Fans around the world fell in love with Laid-Back Camp, and it’s not hard to see why. This sweet series is as easygoing as its title suggests. Not only that, it reminds us to stop and enjoy the beauty of the world around us. We can’t …Read more »
There’s a second season of Made in Abyss on the horizon! Soon, we’ll get to journey even deeper into the series’s darkest depths. But what do we do until then? Explore other anime, of course! If your wanderlust has got you, try these series. They’re also …Read more »
If there’s a manga or light novel running in Japan, it’s very likely to get an anime adaptation. Light novels corner the market lately, with some anime studios even having their own publishing house so they can find hot stories. But — as unlikely as …Read more »
Wishing you could travel the world? For now, at least, you can live vicariously through these anime heroes (and antiheroes). We’ve picked a few series featuring globe-trotting stars, who will leads you around our world (and occasionally others!) on heists, dirty jobs, and journeys of …Read more »
Easy Rider There are very few series in the history of anime as simultaneously gentle and violent as Kino’s Journey. The 2005 anime series and its film and OVA counterparts adapted Keiichi Sigsawa’s light novels with a heavier eye to the former, though never truly undercutting …Read more »
Kino’s Journey: © Iruka Shiomiya / Keiichi Sigsawa In a quiet, low-key future, wandering adventurer Kino and her “motorrad” Hermes, a talking motorbike, travel the overgrown landscape and mostly deserted roads, occasionally running into people with whom to connect and philosophize. Their world is lightly …Read more »
We here at Otaku USA are big fans of the original Kino’s Journey, and we’re cautiously optimistic about the new series, which premieres this October 6. A new trailer for that series is out now, and, aside from giving us a peek at how it …Read more »
For folks like me who are huge fans of late director Ryutaro Nakamura, it was a bit of a shock to learn earlier this year one of his iconic series, Kino’s Journey , would be getting remade. Now we’ve got a look at the character …Read more »
That’s some pretty wild timing. Not a day after we posted a retrospective piece on Kino’s Journey , the 2003 anime series based on a series of light novels by Keiichi Sigsawa, it was announced those novels would be getting a brand-new anime adaptation. The …Read more »
Don’t let Emerson’s “Life is a journey, not a destination” fool you. Sometimes, destinations can be their own journeys. Take, for instance, Kino (a perpetual traveler) and Hermes (an AI-imbued, talking motorcycle), who stay no longer than three days in any country they happen upon. …Read more »
This week saw the unfortunate passing of director Ryutaro Nakamura, best known for directing the seminal sci-fi series Serial Experiments Lain . Nakamura was also known for directing Kino’s Journey , another well-regarded 13-epside series, and Ghost Hound , which paired him with Ghost in …Read more »
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