Product Description

The teenage assassin Sawa discovered the man behind her parents deaths was her own her foster father, the police detective Akai. She murdered him. Years later, her whereabouts are still unknown. The story of a new killer has begun to circulate around the city. She is called the Angel of Death. She eliminates her targets with grace and precision, and then vanishes without a trace into the darkness. By day, the Angel of Death wears a different face, the face of Monaka, an ordinary high school girl. But she seems so delicate and sensitive, can it really all be an act? Her past is tied with Akai, and her fate is a duel to the death with the one man who can protect her, the one she loves most.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36156 in DVD
• Brand: Media Blasters
• Released on: 2008-03-25
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Color, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 57 minutes

Customer Reviews

Poor seqeul with no ending
Being a big Fan of the Original Kite Anime I got excited when I saw this had come out, and ordered it immediately. I hoped this one would be nearly as good. It is not, in fact its not even close, and has no resemblance to the Atmosphere and story of the first Kite. The Main character from the first Kite is not in this movie. Instead there is a brief mention of her disappearance along with the person who made her gun and that's all you get of the story of the first Kite. In fact the only minor resemblance to the original Kite is the new girl "Monaka" looks like Sawa, and uses the same gun, but that's about it. The new Kite girl "Monaka" You hardly get to see any of in action the first 30 + minutes since it is mostly subterfuge side stories about her father who is an astronaut, her going to school, and her friend that works at the same restaurant as her. You only get to see a couple of brief moments of her in action. The disjointed side stories don't have anything to do with the original "Kite" story or Mythology, are boring soap opera subterfuge, and you begin to wonder if you are even watching a "Kite" movie, and they sent you some soap opera drama Anime by accident. You never find out why that new girl Monaka is doing what she is doing. Is she a rogue vigilante? Does she work for some Agency? Is she an assassin for hire? It seems to be a guessing game. Not only is there hardly any of the dark edgy action or atmosphere from the Original "Kite" its mostly boring subterfuge drama. then to make matters worse the father of the new girl Monaka ends up becoming some mutated space monster that comes back to earth and wreaks havoc(yeah like we have never seen that in an Anime before), this is just some sad re-hashed anime story of old we have seem time and time again in Anime's for decades, what its doing in a so called "Kite" movie makes no sense at all. I guess they ran out of stuff to write and threw in some old has been crap to fill in space. The Law Enforcement apparently hire the new Kite girl Monaka they now call the "Angel of Death" to help dispatch the Mutant Space Monster, she temporarily stops the monster, and then finds out its actually her father. Her now Mutant Space Monster Father re-generates and is again on the loose, they run into each other again, exchange looks, and just when you expect the story to continue the credits start rolling at 50 minutes in, and the Movie is over. It's as if they decided this anime was so Bad they just pulled the plugged, there is no ending.

If you liked the original Kite DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS DVD.

Yasuomi Umestu's Original Kite, and Mezzo Forte are among my all time Favorite Anime's. Something about Kite Liberator went horribly wrong and will end up on the shelf of my local DVD trader. I'm feeling like this was a cash cow exploit to just make some money of the name of the firt Kite Anime. Extremely disappointing, the cardboard box sleaved that the DVD case comes in, is actually better than the DVD. If you didn't like the first Kite, and you like people fighint weird space monsters that has no ending you might like this

Pros/Cons
Pros:

- Same great art style as found in "Kite"
- Engaging new character
- Good voice acting/dubbing
- Somewhat continues the original storyline
- Not as bleak as "Kite"

Cons:

- Unfinished feature (where's the other half???)
- Sci-fi elements feel out of place
- No ending, no resolution
- No big set pieces, the action has been toned down

almost
Don't buy this movie yet.... this is a rental. Own it and own kite, two great movies, two very different movies. This has the killin, not the sex. Doesn't have an ending at all. Seriously, it just stops. I loved it, but was left looking for the rest. Don't buy or even think about watching this, until they add a part two. This would get five stars from somebody who doesn't mind the lack of sex that kite had, and doesn't mind the crazy sci-fi, but i can really only givr it 2.5 stars, cause its only half of a movie.