Favorite episode?

Yeah, that was a WTF moment. I liked the last ep the best.

Mine is episode 4 of course， where the little girl become Kino.
As an Asian, I understand the meaning of this episode.

As a literature student and a poetry aficionado - you can see it coming, can you? - my favourite episode is the third. A poem born out of sorrow becoming the sacred text of an unknowing community, that's brilliant! (The second episode's twist ending, though, sure was a genuine WTF moment...)

I was and am still astounded by the amount of different questions and problems each country/situation brings. There is solid writing behind the series.

Rock (and roll/ride) on, Kino!

Not my favorite episode, but I liked the parts with the three men on the rails who were working for absolutely nothing. Just goes to show the meaninglessness of life.

I leaned on the wall - the wall leaned away.

hmm. 5 years later that's also the episode that stuck in my mind.

My favorite episode was episode 5, when Kino meets three different people on the train tracks, tells them a story that is vaguely parallels their situation, and then makes it to the town at the end of the tracks and discovers what happened to it. I found that entire episode interesting since all three subplots (the tracks, Kino's story, and the town) had intriguing twists to them.

That said, there weren't many episodes I didn't really like. I suppose the one I found the least interesting was episode 8 where that woman wanted to fly a plain, it was simply not that interesting and rather dull compared to what the other episodes had to offer.

Back in my day, we didn't have that thing you had.

The last is what I would pick if I had to choose just one. It showed a much more vulnerable side of kino. She saw in Lilly everything she missed by having to grow up so soon. The life Lilly had tempted kino to the point she had decided to stay longer, which she never does.

One thing that did get me thinking though was how everything was so eerily similar to her life before she was forced to flee her parents. The names were the same flower. even the parents were the same people. The jobs were the same. It was as if it was her old town and they had another daughter named Lilly just like kino was. So I thought about the book episode again where the father was putting the device over the daughter named kino's head to allow her to live her life in books due to the world having been destroyed. It made me wonder if kino was reading all this stuff and incorporating her memories into how she saw the characters? Just a thought.