Audience reviews
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DanteDemonZ
Kite grabs you with its intensity but quickly exhausts by pushing boundaries and being one of the edgiest, most over-the-top films you’ll watch. Ultimately, the film aims to unsettle through its blend of striking visuals and a grim, character-driven story. Sawa, thrust into a corrupt, predatory world, is shaped by trauma and forced into a life she never chose, establishing the film’s uncompromising tone early on.
But the film doesn’t trust that groundwork and instead relies on shock to an excessive, unnecessary, and disturbing degree. The relentless sexual violence and degradation go far beyond the needs of its themes. It doesn’t explore; it insists and lingers, numbing rather than impacting. The message is clear early, but the film repeats it, louder and more explicit, as if afraid it wo…
Read at the sourceAchi88
Do you like your hardcore rape-scenes to be as sadistic as possible? Do you enjoy watching crying young women get railed by older men on the reg? Do you enjoy substandard animation and bad sound design? Then this is the anime for you!
All the flaws mentioned above are contained in a poorly told story about exploitation and revenge. My hopes were high after the initial elevator scene, that was quite well made. But the story quickly devolved into sadistic (and way too graphic) nonsense. Some scenes were enjoyable in a comedic way, a highlight is when a small war breaks out between the characters in a tiny public bathroom (lol). The main characters looked lifeless, like dolls, and sometimes it's like the artist had a stroke (hands that should be resting on a shoulder are just gripping thin…
Read at the sourceTheAceAttorney
Guys, Kite is not that great c'mon now. I know it's easy to dismiss it as an "intellectually-charged hentai" due to the loss of more sex scenes, but this couldn't be further from the truth.
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For one, I outright laughed while watching this several times. Apparently reaction time is non-existent. Obori has an explosion happen right in front of him, and notices 10 seconds later. This moment is worth pointing out as well 21:18 (Man really took 5 minutes to identify that Sawa was INDEED a female). The tv guy gets shot in the head and is still alive for a few seconds, as well. And don't even get me started on the pacing. There's a scene around the 15 minute mark, where Sawa and Obori are talking to each other and Sawa flat out asks Obori a question, he leaves for 2 minutes, returns a…
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So I’m going to do something that a reviewer should probably never do, that being starting off with a biased statement. But I don’t care, I hate Kite. Kite is genuinely one of the most unpleasant experiences I ‘ve ever had watching an anime. I would rather watch Dark Cat & Sword For Truth 3 times in one day each, rewatch Green Green & Girls & Panzer in their entirety, & complete conception before I ever think about watching Kite again. I’ve blabbered on long enough, let's rip this piece of shit apart.
Story & Characters:
What story? Kite’s “story” is nothing but a series of inconsequential events that exist only to build up to the action sequences. The supposed “set-up” of this story is that our main character Sawa is being controlled by a crooked cop or some shit, & she’s basically made…
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There was a time when A Kite (or Kite) was the most famous porn anime before it was completely overshadowed by Sei Shoujo’s creations (especially Bible Black) and why not? I mean it is an adult oriented movie that is not only porn, but also a heavy action packed film, a crime thriller and a psychological drama too! Sounds amazing on paper but its execution is far from being equally good.
The plot is about two teenagers, a guy (Oburi) and a girl (Sawa), who work as assassins for two corrupt private detectives, and she is also constantly abused by one of them and carries with a tragic past.
The main problem this film has is its duration; it lasts for only fifty minutes and tries to pack all of the aforementioned elements, what could go wrong, right? Well, almost everything, but let’s go by…
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However laughable, cliche-ridden, and squickworthy the story is, there's promise hidden in there. A young girl, after seeing that her parents have been brutally murdered, gets taken under the wing of a corrupt detective in exchange for being a sex slave and is made to become an assassin to kill other corrupt people. It's apparent that Quentin Tarantino borrowed the basic premise of a young orphan growing up to kill those who are bad and those who have wronged her for his Kill Bill series. The blood splatter, the fast pace of the action scenes interspersed with the calm, dialogue-heavy (though not as effective or even good in this movie's case) scenes filled, one-liners full of cheese and the like, even jazzy throwback music accompaniment... Tarantino surely must have watched this film, eve…
Read at the sourceLoveLikeBlood
Kite is perhaps one of the most controversial anime in the West. It was banned and censored in numerous countries due to its depiction of underage sex and remains so to this day. It is also, oddly enough, highly influential as scenes have been gleefully nicked by the pop punk band No Doubt for their Ex Girlfriend music video, Quentin Tarantino has cited the protagonist as an influence on the character of Gogo Yubari in Kill Bill and it has had an oft-maligned live action remake starring Samuel L. Jackson and helmed by South African director Ralph Ziman (of Jerusalema fame). But is this strangely prominent title any good? Well, that is the purpose of this review, so let's cut the bullshit and dive right in.
Kite's plot revolves a teenage girl named Sawa who is an assassin and sex slave und…
Read at the sourceLuquillo
You want an anime that catches a whole lot of hell and has been accused of having no story or anything worthwhile at all? Then look no further than Kite. There are folks out there whom would have a person believe that if you so much as think this thing is decent, then you should be outright executed.
Kite which is directed by Yasuomi Umetsu has a tad bit more story than it first appears. Still, it could have been a much better title had the director focused more on the psychological thriller aspects of the movie, instead of dishing out mindless hentai that had little to no point in regards to the plot or the story. As well as one very overdone action scene that crossed over into the complete absurd by the very second. I have seen this OVA at least three times since its release, and I sti…
Read at the sourceShioxus
I remember first seeing this when I was 12. My mom let me rent it from blockbuster without checking the rating, and I watched it that weekend. At the time I didn't understand much of it, so I never put it on my completed list. I did like it a lot (probably because it was gory and had fight scenes) back then though. So how do I feel about it 9 years later?
First off, the story isn't anything new. Even for its time, the concept of an assassin group raising teenagers/kids into killers was far from novel. I do feel that this OVA was a contribution towards the better anime of the genre that would follow in later years (Phantom: Requiem for the Phantom and Gunslinger Girl to name a couple). There were many scenes that had me in disbelief, and one scene in particular involving twins was not thou…
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"A pencil looks better in my hand than a gun does." -Sawa
Preface:
Well, I'll be honest, the pencil probably should have been in the hand of a writer who was a little more focused on characterization, but was instead passed off to a guy who knows how to write brutal, over the top action and hit you with the shocker. Exploitative, violent, and outrageous- this one is a cult classic among the ranks of your Violence Jacks and Mad Bull 34's.
Art: 8
To have appeared in 1998, the time at which animation had started the gold rush towards computers and getting away from the pencils and pens, Kite looks pretty good for one of the holdouts of hand-drawn anime.
The blood and gore effects are appropriately squishy and splatter like so many bugs on the windshield. Kite has these fun little guns…
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The 90s were full of ambitious and creative pieces of art all over, in terms of music and animation. Great bands were redefining what pop music was, like Nirvana, REM, Green Day, Korn, Marilyn Manson, and various other alternative acts. While in animation, there was the slew of classic Disney films that came out at the time throughout the decade. However, what was even more important was the amount of edgy, bloody, “mature” anime direct-to-video OVAs that were coming out from Japan. While many people today would identify anime with something like Dragonball Z, Sailor Moon, Pokemon, Naruto, etc, the perception of anime was different during the early 90s. Whether it be with OAVs like MD Geist or movies like Ninja Scroll and Akira, anime had the reputation of being dark, gritty, and more matu…
Read at the sourceSquigsquasher
This is an interesting one.
Whilst commonly just referred to as a hentai, Kite is a lot more than that- it's more like a crime thriller/assassin drama that has a lot of (surprisingly fitting) sex in it. It belongs to the large family of hyper-violent oversexed OVAs the 90s birthed so many of. Unlike most of those, however, it's actually fairly good.
The story is fairly simple. Sawa, a girl with a mysterious and bloody past, is an assassin, trained to kill without mercy and leave no signs of her presence. She's also involved with a ring of killers and criminals, and is in a somewhat one-sided sexual relationship with the boss. She later meets another trainee killer, Oburi, and without giving too much away, things go down south. It's a fairly minimalistic story, but it gets the job done an…
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Kite is a...unique...show. I mean that in terms of the curious history attatched to it as well as in the actual content.
For those who don't know the story, Kite is a rather controversial movie, so much so that it's been banned in several countries, most notably for the sex scenes involving Sawa. Despite the official word describing her as a college student, her appearance is that of a girl much younger in age, combine that with full penetration sex scenes and it's not too tough to understand the problems.
So, if you're not too keen on that, and you still want to watch it, you have the original release available which cut out all the nudity, whereas the more "popular" Uncut version has all the original content featured in the Japanese release. There's also an intermediary "Directors Cut"…
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This is… I don’t really know how to explain this one. It’s not all that enjoyable, and yet, it’s got a strange feeling. It’s not even what I would consider a Hentai since there were very few sex scenes, most consisting of story plot instead. The story is actually very easy to understand because it’s actually a plot that has been played out over and over again.
Sawa is a rather interesting character as she seems to only have two emotions, mysterious and shouting out. Seriously, out of all the characters, she being a main character should have more then those two emotions. It also seemed that there were more scenes of Oburi or Akai instead of Sawa.
The animation is pretty vintage and doesn’t really stand out much from most hentai related anime though it does have a small air of people ho…
Read at the sourceGhostCell
Short and to the point. The Action as is the best part of the anime well done and animated (aside from one or two parts). The art is the second best part of the anime it holds up even in 2011 with its nicely detailed world and characters. If you're a fan of the late 90s art style you're going to love the nostalgia factor.
Sadly it misses out on what I believe would have made the anime great, the relationship between the two protagonists. At just 56 minutes it's barely enough time to allow the viewer to see the two protagonists connect with each other. They waisted valuable minutes on sex scenes instead of relationships building.
The soundtrack is mostly poorly chosen saxophone based jazz pieces which, in my opinion, are not worth hearing.
Overall it gets a 5 out 10 for failing in the…
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The first thing that struck me about "Kite" is how squeaky clean the artwork looks. But after a while it started feeling *too* clean, like the characters are all made from porceline or something. Apart from the overly polished artwork, everything else about "Kite" feels rough and raw.
Kite tries to be stylish with the action, and though it succeeds at times, it often ends up being waaaay too over the top. There is one scene where someone comes crashing down onto a car that's on a flyover, and the force of this caused the part of the flyover that's beneath the car to crumble... the car then fell through onto a truck on the road below... which in turn caused that part of the road to collapse... and so the truck to fell through into an underground tunnel where it exploded, blowing the origi…
Read at the sourceanimegorey
Kick ass anime. Must watch the uncut version. Great violence and graphic gore. Animation is superb, story is twisted and perverse, plenty of sex and violence. Profanity is common. I wish they continued this series cause 2 episodes is NOT enough.
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This short OVA actually surpassed my expectations for it. First of all, it's not a hentai per se; it's an interesting story where corruption, murdering and sex merge, all of them being very explicit. After reading the synopsis, you might think you've watched this same plot before in other animes, but Kite presents it to you in it's own unique way, with a lot of interesting and unexpected turn of events.
The art is pretty good when compared in both decades, when it was aired and the present day; it adds to the mood of the anime. Sound effects and voice acting was acceptably good, just the necessary to make things work.
Character development is presented in a very smooth manner, and by the end of the OVA you get to understand the main characters pretty well.
This "hentai" proved to be ver…
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MAL rates this as an 'Rx - Hentai' but I would say that it is still an Rx, but not strictly a hentai. It has scenes of full penetration sex, and nudity, but it serves only to further the plot and help you understand the characters. Take this into mind that this is not a hentai, but has the graphic sexual content of one.
Story: - 8/10 - Very Good
The story in this OVA is rather hard to describe without giving many spoilers, but essentially it is about a teenage girl who is involved with a crooked cop after her parents are murdered, who makes her and another boy kill people who have done wrong. Doesn't sound special, does it? Seems we have seen things like this before, right? Wrong. This OVA provides so many subtle plot twists and turns that until the end of the show, you have no clue what…
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Story: Well, first things first. This isn't a Hentai in the 'traditional' sense. To call it so would be a misrepresentation of the movie. It's more of an action-packed drama which happens to feature nudity which actually fits with main plot. The synopsis pretty much sums it up and is essentially about a 'hit-girl' (as opposed to hitman).
For what is essentially and hour-long anime, it really packs a lot in there. Lots of bloody violence which is nicely balanced with the more emotional side of things (plus some nudity to add to the dimension of things). I felt the plot moved at a nice even rate and I didn't feel bored at any point.
Animation: Well, for a 10 year-old anime is was very well animated. Everything looked smooth and sharp and the slightly more 'old-skool' style simply added to…
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