Recap: Gina is murdered by Charles when she loses control of her body. Elizabeth decides to take action to reveal the awful things going on with this project.

Lifesong’s Thoughts: Freezing might be the last thing you would expect to be genuinely sorrowful over, but when Amelia asked Elizabeth to search out her brother when the Mark IV kills her… that was hard to take. Elizabeth clearly doesn’t plan to take this all sitting down though. We are about to find out how through the military’s control over this world actually is.

I’m not sure who’s heroism is more tragic. Gina learns what it means to have the power to protect something only to have that power be a lie. Amelia is planning to die to hoping that it will help those who come after her survive and Elizabeth is preparing to put her family on the line to right the wrongs being done at this lab.

One of the recurring themes of Freezing is that people are the real monsters. Abandoning compassion for the sake of mankind as a whole is a nasty concept. What is it these girls are really fighting for? That question begins to extend beyond the E-pandora’s back to the originals.

We also got a nice name drop in this episode though I bet some of you missed it. Charles calls one of her attacks a vibration. Subtle? Not at all, but then Freezing doesn’t really need to be subtle… It doesn’t really even need to avoid being obvious. This anime is not even pretending we don’t all know exactly what will come next.

I guess at it’s core Freezing works because it plays with very themes that don’t need to be subtle. Watching people die meaninglessly in an experiment or watching someone else murder a fellow pandora they could probably subdue brings things to the table that ensure you will be thinking about the rights and wrongs of this world.

I wish this episode would have better explained Elizabeth’s motivation for turning down Satalizer, but maybe that will come with time. Still, that was a brutal way to turn her down to just leave it with no explanation. Why did she shoot down Satalizer? Literally… Pride. That’s a big part of Elizabeth’s personality and I hope it will get more focus before… the uh, not so subtly foreshadowed events of episode five.

Looking forward Freezing is really trucking through content. The next episode preview sure didn’t have any trouble spoiling Elizabeth’s condition… With her pride on the line, how will see react to what is coming? And just where does Chifon really stand?