While we’ve had a fair number of TV series make the jump over to Hulu recently from Sentai Filmworks through The Anime Network, the latest one to do so is an OVA series. ICE, which debuted originally in 2007, is now available with all three parts streaming. It’s also available for Hulu Plus members to stream directly to their TV connected sets and digital devices in standard definition as it was only released on DVD. Based on an original story by Ysushi Akitmoto with animation by PPM, ICE is a three episode OVA series that has big ambitions and a lot of ideas behind it but can’t seem to pull it all together over the course of its run. There are a lot of times during this show that I felt like it was riffing a little too heavily on other series and it even has a significant Nausicaa feeling in a lot of ways at times, though it’s more superficial and potentially imagined than real. When you deal with the end times of a world, it’s going to be reminiscent of other shows that have done it since there have been some big, defining ones.
Plot concept: A strange virus has wiped out most of the population. The survivors: beautiful women. Faced with the possible extinction of the entire human race, some of these new Amazons have decided to live out their final days in the pursuit only of fleshly pleasures. Others choose to use their beauty, might, and minds to fight back to reclaim the planet once more.