![]() It's honestly rather confusing, and I've seen people on both sides of the fence regarding it. While at times it definitely feels very Kite, it inevitably steers off into a new direction, one that feels at odds not only with the original OVA but also itself. If I was to name my main personal issue with this OVA, it would be the plot in general, and the atmosphere it creates with it. While it seems at first that Liberator might be about Monaka and her experience moonlighting as the Angel of Death, the plot is honestly a confusing twister of three seperate plotlines, forming mostly into one somewhat more coherent main plotline just over halfway through the OVA. And then there's police officer Rin Gaga, who's face and voice are strangely familiar. Her dad, Orudo Noguchi, is an astronaut on the International Space Station, which is being supplied new miracle space food to prevent loss of bone mass in zero gravity, the brainchild of Defy Food's Kouichi Doi. ![]() Monaka Noguchi, the poster girl, is a schoolgirl moonlighting as Sawa, the Angel of Death (yes - named after the original Sawa, who has apparently disappeared), doing pretty much everything you'd expect an assassin like Sawa to do, as well as leaving bundles of feathers on the corpses of her prey. Set 10 years after Kite (coincidentally, of course), Liberator follows. There is a flash of nudity or two, though. Written, directed, and with characters designs by Yasuomi Umetsu and once again animated at Arms, Liberator is the only one of the three OVAs that wasn't produced as a Hentai OVA - that means no uncut version with sex scenes, just an hour of story and action. See it of you like assassin's and some smooth action but don't have the time or desire to invest in layered characters or story.Kite Liberator is a 2008 single episode OVA and the sequel to Kite. In general, Kite Liberator ends feeling very premature and half baked. Just as i was getting interested in them the credits began to roll. This annoyed me mostly because i actually was liking the characters i saw. Character arcs are started and begin to be flushed out, when the movie is suddenly and confusingly halted. Any number of ideas are presented and not a single one is carried to term. All the characters battling feel graceful and capable of prolonged conflict but none of the action scenes go on very long and even the climax at the end felt snubbed. All this is good but the action never seems to reach the peak of it's potential. The animation is quite smooth, the shootouts and chases are fast and the explosions are big. Kite Liberator is more of an action film, with some comedy throughout. Kite, was more or less a hentai with some nice action fight scenes thrown in. The mood is decidedly less depressing and the theme material is handled much less gratuitously. Kite Liberator is sort of a sequel to Yasuomi Umetsu's film Kite. Her father works on a space station and longs to see her, also unaware of her moonlighting hobby. Nights she spends killing apparently evil men throughout the city. However, what her friends and co-workers don't know is that she's also a cold blooded assassin. ![]() An average school girl has a part time job as a waitress and maintains an average life in an inner city home.
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