Kite Liberator is a 2008 Original Video Animation written and directed by Yasuomi Umetsu. The OVA was animated by ARMS. It takes place ten years after the events of Kite.
Kite Liberator was released in Japan on March 21, 2008 on DVD and on November 25, 2014 in Blu-ray. It was released in English by Media Blasters. The OVA was when Xanthe Huynh debuted as a voice actress after winning the AX Idol contest in 2007.
It follows a new young female assassin named Monaka Noguchi, who poses as a waitress in a maid cafe and kills criminals as "The Angel of Death" by night, said cafe also serves as the front organization. There are two primary storylines: one about the older brother of one of Monaka's past targets seeking revenge, and the other about Monaka's astronaut father coming home... wrong after doing work in space linked with the ISS and a company called Defy Foods. Additionally, the sequel features a cameo by Sawa, now all grown up, Older and Wiser waitress colleague of Monaka (and a single mother). What Liberator doesn't feature is gratuitous rape and sex scenes.
The OVA contains examples of:
- Body Horror: Monaka's astronaut dad transforms into a twelve-foot monster made of solid bone.
- Boom, Headshot!: Monaka takes out the two DF agents and Doi after they find out that Monaka's father is the other bone armored monster inside the car with diplomatic plates.
- Can't Bathe Without a Weapon: One poster for Liberator shows Monaka taking a bath with two guns in the water and a clip laying on the rim of the bathtub.
- Continuity Nod: Monaka acquires the Red Club, Sawa's old sidearm in Kite.
- Diplomatic Impunity: The sedans used by DF agents were seen with blue diplomatic license plates, likely in an effort to make sure law enforcement doesn't impede their operations.
- Driving Question: Why was Monaka doing vigilante work? How was she recruited? Also how did the Red Club came into the possession of Monaka?
- The Men in Black: Near the end of the OVA, Defy Foods has agents clad in black suits and shades in (at least) one car with diplomatic license plates in order to capture and/kill the bone armored monster that survived the space shuttle crash.
- Monumental Damage: When the space shuttle goes for a controlled landing, they land on the Fuji Broadcasting Center building.
- No Ending: The OVA ends after Monaka catches the attention of the bone armored monster, who happens to be Orudo Noguchi. From there on, it ends.
- SWAT Team: The ISS has SWAT teams stationed there. However, the bone armored monster makes short work of them that by the time the survivors (including Kōichi Doi) were able to escape, most of them died and the lone survivor died in the explosion of the reentry tube in an effort to kill it after attaching an explosive on its leg.
