I was really, really enjoying it and then it just ended. Well, maybe even ended isn’t the right word it just stopped in the middle of everything and the credits rolled. What’s going on? Is that it? Are there plans for a second episode, or is one likely at any point soon? After so many years, we finally got a sequel to Kite. I’d hate to see it just stop right in the middle of everything like this. I’d like to be able to definitively explain what went “wrong” with Kite Liberator, but regrettably I haven’t encountered any statements from either creator/director Yasuomi Umetsu or American co-producer/distributor Media Blasters. I have encountered consistent and unanimous confused and disappointed responses to the OVA from viewers that have watched it.įans have anxiously waited ten years since the 1998 release of A-Kite to see a sequel. Countless anime fans are also familiar with director Yasuomi Umetsu’s other “girls with guns” anime titles Cool Devices operation 7: Yellow Star, A-Kite, Mezzo Forte, and Mezzo. Regrettably, the long awaited Kite Liberator doesn’t match up to the quality of any of these prior titles, including even the very uneven Mezzo television series. Unlike Umetsu’s previous action anime projects that were produced primarily for Japanese release, Kite Liberator was co-financed by an American distributor and was released practically simultaneously in Japan and America. I don’t know how much, if any American influence compromised the content of Kite Liberator, but plans for an American release certainly do seem to have affected the production. While Kite Liberator isn’t entirely sanitized, the graphic sex of Yellow Star, A-Kite, and Mezzo is gone. And the graphic violence in Kite Liberator feels lessened in both frequency and visual impact.
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