Title - Freezing
Language - Japanese
Genra - Ecchie, harem, Sci fi, action
Freezing
is set in a future where mankind is under attack from the Nova,
inter-dimensional creatures who are able to freeze everything in
their path. To combat the Nova the humans have genetically
engineered girls known a Pandora who have enhanced speed and healing
and can use special weapons. The Pandora are teamed up with their
male counterparts who are known as Limiters who have the ability to
cast freezing which will canter that of the nova.
The series
follows Kazuya Aoi a young Limiter and the Pandora Satellizer Bridget
(the untouchable queen).
I found
Freezing via recommendations, it was liked by people who liked
Sekirei but I have to say that I had trouble getting into to it to
begin with. Freezing has 12 episodes and is a show of 3 parts, the
first episode starts with the Pandora students who are in their
second year of the ‘West Genetics Academy’ having their annual
tournament to see who is the strongest in the year, Satellizer
Bridget is winning the tournament until Kazuya bumps into her,
surprised by the similarity to his sister, a Pandora who was killed
in the last battle with the Nova. The next three episodes consist of
Kazuya trying to make up for his mistake and Bridget getting into
fights with other students and, I found that there were no likable
charters to begin with, Kazuya is you typical bumbling male lead of a
Harem anime and Bridget is the typical uncaring ‘Tsundere’ with
most of the other characters being equally cruel and manipulative,
the only attempt at making any of the characters likable seemed to be
in the some of the secondary background characters. The violence can
at times be quite brutal and is in some scenes used to humiliate
Bridget and, of course quite often involves at least one of the
characters loosing the clothes, I’m not quite sure if breast
enhancements are included in making some one a Pandora but every
student at West Genetics is very well developed.
The fist
few episodes do show a bit of development between Kazuya and Bridget
as Kazuya decides he wants to be paired with Bridget as her Limiter
but, as Bridget will not let any one touch her (although Kazuya seems
to manage this most episodes) she will not allows her self to under
go the baptism to normally needed to have a Limiter (It’s not
really revealed what the baptism is but a Limiter normally has a
meeting with their prospective Pandora in her room with no one else
around). I was finding Freezing a bit hard going up two episode 4
and was tempted to stop watching but I had bought the DVD and was
going to watch it till the end, that and Boobs.
The
character of Bridget begins to get more likeable from Episode 5 when
a new transfer student is introduced. Rana Linchen is a Pandora from
Tibet who, on seeing Kazuya decides that she is destined to be paired
with him making Bridget realise that she does like Kazuya and, as she
can never allow herself to lose sets about trying to win him over.
The scheming 3rd
year students pick up on this and try to set Rana & Bridget
against each other but when Rana realises she has been used she teams
up with Bridget to get back at the 3rd
years whist still trying to get Kazuya. These 4 episodes begin to
make Freezing more watchable as they develop the characters and make
some of them more likeable with Rana, Kazuya and Bridget becoming
friends and beginning to fit in at the academy until… Episode 9,
the Nova actually attack, for an invading force they have been
noticeably missing from the show, being seen only in a few flashbacks
but hay they are here now and there are 4 of them where as in the
past they have only attacked one a time and now all of the Pandora
have to team up stop them. With the Pandora fighting the Nova, who
are giant male esq. aliens you would think that there would be less
opportunity for the fighters to lose their clothes (I’m not even
sure the Nova start with clothes or have some kind of exo skeleton)
but that is soon remedied when the Nova use a new attack, they absorb
the Pandora from the East genetics academy and then return them
possessed to fight the West academy Pandora.
I am
glad I stuck with Freezing but for any one who is going to watch it
off the back of recommendations from sekirei bare in mind that it has
a lot less humour, this fights can be more brutal and there is a lot
more nudity. I could see why Sekirei fans would like it but I also
found similarities with Divergence Eve but a lot more Ecchie.
Freezing
has been left open for another season and I have heard that it is
being made, after my initial doubts I think I will be giving it a
watch
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