Kite Liberator

That is the same anime compared the two previous OVA's? This has a fully reduced violence charge.Question plot left to be desired,super bone and calcification're very badly told, any bone is vulnerable for stiffer than it can be pierced by a certain type of bullet, another issue is the end, do make the end, you decides.

Worth watching? Yup! I recommend.

Compared to the original Kite OVA, this is two steps forward and one step back. It manages to address most of the problems I had with the prequel, the two largest being the bizarre tone shifts and lack of character development. We have a new protagonist called Monaka who has taken on the identity of Sawa from the original, and has continued her legacy of assassination (‘The Angel of Death’). Monaka is a more interesting protagonist compared to Sawa and gets a good amount of backstory. She’s likeable while also still being mysterious, we aren’t told everything about her past but we’re given a few ... hints. The supporting characters despite only showing up here and there are more fleshed out and actually have personalities. In the original OVA, every character was basically a blank slate or one dimensional. The tone and characters are a lot lighter overall but there’s still a decent amount of stylized violence here that’s cool while not being gratuitous, and the (arguably) unnecessary sex scenes are all gone too.

There’s an interesting mix of CGI and traditional animation here, and it all looks good. I particularly liked the spaceship scenes at the beginning, looked very high-budget. The art still resembles the original but given a new look; which is a great thing. That was something I really liked in the prequel.

Its not all good news though. The science fiction story starts off well but quickly turns into, well nonsense. Some action scenes aside, the original Kite OVA was fairly believable and this big bad monster story is a bit ridiculous in the context of the series. Its at least used to further the plot and show Monaka that she ‘can’t lead a double-life’ but it doesn’t fit very well. I think it would have been better to focus on Monaka and her assassin life in the first episode, then bring in the monster story in later episodes.

The absolute biggest problem with Kite Liberator that it isn’t finished. This is sadly a common problem with OVA’s based on an original story: It ends on a cliff-hanger and any plans for a sequel are dead in the water. So, it ends up feeling too much like a prologue. Most plot lines are only started here and not resolved. For example, Manatsu is obviously Sawa but here she is only introduced and her life story in the last few years isn’t covered.

If you weren’t completely happy with the prequel like I was I’d still recommend watching this one. It’s an improvement overall, but I think the complete lack of resolution does sour the experience quite a lot.

I actually liked 'A Kite' enough to decide to watch its sequel. If one could call it that. It has literally nothing to do with its predecessor, except our MC masquerades as an assassin during her free time. So, in terms of story. There's a main plot and it's quite action heavy with a fair bit of sci-fi sprinkled in. That's all fine and good. Then there's some mild nudity, which is a few seconds of a minor's naked breasts being shown as she undresses, which was completely unnecessary in my opinion. The other major issue I had was an adult asking a minor out, ... knowing that she's underage. And he's also a cop, who was seen during the first few scenes at the start, disappeared mid-way through and made a re-appearance to ask a minor out on a date. Uh, what? What was even the point of that? Then there's the Manager character, who seemed pretty decent and supplies our MC with weaponry during the last bit. He implies that the gun he's giving Monaka belonged to someone else who disappeared a few years ago. Also a chick. Hmm.. And that a friend of his died around the time this chick disappeared. That's it. We don't get anything else. The implication is that the gun belonged to Sawa, but they don't actually confirm this is the case, which does nothing to tie the two OVA's together.

The art and action sequences are pretty decent for its age, as well as sound desgin. I could have enjoyed it more if the story wasn't so shitty.