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Mar 20, 2023
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (6/12 eps)
Freezing is a cautionary tale of an anime with solid production values and story, which is dragged down by its absolutely excessive fan service and awkward characters.

I'm not going to bother with a full review since I had to drop the show short. I simply cannot bear to watch yet another anime that forces a stupid love triangle into the mix for absolutely no reason. And the fan service was getting obnoxious to boot.

Having recently watched Cross Ange, seeing fan service isn't out of place for me, but the way Freezing does it, is just obnoxious. Literally every other camera angle is a panty shot, and every single fight starts off with all girls having their tops slashed off or ripped off, so that their tits go falling out. And every other scene is a girl naked in the shower having some deep philosophical moment with themselves.

It's the absolute worst type of fan service. Even raw hentai makes it more subtle. And it's more than distracting when combat with hefty gore, flying bodyparts and such, gets constantly interrupted by panty shots and tits. It's dumb.

The main characters are also UTTERLY intolerable. The female lead is 50% badass and 50% a 12 year old girl discovering for the first time in her life that boys exist. No, she's not 12, but she acts like it. Which is annoying. The male lead is your average "I know nothing about nothing, except this pretty girl I'm attracted to, so now I'm gonna stake my life on protecting her for no particular reason other than I have literally nothing else in my life and have no other personality to fall back on."

And don't start me on a random addition to the cast, some girl that just shows up halfway through the season only to immediately choose to become a third wheel in the MC's barely blossoming mutual interest. Absolutely disgusting storytelling that is the bane of every other romance these days. Main characters go their entire lives without even meeting anyone they like, but in the scope of a few episodes the story needs them all to develop multiple deeply in love, love interests? Nonsense. Get out of here with that crap.

The story seems interesting and the visuals are enjoyable. But I cannot tolerate another minute of these teenage failures that are supposed to be protagonists, nor those endless panty shots with those double G cup tits flying all over the place non stop.

Also why is so much of the content in every episode about the girls bullying each other non-stop? "Last hope of humankind in fighting off the evil invaders", and the ones in charge of the fighting are just fighting each-other to the point of gladly going for kills. Another show that tries to portray that teenage girls are literal psychopaths who would cut off the heads of their classmates for no reason other than petty jealousy and social hierarchy.

Watch this stuff only if you're a sucker for fan service and forced, awkward teenage romance, because as fun as the combat and story is, that romance and fan service is hard to overlook.
Reviewer’s Rating: 6
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