ICE

PinkFlowers82 Sep 26, 2014

2

It is almost magical how bad this anime is. . . ICE broken down scene by scene: Scene 1: Once upon a time there was a girl with massive 90s hair who had a creepy overly curious brother. Her extremely creepy, overly curious brother asks her if she had hot sex the night before because she came home so late.  Big Hair calmly tells him, "No way bro I'm a virgin for suuuure." Sadly, Big Hair gets hit by a car on the way to buy more hairspray from the supermarket.  A creepy child talks about being in her mom’s belly. BOOM! THE FUTURE All the men are dead. . . for some reason. I think because of a virus. . . or possibly from being evil? Or maybe it was because of an evil man hating virus? Who knows . . .? They all croaked. The world is now only filled with super angry lesbians fighting Romeo & Juliet style in Neo-Tokyo. All of the other countries didn't make it.  Bummer. Oh I almost forgot . . . in the future the world is also filled with alien monsters and the "ICE." The "ICE" is BAAAAAD! The "ICE" is also the future. . . The "ICE" is filled with maids. In the future you only have 4 job options:  Sex Maid, "Ice" Maid Monster, Solider or Hedonistic Lesbian Overlord. Scene 2: Groups of soldiers lead by Lesbian Captain Romeo (fashioned in the clothing of Rose of Versailles) are sent to fight the monsters and the "ICE" with huge guns and meccha machines. Lesbian Captain Romeo also uses a sword because she is a BA mofo. A fight ensues. . . Heads and arms are flying all around! Ladies get stabbed by the "ICE" Maid Monsters after they murder a male infant. The team has massive casualties because of the rookies. Damn rookies. . . Lesbian Captain Romeo is left behind because she is a martyr for her team. She survives the "ICE" Maid Monster attack and uses her "evil man created bomb" to blow up the monster. During this fight to the death she also rescues Lesbian Juliette -She is good at multi-tasking. Scene 3: Lesbian Juliette wants to make sweet, sweet love to the Captain. . . But alas, the captain might not actually be a lesbian because she hasn't slept in 3 years and says, "Let's just be friends." Juliette promises not to lesbian ever again. Captain Romeo is happy you can tell from the look in her one good eye.  Romeo is haunted by Big Hair when she closes her eyes. This is why she can’t sleep. Insomnia the cure for lesbianism! (Thanks writers for that nugget of little know knowledge!) Juliette's "sister" is jealous and wants to kill them both . . . because of course she is in love with Juliette. What better way to show your love than to murder that person with a rocket launcher? Juliette takes Romeo to her favorite place. It's all very romantic and beautiful. She unlocks the magic with a can of canned crab. Birds turn into trees. . . Trees turn into birds. Scene 4: They attend a Ball. Because ladies love balls right? Riiiight! The Hedonistic Lesbian Overlords sass each other. It is super sassy! Clothes are dropped. . . Pretenses are dropped. . . And finally the proverbial ball is dropped! The "ICE" makes babies! The "ICE" can save the world! Hedonistic Lesbian Overlord 1 kidnaps Hedonistic Lesbian Overlord 2's "daughter" Juliette. A fight ensues. . . Scene 5: Everyone dies after an epic battle of sacrifice and valor. Juliette buries the Captain in the Bird-Tree-Bird Garden and then uses the "ICE" on herself. BOOM! THE PAST! Scene 6: A Charlie Chaplin-esque scene happens while the play Fur Elise. . . Big Hair is in the hospital and she is pregnant. Her creepy brother is like "Tsk-Tsk you lied to me about being a virgin sis!" She is holding Juliette's necklace and starts crying. . . "Wait for me Juliette!" Scene 7: A boy and a girl drawn in a completely different animation style play by a tree. ~Fin

Ashuren Aug 11, 2010

5

ICE. When I saw the promotional poster for this OVA I was immediately intrigued. It was simple, good lookingm and hid just enough information for me to try it out. It had been quite a long time since I had run into a good love story, and that was what I expected. I was wrong to expect it to be typical.As noted in the summary, it was a story of a dystopic world that had run into a bit of a problem: The loss of its men and a tense stalemate between the two groups the remaining people separated into. This itself was an interesting premise, albeit not exactly original. It's not completely unwatchable, however it offers many disagreements to the viewer. My main problems with this anime were the pacing and to a degree the character interaction.Many times I felt tossed around with the story. There seemed to be a bit of rushing in parts and nothing was ever fully layed out. Hitomi and Yuki's relationship seemed to proceed in an odd way. (There is only so much you can explain just by throwing the word destiny around.) Much of the focus was brought in on parts where it wasn't necessary at all. They dragged out scenes that in the end were not all too important. The switches between past and future could have been a bit less abrupt at the start. Some sort of transition or explanation for it as the story progressed would have done wonders. Also, the bit with Hitomi's visions as well as the events involving Lady Kisaragi in the ending and her rising seemed a bit farfetched/out there. By the end, with so little attention to story, I was left wondering whether this was merely meant to be an exhibition of the AKB48 members as a service to fans rather than a serious work. With a bit more time and orginization, I feel this could have been significantly better.The animation itself was decent, although it did seem to lack on occasion (especially with some of the shortcuts taken in the 'ballroom scene') I don't have any other complaints about it. The vocal choices were rather good. Most fitted their characters perfectly, demonstrating an effective use of technique to really capture their personalities even with such short screen time alotted.Overall, I'd like to give the makers credit for thinking up something that had the potential to be rather good. However, I'm very disappointed with the actual realization of the idea. It's sad to say that the final scene was probably the best when none of the others matched it.This is worth watching if you have some time on your hands, but not at all worth going out of the way for. If you're looking for something of with Simoun's quality and style, Maria-sama's gentle grace, or Kannazuki no Miko's well played out love throughout re-incarnation aspect- this is not at all for you. If you'd like something akin to a combined shadow of those three, be sure to check this out.

rayz0r Dec 2, 2021

4

When I watched this when I was 11, I was like oh cool but now I'm just.... What the f*ck