Freezing

Ok, first things first, apart from the obvious fanservice and various scenes of nudity within the anime, Freezing has a pretty decent storyline and is great to watch if given the chance.

Freezing is an anime series adapted from the manga of the same title written by Dall-Young Lim and illustrated by Kwang-Hyun Kim.

Set in a slightly futuristic world where Earth has been invaded and is at war with aliens from another dimension called the Nova, the story follows the adventures of a Japanese boy named Kazuya Aoi who enrolls for training at a special school for genetically modified girls called Pandoras who battle the aliens, and their male partners, called Limiters, who use a special power called “freezing” to limit their opponent’s mobility. The protagonist makes the acquaintance of an unusual older girl named Satellizer el Bridget who appears to be the most powerful Pandora in her class, but has not yet chosen a male partner to be her Limiter, and in spite of the warnings of all his friends, he decides to be her Limiter.

The anime was produced by A.C.G.T. and is directed by Takashi Watanabe, written by Masanao Akahoshi and Takao Yoshioka, and features music by Masaru Yokoyama, direction by Shinsaku Tanaka and Takashi Tachizaki, character design by Mayumi Watanabe, and art and sound direction by Satoru Kuwabara and Koji Tsujitani, respectively.The anime’s first season aired on AT-X between January 8, 2011 and April 7, 2011, with subsequent runs on Chiba TV, Sun TV, Tokyo MX, TV Aichi, TV Kanagawa and TV Saitama. The show aired uncensored in 4:3 format on AT-X, while the airing on Tokyo MX (which began on January 9) and other channels were in 16:9 widescreen format and heavily censored. Six DVD and Blu-ray volumes were released by Media Factory between March 23 and August 24, 2011, each volume containing two episodes and original video animation called It’ll Explode! Heart-Pounding

Trouble♥Freezing (はじけちゃう!ドキドキトラブル♥フリージング Hajikechau! Dokidoki Toraburu♥Furījingu), as well as other bonus material. The anime was licensed in North America by Funimation Entertainment for simulcasting (in its 16:9 edited format) on their video portal. Funimation later gained additional licensing rights to the series and released it in 2012 on DVD and Blu-ray. A second season titled “Freezing Vibration”, began airing on AT-X on October 4, 2013.

The opening theme for the first season is “Color” by MARiA, a cover of a song by Hatsune Miku, and the ending theme is Kimi wo Mamoritai (君を守りたい, “To Protect You”) by Aika Kobayashi. A CD single containing the two songs was released by Media Factory on February 23, 2011. The opening theme for the second season is “AVENGE WORLD” by Konomi Suzuki and the ending theme is Sekai wa Kizu o Dakishimeru (世界は疵（きず）を抱きしめる^?, “Embracing the World’s Wounds (Wound)”) by Konomi Suzuki.