Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Hyouketsu no Kizuna

Covered in ice and snow, Elior Forest is the home to dangerous magical beasts and 50 elves frozen in ice. One day, the great spirit Puck helps a young girl break out of her ice prison. Her name is Emilia, a half-elf born with silver hair, long ears, and amethyst eyes—features that resemble the evil Witch who destroyed half the world long ago.

Shunned by society because of her appearance, Emilia dwells in the forest with Puck as her sole companion and family. Burdened with a sin of destruction she does not remember committing, she spends her days trying to find a way to help her frozen kin. But when the great spirit Melakuera, the Arbitrator of the world, finds Emilia, her right to stay alive is brought into question. Will the bonds of ice she formed with Puck prove to be the warm thread that defies fate?

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Adaptation:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Zenjitsutan
Sequel:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu
Other:	Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu - Hyouketsu no Kizuna - Manner Movie

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Emilia

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Takahashi, Rie
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Uchiyama, Yumi
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Rem

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Minase, Inori
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Natsuki, Subaru

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Kobayashi, Yuusuke
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Echidna

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Ram

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Murakawa, Rie
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Mathers, Roswaal L.

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Koyasu, Takehito
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Chap

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Hino, Satoshi
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Melakura

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Genda, Tesshou
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Tanaka, Shou

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Iizuka, Aya

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Beniya, Yoshikazu

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Yoshikawa, Tsunaki

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"Yuki no Hate ni Kimi no Na wo (雪の果てに君の名を)" by nonoc

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May 21, 2022

Beakoris

Recommended

A well-executed backstory. This does not contain the fan service we are used to for an OVA/Movie, it instead shines a radically different light on Emilia as a character.

Story: 8/10
A wonderfully written story that perfectly captures the journey Emilia takes to reach the belonging (although temporary) that she yearned for. It explains the mannerisms of Emilia that were shown in S1 and alludes to S2. So if you want to get ready for S2, don't skip this one. The only flaw in the story is the pacing at emotional moments. I feel more care could have been applied but it was done appropriately.

Art: 8/10
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Jul 13, 2023

Syph_

Mixed Feelings

Going to be honest, this movie bored the life out of me. The pacing is SO slow. The characters are SO flat. The only bright spot was Puck, but we don't get enough of him. Despite that, everything surrounding him carried me through the movie. The villains sucked in a series with fantastic villains. Just really does not fit in with the quality of the rest of the series. Really did want to like this, since it was supposed to be Emilia's backstory. By the end of the movie, though, I just could not care less about her motivations and the whole climax. Never seen ...

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Jul 8, 2022

VVayfarer

Not Recommended

If an anime, say, depicts the death of a character, if you don't know who that character is, and how they ended up where they did, chances are, you won't care.

The same applies to, say, two characters getting married, or a character finding out that a family member they thought was dead was actually alive. And so on. The emotional impact of a scene hinges on how much the viewer knows about the events that lead to said scene. If the viewer knows nothing... then, chances are, they will feel nothing.

This is the problem with Frozen Bonds. Buildup is essential for emotional impact. Frozen ... Bonds has no buildup, and that's why it has no emotional impact.

We don't know why the great spirits (and, apparently, the rest of the world) want to eliminate Emilia. We don't know why Puck cares about her. We don't even know what the great spirits, or Puck, or Emilia, are. We know literally nothing about anything that's happening. So why should the viewer care?

As much as I would like to root for Puck, who's fighting against (supposedly) the entirety of the world to protect Emilia, which is certainly a badass / touching thing to do on a conceptual level... it's really hard to care when you have no clue why this conflict is even happening. For all the viewer knows, Emilia could actually be a puppet with a fake personality whose very existence will eventually destroy the world, and Puck could simply be simping for her for reasons that no could empathize with. The writer gives no indications in either direction. So, unless you already love Emilia and Puck, it's really hard to care.

There's another issue caused by lack of buildup: we don't know how powerful Puck and Emilia are relative to their enemies. Which is unfortunate, because, if Puck was depicted as being weaker than, say, the other great spirits, then him challenging the others would be interesting purely by virtue of this imbalance in powers. After all, people like to root for the underdog. Seeing a weaker party emerge victorious in a conflict is often exciting simply because it's an unexpected result (though of course, in fiction, this is only true when the plot is bound by realism). But as far as the viewer can tell, Puck has the ability to destroy the world, which means that him challenging the rest of the world is literally just him flexing his powers. Which isn't very badass at all; it's just another character flaunting the powers that the writer arbitrarily decided to bestow upon them.

On a final note, it's easy to notice that the basic premise in Frozen Bonds is strikingly similar to that of one of the more famous arcs in a certain popular, long-running anime series. The comparison makes Frozen Bonds all the more disappointing; it shows just how powerful this type of plot can be when executed correctly. Frozen Bonds tried to simplify the plot to the bare minimum, which, of course, doesn't work, because you can't have emotional impact without proper buildup. The end result is underwhelming at best.

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