Surprisingly Kite managed to get a sequel. I know that Kite holds some relative importance in the world of anime since Quinten Tarintino was inspired enough by it to give to actress Chiaki Kuriyama in preparation for her role as Gogo Uubari in Kill Bill Vol. 1 along with having a few scenes from the anime being recreated for the music video for ExGirlfriend by No Doubt and even having a live action movie adaptation starring Samuel L. Jackson but it still had a small cult following and its not really really well known enough to inspire a sequel. While it isnt as explicit as the first Kite it still features a few short scenes of characters doing creepy shit with underage girls so if youre not into that keep away. After the events of the first Kite Sawa suddenly disappears after avenger her parents death with no trace of where she went. Several years later Kite Liberator now follows Monoka a girl working at a maid cafe who leads a double life as an assassin much like Sawa. And then an alien shows up. Yes you read that right Kite Liberator has aliens. Well technically theyre not aliens and it is connected to the rest of the plot but there is still a giant monster running around Japan destroying stuff. How does a sequel to Kite have aliens or monsters of all things? Maybe have a similar story to the first or include a conspiracy or two or even just have balls to the wall action. But having a alien/monster? To be fair the anime does star on a space station orbiting Earth do it doesnt completely come out of nowhere but its still a weird direction to take the series. But just as soon as it introduces all of its plots it ends just as quickly with a cliffhanger 50 minutes later. Kite Liberator is not especially long at less than an hour later but the original Kite was around the same length too and it still managed to have a conclusion even if it was left a bit vague on what the ending was. Maybe this was supposed to be another episode after this one to resolve a lot of the dangling plot threads but it probably didnt do well enough enough to warrant making another episode which I personally find disappointing because It would have loved to see what the writers would have written as the conclusion for this entry of Kite. And to top it all off its sister series Mezzo Forte written by the creator of this and the original Kite Yasuomi Umetsu managed to get a 12episode series in the form of Mezzo DSA. Sure it went for more of an episodic approach but 12 episodes still had enough room to develop on what it was trying to do. Here theres barely enough room to develop on the one idea that it did have. On a technical level Kite Liberator incorporates a few shots of CGI which is surprisingly solid but in a few shots where it mixes the 2D and 3D animation it is a bit awkward. But considering that this came out the same year as The Sky Crawlers and Ponyo Im going to assume it had to do with the budget. However I am still a big fan of Yasuomi Umetsus art style. I cant really recommend Kite Liberator. The only people who would get anything out of it let alone watch it in the first place would be fans of the original Kite and Im pretty sure all of them would be just as confused about the plot as the people coming into it blind. And here I was thinking that my complaints would be entirely nitpicks or general complaints. Apparently a sequel was announced back in September of 2008 but considering that its been 13 years as of this review and nothing more has come of it I dont think its going to come out which is a shame.