Kite (1998)
Directed by Yasuomi Umetsu
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Synopsis by Mark Deming
In this two episode OVA, Sawa is a young woman whose parents were killed by a homicidal maniac when she was a little girl. Sawa was raised by the detective who was assigned to investigate her mother and father's death, and as she grew up seeing so many criminals fall through the cracks of the judicial system, she became determined to do something about it. Now Sawa is a college student by day and a deadly vigilante by night, going after the bad guys the law can't touch.
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alter-ego, detective, femme-fatale, justice, maniac, murder, revenge, vigilante