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Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Byouki no Kuni - For You
Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World - Byouki no Kuni - For You · 2007
A nomadic traveler delivers a letter for an ill girl.
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StatusFinished Airing
SeasonSpring 2007
StudioShaft
SourceLight novel
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Continuing their solitary philosophical travels, markswoman Kino and her speaking motorrad Hermes arrive at the Country of Illness. Inside this sterile domed civilization, citizens inhabit quarantined medical sanctuaries, living under rigorous germ-free protocols while scientists pursue cures for fatal afflictions. Kino is approached by the wealthy parents of Ixtira, a terminally ill young girl confined to a sanitized hospital chamber. The parents hire Kino to ride into the perilous surrounding wilderness to deliver a sealed personal letter to Ixtira's former childhood companion, allowing Kino to witness the stark contrast between sterile confinement and wild freedom.
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Navigating the mountain terrain beyond the dome, Kino discovers that the intended recipient passed away years ago, and that the sealed envelope contains neither medicine nor practical demands, but poetic descriptions of the open sky. Returning to the quarantine ward, Kino learns that Ixtira possessed full awareness of her impending death and designed the journey solely so Kino could experience the beauty of nature on her behalf. Ixtira passes away peacefully with a fulfilled smile, and Kino kick-starts Hermes, riding down the endless highway with renewed reverence for life.
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Key Animation11
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