Kinos' Journey

TheRedJet

Well We got mongatari series in english which is from 2007,then we have ZAregoto series in english(just 2 volumes for now) which is from 2002 and toradora in english from 2006, these titles are decade old and polular ones monogatari series is still running so why Kino no Tabi woudn´t get licenced? I would be shocked if some company is overlooking this masterpiece!!!!

BloodyGaikotsu

@theredjet
The main difference is Monogatari has huge fandom and ongoing anime (Kizu was licensed at the time of the US' 1st Kizu movie release.)

Zaregoto was licensed cuz of success of Monogatari (same can be said about Katanagatari and Juni Taisen) and the new anime.

Kino's a title that was licensed before, its fandom ain't as big and loud as other fandoms either.
(Well, in this new state of the market, if your fandom is loud enough as Mushoku Tensei, you can get anything lol)

TheRedJet

@bloodygaikotsu it was licenced in a bad time where light novels weren´t that popular and now is the opposite they are popular so now it could be a great time to bring us this series

BloodyGaikotsu

@theredjet
You're misunderstanding smth.
Yeah, the market was unstable back then but that doesn't mean it has to be the sole reason for every lost license.

What assures it to the company that it wouldn't have been a flop whatever the market state is.
I am just saying that it ain't as easy as u think...

kino

Please someone just license this already. ;_;

TheRedJet

Now that I look at Japanese Kino no Tabi I see that the Volumes are very short like 260 pages,240 pages and even 1 volumes have 208 pages and if that many pages are translated it could have at least 144 pages if I am not wrong even less :( Well I don´t mind that they are short at least they are very enjoyable and JNC would translated 21 volumes in a FLASH :D

Bravo0723

Kino the Beautiful World LN's were released in English in the mid 2000's

Korppi

@bravo0723 said in Kinos' Journey:

Kino the Beautiful World LN's were released in English in the mid 2000's

No, only the first volume was released by TokyoPop, back in 2006. Aaand they rearranged the chapters to put them all in chronological order.

All in all, it's better we pretend that release never happened...

TheRedJet

@korppi yeah Tokyopop screw up Kino´s Journey with rearanging chapter and making their own cover and the color pages weren´t even included there and because of this all Japanese Publisher was pretty angry with it and since then we have nothing because of Tokyopop

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Rahul Balaggan

crossfoxlurk

@rahul-balaggan That's depressing to hear but hey hey at least we have Majo no Tabitabi as an Alternative....

yumenokage

@rahul-balaggan said in Kinos' Journey:

Anyone know the reason for this?

Rahul Balaggan

@yumenokage most likely has something to do with this:
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BloodyGaikotsu

@rahul-balaggan

I think when he said "come and gone", he was referring to the anime.
All these old stuff coming back usually have a new upcoming anime, cuz marketing a novel series by a new ongoing (or recently finished) anime is the easiest marketing scheme for these titles

FMP anime just ended last summer
Kino, that was in 2017 (Too long has passed)

TheRedJet

Vol.22 is slated forJuly 2019!!(1 year 9 months since last vol.)

kino

I was wondering when a new volume would release.

TheRedJet

Cover for Vol. XXII(22) releasing next month!!!.......SO FOCKIN BEAUTIFUL!!!! alt text

TheRedJet

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yumenokage

Still hoping against hope that this gets picked up someday.