 In 2000, the first VHS and DVD U.S. releases of Kite were based upon the  international version from Japan. Even then, roughly 15 minutes of explicit  sexual scenes were deleted to allow this to be a general release with a 45  minute runtime and a 16+ viewer rating by its distributor, Media Blasters.  The two episodes were also not kept in original format because of all the  editing and were spliced together to form one long movie like episode, having  a single opening and ending credits.