A KITE

A KITE Anime

Informações adicionais

Format OVA
Episodes 2
Duration 27 minutes
Status Finished
Start date Feb 25, 1998
End date Oct 25, 1998
Average score 62/100
Popularity 19437
Favorites 313
Studios Arms
Green Bunny
Producers Media Blasters
Kitty Media
Avaco Creative Studios
Happinet Pictures
Genres Action
Drama
Hentai

Tags

Assassins 95%
Centers around characters who murder people as a profession.
Noir 90%
Stylized as a cynical crime drama with low-key visuals.
Female Protagonist 89%
Main character is female.
Gore 89%
Prominently features graphic bloodshed and violence.
Revenge 85%
Prominently features a character who aims to exact punishment in a resentful or vindictive manner.
Crime 82%
Centers around unlawful activities punishable by the state or other authority.
Guns 81%
Prominently features the use of guns in combat.
Orphan 80%
Prominently features a character that is an orphan.
Nudity 80%
Features a character wearing no clothing or exposing intimate body parts.
DILF 79%
Features sexual intercourse with older men.
Urban 76%
Partly or completely set in a city.
Heterosexual 76%
Prominently features a romance between a man and a woman, not inherently sexual.
Age Gap 73%
Prominently features romantic relations between people with a significant age difference.
Rape 60%
Features non-consensual sexual penetration.
Police 56%
Centers around the life and activities of law enforcement officers.
Adoption 53%
Features a character who has been adopted by someone who is neither of their biological parents.
Body Horror 44%
Features characters who undergo horrific transformations or disfigurement, often to their own detriment.
Tragedy 40%
Centers around tragic events and unhappy endings.
Rehabilitation 40%
Prominently features the recovery of a character who became incapable of social life or work.
Bondage 36%
Features BDSM, with or without the use of accessories.
Netorare 20%
Netorare is what happens when the protagonist gets their partner stolen from them by someone else. It is a sexual fetish designed to cause sexual jealousy by way of having the partner indulge in sexual activity with someone other than the protagonist.

Sinopse

Sawa is a school girl, an orphan, and an assassin. She is being controlled by a corrupt cop who gives her targets to kill, detailing to her the crimes these men have committed in order to justify their death. Some of his power over Sawa has to do with her deceased parents and the promise of revenge. When another orphan, a teenage boy called Oburi, is brought in to assist Sawa, the two teenage killers form a bond of sorts. As they heal each other's emotional wounds, they begin to dream of a life that would not be spent under the shadows of murder.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Note: Originally released in Japan as a 2-episode OVA, the series has seen numerous re-edits and releases that exist in several versions:
Japanese Releases:
A KITE, released February-December 1998 - Original 2 episode OVA.
A KITE INTERNATIONAL VERSION, released July 2000 - Re-edited version combining the episodes into a 45 minute OVA and removing the sex scenes entirely.
A KITE PREMIUM COLLECTORS VERSION, released December 2007 - Bundle containing both Vols. 1+2 and INTERNATIONAL version.
A KITE Special Edition, released April 2015 - Digitally restored Blu-ray re-release with smaller censorship mosaic.

North American releases:
Kite, released April 2000 - Based off of the international version, the sex scenes are removed entirely and presented as 1 combined episode.
Kite: Director's Cut, released January 2002 - Released on Media Blasters' Kitty Media (Adult) label, restoring the sex scenes, save for ~12 seconds of material involving sex with a minor, also presented as 1 combined episode.
Kite: Special Edition Uncut, released September 2004 - Also on Kitty Media, restoring the previously removed footage and presented as 2 episodes like the original.

For simplicity sake, we are only counting the first OVA release in this entry.