This is the point where you have reached absolute SHIT tier anime, but at least it had a decent soundtrack and was tonally consistent. Below the Merchant is the Peasant, which would MD Geist. This was an absolute MESS of an anime, but at least there were brief instances where the director was trying to do something that could have been effective if handled more skillfully. Below the Knight is the Merchant, which would be Genocyber. It is pretty hard to defend an anime of this low quality, but at least the gore is relatively realistic and well drawn at times. Below the Nobel is the Knight, which would be Violence Jack. It is not technically as well made as Tokyo Ghoul and clearly wasn't trying to be anything but garbage, but at least a few people enjoy it. Below the King is the Noble, which would be Gantz. It is clearly cheap, exploitation schlock, but it knows exactly what it wants to be and has good animation along with other technical aspects that qualify it as competent at the very least. Below the Pope is the King, which would be an anime like Tokyo Ghoul. It is FAR from the perfect anime, but more than good enough to qualify as the top of this dung heap sub-genre of anime. It has very obvious flaws, but also has areas where it is rather objectively excellent. At least some of the gore was justified by its artistic intention of tackling humanity's darkness and eternal struggle with the redeeming aspects of the human soul. It overuses nudity and gore, but actually the majority of the nudity was not intended as fanservice. At the top of the Hierarchy is the Pope, which would be Elfen Lied. I feel I need to explain what I mean by this, so let's rank gore and tits exploitation anime as if they were the Medieval European societal hierarchy. Unfortunately, Kite is an entirely different caliber of schlock. Younger fans that haven't seen Kite would be forgiven for thinking Kite is like the early 2000s anime Gantz and Elfen Lied. The anime Kite was a 1990s hentai/ action exploitation anime that somehow gained a cult following in the US for its over the top use of sex and violence. How do you follow what is quite arguably one of the worst anime ever made? With a sequel that is even worse! This is one of those anime that is not only bad, but has absolutely no reason to exist in the first place!īefore we talk about Kite 2, we unfortunately have to talk about Kite.
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