Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World
Novel
キノの旅-the Beautiful World-
2000/03/01
Character count1,831,060
Word count815,189
Unique words27,290
Words (1-occurrence)10,025
Unique kanji2,610
Kanji (1-occurrence)265
Average sentence length19.1
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue37.3%
Volumes24
Duration
131 h
External Rating
83 %

Destination is a state of mind. A tale of one girl and her bike and the road ahead. Kino wanders around the world on the back of Hermes, her unusual, anthropomorphic motorcycle, only staying in each country for three days. During their adventures, they find happiness, sadness, pain, decadence, violence, beauty, and wisdom. But through it all, they never lose their sense of freedom. They discover that because of the world's imperfections, it is actually a thing of beauty. "The world is not beautiful, therefore it is." (Source: Tokyopop)

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Volume 1
Character count79,240
Word count34,907
Unique words4,885
Words (1-occurrence)2,446
Unique kanji1,352
Kanji (1-occurrence)278
Average sentence length18.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue30.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 2
Character count78,270
Word count34,512
Unique words5,359
Words (1-occurrence)2,918
Unique kanji1,438
Kanji (1-occurrence)301
Average sentence length17.4
Difficulty Average
Dialogue36.4%
Duration
6 h
Volume 3
Character count64,983
Word count28,978
Unique words4,457
Words (1-occurrence)2,372
Unique kanji1,374
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length16.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue43.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 4
Character count67,169
Word count30,227
Unique words4,618
Words (1-occurrence)2,379
Unique kanji1,368
Kanji (1-occurrence)286
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue40.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 5
Character count70,124
Word count31,692
Unique words4,597
Words (1-occurrence)2,322
Unique kanji1,405
Kanji (1-occurrence)297
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue35.2%
Duration
5 h
Volume 6
Character count72,336
Word count32,510
Unique words4,734
Words (1-occurrence)2,468
Unique kanji1,415
Kanji (1-occurrence)267
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue32.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 7
Character count68,570
Word count31,144
Unique words4,375
Words (1-occurrence)2,242
Unique kanji1,349
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue33.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 8
Character count75,325
Word count34,281
Unique words5,078
Words (1-occurrence)2,568
Unique kanji1,469
Kanji (1-occurrence)325
Average sentence length20.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue30.9%
Duration
5 h
Volume 9
Character count77,819
Word count34,884
Unique words5,411
Words (1-occurrence)2,867
Unique kanji1,505
Kanji (1-occurrence)321
Average sentence length20.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue33.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 10
Character count80,438
Word count35,087
Unique words4,967
Words (1-occurrence)2,548
Unique kanji1,414
Kanji (1-occurrence)299
Average sentence length19.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue31.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 11
Character count82,620
Word count36,491
Unique words5,284
Words (1-occurrence)2,549
Unique kanji1,476
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.8
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue35.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 12
Character count65,210
Word count28,462
Unique words4,494
Words (1-occurrence)2,317
Unique kanji1,402
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length19.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue37.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 13
Character count72,003
Word count31,755
Unique words5,151
Words (1-occurrence)2,823
Unique kanji1,481
Kanji (1-occurrence)341
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue42.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 14
Character count77,711
Word count35,607
Unique words5,183
Words (1-occurrence)2,761
Unique kanji1,520
Kanji (1-occurrence)338
Average sentence length20.6
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue56.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 15
Character count85,196
Word count38,028
Unique words5,458
Words (1-occurrence)2,786
Unique kanji1,531
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue34.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 16
Character count67,076
Word count30,143
Unique words4,907
Words (1-occurrence)2,632
Unique kanji1,435
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.8
Difficulty Average
Dialogue35.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 17
Character count108,490
Word count48,358
Unique words6,377
Words (1-occurrence)3,208
Unique kanji1,627
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length19.4
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue39.4%
Duration
8 h
Volume 18
Character count71,835
Word count31,789
Unique words5,224
Words (1-occurrence)2,823
Unique kanji1,442
Kanji (1-occurrence)290
Average sentence length19.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue35.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 19
Character count68,284
Word count30,488
Unique words5,041
Words (1-occurrence)2,675
Unique kanji1,473
Kanji (1-occurrence)319
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue32.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 0
Character count83,112
Word count36,481
Unique words5,574
Words (1-occurrence)2,897
Unique kanji1,487
Kanji (1-occurrence)282
Average sentence length19.8
Difficulty Average
Dialogue36.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 21
Character count67,258
Word count29,534
Unique words4,934
Words (1-occurrence)2,643
Unique kanji1,460
Kanji (1-occurrence)316
Average sentence length19.8
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue41.5%
Duration
5 h
Volume 22
Character count92,095
Word count40,662
Unique words5,812
Words (1-occurrence)2,990
Unique kanji1,562
Kanji (1-occurrence)298
Average sentence length20.0
Difficulty Average
Dialogue39.6%
Duration
7 h
Volume 23
Character count81,327
Word count35,989
Unique words5,299
Words (1-occurrence)2,715
Unique kanji1,497
Kanji (1-occurrence)314
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue44.6%
Duration
6 h
Volume 24
Character count74,569
Word count33,180
Unique words5,182
Words (1-occurrence)2,727
Unique kanji1,478
Kanji (1-occurrence)310
Average sentence length20.5
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue37.7%
Duration
5 h