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I'm not a big fan of porno, just the collateral damage of the whole thing makes me uncomfortable. Even if you assert that anime porno, or hentai, has no victims, it still makes me twitch. However, not all of what is called hentai really is, so I'll often ignore the label if there's good buzz and an apparent plot.
Kite (kee-tay) is ultra violence, with a dash hentai. I watched the uncut version; I'd probably have been happier with the sanitized Western release. There are children with explosive bullets and blood splatter and an unlikely kind of Artful Dodger child abuse, in addition to graphic physical abuse.
The story is thin and unlikely. Like any porno, it just basically supplies a framework for the money shot. I couldn't help thinking that, while the action was well done, it was all rather pointless. Even the end is pointless, which I strangely felt was almost redeeming.
Did you know that US federal law forbids obscenity and that no legally sold pornography is technically obscene? Based on Miller v. California in 1973, the "Miller test" for obscenity ultimately boils down to something like, "if the material has any redeeming social value at all, it's not obscene."
Kite made me think of the Miller test and how close it actually came to meeting the criteria. Obviously, this anime is not my thing. Made me feel like scrubbing with an alcohol soaked hair shirt, actually. There must have been a review that got this one on my shelf, but it's hiding now, probably from shame. Kite has a big following, they tell me.
Kite (kee-tay) is ultra violence, with a dash hentai. I watched the uncut version; I'd probably have been happier with the sanitized Western release. There are children with explosive bullets and blood splatter and an unlikely kind of Artful Dodger child abuse, in addition to graphic physical abuse.
The story is thin and unlikely. Like any porno, it just basically supplies a framework for the money shot. I couldn't help thinking that, while the action was well done, it was all rather pointless. Even the end is pointless, which I strangely felt was almost redeeming.
Did you know that US federal law forbids obscenity and that no legally sold pornography is technically obscene? Based on Miller v. California in 1973, the "Miller test" for obscenity ultimately boils down to something like, "if the material has any redeeming social value at all, it's not obscene."
Kite made me think of the Miller test and how close it actually came to meeting the criteria. Obviously, this anime is not my thing. Made me feel like scrubbing with an alcohol soaked hair shirt, actually. There must have been a review that got this one on my shelf, but it's hiding now, probably from shame. Kite has a big following, they tell me.
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Gah. Japan, land where the men don't do dishes, but do do girls. (Ok, a gross generalization, but still...)
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Their attitudes toward women, and rape in particular, seem several centuries behind the West. Their attitudes toward homosexuality, at least for men, are surprisingly accepting in certain contexts. It often seems to me like Japanese attitudes have stayed virtually unchanged for millennia, like I'm seeing the a sensibility right out of the Roman Empire.
In anime, presumably, no real woman or children were harmed in it's production. Knowing this, I still find it nearly equally unpleasant.
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*makes mental note to avoid 'Kite', sounds like something that would set off Althea's OMGSQUICK!meters..*