![]() ![]() While it seems to have conflicting genres, the main character of Sawa keeps the movie together. I understand a third film was planned to make it a rounded trilogy, but it never materialized.īottom line, Kite Liberator is an enjoyable anime that is excellent for your watchlist. That being said, I still enjoyed the movie and liked seeing a crimefighting vigilante battling the worst of scum on the street of Tokyo while getting to know the people around her. As for its status as a follow-up, I felt it was more of a “spiritual successor” than a direct sequel, as no information is giving on the fate of the original Sawa. It felt like watching two different plots that were put together for convenience. ![]() While Sawa’s story is a dark cyberpunk noir, her father’s story is a science fiction horror with their relationship the only thing connecting them. I do wish that they would have expanded on her origin, as to why she was recruited into the vigilante organization.Īs for the story, I do feel that it was two different animes put together. Her relationship to her father was a defining point for her growth. She does a good job of playing the nerdy student by day and the vicious vigilante at night. MUKAI KITE LIBERATOR UPGRADEIt was a definite upgrade from the previous film, which I did enjoy. It was well-designed, especially Sawa’s costume and weaponry. I really enjoyed the animation from this one. Though the ISS is evacuated and destroyed, one of the mutated astronauts, now a monster, begins to stalk prey in Tokyo. He misses Monaka, but soon gets exposed to solar radiation that begins to mutate him, making his body hard after eating a meal from Defy Foods, which was working on a way to help astronaut’s bones in space. She receives a gift, rocks from Mars, from her father Orudo Noguchi (Jamieson Price), an astronaut on the ISS. However, Monaka is actually Sawa the Angel of Death, a vicious vigilante who has taken the mantle of a crimefighter who disappeared ten years ago. Monaka ( Xanthe Huynh) is a shy, reserved, and clumsy Tokyo high school student who works at diner where she dodges harassment from nighttime customers and her boss, but is defended by her older co-worker Manatsu Mukai (Tara Platt). It is 2008 a sequel to the television OVA Kite. It was produced by the animated studio ARMS and released in North America via Cinedigm Corp. ‘ Kite Liberator‘ is a Japanese science fiction anime directed and written by Yasuomi Umetsu. ![]()
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