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I tried the first episode of Freezing. It makes me think a bit of Senran Kagura x Evangelion. So, the first episode has some promise.

I finished the first season of Freezing. I like it so far. It feels a bit like watching Dragonball Z on fast forward in terms of power scaling.

The show is basically sexy fighting girls Evangelion.

It hits a lot of notes well. The battles are fun, and you want to see Satellizer (what a name!) win. The second love interest, Rana, is also a lot of fun. It's a nice hype battle-shoujo show. The side characters are a lot of fun as well. Ganessa, in particular, is a lot of fun...even if they use her sparingly. They also do the romance angle fairly well. It makes me think of any Macross.

My only complaints are that the characters are really one-dimensional, Rana and Satelizer aren't different enough in character to make the love triangle that interesting/contentious, and they keep forgetting the super mode exists at crucial moments.

I still have season 1's 3-minute OVAs to watch, but it's been good. I really like the eye-catches, which have a standard picture of a girl, and then a sexy one. They're loaded with information about the characters. So, I always pause to read them.


Satellizer - a fussy high-class girl, who will do anything to win, and wants to have 10-15 hamburgers with you

Rana - a seemingly-bossy country girl, who will do anything to win, and probably wants to have 10-15 kids with you

Aoi - An everyman character even blander than Shinj

Student Council President - open your damn eyes!

This is why I ended up dropping it. The first few episodes were good... then it turned into that.

I started Freezing season 2. I'm 3 episodes in. It's definitely a major tone shift.

So far, it seems to center around human experimentation/exploitation. So, the tone is a lot darker than the original series, which was only superficially dark.

The main characters have generally been pushed aside and relegated to non-developing roles in favor of a lot of fresh faces. Some are more interesting than others. Primarily, the boisterous American girl is the most fun insert to the main cast. It makes me think of Samurai Bride, in which there are a bunch of new people, but one is pushed more than the rest toward the main cast. It reminding me of Samurai Bride is not necessarily a good thing. The main cast's presence feels nominal, because they're expected to be there.

Elizabeth Mably (and apparently a reference to Maybelline makeup), the stunning blonde with a somewhat minor role in season 1, was obviously popular. She now gets featured heavily and almost always nude, even when she has little to do with the plot. I like her, she has a great butt, but she's not that important.

I've only completed 3 episodes out of 12, but this feels like it will ultimately be a step down from the first season. I imagine it won't be another Queen's Blade, where season 2 is absolutely amazing. However, I hope it won't be a Samurai Bride, where it feels ultimately like a waste of time.

Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night? There wasn't anything offensive as far as I got.

Oh yeah... forgot about that.

I thought that was just an anime trope.