Kino no Tabi: the Beautiful World
Novel
キノの旅-the Beautiful World-
2000/03/01
Character count1,826,905
Word count824,778
Unique words27,138
Words (1-occurrence)9,826
Unique kanji2,612
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 count79,076
Word count35,501
Unique words4,893
Words (1-occurrence)2,450
Unique kanji1,352
Kanji (1-occurrence)278
Average sentence length18.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue30.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 2
Character count78,093
Word count34,925
Unique words5,358
Words (1-occurrence)2,899
Unique kanji1,438
Kanji (1-occurrence)301
Average sentence length17.4
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue36.4%
Duration
6 h
Volume 3
Character count64,868
Word count29,280
Unique words4,451
Words (1-occurrence)2,347
Unique kanji1,374
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length16.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue43.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 4
Character count67,050
Word count30,675
Unique words4,622
Words (1-occurrence)2,377
Unique kanji1,368
Kanji (1-occurrence)286
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue40.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 5
Character count70,021
Word count31,972
Unique words4,600
Words (1-occurrence)2,312
Unique kanji1,405
Kanji (1-occurrence)297
Average sentence length16.9
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue35.2%
Duration
5 h
Volume 6
Character count72,251
Word count32,861
Unique words4,715
Words (1-occurrence)2,440
Unique kanji1,415
Kanji (1-occurrence)267
Average sentence length18.1
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue32.8%
Duration
5 h
Volume 7
Character count68,434
Word count31,431
Unique words4,366
Words (1-occurrence)2,221
Unique kanji1,349
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.0
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue33.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 8
Character count75,236
Word count34,624
Unique words5,099
Words (1-occurrence)2,589
Unique kanji1,469
Kanji (1-occurrence)325
Average sentence length20.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue30.9%
Duration
5 h
Volume 9
Character count77,672
Word count35,241
Unique words5,450
Words (1-occurrence)2,886
Unique kanji1,505
Kanji (1-occurrence)321
Average sentence length19.9
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue33.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 10
Character count80,246
Word count35,506
Unique words4,941
Words (1-occurrence)2,501
Unique kanji1,414
Kanji (1-occurrence)299
Average sentence length18.9
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue31.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 11
Character count81,551
Word count37,321
Unique words5,422
Words (1-occurrence)2,527
Unique kanji1,476
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.5
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue35.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 12
Character count65,083
Word count29,150
Unique words4,511
Words (1-occurrence)2,315
Unique kanji1,402
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length19.0
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue37.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 13
Character count71,899
Word count32,096
Unique words5,140
Words (1-occurrence)2,793
Unique kanji1,481
Kanji (1-occurrence)341
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue42.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 14
Character count77,624
Word count35,924
Unique words5,152
Words (1-occurrence)2,742
Unique kanji1,520
Kanji (1-occurrence)338
Average sentence length20.6
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue56.3%
Duration
6 h
Volume 15
Character count85,016
Word count38,365
Unique words5,449
Words (1-occurrence)2,770
Unique kanji1,531
Kanji (1-occurrence)304
Average sentence length20.3
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue34.9%
Duration
6 h
Volume 16
Character count66,912
Word count30,422
Unique words4,888
Words (1-occurrence)2,604
Unique kanji1,435
Kanji (1-occurrence)307
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue35.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 17
Character count108,295
Word count48,943
Unique words6,380
Words (1-occurrence)3,179
Unique kanji1,627
Kanji (1-occurrence)336
Average sentence length19.3
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue39.4%
Duration
8 h
Volume 18
Character count71,676
Word count32,081
Unique words5,231
Words (1-occurrence)2,819
Unique kanji1,442
Kanji (1-occurrence)290
Average sentence length19.2
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue35.0%
Duration
5 h
Volume 19
Character count68,187
Word count30,778
Unique words5,028
Words (1-occurrence)2,640
Unique kanji1,473
Kanji (1-occurrence)319
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue32.1%
Duration
5 h
Volume 0
Character count82,949
Word count36,856
Unique words5,564
Words (1-occurrence)2,880
Unique kanji1,487
Kanji (1-occurrence)282
Average sentence length19.7
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue36.8%
Duration
6 h
Volume 21
Character count67,140
Word count29,851
Unique words4,937
Words (1-occurrence)2,631
Unique kanji1,460
Kanji (1-occurrence)316
Average sentence length19.8
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue41.5%
Duration
5 h
Volume 22
Character count91,934
Word count41,154
Unique words5,796
Words (1-occurrence)2,975
Unique kanji1,562
Kanji (1-occurrence)298
Average sentence length19.9
Difficulty beta
Average
Dialogue39.6%
Duration
7 h
Volume 23
Character count81,214
Word count36,297
Unique words5,302
Words (1-occurrence)2,710
Unique kanji1,497
Kanji (1-occurrence)314
Average sentence length18.7
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue44.6%
Duration
6 h
Volume 24
Character count74,478
Word count33,524
Unique words5,180
Words (1-occurrence)2,714
Unique kanji1,478
Kanji (1-occurrence)310
Average sentence length20.4
Difficulty beta
Hard
Dialogue37.7%
Duration
5 h