The human condition is not black and white sometimes and this is blatantly clear in this story.
In fact, this is not lost on Sawa, who struggles with this as her relationship with Oburi deepens. Though he pretends to be kind to Sawa, he takes advantage of her emotional state following the murder of her parents and uses her as a plaything, though he orders hits on men who do the same. In the version I saw, it highlights the hypocrisy of Akai. That did not bother me as most of the most caught up in the violence were villains untouchable by the law due to their status. The censored version I watched cut out most of those scenes but kept in the brutal violence including stabbing, explosions, and headshots. According to the Anime News Network, original OVA showed disturbing scenes of human traffickers working the girls they kidnapped before they were brutally killed by Sawa. Even watching the “16 and up” cut that was first brought to the United States, it has some intense violence and shocking themes. However, the two are betrayed after their next hits go wrong and told to kill the other. She develops feelings for him and he for her, seeing kindred spirits in one another. She soon discovers that they have a second assassin Oburi (Shane Callahan). The police detective Akai (Dave Underwood) and his lackey Kanie (Charles Denson, Jr.) adopts her and trains her to be an assassin, killing men in power who are involved in human trafficking. Sawa (Charlie Watson) is an orphaned young girl whose parents were killed in a double murder. Speaking of which, this review is based on the heavily edited 2000 English dub version. Released in 1998, it premiered in Japan as an original video animation (OVA/miniseries) and has a sordid history with censorship. Kite is a gritty, cyberpunk anime written and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu.
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