Kite Liberator a series that has gone unnoticed for a long time and deserves to be remembered, since anime since its inception has been divided into categories and main genres, these in turn have given rise to the creation of subcategories and subgenres that allow us to be more varied in the stories we consume. One genre that is quite widely consumed is the thriller. Many will think that all the attention goes to rom-com, isekai, and other spicy genres, but no, today there is a large fan base that also enjoys great stories, thrillers, science fiction and suspense.
Kite Liberator an anime with incredible production
Today’s note is to make a space of appreciation to the anime Kite Liberator, which as mentioned by the popular Japanese blog YaraOn!, is a mystery anime with drawings and production really great, and is that in this same page was commented as this has such a high level in different details that even exceeds current anime.
To give context first we must know the history of this anime, being that the first thing to know is that it is not a series like the ones we are used to see every season, this work is rather a Japanese anime-style film with a duration of 60 minutes.
It was released in 2008 and classified as animation for a much more mature audience, years later it got a second installment of a new film. The mind behind Kite Liberator is Yasuomi Umetsu, his work was even released on DVD and Blu-ray. An extra fact is that the second film, unlike the first, does not include an extended cut and is therefore the only one in the franchise that does not include “racy” scenes.
As we mentioned before, this franchise is from the early 2000’s, as you know the anime of that time were something else in terms of animation and plot, which is why fans argue that stories like this is what is missing in today’s anime industry. For according to them, anime today is being mass produced, losing the essence of creating a great and interesting story like Kite Liberator was.
For the time, Kite Liberator presented us back then with a content full of action, science fiction, spicy moments and other somewhat violent ones, and all that resulted in a very interesting anime content for the fans. Those who saw it remember it as a very good title, and that is why they assure that it will be difficult for any other anime of today to capture that retro vibe.
Kite Liberator is the sequel to Kite, and this second film tells us a story that moves forward ten years after the events of the original film, in this one we see Kōichi Doi, a researcher at Defy Foods, boarding the International Space Station. Doi had been researching methods to preserve bone mass in zero gravity. After widowed father Orudo Noguchi and another crew member are later found to be exposed to space radiation and ordered to discontinue the missions, Noguchi asks Doi to deliver a package to his daughter Monaka, whom he hasn’t seen in four years, for her birthday.
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