Kino's Journey - Recommendations

Alt title: Kino no Tabi: The Beautiful World

If you're looking for anime similar to Kino's Journey, you might like these titles.

Glassy Ocean

Glassy Ocean

Upon a glassy ocean, in a world where time appears to have stopped, an old man travels and reminisces about his past. Joining him is a painter who likes to capture ships and whales in his drawings, and a number of other travelers. From a whale about to jump, to a fallen star, to flying fish that are waiting to be caught, there are an infinite number of wonders to be found on the serene and glassy ocean.

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Theta Theta says...

These are both slow paced and thought provoking anime.  The travellers in these stories reflect on the beauty and nature of their encounters while travelling.

The Mystic Archives of Dantalian

The Mystic Archives of Dantalian

After his grandfather’s untimely death, Hugh Anthony Disward visits the estate of his inheritance where he discovers a library that’s out of this world. Embodying the archive is Dalian, a clever girl with a sharp tongue as biting as her sweet tooth. Circumstance leads to necessity, and she teaches Huey how to harness the power within—a handy trick to learn, seeing as it’s the only way to subdue the monsters brought forth by magical works of literature.

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mia08 mia08 says...

The plot of somewhat adventure(meeting with diferent people) with peculiar setting is similar. The tone of the story which is serious overall are also similar. The calm and composed main characters together with some weird people the main characters met are also somewhat similar. Lastly the creepy/mysterious feeling at the end of each episode is quite similar

Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku

Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku

The anime adaptation of the final Mushishi manga arc. Ginko stumbles upon a young girl in a mountain with branches and leaves growing out of her body. He later realises that she is the lord of that mountain but finds it strange that a human like her was chosen as the lord. He later meets her older brother who has continued to search for her ever since she disappeared while she was accompanying him on a stormy day. The story is about that girl, Kaya, and how she is torn between continuing her duty as a mushi lord and returning back to her loving human family.

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Sianeka Sianeka says...

If you watched either Mushishi Zoku Shou: Suzu no Shizuku or Kino's Journey, you'll have seen a show that features woundrous encounters by a traveler learning of amazing adventures and stories during a journey that teaches lessons of humanity vs spirituality and of the optimism of the human spirit even in situations of adversity and strangeness.  Both shows share a common spiritual theme and a slow, easy pacing that is easy and pleasant to follow.  I'm sure that if you liked either of these, you'd enjoy a visit with the other!

Texhnolyze

Texhnolyze

In an experimental city of despair and carnage, ORGANO will do anything necessary to gain power and wealth. Unfortunately for one underground boxer who was mutilated, a rogue doctor has given him what ORGANO specializes in and he despises: Texhnolyze body parts. Will these cybernetic appendages help exact his revenge upon the one who made him this way?

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30000 30000 says...

both have those question on what life is ,  Texhnolyze takes place in the city of Lux, a man-made underground city that has crumbled after years of neglect and lack of repairs. Citizens of Lux have come to refer to their home as simply "The City" and treat it as though it has a mind and will of its own. Three major factions battle to control Lux: Organo, a group of "professionals" who collaborate with the criminal underworld that controls Texhnolyze (prosthetics), the Salvation Union, a populist group that seeks to disrupt Organo's business, and Racan, a collection of young individuals with Texhnolyzes that use their abilities for personal 

Dororo (2019)

Dororo (2019)

In Japan's Warring States period, Lord Daigo Kagemitsu makes a pact with 12 demons, exchanging his unborn son for the prosperity of his lands. The child is born malformed and is set adrift in a river, while Kagemitsu's lands thrive as promised. Years later, young thief Dororo encounters the mysterious "Hyakkimaru", a boy whose arms are blades and whose visionless eyes seem able to see monsters.

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Worosei Worosei says...

Both have a philosophical edge that questions parts of humanity as they follow a young androgenous person. 

Kinos journey has less action (though the latter series has more), and more episodic 

The setting is different with kino changes, where else dororo is Japanese feudal setting. 

If you enjoyed the more thoughtful parts to dororo, with the dilemmas faced, then kino is a good watch. 

If you wished kino has a more continuous plot and more action, then dororo is a good watch

To Your Eternity

To Your Eternity

Dropped from the hand of a mysterious being, a lone orb begins a journey of discovery. With the power to imitate both living and non-living things, it can take the form of objects, animals, and people it meets along the way. Gaining consciousness, emotions, and eventually the name Fushi, the immortal creature learns both the beauty and suffering the world has to offer. But humanity is in great peril from powerful beings called the Nokkers, who Fushi alone is able to defeat. Can he protect a world he is still struggling to understand from enemies with the ability to steal everything Fushi has painstakingly gained so far?

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Kakajoju Kakajoju says...

Both are about travelers whose journey takes them through different lands where the true nature of humanity is explored.

Sonny Boy

Sonny Boy

Midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation day, middle school third-year student Nagara, the mysterious transfer student Nozomi, and classmates such as Mizuho and Asakaze, are suddenly transported from their tranquil daily lives to a school adrift in an alternate dimension. They must survive with the superpowers that have awakened within them.

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Yumeshiro Yumeshiro says...

Bizzare and comforting. Beautiful and grotesque. Both stories are presented via matter-of-fact experiences to the main character/s, without a sugarcoating.

While Sonny Boy is far more psychological and abstract in setting, it shares an episodic nature with Kino's Journey. The focus of each episode changes to show different aspects of human (and otherwise) nature on a scale both grand and small, and do so with very unique perspectives.

In terms of content, Kino's Journey stays somewhat grounded in a early 1900s-ish alternate universe with very light steampunk and magic elements, whereas Sonny Boy is far in the sci-fi realm with strange powers and abstract worlds that often progress in complexity and portrayal through the series.

There is more of a coming-of-age element to Sonny Boy, with romance elements and character evolvement but in Kino's Journey, there is arguably (outside of an origin story episode) no change in the persona of Kino.

Both are very recommended, and while they have their obvious differences in both settings and characters, they share a soul of what the meaning of the human condition is.