizu were the Prince and Princess that fled.]]

Clearly, many of the places Kino visits are being [[Main/IronicHell cosmically and symbolically punished]]; but Kino remains untouched by it all. She's a {{badass}} [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Tourist]] enjoying herself.

[[WMG: Kino is a [[{{Sliders}} Slider]] jumping from world to world.]]

* Remember, tropers, no anime is complete without at least one character under suspicion of being [[SuzumiyaHaruhi Haruhi]]. [[DrinkingGame Take a sip!]]

* So Kino is [[YumeNikki Madotsuki]], before the stuff she sees eventually ''properly'' messes her head up.

* So Kino is [[YumeNikki:Madotsuki]], before the stuff she sees eventually ''properly'' messes her head up.

[[WMG: Kino's Journey takes place in the same world as [[WesternAnimation/AdventureTime Adventure Time]].]]
Yes. Believe it or not the worlds of Kino's Journey and Adventure Time are one in the same. How? Well it's simple. After the bomb from the Mushroom War was set off the world went into complete chaos. But over time people managed to rebuild society...well in a way. This is why all the countries in Kino's Journey are so different and even have different levels of technology. People scattered and all tried to rebuild civilization their own way, groups of people stayed separate for a while because they feared another Mushroom War. Eventually they forgot why they were separate in the first place.

The land of Ooo was at the impact site of the bomb so it suffered the most changes from the radiation and is heavily isolated due to the wastelands that surround it.

This is also why, in the MagicalGirl themed SpinOff ''LightNovel/GakuenKino'', Shizu the talking dog gets to be human, but Hermes is stuck as a talking ''cell phone charm'' (Kino doesn't even have a real cell phone) - he can't have anyone recognizing him.

Yes. Believe it or not the worlds of Kino's Journey and Adventure Time are on in the same. How? Well it's simple. After the bomb from the Mushroom War was set off the world went into complete chaos. But over time people managed to rebuild society...well in a way. This is why all the countries in Kino's Journey are so different and even have different levels of technology. People scattered and all tried to rebuild civilization their own way, groups of people stayed separate for a while because they feared another Mushroom War. Eventually they forgot why they were separate in the first place.

We already have the suggestion from the Land of Books episode that what we are seeing is not real, but a sort of fantasy. The countries she visits are clearly not realistic, but feel like they were invented entirely for a story; no effort is ever made to disguise or explain this. Examples: the Sad Country, the Three Men on the Railroad, and the robots with fully articulated hands which somehow need to rely on wax cylinder recordings for voices. All make wonderful stories; none have a sense of reality to them.

* Nymia, the young inventor girl from episode 8 ("Land of Wizards -Potentials of Magic-") talks to Hermes too. (Calling him 'Motorrad' and all.)