Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World
Novel
キノの旅-the Beautiful World-
2000/03/01
Character count1,825,835
Word count823,284
Unique words27,236
Words (1-occurrence)9,923
Unique kanji2,608
Kanji (1-occurrence)266
Average sentence length19.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue37.3%
Volumes24
Duration
130 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 count78,999
Word count35,401
Unique words4,906
Words (1-occurrence)2,461
Unique kanji1,352
Kanji (1-occurrence)278
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue30.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 2
Character count78,053
Word count34,853
Unique words5,360
Words (1-occurrence)2,908
Unique kanji1,438
Kanji (1-occurrence)301
Average sentence length17.4
Difficulty Average
Dialogue36.4%
Duration
6 h
Volume 3
Character count64,831
Word count29,291
Unique words4,466
Words (1-occurrence)2,365
Unique kanji1,374
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length16.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue43.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 4
Character count66,996
Word count30,561
Unique words4,642
Words (1-occurrence)2,394
Unique kanji1,368
Kanji (1-occurrence)286
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue40.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 5
Character count69,978
Word count32,005
Unique words4,606
Words (1-occurrence)2,327
Unique kanji1,405
Kanji (1-occurrence)297
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue35.2%
Duration
5 h
Volume 6
Character count72,220
Word count32,829
Unique words4,712
Words (1-occurrence)2,432
Unique kanji1,415
Kanji (1-occurrence)267
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue32.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 7
Character count68,410
Word count31,434
Unique words4,384
Words (1-occurrence)2,239
Unique kanji1,349
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.0
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue33.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 8
Character count75,220
Word count34,581
Unique words5,106
Words (1-occurrence)2,593
Unique kanji1,469
Kanji (1-occurrence)325
Average sentence length20.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue30.9%
Duration
5 h
Volume 9
Character count77,624
Word count35,203
Unique words5,453
Words (1-occurrence)2,871
Unique kanji1,505
Kanji (1-occurrence)321
Average sentence length19.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue33.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 10
Character count80,123
Word count35,443
Unique words4,963
Words (1-occurrence)2,526
Unique kanji1,414
Kanji (1-occurrence)299
Average sentence length18.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue31.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 11
Character count81,503
Word count36,762
Unique words5,292
Words (1-occurrence)2,552
Unique kanji1,476
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.5
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue35.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 12
Character count65,035
Word count29,137
Unique words4,542
Words (1-occurrence)2,335
Unique kanji1,402
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.9
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue37.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 13
Character count71,868
Word count32,071
Unique words5,174
Words (1-occurrence)2,826
Unique kanji1,481
Kanji (1-occurrence)341
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue42.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 14
Character count77,594
Word count35,935
Unique words5,195
Words (1-occurrence)2,776
Unique kanji1,520
Kanji (1-occurrence)338
Average sentence length20.6
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue56.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 15
Character count84,943
Word count38,424
Unique words5,483
Words (1-occurrence)2,787
Unique kanji1,531
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue34.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 16
Character count66,881
Word count30,398
Unique words4,911
Words (1-occurrence)2,621
Unique kanji1,435
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty Average
Dialogue35.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 17
Character count108,246
Word count48,798
Unique words6,396
Words (1-occurrence)3,194
Unique kanji1,627
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length19.3
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue39.4%
Duration
8 h
Volume 18
Character count71,632
Word count32,081
Unique words5,244
Words (1-occurrence)2,821
Unique kanji1,442
Kanji (1-occurrence)290
Average sentence length19.2
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue35.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 19
Character count68,155
Word count30,737
Unique words5,051
Words (1-occurrence)2,658
Unique kanji1,473
Kanji (1-occurrence)319
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue32.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 0
Character count82,920
Word count36,844
Unique words5,590
Words (1-occurrence)2,900
Unique kanji1,487
Kanji (1-occurrence)282
Average sentence length19.7
Difficulty Average
Dialogue36.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 21
Character count67,101
Word count29,774
Unique words4,953
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 count91,900
Word count41,027
Unique words5,822
Words (1-occurrence)2,990
Unique kanji1,562
Kanji (1-occurrence)298
Average sentence length19.9
Difficulty Average
Dialogue39.6%
Duration
7 h
Volume 23
Character count81,157
Word count36,286
Unique words5,294
Words (1-occurrence)2,704
Unique kanji1,497
Kanji (1-occurrence)314
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue44.6%
Duration
6 h
Volume 24
Character count74,446
Word count33,409
Unique words5,198
Words (1-occurrence)2,734
Unique kanji1,478
Kanji (1-occurrence)310
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty Hard
Dialogue37.7%
Duration
5 h