90’s Yasuomi Umetsu Kite US Promo T-Shirt

Yasuomi Umetsu's Kite (1998) sits at a specific intersection of the late-1990s anime market — an original video animation by the character designer of Megazone 23 Part II and Robot Carnival, built around a schoolgirl assassin named Sawa and distributed in multiple hard-cut international versions that made the piece simultaneously controversial and canonical in the Western anime circuit of the early 2000s. This US-release promotional tee carries Sawa in her signature pose — pleated skirt flaring, Sig Sauer pistol raised, braided red hair whipping behind her — against a sprayed red Kite wordmark that reads directly to the OVA's original Green Bunny title-card typography. The "Original Japanese version © 1998 Yasuomi Umetsu / Green Bunny" credit line at the base confirms the official licensing provenance.