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:new: Welcome to the Kino-no-Tabi club! But please don't assume we're dedicated purely to "キノの旅 -The Beautiful World-" (aka Kino's Journey) written by Keiichi Sigsawa. This is a club dedicated to all of his light novel series, and to the illustrator Kuroboshi Kouhaku.

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To those unfamiliar with "Kino no Tabi" (I apologize in advance but I generally refer to it by the Japanese title), its a story that follows a persuader carrying girl named Kino and her talking motorcycle Hermes. Kino travels her world visiting countries and staying no longer than 3 days in each place. She believes she can learn all she needs to know about a culture in those 3 days and then continues on her journey. In each place she visits, she comes across new people and different beliefs. Its a thought provoking plot that gives you a new view of the world around you. And as the author says, "the world is not beautiful, therefor it is." As of Dec 2009 there are 13 light novels out in Japan. The first novel was translated and released in English by TokyoPop back in 2006 but due to publishing issues it has been put on hiatus with no sign of being continued in English.

It originally started out as a light novel written by Keiichi Sigsawa and illustrated by Kuroboshi Kouhaku, but has also been made into PS2 games and has a 13 episode anime and a movie. Continuing on with Keiichi Sigsawa, not much is accurately known about him. He writes under a pen name and tends to change his personal information to keep us all wondering (he doesn't think its important). He's written other light novels such as "Allison", "Lillia to Treize" (aka Lillia and Treize), "Meg to Seron" (aka Meg and Seron) and "Gakuen Kino". Kuroboshi Kouhaku illustrates all of Keiichi Sigsawa's light novels and does his own number of other projects designing characters for games and anime among other things. Below I will include short descriptions of the other light novels Keiichi Sigsawa writes...

:star: "Allison" - Follows the story of Allison and Will, orphans who grow up in a world where their country and their neighboring country had been fighting for many years before becoming to a truce. While relations between the two countries are still not at their best, Allison and Will go off on a journey to find the treasure to put the war into the past and bring peace. Allison is a pilot in air force and Will is an intelligent young man with impressive accuracy. They go on many different adventures and meet many people along the way. Has 4 light novel volumes and a sound novel game for Nintendo DS.

:star: "Lillia to Treize" - Follows the story of Allison and Will's daughter, Lillia, and a young man by the name of Treize. Old friends return in this story as well as exciting secrets and twisting plots. This is 6 volumes long and was also included in the "Allison to Lillia" anime series that was 24 episodes long and encompassed the light novels "Allison" and "Lillia to Treize", thus the merged title.

:star: "Meg to Seron" - Follows a side-character named Meg, a friend and classmate of Lillia, and Seron. Currently 5 volumes and on-going.

:star: "Gakuen Kino" - Kino returns in a new world as a young High School girl. And this time she has a talking cellphone strap! Told she must fight monsters from taking over the world, but she's not so sure if she should be trusting this talking strap. See old characters from "Kino no Tabi" return in this story. Currently 3 volumes long and on-going.

These descriptions are written by myself with what information I've accumulated and researched. I do apologize if some information is inaccurate but I'm still working on reading them myself. Not too easy since my Japanese isn't the best.

:star-empty: For those interested in reading fan-translations of some of these series please feel free to visit BakaTsuki!! You can read the teaser translation of "Gakuen Kino" and "Kino no Tabi"!! If anyone is fluent in Japanese, or other published languages, please look into assisting the site with translations.

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- - - FOUNDER BIO - - -

SugaryInsanity
A small into about me I guess, since I am the founder. My name's Mae and I'm addicted to sugar. I have a BS degree in International Studies with a double minor in English and Art & Design. You may already see the connection to why I'm such a fan of "Kino no Tabi" now right? Yes, I love traveling and experiencing new cultures. I lived in Japan for a year while in University and have been hooked ever since. If there's anything I can do to help with questions on these stories or in travel, please feel free to ask. I will do my best to answer questions whenever I can!

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Official :
:star-empty: Novel (Japanese)
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:star-empty: Kino Anime (Japanese)
:star-empty: Kino Anime (English)
:star-empty: Allison to Lillia Anime (Japanese)

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Wikipedia Sources :
:star-empty: Keiichi Sigsawa (author)
:star-empty: Kuroboshi Kouhaku (illustrator)
:star-empty: Kino no Tabi
:star-empty: Gakuen Kino
:star-empty: Allison
:star-empty: Lillia to Treize
:star-empty: Meg to Seron

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Fan-Translations :
:star-empty: Kino no Tabi
:star-empty: Gakuen Kino

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Fansites :
:star-empty: LiveJournal Community

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Fun Stuff :
:star-empty: Interview 2005 with Keiichi Sigsawa

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Kino with sunset by neng-neng
More Please by neng-neng
Kino Shizu Tea by neng-neng
Kino with Art by neng-neng
Kino no Tabi
Traveller's Ways by wredwrat
Cross of Venus by neng-neng
The Gunner and the Swordsman by wredwrat
Allison
Alison: Happy Valentines Day by Tsuruka
Lillia to Treize
Lillia and Treize dancing by Squirrella
Meg to Seron
Her compliment by Scarlettestar
Kuroboshi Kouhaku
Gakuen Kino
Kino school 2 by neng-neng
Kino in yukata by neng-neng
Gakuen Kino by neng-neng
kino in Valentine by neng-neng

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Fibrous Featured By Owner Jan 26, 2022  Professional Digital Artist
Hey guys, hope it's all right to post this here, it's called Storm. It's a discord community for web3 + design. discord.com/invite/a6W8GR6QND
We talk about illustrator and share brushes too!
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kanogt Featured By Owner Sep 4, 2013
do you know where i could download or read the first novel online, coz i can't buy it in my country?
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SquazerArt Featured By Owner Aug 9, 2011  Hobbyist Photographer
Happy to find this group.

I have a question, is there any complete translation of the novels in english? because it seems that the fan translations seems "dead". Thanks :)
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SugaryInsanity Featured By Owner Aug 15, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
That's the only up-to-date one I know of, no one else seems to be translating the novels from what I can find.
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crow-proxy Featured By Owner Jun 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
No..! Yeah 2012 comment here. I'm wanting some more Kino too. Keepin my eyes open and checking around.
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