Kino's Journey: The Beautiful World - The Animated Series

New and modern adaptations of well-known anime series are rarely successful these days. There are always going to be fans of the original anime or manga series who will claim that the new adaptation is significantly worse. When it comes to Kino's Journey, unfortunately, this new adaptation is not very good when compared to the original. The animation is not as pleasant, and the use of CGI is once again detrimental to the look of the show. The soundtrack does not convey the atmosphere as well as it did in the first anime series. The magical atmosphere that fans loved is simply gone. However, is it really such a big deal? The narratives are still reasonably well thought out and almost always surprising in some way. The dialogues between Kino and Hermes are pretty endearing. I found both of these characters and also Shizu and his group attractive. Perhaps I should have been irritated or angry that they made a magical anime series into something like this. However, from the deluge of shows I have seen, it is still at least an average or slightly above average anime series, in my opinion, because of the narratives, characters, and a few really great moments. Indeed, for an anime series like this, just an above average rating is not good enough, and for me, it is disappointing in itself that I feel that way about it. However, it is not going to get any better than 6/10. If I wanted to give it a worse rating, I would have to go and re-evaluate a large number of other anime series I have already seen. This is because I have seen a lot worse than the new adaptation of Kino's Journey. (12/22/2017)