Kino isn't a person, not even a character really. Her gender is unimportant because she's an archetype, an egoless stand-in for the reader and writer. She makes no judgement, has no discernible morality, you couldn't comment on her personality and her features are utterly unremarkable. She simply observes and asks questions, of both the characters in the bizarre lands in this menippean satire, and of the invisible yet omnipresent reader who's intruding into the world and her thoughts upon it. For the most part, her character is her role in the book, the traveller -- independent, curious, and without any roots or foundation.
Kino is the opposite of whatever a moe-character is, which makes her super-cute.
