History Manga / Freezing

''Freezing'' is a {{manga}} from the team of [[Creator/LimDallYoung Dal-young Im]] (author) and KIM Kwang Hyun (artist). It is published by Comic Valkyrie in Japan and by Haksan Pub in Booking magazine in South Korea. It is licensed by Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment in North America, although the earlier volumes are currently out of print.

* BoobsOfSteel: Generally prevalent among the stronger and strongest cast members, particularly Satellizer and later, Cassandra, but some characters such as Charles Bonaparte are extremely skilled and very petite in build.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: [[SmugSnake Miyabi]] tried to take Kazuya as a limiter by force and, oh, holy shit did Satellizer make sure that will never happen again.

* AbsurdlyDividedSchool: West Genetics (and other Pandora training centers) is divided along grade lines such that instead of being SenpaiKohai, the later-year students are literally lower-year students' military superiors. The AdultsAreUseless, so this turns into a DrillSergeantNasty scenario where the sempai are free to brutally bully the kohai virtually without consequences. The entire first arc consists of second-year protagonist Satellizer El Bridget getting into an escalating one-woman war with the third-year students, until StudentCouncilPresident Chiffon Fairchild finally directly orders the third-years to stand down after transfer student Rana Linchen gets dragged into it.

* SenpaiKohai: '''SeriousBusiness'''. It's both built into the typical Pandora[=/=]Limiter relationship, and it's the entire reasoning behind the outrageous, criminal abuse the third years pile upon the heroine.

* ShoutOut: The Nova's appearances seem to be a shout out to the Peacemakers from ''LightNovel/ScrappedPrincess''.

Not to be confused with anything called {{Frozen}}.

[floatboxright:
Other works written by Dalyoung Im:
+ Manhwa/AflameInferno
+ Manga/BlackGod
+ Manga/{{Koimoku}}
+ Manhwa/TheLegendOfMaian
+ Manga/OnihimeVS
+ Manga/ThePhantomKing
+ Manga/RebirthTheLunaticTaker
+ Manhwa/UnbalanceXUnbalance
+ Manhwa/ZeroTheBeginningOfTheCoffin
Other works drawn by Kwang Hyun Kim
+ Manhwa/AflameInferno
]

* NotGoodWithPeople: Satellizer's backstory and lone-wolf nature make it difficult for her to relate to other people properly.

* LoveTriangle:
** Type 4 TriangRelations. Rana (A) to Kazuya (B) and Satellizer (C). Not that it stops Rana from trying.
** Satellizer is not happy when Rana explicitly tells her that Kazuya is her soulmate in episode 6, and seems [[ClingyJealousGirl quite bothered by it.]] Now with Ouka Honda, who's not only Kazuya's betrothed but his cousin as well.

%%* BareYourMidriff: The E-Pandora attire.

** Louis fits the bill here, and is a particularly egregious example, as Satellizer saves his life and forgives him for years of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. On top of that, he gets to stay with his Pandora Holly, who reaffirms her love for him despite also having been abused rather horrifically by him.

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Chiffon is both the Rank 1 amongst the third-year students and the president of the Student Council, with the epithet of "The Unmatched Smiling Monster." Good thing that she's one of [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure the few sane people around]]. Satellizer is in a similar position of strength, but the second year students are outright afraid of her as opposed to deferring to her judgement.

%%* AsYouKnow: Quite often in the anime.

* AbsurdlyDividedSchool: West Genetics (and other Pandora training centers) is divided along grade lines such that instead of being SempaiKohai, the later-year students are literally lower-year students' military superiors. The AdultsAreUseless, so this turns into a DrillSergeantNasty scenario where the sempai are free to brutally bully the kohai virtually without consequences. The entire first arc consists of second-year protagonist Satellizer El Bridget getting into an escalating one-woman war with the third-year students, until StudentCouncilPresident Chiffon Fairchild finally directly orders the third-years to stand down after transfer student Rana Linchen gets dragged into it.

%%* MegaTwintails: Attia. Also Christine Evora in Part II.

* SempaiKouhai: '''SeriousBusiness'''. It's both built into the typical Pandora[=/=]Limiter relationship, and it's the entire reasoning behind the outrageous, criminal abuse the third years pile upon the heroine.

An anime adaptation began airing in January 2011, and is [[http://www4.funimation.com/video/?page=show&b=345 simulcasted by FUNimation]] as well as licensed. A second season titled ''Freezing: Vibration" aired as a part of the Fall2013Anime season.

* ArmorPiercingSlap:
** In a flashback, Violet angrily gives her little brother one when she finds him in Satellizer's bedroom. [[KarmaHoudini Too bad it looks like this was the only punishment he ever received for it]].
** Chiffon receives one from Elizabeth in chapter 69 after she tries to stop Elizabeth from assisting the rebelling E-Pandoras, and as a direct result of selling her out to Chevalier, [[ColdBloodedTorture and everything that resulted from it.]]

* AxeCrazy: A majority of the Pandora are this, especially when pissed off.

* FromBadToWorse: Okay, so the Earth is getting invaded by monsters. We can deal with that. Unfortunately, it turns out that our only means of defense against them, the Pandora, can be ''brainwashed'' by them. Not only do the brainwashed Pandora keep all their powers and gain a few more (like resisting Freezing fields), a whole squad of them are converted and sent to attack the least defended part of the campus where more Pandora are being trained. And things just keep on getting worse and worse as the story progresses, like Novas suddenly gaining the ability to fire {{Wave Motion Gun}}s, the reveal that Pandoras whose Stigmata go sufficiently berserk can ''become'' actual Novas, or that Novas can potentially cause an enormous resonance effect to spread TheCorruption over a wide area, or [[UpToEleven pretty much]] '''[[DiabolusExMachina EVERYTHING]]''' that's happened since the joint Pandora-Valkyrie exercise began.

** Taken UpToEleven with the introduction of The Busters, specifically Petty Liner, and Jessica.

* PantyShot: Several of the girls. Rana in particular during episode 6.

* {{Meganekko}}: Satellizer sometimes wears glasses when not fighting. One chapter of the manga states that it's pretty much just for show.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Though there is a trend towards more realistic hair colors, there are still one or two characters that have shades of lavender or other unnatural colors.

* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Seems to be the standard outfit for most Pandora, with the exception of Satellizer.