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Another nice story. I kinda understand the meaning but it's hard to put it in words. 8/10

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Oct 21, 2008 10:02 PM
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Weird, another insane country, I feel sorry for the one guy who wanted to leave.

Kino help the guy out don't drive him nuts.
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Oct 22, 2008 10:29 PM
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okay, that was another messed up town.
i just love it when kino refuses to help out xD well at least he made that guy's job a lil bit more interesting...
Dec 24, 2008 11:20 PM
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tower is metaphor for ones life perhaps?
Mar 18, 2009 10:46 AM
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yeah I have to agree this was a nice story just as always ^^ 8/10
Apr 23, 2009 8:38 PM
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LOL! What an insane country. But, oh well. That's their purpose, right?! I wonder how they live sufficing their needs....
Aug 16, 2009 8:02 AM
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Another strange country... Or maybe we are the strange ones...

Lol
Sep 15, 2009 1:59 PM
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This episode is deep~ My favorite Kino episode. I own the box on DVD but unfortunate for me, this episode is not included. I think it's about not questioning the meaning of life or something like that, which is a pretty important topic I think. I can't really put it in to words but that is one of the greatest things about Kino no Tabi. It is really beautiful but you can never really define why. ^^
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Jan 18, 2010 11:13 AM
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pretty short ova, nothing special, it could have been half of a normal episode
Jan 19, 2010 11:54 PM

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7:39 It looked like ants working. 7/10 nice episode.
Jun 24, 2010 11:15 AM
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Very good episode... i understood the meaning but its really hard to put it into words... its like... not everything that seems unreasonable is really like that...
Like Kino said "maybe its just you", it kinda hard to understand, but maybe this guy is the only crazy one and not all the people who building this tower... its hard to understand it in our life because its really stupid to build a tower with no meaning, but in this episode in this city, i think that this guy who didnt want to work was the crazy one...

damn it kino no tabi is mind blowing. geee$#%$#%$
Nov 23, 2010 11:35 PM

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couldn't find this anywhere stream online
can anyone help?
Dec 14, 2010 5:58 AM

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SwordWielder said:
couldn't find this anywhere stream online
can anyone help?


Google.
or use this website and find what fansub groups subbed it. Not difficult.
Dec 19, 2011 9:40 PM

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Those people are messed in the head and have too much time on their hands.
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That was great. In less than fifteen minutes, the staff managed to express the whole meaning of Absurdism and gave an optimistic answer to the problem ; answer which, imo, is the right one : the usual Carpe Diem.
It's my favorite episode overall, and I'm actually thinking that every episode has been of the same quality, and that I couldn't fully comprehend them owing to my lack of culture.
I should rewatch the entire show in the future.
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Mar 16, 2013 12:49 PM

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That sure was one big tower, not sure if I liked the concept of this side story to much there wasn't really much development nor plot of it other than the collapse...

Not bad though up to the main story!
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Building this tower is their life and belief. We think they are weird and they think we are weird but the fact is that their knowledge about the world is limited.

They think their actions are normal because that is how they've been taught in their life-time and nothing else besides that matters.
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how did the tower not crush everyone when it fell down
Nov 5, 2014 8:38 PM

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I felt bad for the guy who realized how stupid the whole tower building thing was!
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Jan 27, 2015 1:19 AM

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Have the character designs always been this bad?

More deep meanings that a 17 year old like me will probably not understand. When a bunch of people are building a tower and one guy thinks the ones building the tower are crazy, who is the real crazy one?

I didn't really like this that much. There wasn't enough time to really flesh out the country.

6/10

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Building this tower is their life and belief. We think they are weird and they think we are weird but the fact is that their knowledge about the world is limited.

They think their actions are normal because that is how they've been taught in their life-time and nothing else besides that matters.
Thanks for clearing that up. It all makes sense now. The underlying meanings in Kino's Journey are so unbelievably deep that it makes it very hard for a teenager to completely understand.

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Where can I watch this? There was one site I found, but it had no sound.
Jun 11, 2015 10:07 AM

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Looking past all of the absurdity, the idea of the tower construction reminds me of daily life. It can get monotonous and bland if all I'm doing is repeating the same steps day after day. Even something as simple and slight as coloring and engraving bricks added a brand new approach to building the tower. Similarly, finding those new ways to enjoy each day transforms life from a repetitive task to a vivid adventure.
Nov 10, 2015 2:50 PM

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Not the best episode, didn't really do anything with the premise. :(
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Nice 8/10
May 20, 2016 3:44 PM

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LOL their orbital-elevator fell down.
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LOL their orbital-elevator fell down.


At least that one has a purpose for saving the human race.
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Another nice story. I kinda understand the meaning but it's hard to put it in words. 8/10


The meaning is simple, the people needed something to do with their lives, even if it meant never going anywhere. When there was nothing else to do, they decided to find something else (rebuilding the tower). Basically it's an allegory to the people who lead meaningless lives who are not capable of accepting different realities or broaden their horizons.
, they are solely focused on their vision.
Feb 7, 2017 7:49 PM

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Insane or rather strange country , this special was better than movie 2 imo .

Mar 22, 2017 3:30 PM

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Why do they call the cities countries? I find that rlly weird so far. Otherwise fine approach so far. I watched the 1st episode first (assuming this is episode 0)
Jul 3, 2017 11:21 PM

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I don't really know how the can build that tower without working
Where's the money for building it? :P

Is that perhaps babel tower reference? xD
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These Kino episodes some of them have deeper meaning and that's why I love and will continue to watch them.
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Aug 31, 2017 3:38 AM

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It was pretty boring at first but the delivery was super funny, this town is really something.

Well, let them do what they want to have fun, 7/10.
Oct 10, 2018 4:52 AM

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I'll answer the question, everyone in the town is nuts.
Nov 26, 2019 11:01 PM

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Kino being a lawful neutral asshat again lol

like, Kino, would it kill you to take the guy a few hundred yards out of town so the villagers can't find him and execute him for dissenting?

I feel like this episode might be an allegory for customs and traditions, but eh, I dunno
Feb 29, 2020 10:39 PM

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馬鹿じゃないの。。。this was stupid...why do even build tower..but then again everthing is stupid
Oct 27, 2020 11:55 PM

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I didn't like this at all, felt rushed and the ending that's basically "just keep doing as your told" kinda runs contrary to what this show usually was about.
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It's a reference to the Tower of Babel.
We had an episode similar to this during the series, with almost the same meaning, the reason people built the tower was to see it destroyed, maybe this is a metaphor for life, where the reason for life is it comes to an end , and we can make a lot of different things out of life.
But just as in the series it is something that is very far from reality to be bought into the narrative, I think that just as the meaning of this special as of the entire series like the tower does not hold up in the end.
I'll give it 7/10 because it's clearly a continuation of the series.

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É uma referência a torre de babel.
Nos tivemos um episodio parecido com esse durante a série, com quase o mesmo significado, o motivo das pessoas em construírem a torre era ver ela ser destruída, talvez isso seja uma metáfora para vida, em que o motivo da vida e ela chegar no fim, e podemos fazer da vida várias coisas diferentes.
Mas assim como na serie é algo que foge muito da realidade para ser comprado a narrativa, acho que assim como o significado desse especial como da série inteira igual a torre não se sustenta no fim.
Vou dar 7/10 pois é claramente uma continuação da série.
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Probably one of the most hilarious things I've ever seen. Were they building a tower or a space elevator? lol

I thought the people were jubilant over the tower collapsing because they no longer had to worship it, but in reality they were just celebrating that they could build it yet again. The one guy who realised their Sisyphean task was beyond asinine just got mocked by Kino for the fun of it too. The guy should definitely consider travelling on his own as an alternative to whatever sort of hellish torture that country perennially subjects itself to.

Makes no sense at all. Still funny by virtue of it being so shamelessly outlandish.


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