: Countries where children undergo surgery to "remove the child" so they can perform tasks they dislike as adults.

: Societies that have achieved "peace" through extreme laws or technology, often at the cost of personal freedom or empathy.

Kino no Tabi – The Beautiful World – The Animated Series Episode 11

: A focus on beauty in transience and the "radical sense" of finding light in loneliness and nonsense. Comparing the 2003 and 2017 Adaptations