5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Captivating Anime!, December 3, 2010
This review is from: Kino's Journey: Complete Collection (DVD)
Kino's Journey deals with Kino and her motorrad, Hermes, journeying to various locations and exploring the culture of their inhabitants. The story lines of each episode (13 in all and approximately 30 minutes each) are independent of each other and tend to be slowly-paced and have philosophical undertones.
The episodes themselves are presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen format as opposed to 1.33:1 listed on the product details of this page (as of December 2010). The audio tracks consist of 2.0 Japanese and 5.1 English. There is no setup option for subtitles - Japanese audio defaults with English subtitles and English audio defaults with no subtitles. Most dvd players can specify whether or not to turn subtitles on independently of what is selected in the menus. Therefore, it will most likely not be a problem if you want to watch an episode with, say, Japanese audio and no subtitles. However, do note that you will not be able to do this within the menus of the disc themselves.
Despite being labeled as the "complete" collection, the extras that accompanied the 4 volume box set (character sketches, intro and closing themes) are NOT present on this 3 disc set. The only extra is a few advertisement previews for other anime on disc 1.
If you enjoyed Serial Experiments Lain and/or Haibane Renmei, then I would highly recommend this anime as well! I wouldn't recommend Kino's Journey for fans of action-oriented anime.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful, June 8, 2010
This review is from: Kino's Journey: Complete Collection (DVD)
This is simply my favorite anime of all time. It has just enough action episodes, and the perfect amount of episodes that really make you think. It has a wonderful English dub and wonderful animation. The only problem I ever had was I don't think there were enough episodes about the main character Kino. I would like to have known more of were she got were she is today. But defiantly check this anime out if your looking for something different than you're typical shonen or shojo.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Lovely set of very thoughtful stories, July 31, 2011
This review is from: Kino's Journey: Complete Collection (DVD)
Kino's journey is perhaps the most thought provoking anime I've watched in a while. It totally lacks the violence and sexual content that anime has gained something of a reputation for and chooses to show through exaggeration the various different attitudes of different groups of people. It does a rather objective job of it too. The main character travels around a fictional world, choosing not to interfere at all in the affairs of these groups and merely observes and provides some interesting commentary. The lessons of the stories are perhaps not as original as they could have been, but sometimes lessons need to be retaught.
The only unfortunate thing about this Anime was that hasn't gone beyond these thirteen episodes and it doesn't look like anyone plans to start making more. Which is a pity since the light Novels that it was based on and have gone on much farther by now are only in Japanese.
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