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I had put off watching this one for some time because the reviews here weren't very enthusiastic, but when I finally got around to it I actually had a good time. There were a number of subplots skillfully interwoven and which came together in a pleasing manner at the end. Monaka and Mukai were likeable characters, with distinctively different personalities but similar special skills. The show got slightly ecchi at times, but nothing like the uncut version of the original movie. It was all going pretty well until we saw what had happened to the astronauts who ate the wrong foods and got too much radiation--that was so totally absurd that I couldn't help laughing. Still, I was having too much fun to give up altogether, so I set that faux-pa aside and enjoyed the remainder of the show. You have to remember that the first movie wasn't altogether plausible either; somehow, that tongue-in-cheek attitude to danger and action is one of the things that makes the Kite sub-genre fun. Kite Liberator seemed kind of cool, all told; I liked it. Let me see if I got this straight; Mukai is the original Kite, right?
Last updated Sunday, July 13 2008. | ||||||||
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Great dark animation, interesting characters and gory violence, but it just does not 'click' like the original OVA - Kite. Why is Monaka into this whole 'batman' vengeance trip? How does she pick her targets? Who pays for all of her fancy toys and weapons? And the 2nd parallel story about her father being in space, where he gets 'poisoned' by a researcher from a secretive food-distributor which causes him to transform into a clone of the 'incredible hulk' is just a bit too much .... Just splashing together scenes of cute violent girls, lots of gun-n-gore action and big monsters doesn't work very well, unless there is plot or story line to string them all together. And so far the first OVA episode does not really seem to have one ....
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Analysis : 1 Fansub watched
Bah! I miss Sawa! Monaka is ok, but with no explanation of why she is a killer, and about 1/2 of the action, and all this stuff about her father becoming a escapee from Full Metal Alchemist, this OVA is all over the place. She works for a guy who doesn't recognize her when she buys weapons? BAH! BTW Did you notice Sawa? She's there. Last updated Wednesday, April 02 2008. | ||||||||
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| Japanese OVA Web Site | http://www.kite-liberator.com/ |
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