Ice

By A.D. 2010, all men have died off quickly due to a dramatic change in the environment and an unknown contaminant. The population decreased to the lowest number ever seen...until only the women were left alive.

They live huddled in small corners of a world mostly reclaimed by nature.
There are those who accept their inevitable extinction and live a carefree life...
There are those who try to continue on the race with the help of science...
It is a society of constant conflict over their differences of principles and policies.

The story takes place in the center of Tokyo. It is one of the places left for them. The conflict over the specimen of "ICE" and the chance it may provide to save humanity begins.

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Landsknecht, Hitomi Main

Minagawa, Junko Japanese

Ice-T, Yuki Main

Ono, Erena Japanese

Kisaragi Main

Ootori, Yoshino Japanese

Julia Main

Ishida, Akira Japanese

Aida, Makoto Main

Koizumi, Yutaka Japanese

Mint Supporting

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Satsuki Supporting

Mamiya, Kurumi Japanese

Usuha Supporting

Imai, Yuu Japanese

Rinne Supporting

Ooshima, Yuuko Japanese

Murasaki Supporting

Satou, Natsuki Japanese

Inoue, Hiroaki Producer

Kobayashi, Makoto Director, Script, Storyboard, Background Art, Key Animation, Art Director

Tsuruoka, Youta Sound Director

Hirano, Yasushi Script

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Sep 3, 2024

vomit_lover

Recommended

Writing comes in various levels of quality. Of course, excellent writing is nice, but that's not always what you get. As writing gets worse, the quality of a work decreases quickly- but right in the middle, when the writing is so nonsensical but still takes itself entirely seriously, there is a massive spike in quality that cannot be topped. Like a reverse uncanny valley, the work is elevated to great heights by it's sheer insanity and dedication to itself.

If you are reading this, you have stumbled upon one such work. ICE: The Last Generation is very bad, but it is not *bad*. In fact, it ... is perfect.

Is this anime for everyone? No. Not at all. Most people will see the insane premise and over the top execution and come to the conclusion that this is some cringe anime from the early 00's better left forgotten. However, for those who can become as insane as the writers themselves and allow the OVA to sweep them into the fantasy completely, they will find themselves caught unprotected in a storm of unfiltered gold so fierce that it breaks the mind forevermore.

This anime is tailor-made for an audience that will accept it before the first second. If you go in with any doubt at all, this is not an anime I recommend.

I cannot really say anything else on the matter. It's a difficult anime to really put together a review for after watching- it's more of an experience than anything tangible.

Reviewer’s Rating: 10

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Feb 23, 2020

fireball4011

Mixed Feelings

Ice is a huge mess, but far from the trash that most reviews make it out to be. The cast is strong all around, but its main character is a perfect mix of kick*ss and caring. The art can be distractingly cheap at times, but the action never disappoints.

However, Ice is a huge mess. There's several attempts at these high art metaphors or allegories or cinematic somethings. I have no clue what it was trying to say. It doesn't help that there's several shots of untranslated text vital to the story. There's some Ghost in the Shell levels of pretentiousness here without the directing chops ... of GitS.

At 3 episodes, Ice is an enjoyable, easy watch, despite its glaring flaws.

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Nov 30, 2022

JTisnotcool

Not Recommended

This Anime was directed by Makoto Kobayashi of Dragons Haven Fame. I was interested in watching 3 episode OVA series the Story is set in Tokyo, Japan like some Japanese Anime where a virus caused the extinction of the male population. Now, women take the reins to create factions and must survive in a world where monsters exist created by a Biological weapon called I.C.E. Which focuses on two characters Hitomi Landsknecht and Yuki Kusaragi by fate and uncover a conspiracy surrounding I.C.E.

The Animation

It felt like watching anime from the 90s yet released in 2007 which tries its hardest to blend CGI and 2d ... animation.

Sound

The background and sounds but the music didn't have any Bangers what so ever that it felt boring.The creator Yasushi Akimoto is also the producer of idol group AKB48 couldn't find the right talent to create a good soundtrack for this Anime.


Overall

The Anime was a passion project with lesbian themes that were weird and not really a good story that can entertain the average anime enthusiast by any means even with a Movie it's not good anime.

Reviewer’s Rating: 4

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According to the press release from their website, Sentai Filmworks has announced their license for Ice. Sentai Filmworks will release the OVA series digitally and i...read more

Aug 15, 2011 4:20 PM by Florete | Discuss (30 comments)

	Watching Subbed?_? Memerulesworld - Oct 10, 2010	1 replies	by ThiccGoat »» Aug 11, 4:01 AM
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