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

Satsuki Supporting

Mamiya, Kurumi Japanese

Mint Supporting

Kitamura, Eri 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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Dec 7, 2019

sketchesofpayne

Recommended

When I watched this back in 2007 I didn't like it. But somehow it has always stuck in the back of my mind. Now 12 years later I've watched for a third time. For me this is one of those experiences with self-contained OVA productions. Stuff like Armitage III, Gunbuster, Orgus 02, Yukikaze, Blue Submarine No. 6, Project A-ko, Gunnm. These utterly unique productions that I randomly come across that, for some reason, stick with me. They'll have really out-there premises and the production quality can be a mixed bag, but they are so different from everything else I ... feel they are worth watching.

I'm really into the visual and character design in ICE. Even if the animation is stiff in some parts, visually it is fascinating. The sound is pretty average. I quite like the theme song, incidentally by AKB48, whose members did some of the voice acting. While the acting is amateurish in some places it really doesn't bother me. Plus I'm one of the few who like unique/odd voices like Sakura from Hyper Police, or Nonon in Kill la Kill.

When I first saw it my mind was reeling from the over-the-top premise and setting. Upon later viewings I was able to appreciate it more. Personally I set any gender politics aside, because that's not what the story is really about, it's just one aspect of the setting. And honestly looking back over the past few years this is better science fiction than I've seen in a while.

What if males ceased being born? What if the native life on earth artificially evolved is a way that made its biology incompatible with humanity? While the way this series answers those questions may be more about entertainment than logic, it is still thought provoking in its own way.

No doubt this OVA is flawed, but it is not bad. And some days I have a real taste for the flawed and odd stuff.

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Nov 22, 2016

xxxOtakuChanxxx

Mixed Feelings

I found this anime through TV Tropes and wanted to check it out. After seeing all the negative reviews, I really HAD to see it. To be honest, this anime deserves more justice. I can name 3 animes worse this this one. Ice isn't the most entertaining OVA in the world and can be kind of confusing at times, but it keeps your attention. There's only hints of shoujo ai, so don't expect to see girls naked the entire time or kissing. Sadly, there is very little.

If you want to watch something your friends haven't seen and have 1 hour and 30 minutes of ... free time, give Ice a shot. You won't be too disappointed.

Reviewer’s Rating: 5

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Apr 21, 2014

YouMustRecover

Not Recommended

The anime known as "ICE" is pretty much what would happen if some high school dropout otaku won $5,000 dollars off of a scratcher ticket, and decided to use that money as his funds to accomplish his life-long dream of making an anime. This otaku spends all $5,000 to hire a group of animators. That particular group of animators is composed of five of our otaku pal's high school friends who all learned to draw from this book.

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So after using all of his funds to hire animators, our hero realizes that he has no money left over to hire voice actors or writers. He ... relegates these jobs as well to his group of animators. Unfortunately, none of these people actually know the first thing about writing a story, so they decide to all pitch in in any way that they can. The only thing that our now desperate otaku can come up with is to make a bunch of slips of paper and have the animators all write two words on each of their designated slips. After collecting about 500 of these slips, the otaku throws them into a hat and pulls them out in a random order to create the story. Being that these are all pretty young kids just out of high school, unsurprisingly one of them writes "blows up" on each of his slips.

The story ends up sounding a little something like this: "All of the men in the world are dead because they exploded. Women now rule over a dying society incapable of procreating. Miraculously a baby boy is discovered by a group of female soldiers. They blow it up. Aliens show up and blow up the soldiers. The aliens then also blow up. Then birds turn into flowers. Then the flowers turn back into birds. War ensues. Everyone blows up." The story is about as unintelligible and nonsensical as it possibly can be and it doesn't seem as though anybody who worked on this atrocity really cared to speak up about it.


Story: ???¿¿¿??? I think I might have been catatonic while watching this
Art:2
Audio:3
Characters: 2
Enjoyment: No
Overall: Worst thing I have ever seen in full/10

Reviewer’s Rating: 1

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