Kino's Journey is a Japanese light novel series written by Keiichi Sigsawa, and illustrated by Kohaku Kuroboshi. The series premiered in the sixth volume of Dengeki hp on March 17, 2000.[1] The first volume of the series was published on July 10, 2000, under ASCII Media Works' Dengeki Bunko publishing imprint. As of October 2017, around 8.2 million copies of the novels had been sold in Japan.[2] 23 volumes have been published as of November 2020.[3]
Tokyopop licensed the novels for an English language release in North America.[4] The first volume was published on October 3, 2006. Tokyopop released the series under its rōmaji title of Kino no Tabi and rearranged the chapters of the first volume. Due to issues with the licensor, the remaining volumes have been canceled. The light novel series has also been translated into Chinese, Korean, and German. An additional volume entitled Kino's Journey -the Beautiful World- Country of Theater -Kino- (キノの旅 -the Beautiful World- 劇場の国 -KINO-, Kino no Tabi -the Beautiful World- Gekijō no Kuni -KINO-) was released as a promotional gift for the second animated movie.
A spin-off of the regular series under the title Gakuen Kino was also created. The first volume of the spin-off series was released on July 10, 2006, under Dengeki Bunko; the fifth volume was released on July 8, 2011. Volume six was released in October 2019 and seven in May 2021.[5] The series is a collection of parodies originally published in three spin-off magazines of Dengeki hp: Dengeki p, Dengeki h, and Dengeki hpa. The spin-off features Kino as a magical girl in a school setting.
Light novels
Kino's Journey
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01 | July 10, 2000 | 978-4-8402-1585-5 | October 3, 2006 | 978-1-59816-455-8 | |
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02 | October 10, 2000 | 978-4-8402-1632-6 | — | — | |
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03 | January 10, 2001 | 978-4-8402-1709-5 | — | — | |
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04 | July 10, 2001 | 978-4-8402-1844-3 | — | — | |
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05 | January 10, 2002 | 978-4-8402-2013-2 | — | — | |
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06 | August 10, 2002 | 978-4-8402-2155-9 | — | — | |
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07 | June 10, 2003 | 978-4-8402-2386-7 | — | — | |
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08 | October 10, 2004 | 978-4-8402-2832-9 | — | — | |
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09 | October 10, 2005 | 978-4-8402-3172-5 | — | — | |
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10 | October 10, 2006 | 978-4-8402-3580-8 | — | — | |
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11 | October 10, 2007 | 978-4-8402-4025-3 | — | — | |
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12 | October 10, 2008 | 978-4-04-867263-4 | — | — | |
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13 | October 10, 2009 | 978-4-0486-8068-4 | — | — | |
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14 | October 10, 2010 | 978-4-0486-8967-0 | — | — | |
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15 | October 10, 2011 | 978-4-0487-0962-0 | — | — | |
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16 | October 10, 2012 | 978-4-0488-6980-5 | — | — | |
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17 | October 10, 2013 | 978-4-04-866021-1 | — | — | |
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18 | October 10, 2014 | 978-4-04-866935-1 | — | — | |
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19 | October 10, 2015 | 978-4-04-865440-1 | — | — | |
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20 | October 8, 2016 | 978-4-04-892396-5 | — | — | |
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21 | October 7, 2017 | 978-4-04-893399-5 | — | — | |
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22 | July 10, 2019 | 978-4-04-912520-7 | — | — | |
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23 | November 10, 2020 | 978-4-04-913318-9 | — | — | |
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Gakuen Kino
No. | Release date | ISBN |
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1 | July 10, 2006 | 978-4-8402-3482-5 |
Spinning off from a joke in the afterword to volume four of Kino's Journey, the story finds Kino attending a high school with her talking cell phone strap, Hermes. When students start turning into monsters, Kino transforms into a gun toting magical girl, but her efforts are thwarted by the incompetent would be rival hero claiming to be her partner, Shizu. | ||
2 | July 10, 2007 | 978-4-8402-3908-0 |
3 | June 10, 2009 | 978-4-04-867840-7 |
4 | July 10, 2010 | 978-4-04-868644-0 |
5 | July 8, 2011 | 978-4-04-870690-2 |
6 | October 10, 2019 | 978-4-04-912665-5 |
7 | May 8, 2021[5] | 978-4-04-913789-7 |
See also
References
- ↑ "Dengeki hp volume 6" (in Japanese). ASCII Media Works. Archived from the original on January 17, 2006. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
- ↑ "'Kino's Journey' Ninki Ranobe ga Futatabi Terebi Anime ni Kino to Erumesu ga Tabi ni" 「キノの旅」 人気ラノベが再びテレビアニメに キノとエルメスが旅に ['Kino's Journey' New TV Anime Based on Popular Light Novel]. Mainichi Shimbun (in Japanese). October 5, 2017. Archived from the original on November 7, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2019.
- ↑ "キノの旅XXIII" [Kino's Journey XXIII] (in Japanese). Kadokawa. Retrieved April 3, 2022.
- ↑ "Tokyopop's official Kino's Journey website". Tokyopop. Archived from the original on February 6, 2009. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
- 1 2 "「学園キノ(7)」 時雨沢 恵一[電撃文庫]" [Gakuen Kino (7)]. Kadokawa (in Japanese). Retrieved April 3, 2022.
External links
- Official website of the light novels Archived October 17, 2013, at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
- Kino's Journey at the Wayback Machine (archived May 18, 2012) at ASCII Media Works (in Japanese)