Not a proper review; more like a "mini-rave".
My deepening Akuji addiction has just been fed by our local kite-pushers. Typically for when one buys a UL, the winds were ballistic for the next few days after it arrived. Consequently, it had its first flight today in somewhat less than ideal conditions.
The wind was varying between about 2 and 12 mph, gusty, varying in direction through about 30 degrees and turbulent owing to nearby trees. Despite that, I "clicked" with the kite almost immediately. It is easy to rotate in all three axes (pitch, roll and yaw) and seems to recover from almost anything that this somewhat ham-fisted flyer contrived to get it into. When I got the timing right, I pulled off the flattest, floatiest axels that I have ever done on anything.
I only managed to fly for an hour or so before the rain intervened, but I think this is already my favourite of the Akuji kites. It's hard to explain. At the risk of being fanciful, and possibly a candidate for Pseud's Corner: with the comp, I feel as though it wants me to tell it what to do and it will do it willingly and competently; with the SUL, I feel as though it knows what it wants to do and my job is to help it do it; with the UL it felt like a mixture of both, something along the lines of if I wanted to do something, it would teach me how to do it. OK, definitely Pseud's Corner....