A Kite Review

Overall Rating 7.0 out of 10 - Controversial, but reasonably well written show

I cautiously recommend watching.

Nice, if rather sad story.

I really sympathize with Oburi and Sawa as well as their plan to kill Akai and free themselves of his manipulations. Sawa in particular had to put up with a lot of shit. Oburi too had to deal that nasty Akai. In the end Sawa had to lie to Akai to silence his vigilance and save Oburi.

Oburi and Sawa make for a nice couple. The show writes their romance rather clumsy though, which is a shame. I wish their time together was more like Takaki and Akari from Byosoku 5cm, or Sakakibara and Mei from Another. It is sad that Oburi was killed by that girl who used to play basketball. For whatever reason they did not want to give us a happy ending.

It has some good action too, though it is clumsily written at times.

The premise is rather dubious. Akai is somewhat of a pedophile, yet he also secretly hunts down and kills other pedophiles. That does seem illogical to me.

Akai is not only a pedophile but also murderer, liar and traitor. He killed Sawa's parents, and lied to her that it was not him to make her work for him. He employed Oburi as assassin, while also secretly plotted to kill him. Akai set Oburi against well prepared and armed target, Sawa saved him. When that failed Akai made that girl who played basketball to sneakily kill him unguarded.

Finally, there is sex. Girls look like they have fully developed adult bodies but are visibly smaller than males in the story. That was probably done for censorship reasons.

Overall, this reminds of how cruel and evil humans can be. It bugs me that there are too many parallels between Akai and my dad. I cannot know for sure if he is a pedophile or murderer, but he sure is traitor and a liar in a similar to Akai way.

Overall, I can recommend this story. It is rather fast paced, so it is easy to miss many important details. However, it is rather short overall and plot worth it to pay attention.