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I came across a few clips of this a few days ago, but I didn't attempt a
reverse search because it was in .webm form, which I haven't had much luck
reverse searching through Google.

The animation seemed to feature two main characters: a girl with short hair
wearing cat ears, and a glassed girl wearing a dragon suit who appeared to be
the enemy. The latter might have also worn braids. The dragon suit led me to
believe that the first girl was supposed to represent a tiger, what with
various elements of Japanese mythology representing them as rivals.

The tiger-girl may have had some sort of transformation sequence before the
fight.

The dragon-girl could control ice, which put their fight heavily in her favor,
since she and the tiger-girl were fighting in an area that was frozen over and
covered in snow and icicles.

Throughout the scene, the tiger-girl attempted (mostly in vain) to land blows
on her opponent while dodging the icicles her opponent broke off from the
surroundings and shot at her.

At one point, the tiger-girl managed to dodge a volley of icicles and take
advantage of an opening in the dragon-girl's defense to leap into the air and
try to claw at her, which was shown through silhouette. Time slowed down for a
moment as she flew through the air, and then it returned to normal as another
wave of icicles seemingly impaled her in midair from all directions, kind of
like this:

![Except she wasn't a brooding teenager addicted to VR
games.](https://i.stack.imgur.com/DhvhA.jpg)

The camera then changed angles out of silhouette to show that the tiger-girl
hadn't been stabbed - she was only trapped and tangled in the interlocking
icicles as she attempted to break free.

That's about all I could remember. The animation looked very smooth and
polished. At one point, something shattered, sending beautifully animated ice
shards flying. Both characters were super-deformed/chibi.

I used "animation" and not "anime" in describing it, because I am not sure if
it was just some independent video or an actual series. I tried searching
various combinations of relevant keywords on Google, like "3d", "icicles",
"chibi", etc., but most of what I got was mediocre DeviantArt and drawing
tutorials.


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An animation featuring two chibis wearing tiger and dragon costumes duking it out


It is [**Etotama**](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etotama), an anime currently
airing this season (Spring 2015).

Synopsis from [MAL](http://myanimelist.net/anime/28221/Etotama):

> The anime's story revolves around Nya-tan, the cat of Chinese astrology who
> wants to become a member of the Chinese zodiac. [...] She meets Takeru
> Tendo, a high school student who lives alone in Akihabara, and becomes a
> freeloader at his house. Little by little, she gets closer to her goal.

The anime's setting is built upon [this folk
story](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_zodiac#The_Great_Race), which
explains the origin of the 12 animals in the Chinese Zodiac via a story about
a race between the animals to become part of the zodiac. The Cat in variations
of this folk story were always tricked by the Rat in one way or another and
missed its chance to become part of the zodiac.

The scene you describe is from the second half of episode 1, where Nya-tan
(Cat) and Doratan (Dragon) brawled out with each other to give Nya-tan the
setting of "a tragic heroine who's shocked because the Dragon Eto-musume she
thought was a friend ended up being a traitor".

A screenshot from around 16:33 of episode 1, showing both the Cat and the
Dragon.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/R0ILH.jpg)

A screenshot from around 17:52 of episode 1, showing the Cat being restrained
by multiple icicles.

![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/lknPg.jpg)


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