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Kite Liberator (OAV)

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Alternative title:
Kite Liberator: Angel of Death
カイト リベレイター (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Intense
Copyright notice: ©2008 Yasuomi Umetsu, "Kite Liberator" Production Committee, Fever Dreams LLC.
Plot Summary: Years after the events that transpired in Kite, Sawa's whereabouts are a mystery. During this time, rumors of a new killer have begun to circulate the city. They call her the Angel of Death, an unfeeling assassin who eliminates her targets with grace and precision, leaving only a flurry of feathers as her calling card. What the public is unaware of is the fact that this notorious hitman is a actually a polite young lady named Monaka. Like her spiritual predecessor, Monaka has lost most of her family, and her father's duty as an astronaut keeps hims practically worlds apart. However, they are close despite the physical distances and Orudo promised his daughter that he would return. Until then, daily life for the timid and somewhat clumsy Monaka involves mostly school and her part time job as a waitress, but her nature completely changes once she receives an assignment.
User Ratings: 548 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 17 votes (sub:12, dub:5)
 Excellent: 50 votes (sub:36, dub:14)
 Very good: 81 votes (sub:57, dub:18, raw:1, ?:1, others:4
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Good: 162 votes (sub:109, dub:44, ?:1, others:8
4 Spanish subtitled
1 French subtitled
1 Chinese Mandarin subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 Decent: 112 votes (sub:75, dub:31, ?:4, raw:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 So-so: 51 votes (sub:35, dub:16)
 Not really good: 25 votes (sub:15, dub:9, others:1
1 German dubbed
)
 Weak: 33 votes (sub:25, dub:6, ?:1, others:1
1 Russian edited dub
)
 Bad: 12 votes (dub:7, sub:4, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Awful: 4 votes (sub:3, dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (dub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 902 users, rank: #1339 (of 9508)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.489 (Decent+), std. dev.: 1.8388, rank: #5787 (of 9647)
Weighted mean: 6.429 (Decent+), rank: #5868 (of 9647) (seen all: 6.44 / seen some: 3.95 / won't finish: 3.00)
Bayesian estimate: 6.455 (Decent+), rank: #5333 (of 7268)
Running time: 57 minutes
Vintage: 2008-03-21
Release dates: We have 3
Ending Theme:
"my sweet home" by Marina Inoue
Official website:
KITE LIBERATOR (Japanese)
Links: We have 1
Trivia: We have 2
DVD Easter Eggs: We have 1
Review:
Kite Liberator DVD (Apr 25, 2008)
News: Show:
Media Blasters (Dec 9, 2007)
Other articles: Show:
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Blu-ray (Region A)
    Kite Collection (Blu-ray) 2015-08-11 (from $32.00)
    Kite Liberator - Special Edition (Blu-ray) 2014-11-25 (from $17.99)
    Kite Liberator (Blu-ray) 2020-09-22 (from $17.99)
    Kitty's High-Caliber Classics - Kite Uncut / Kite Liberator (Blu-ray) 2019-03-26 (from $159.00)
DVD (Region 1)
    Kite Collection (DVD) 2014-11-11 (from $13.94)
    Kite Dualogy (DVD) 2009-03-24 (from $21.99)
    Kite Liberator (DVD) 2008-03-25 (from $9.95)
    Kite Liberator - Special Edition (DVD) 2011-07-05 (from $14.99)
    Kite Liberator (DVD) 2020-09-22 (from $14.99)
    Kitty's High-Caliber Classics - Kite Uncut / Kite Liberator (DVD) 2019-05-14

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Screenplay: Yasuomi Umetsu
Storyboard: Yasuomi Umetsu
Unit Director: Yasuomi Umetsu
Original creator: Yasuomi Umetsu
Character Design: Yasuomi Umetsu
Art Director:
Eiji Wakamatsu (Kusanagi)
Takeshi Satou (KUSANAGI)
Animation Director:
Shuichi Kaneko
Yasuomi Umetsu
Sound Director: Katsunori Shimizu
Cgi Director:
Kōichi Kageyama (Studio Trico)
Masanori Ikeda (Digital Frontier)
Director of Photography: Tōru Sugawara (Studio Cosmos)
Art Setting: Shūichi Hirata
Background Art:
Ayu Kawamoto (Kusanagi)
Eiji Wakamatsu (Kusanagi)
Hiromichi Itō (Kusanagi)
Kazuo Ogura (Kusanagi)
Kei Inoue (Kusanagi)
Rie Oda (Kusanagi)
Yōji Nakaza (Kusanagi)
Yuji Kihara (Kusanagi)
Yuki Umino (Kusanagi)
Background Scan: Hiroaki Hirata (Kusanagi)
CG Design:
Eri Komuro (Digital Frontier)
Hiroki Ando (Digital Frontier)
Masaya Kiriyama (Studio Trico)
Noriko Murata (Studio Trico)
Shingo Matsuyama (Digital Frontier)
Shunsaku Usui (Studio Trico)
CG Manager: Kazunori Sakai (Studio Trico)
CG Producer: Yuusaku Toyoshima (Digital Frontier)
CG Production Advancement: Naomi Ikoma (Digital Frontier)
Color design: Ryouta Nakata
Color setting: Ryouta Nakata
Editing: Takeshi Seyama (Seyama Editing Room)
Editing Assistant:
Hiromi Sasaki (Seyama Editing Room)
Keiko Kadokawa (Seyama Editing Room)
Rie Matsubara (Seyama Editing Room)
In-Between Check: Tatsuya Kawashima
Layout Supervisor: Yūki Itō
Music Performance:
Haruka Shimotsuki (chorus)
Tatsuya Kikuchi (guitar)
Music producer: Junnosuke Sato
Paint:
Haremi Miyagawa
Keiko Kai (Studio Easter)
Kouta Shiraishi (Studio Easter)
Mayumi Suzuki (Studio Easter)
Miyuki Shimada (Studio Easter)
Ryouta Nakata
Paint Check: Ryouta Nakata
Photography:
Fujiko Tabata (Studio Cosmos)
Hiroshi Yoshida (Studio Cosmos)
Kazuhiro Udagawa (Studio Cosmos)
Kazuki Hashimoto (Studio Cosmos)
Koichi Gonda (Studio Cosmos)
Masato Andō (Studio Cosmos)
Naohisa Haijima (Studio Cosmos)
Sakae Sugai (Studio Cosmos)
Shinji Ikegami (Studio Cosmos)
Tomohiro Nishiyama (Studio Cosmos)
Yuji Shirai (Studio Cosmos)
Yuko Orikasa (Studio Cosmos)
Yumiko Morimoto (Studio Cosmos)
Yurie Tadano (Studio Cosmos)
Production manager:
Shingo Chiba
Shunji Tanaka
Prop Design: Shuichi Kaneko
Publicity: Mutsumi Ōishi
Publicity Assistant: Moe Kageura
Recording: Ryō Narikiyo
Recording Adjustment: Ryō Narikiyo
Recording Assistant: Yasuaki Ōta
Sound Effects: Daisuke Jinbo
Sound Production Manager: Tomohiko Yaginuma
Theme Song Arrangement: Pe-Jun
Theme Song Composition: Pe-Jun
Theme Song Lyrics: Saori Kodama
Theme Song Performance: Marina Inoue
Weapon Design: Shuichi Kaneko
Marina Inoue as Monaka Noguchi

Akemi Okamura as Manatsu Mukai
Masakazu Morita as Rin Gaga
Rikiya Koyama as Orudo Noguchi
Setsuji Satoh as Kōichi Doi

Kei Shindō as Azuki Noguchi
Kenji Nomura as Ichizō Noguchi
Mugihito as Torokurō Amuzu
Yasuhiro as
Kai Tsuin
Kichi Tsuin
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Arms
Background Art: Kusanagi
Background Art Assistance:
FAI International
Team Till Dawn
Background Scan: Kusanagi
Distributor: Fever Dreams
Editing Studio: Seyama Editing Room
Materials Sponsoring: NASA World Wind
Music Production: Lantis
Photography: Studio Cosmos
Recording Studio: Seion Studio
Sound Production: Zack Promotion
VTR Editing: Studio Brain
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Alex Von David
Art Director: Merideth Mulroney
Translation: Takeshi Kino
ADR Script: Alex Von David
Executive producer: John Sirabella
Assistant producer: Charles Ohta
Associate Casting Director: Mami Okada
Casting Director: Kaeko Sakamoto
Co-Producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing: Marco Bustos
DVD Authoring: Dave Beinlich
Editing: Derek Lieu
Engineering Assistant: Jeff Prosser
Post-Production Assistant: Barry Weir
Post-Production Supervision: Christian Moran
Production manager: Megumi Kunisada
Production Supervision:
Richard York
Sean Molyneaux
Re-Recording Mixing: Michael Brooks
Recording engineer: Marco Bustos
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Subtitling: Clark Cheng
Xanthe Huynh as Monaka Noguchi

Doug Erholtz as Koichi Doi
Grant George as Rin Gaga
Tara Platt as Manatsu Mukai
Taylor Henry as Orudo Noguchi

Brian Breth as Security Force
David Lodge as Akiyama
David Vincent as Real Estate Agent
Derek Stephen Prince as
Kai Tsuin
Kichi Tsuin
Doug Stone as Doctor
Joe DiMucci as Torokurō Amuzu
Kaiji Tang as Sputnik
Melanie Wagner as Azuki Noguchi
Taylor Henry as Sugai
English companies
ADR Production: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Broadcaster: TOKU (US)
Distributor: Madman Entertainment (Australia & New Zealand)
Internet Streaming:
Anime News Network (North America only)
CONtv
Crackle (US; Expired)
Crunchyroll
Google Play
Hulu
Netflix
RetroCrush (Dubbed)
Tubi TV
Yekra
Licensed by: Media Blasters
Spanish staff
Spanish companies
(none)
Distributor: Olympusat (Latin America)
Dubbing Studio: Magicorp (Latin America)
Spanish cast
(none)
German staff
German cast
(none)
Nicole Hannak as Monaka Noguchi
German companies
Distributor: Animaze Germany

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