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Kino no Tabi (2003) is one of my favourite animes. It has one downside though: It has a limited number of episodes, and there's obviously a lot of content that is not adapted. And I wanted more. So for a few years I've been thinking to myself: I'm gonna read the LN in its original language once my Japanese is finally good enough. Needless to say, that's a lot of anticipation.
And well... I don't know what exactly it is, but I liked the anime much more than this volume. Maybe it's because I remembered some of the twists. Maybe it's because of my glacial reading speed. Maybe the author just hasn't quite found his voice yet. Maybe the anime is just better.
Maybe, and that's what I hope for, it's a matter of the topics explored. The anime probably cherry-picked the best chapters from the available volumes and had a fair bit more diversity. On the other hand, half of the chapters in this volume can be summarized with "humans kill other humans for basically no good reason at all", and to be honest, those were the chapters that I enjoyed the least.
So, if it's that, there's hope that the other volumes explore a bigger variety of topics, and that I might enjoy them more. I will find out once I continue reading, but for now, this volume was nice, but not quite there yet.