Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World
Novel
キノの旅-the Beautiful World-
2000/03/01
Character count1,826,604
Word count823,775
Unique words27,285
Words (1-occurrence)9,921
Unique kanji2,609
Kanji (1-occurrence)267
Average sentence length19.0
Difficulty beta
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 count79,035
Word count35,416
Unique words4,915
Words (1-occurrence)2,474
Unique kanji1,352
Kanji (1-occurrence)278
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue30.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 2
Character count78,079
Word count34,866
Unique words5,365
Words (1-occurrence)2,913
Unique kanji1,438
Kanji (1-occurrence)301
Average sentence length17.4
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue36.4%
Duration
6 h
Volume 3
Character count64,851
Word count29,313
Unique words4,472
Words (1-occurrence)2,364
Unique kanji1,374
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length16.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue43.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 4
Character count67,022
Word count30,575
Unique words4,657
Words (1-occurrence)2,416
Unique kanji1,368
Kanji (1-occurrence)286
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue40.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 5
Character count70,006
Word count32,001
Unique words4,611
Words (1-occurrence)2,327
Unique kanji1,405
Kanji (1-occurrence)297
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue35.2%
Duration
5 h
Volume 6
Character count72,237
Word count32,922
Unique words4,724
Words (1-occurrence)2,442
Unique kanji1,415
Kanji (1-occurrence)267
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue32.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 7
Character count68,428
Word count31,448
Unique words4,380
Words (1-occurrence)2,238
Unique kanji1,349
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.0
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue33.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 8
Character count75,245
Word count34,601
Unique words5,119
Words (1-occurrence)2,607
Unique kanji1,469
Kanji (1-occurrence)325
Average sentence length20.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue30.9%
Duration
5 h
Volume 9
Character count77,650
Word count35,222
Unique words5,465
Words (1-occurrence)2,879
Unique kanji1,505
Kanji (1-occurrence)321
Average sentence length19.9
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue33.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 10
Character count80,165
Word count35,478
Unique words4,968
Words (1-occurrence)2,534
Unique kanji1,414
Kanji (1-occurrence)299
Average sentence length18.9
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue31.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 11
Character count81,528
Word count36,826
Unique words5,311
Words (1-occurrence)2,565
Unique kanji1,476
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.5
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue35.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 12
Character count65,080
Word count29,157
Unique words4,551
Words (1-occurrence)2,344
Unique kanji1,402
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length19.0
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue37.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 13
Character count71,898
Word count32,082
Unique words5,175
Words (1-occurrence)2,828
Unique kanji1,481
Kanji (1-occurrence)341
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue42.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 14
Character count77,622
Word count35,943
Unique words5,197
Words (1-occurrence)2,777
Unique kanji1,520
Kanji (1-occurrence)338
Average sentence length20.6
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue56.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 15
Character count85,001
Word count38,422
Unique words5,490
Words (1-occurrence)2,802
Unique kanji1,531
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue34.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 16
Character count66,908
Word count30,394
Unique words4,924
Words (1-occurrence)2,635
Unique kanji1,435
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue35.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 17
Character count108,300
Word count48,809
Unique words6,409
Words (1-occurrence)3,207
Unique kanji1,627
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length19.3
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue39.4%
Duration
8 h
Volume 18
Character count71,670
Word count32,073
Unique words5,252
Words (1-occurrence)2,835
Unique kanji1,442
Kanji (1-occurrence)290
Average sentence length19.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue35.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 19
Character count68,186
Word count30,770
Unique words5,064
Words (1-occurrence)2,666
Unique kanji1,473
Kanji (1-occurrence)319
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue32.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 0
Character count82,962
Word count36,854
Unique words5,614
Words (1-occurrence)2,931
Unique kanji1,487
Kanji (1-occurrence)282
Average sentence length19.7
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue36.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 21
Character count67,123
Word count29,802
Unique words4,955
Words (1-occurrence)2,648
Unique kanji1,460
Kanji (1-occurrence)316
Average sentence length19.8
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue41.5%
Duration
5 h
Volume 22
Character count91,933
Word count41,071
Unique words5,825
Words (1-occurrence)2,995
Unique kanji1,562
Kanji (1-occurrence)298
Average sentence length19.9
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue39.6%
Duration
7 h
Volume 23
Character count81,203
Word count36,281
Unique words5,306
Words (1-occurrence)2,715
Unique kanji1,497
Kanji (1-occurrence)314
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue44.6%
Duration
6 h
Volume 24
Character count74,472
Word count33,449
Unique words5,198
Words (1-occurrence)2,742
Unique kanji1,478
Kanji (1-occurrence)310
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue37.7%
Duration
5 h