The task of studying for my psych exams are becoming more and more stressful. I don't know half of this crap.



The premise of the story is rather simple, a boy named Kino goes on an adventure with his pet motor cycle who talks to him. Yes, the motor bike talks and it's name is Elmse. The anime seem to be composed of a series of short stories, with -very- little hints of an overarching backstory beside the adventures of Kino and Elmes.

So far, the two companions have encountered a city where a girl recited a poetry that brings sadness everyday, a city trying to finds it's own tradition, a city populated by machinary as it's dwindling population avoid each other in fear of reading each other's mind, a city living by prophecies written in a book, and human slavers who have hearts, and a city dedicated to the building of a tower.

The series is fascinating and leave me wanting more. It have depth, I mean the philosophical, existansialism sort of depth that is expressed in a simple and often understated way. Beside, Kino is COOL, like really cool. He cooks, he shoots and he does kill. The boy is also fully packed when it comes to weaponary; three guns, one of which is a hidden, and as he said himself he carry knives all over his body. He carries a lots of knives. And well, I suspect Kino isn't all there. The boy seem to have several psychological illness. I mean it.

I -really- like this series.