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Freezing
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:CreationDate: 2014-03-19 12:02:44
:Id: anime/review/freezing
:tags: - anime
- review
:rating: 2
:original: http://www.easternkicks.com/reviews/freezing-complete-series-collection
Sometimes I think I'd like to see what goes on during the meetings in
which distributors decide which series / movies to buy: «Oh, this one
has naked girls, it will surely sell well». I suspect that nobody
noticed the rest, though: the naked girls get beaten up, bloodied,
dismembered (yes, several characters get their arms ripped off). This
is soft-core gore porn, and I have to say "soft core" only because
there's no penetration: there's several scenes of gratuitous full
nudity. Oh, and if you thought that the girls got beaten up by the
alien invaders, sorry to have mislead you: the girls fight each other,
sometimes with the excuse of "training", more often simply to "put the
other one in her place". Third-year students bullying first-years,
fights to near-death out of jealousy… oh, and there's a
half-incestuous underage rape back-story.
I suppose I may give a summary of the story. Interdimensional aliens
invade Earth. Young girls with implants (which are clearly derived
from the aliens, although the characters take most of the series to
figure it out) get superpowers to fight the aliens, helped by younger
boys. Girls and boys work in (usually) pairs. When their implants sync
up (necessary to do battle), they say it feels like sex (just in case
the metaphor was not clear enough). Good things the girls also get
some kind of regeneration, otherwise they wouldn't survive the regular
fights during school, let alone actual battles.
There's some vague plot about building better fighters, shadowy
organisations… you know, the usual.
What really matters, though, is seeing the girls rip each other's
clothes and limbs, copious amount of blood everywhere, games of
domination and submission. There's even a case of mind control, to
complete the fetish offering.
I'm quite surprised to learn that the director is WATANABE Takashi (渡
部 高志) who directed all the Slayers series and movies. On the other
hand, he also directed `Ikki Tousen <../ikki-tousen/>`_ …
I frankly don't know how to conclude this review. Maybe I'll say to
the distributors "please learn to recognise porn, and market it
accordingly".
