![]() This is sadly a common problem with OVA’s based on an original story: It ends on a cliff-hanger and any plans for a sequel are dead in the water. The absolute biggest problem with Kite Liberator that it isn’t finished. I think it would have been better to focus on Monaka and her assassin life in the first episode, then bring in the monster story in later episodes. Its at least used to further the plot and show Monaka that she ‘can’t lead a double-life’ but it doesn’t fit very well. Some action scenes aside, the original Kite OVA was fairly believable and this big bad monster story is a bit ridiculous in the context of the series. The science fiction story starts off well but quickly turns into, well nonsense. That was something I really liked in the prequel. The art still resembles the original but given a new look which is a great thing. I particularly liked the spaceship scenes at the beginning, looked very high-budget. There’s an interesting mix of CGI and traditional animation here, and it all looks good. The tone and characters are a lot lighter overall but there’s still a decent amount of stylized violence here that’s cool while not being gratuitous, and the (arguably) unnecessary sex scenes are all gone too. In the original OVA, every character was basically a blank slate or one dimensional. The supporting characters despite only showing up here and there are more fleshed out and actually have personalities. She’s likeable while also still being mysterious, we aren’t told everything about her past but we’re given a few Monaka is a more interesting protagonist compared to Sawa and gets a good amount of backstory. We have a new protagonist called Monaka who has taken on the identity of Sawa from the original, and has continued her legacy of assassination (‘The Angel of Death’). It manages to address most of the problems I had with the prequel, the two largest being the bizarre tone shifts and lack of character development. Compared to the original Kite OVA, this is two steps forward and one step back.
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