Freezing Vibration

This series is painful to watch, especially compared to the first season. No spoilers... I will be making plenty of comparisons with the first season. However, this is still meant to be a review of this season specifically. The comparisons are only there to illustrate and highlight some of the points I make. Also, I highly recommend to watch the first season before considering to watch this one. First off, the art and the music. They were pretty good, like in the first season, and did enhance the experience wherever possible. They're not really exceptional either. But the writing, oh dear... This series was confusing and tiresome to watch. Before explaining, I'll talk about what made the first season good in my opinion. The first season, while being not the most profound or thought-provoking series, was fun and quite enjoyable. In essence, it's an action anime, blended with ecchi that is unsubtle but not overdone, with a rather intimate/romantic vibe. Next to that, it spent some time developing its characters, their background and even its lore to a degree, but subtly, and never becoming complicated or narrating. The show wasn't afraid to bring up some slightly darker themes, but those were never strong enough to throw off the tone either. This season's writers somehow manage to mess up to such a degree, that it takes every aspect I mentioned (action, ecchi, character dev, lore and dark themes), and throws them all into the blender with none of the refinement of the original, resulting in a confusing and painful mess. So many different aspects are overdone in such a way that you can tell even the writers were confused about what the focus was even supposed to be. The atmosphere is all around the place, going from almost fetish ecchi (on the verge of pornography), to torture and death (but no real gore luckily), to drama, to politics, to even low key biblical references (yes, seriously). I would guess that this season was mainly supposed to expand on the background of the first season as a military drama of sorts (with a religious undertone?) -at least, that's what I make out of all the major plot points. However, if that's the case, despite ecchi obviously not being highly compatible with the suffering and death that war brings, the writers still didn't want to/couldn't get rid of the ecchi element, which was obviously a defining aspect of the first season. And for some reason, here they decided to take the brakes off; where the first season's ecchi generally had a sort of passionate/intimate context, here it's rather raw, lusty and often fetishised (even the scenes referencing rape that occur seem almost fetishised). I can see that some people may enjoy this, but to me it's a major turnoff. And I don't understand why they thought throwing it in the same mix as torture and death themes was a good idea. This series is a mess. It has many contrasting themes going on at the same time. But where in the first season seemingly incompatible elements were cleverly balanced resulting in an all around enjoyable and unique experience, here they all end up pushing against each other and screaming for attention, making this series mentally and emotionally tiring to watch, and thought-provoking nor fun.

TIP: Whenever I say PLOT, I'm talking about ASS & BREAST(aka fan service) Freezing Vibration, a story of a world that's at war with enemies known as the NOVA, Huge & powerful as they be humanity refuses to kneel to such a threat. Militaries around the world came up with a plan to fight back against the NOVA. The Military in each country has an acadamy for men & women who attend the acadamy to hoan thier skills & become stronger to fight against the NOVA. The women who attend this school are known a Pandoras, a rare being capable of skills to bring a NOVA to its knees to protect humanity. Though Pandoras are powerful, they would be nothing without the aid of their Limiters. The NOVAs are capable to cast a field to FREEZE their attackers in place & also making them supceptible to an attack from the NOVA itself. To counter this, the Pandoras have male partners known as Limiters, the abilites of a Limiter is the same as a NOVA, they are able to cast a field freezing anything in its range. But this ability is normally used to counter a NOVAs freezing to give the Pandora a chance to strike at the NOVA. Yes, this anime is a ecchie & a harem, but the PLOT only seems to revolve around a single male. Normally, that's what a harem is, but in this anime the girls who want to become more then friends are 2 girls with occasional attention from other girls around the school. I'll get into detail in my breakdown review. At any rate this show is anything but bad, it's a interesting & enjoyable watch to those who are ecchie & harem fans. If you can't take nip slips & there I advise not to watch it. But to those who want that & believe me I know what you want or you wouldn't of clicked on this anime to begin with you won't be disappointed. BREAKDOWN REVIEW: Scoring ranging from 1-10, 1 being dredful [9]STORY: Don't let the over-top action fool you or the PLOT keep you in a trance. They actually has some substance to it, meaning there's actually an interesting point to the story. It kinda resembles an average high school. Students fighting among each other but coming together when they face a hurtle they cant defeat alone. [8]ART: The art in this anime is very good & an on par with a lot of other popular animes. You'll notice throughout each episode when clothes start become revealing or torn the detail tends to pop a little more making you focus primarily on the PLOT...! [8]SOUND: Sound becomes highten in intimate situations & the music makes all the fights absolutly epic. [8]CHARACTER: The character I'm going to cover are only 3, because I can't cover all of them. -Kazuya Aoi- The story seems to revolve around Kazuya. As special he may be he can't help but be stuck in his older sister's shadow because of her sacrifice many years ago. But through self realization he breaks free from her shadow & becomes his own person. -Satellizer el Bridget- A powerful Pandora who is known as the "untouchable Queen" who does not rely on anybody but herself & rather die then admit defeat to anyone & refuses to have a Limiter. Ironic as it may seem she reluctantly meets Kazyuya. Very mean & resiliant at first to Kazyuya she evenually warms up to him slowly. -Rana Linchen- A transfer student from a an old world country & who is not aware of certain terms amongst average Pandoras. She only wishes to find her "destined one" aka her Limiter. By chance she meets Kazyuya & falls head over heals for him & is convinced that Kazyuya belongs to her NOT Saterllizer, thus forcing Kazyuya into a love triangle. [9]ENJOYMENT: The show is not a bad watch, with the fan service it actually makes the show even better. [9]OVERALL: Freezing overall is show worthy of praise for its originality & worth watching if you're really into ecchie & harem with a side of action packed fights. To those looking for another ecchie & harem I recommend this show you will not be disappointed. Enjoy =)

Well that (de)escalated pretty quickly. Freezing returns; taking that term "literally" now, as the plot mainly takes place in Alaska. Satellizer, Kazuya, Rana, Chiffon, and Beth return; meeting other Pandoraii, getting involved with the mysterious "E-Pandora Project," and (for Satellizer) dealing with a re-opened wound that is her half-brother. Fans of the manga version may not like the switches and changed within the anime, but everyone else who'd been watching this anime should be glad: The upskirt panty shots, nudity, gore, and useful male leads return as if they've never left. What you get more of is the "Sis-Fist" and the psychological suffering.

I rated the first season a 6 as an average/ok attempt for its genre, and I expected this one to be just "more of the same" with potentially some story conclusion that could affect my score by a point up or down. And for the most part we get just that, unfortunately the "conclusion" is a disappointing "read the manga" cliffhanger for the overall plot combined with a terrible "deus-ex-vagina" solution to the season's focus points, but coming from the wrong vagina thus making not just the already useless MC but even the FMC completely irrelevant to the story this time around. And as if this was not bad enough, we get one random episode completely focused on a weird NTR/cuck fetish out of the blue and one episode culminating in absolutely unreasonable, unexplained and pointless torture of a side character for which the authors deserve a serious kick in the score and in the balls.

I usually don't write any reviews here on MAL, but this anime deserves one.. for being such a failure. First of all I like ecchi harem genre, but this was a letdown, this can't even be called a harem, I was misled, the guy who is supposed to be the MC is not really the MC. I was waiting for him to shine or something but all he did was stand everywhere like an idiot and wait until Satella got injured. I mean like ok this series came out in 2011 and 2013, and is old, but what in the freaking world? All the characters were dumb as hell, neither Kazuya or Satella did anything remarkable in my opinion, they shouldn't have been the MC's if all they do is get into sh*t. I would say art was good in that time, so I didn't have any problems with that. Even though I can't get over the fact that this is labelled as HAREM it's not the least harem, and other than girl being naked it shouldn't be called ecchi. Season 1 was Ok, was expecting more plot than that, but it was still better than Season 2. The MC almost had no part in any of the scenes, it was like if he hadn't existed. Season 2 was overall trash, everything was unreasonable, nothing made any sense, I feel like I wasted my time watching it. Kazuya's and Satella's relationship almost hasn't had any improvements despite having 12 episodes to do so. It has been a while since I last saw something this tremendous. The only thing I liked about the anime was the music and the sounds, nothing more. I wouldn't recommend watching this... biggest letdown in my experience of watching series. I said all this, but the show pulled me in even if I wanted to tear my hair out because of all these nonsense idiot things. I enjoyed it in some way, but in lots of way I didn't.

Its hard to rate with numbers, considering the fact that the reason i don't like the second season of freezing is because is totally goes against all the good vibes (no pun intended) i got from the first season. Without spoiling anything, I feel that the second season is not only weird in itself, but it also ruins the first season, and therefore I would recommend just watching the first season, and leaving the rest to imagination. I also found the ecchi to be totally irrelevant to the plot, which I don't like, because when ecchi is irrelevant, all it serves is to take away from the seriousness of the situation, such as an important conversation in between two characters, where you can't focus on the conversation, because the camera is focused on the characters breasts. If you watch ecchi just for good boobies, then this is the anime for you, but if you want good plot, I would recommend sticking to the first season.

I enjoyed the story. Although I'm a pretty open guy and enjoy a lot of anime's in which many others think is bad. Which is a good thing because I get to enjoy more. The story progressed so well. It didn't feel rushed which is rare for a 12 episode anime. My only gripe with a lot of animes is the fact that the story feels rushed. Not the case in this anime imo. Everything in my opinion was going well until the ending. It lacked a lot of feeling and denies any expectations. It will also make you question the point of even having "main" characters. If they had a better ending then maybe I would have rated the story 10/10. But it was such a disappointment I gave it a 7/10.

Most people call it fan service, it slightly is but it's not. The story is great! Someone who hasn't read the manga may say it sucks but truly, the story is deep and interesting. The Anime just hasn't gotten to that point yet. The music is okay, it's anticipating and emotional. Here are 2 examples. Emotional: Sister Ost Anticipating: Aria Ost The art is good also, good enough to lable Satellizer as the cutest anime character by far. The character personalities are well to, it's very unique. Over all, one of my favorite anime's and I'm begging for a third season.

For some as i who have enjoyed the first season.I apologized for the terms used during my critics but it was the worst of all i could have seen in my life.I did watch manga and anime where i regret,my precipitation. But here,it is scarcely acceptable,First of all,with the lack of imagination it was a copy and paste work. The concept,I want to surpass you and create "New pandora" is too much of a let down,than it should be. To make a pandora,which i will represent with P,adding the possibility of 2% for a pandora and the based as B which are females as the first season. Now for the season season first of all,due to the differ in methods,males could have been used for such a matter as it was unsafe knowing girls would turn into Nova. Another matter i would like to attract attention would be the uselessness the main character Aoi Kazuya shown was incoherent.In the first season he have deploy his ability as due to the facts that he still haven't done the ritual with Satellizer baptism.He would have been able to deploy his field and help Fairchild survive this explosion. He sat there doing nothing even the brother of satellizer,louis which i agreed treated his sister wrongly as he was in loved with her and a bit of a lonely child fight the copy of Maria.What was our hero doing this time?No helping?now at the end of the series Elizabeth says i will now leave,as it would feel like betraying him?We are speaking of the possibility of the end of the world. It doesn't matter the world crumble as long as you have your boyfriend?You won't help or make a move to protect him either?In their section they already lack backup now that fairchild is no more.Elizabeth left?What is she a spoiled kiddos?no wonder rich kids have so bad reputation.When we see how some acts carefree of their surrounding.

When you create a sequel for an anime, two things can happen: A) Surpass the original one and make something better, more beautiful. B) Achieve a critical failure by making something not worth of its predecessor. In Freezing: Vibration's case, sadly it would be option B. The seeting is the same as Freezing: futuristic world, boobs, lots of blood, boobs, girls fighting each other, boobs, complicated relationships and boobs. I loved Freezing. I really did. It had a somewhat interesting plot wrapped with excellent fanservice (consisting of naked cleavages). I lost nearly 2 litres of blood watching it and I was knocked out for 3 days until my blood levels were replenished. Yeah , I had that many nosebleeds. Anyway, the story continues from where it left off. The Pandoras from the East Genetics travel to Alaska to assist a program that will enable common women to become artificial Pandoras, dubbed E-Pandoras. However, it quickly becomes a conspiracy-based storyline with information wars. I thought Freezing was about three things: fanservice, aliens, battles. If I wanted to watch something like this, I would get one of the Bourne movies. Not only that, the fanservice is dramatically reduced! Yeah, in the first freezing you had girls taking damage that exposed their naked breasts that were depicted beautifully. In Vibration, EVERY NAKED CLEAVAGE IS CONCEALED BY SOME SORT OF LIGHTING! Seriously, why do something like that? Also, while Earth is supposed to be invaded by dimensional aliens called Nova, you will hardly see any of them. The art doesn't have many differences thant Freezing. The same nice visuals and unique battle choreography for every character. However, the amount of battles was reduced significantly and they were less interesting for some reason. I felt Freezing's battles where more energetic and more dynamical. Another thing that changes is the addition of new characters and the evolution of some of the old ones. But you will have to find out about that yourselves. Vibration is absolutely not worthy of comparison with Freezing. It's like day and night. I would suggest Vibration if you were interested in Freezing's plot and want to see where it will lead. But if you only want fanservice, you are better off watching the first one or something else. It's a shame though. Story: 5 Art: 8 Sound: 8 Character: 8 Enjoyment: 6 Overall: 7

It's a fun watch, but compared to the first one it's not as good. In all reality it seems more focused on fan service in the fact that it's showing the abilities of everyone in more detail than in the first series. But on that note, I'll say this has been my one problem overall with the series: Too much unnecessary nudity. It's like the writers thought the only way to draw in was by showing girls in a state of undress. No exceptions, every single episode had girls "conveniently" getting their clothes cut in a way that showed off their breasts. If it wasn't in a fight, there was always a guaranteed "water" scene where someone was either naked in a shower or in a swimming pool with a slow pan up from their stomachs. I'm not usually a stickler for these types of things considering the perv I normally am, but how often it happened and for no reason was just ridiculous to the point of making the show less enjoyable.