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She finds where she can contribute to the team both to give a morale boost and to protect the others, without resorting to the common trope of trying to do things on her own or refusing protection and just making things worse. Her role on the team is passive (as her #1 priority is to reach the end-point alive - if she dies, the mission fails) but she herself is not comfortable with this as she wants to help. is a very interesting short sci-fi series which follows Aiko, a high school girl, and her various protectors as they attempt to break through a dangerous area to reach a research facility in hopes of reversing the 'Burst' - a bio-matter disaster that has overtaken part of Japan, killed many people, and threatens the world.Ĭontrary to the staff review, Aiko is not a weak character and towards the end must make some very difficult choices. Semi-recommended, and okay for teenagers, as the violence/gore is largely abstract and there's no Fanservice.Ī.I.C.O.

Now, if you can look past that, it does tell an overall entertaining adventure story with likeable, if thin, characters, with solid artwork and good scene-to-scene momentum, but I could not shake the feeling that this was an 8-episode series stretched out unnecessarily to 12. The amount of danger that the heroes are in is constantly fluctuating in odd ways, going from impossible and overwhelming odds to 'Situation under control' in seconds, often times the characters not even taking things seriously! And lastly, there are human antagonists whom are working to prevent the undoing of the apacalypse, but their reasons are not convincing or compelling. The first is the biggest, in that the situation 1/3 of the way through the Series is SO hopeless that one wonders if it is worth trying at all. AICO Incarnation unfortunately has a series of central problems working against it, and these are not small things.