Kite Liberator is the follow-up to 1998's "Kite", a film I've never seen. I've absolutely no idea what the first part was like, or what it was about, but after watching this, it's definitely on my list of things to watch! Samuel L. Jackson loved the manga and anime of the first part so much, that he's remaking it as a live-action movie, set for release later this year.
A friend at work recommended this second part to me, even though he's not an anime fan; in fact, I think this might have been his first anime. I think he just decided to take a punt on this as it was available on Netflix. So I decided to watch it as well. From what I've read, it's not related to the original anime; it's more of a spin-off, with a completely new protagonist.
Synopsis
Kite Liberator is the story of high school girl Monaka Noguchi, who works in a maid café, and also just so happens to be a deadly assassin, known to the police as "The Angel of Death".
Her father Orudo Noguchi works on board a space station that orbits the Earth, and in doing so, he hasn't seen his daughter in four years. When a freak mishap, involving radiation from solar flares, and the bone enhancing space curry that he and one of his fellow crew members have been eating, causes them to transform into raging destructive beasts, and leads to disastrous consequences, we find out that Monaka will soon be reunited with her father once again...
