# Help me identify these 2 anime/manga/movie shows from my youth! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 25, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832 "2003-01-25T06:48:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![lukaspriest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lukaspriest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lukaspriest)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832/1 "2003-01-25T06:48:25Z")
So there are a couple of cartoons that I remember from when I was little, and it seems to me that they were anime or something really similar…I’d kill to be able to watch them again, but I have no idea where I would look… The first one I recall had this really interesting opening, and if I remember correctly, it revolved around two brothers or friends, and in the course of some battle or struggle, some kind of magical mirror or glass of sheer evil is broken/shattered - and a single, tiny, microscopic shard gets into the eye of one of the brothers, and it gradually turns him into a being of pure evil… The other one (and hell, if may even be the same cartoon as the one above) had some little miniature pony thing in it - and toward the end of the movie, this little ungainly pony turns into a magnificent unicorn to battle some unbelievable huge dragon/demon/monster thing, saving a princess or some woman in the process. I think the pony even forfeits her life in the cause. But I can’t remember. Any help my fellow dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Dragonblink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Dragonblink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragonblink)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832/2 "2003-01-25T07:02:32Z")
Did the little pony have a horn? The plot of the second movie kinda reminds me of what little I remember of _Unico_. ---
**Author:** ![lukaspriest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5a626/32.png) [@lukaspriest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lukaspriest)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832/3 "2003-01-25T07:05:49Z")
yeah, in fact, I think it did. and If I recall, the woman the pony saves at the end is either in love with or somehow under the power of some dark guy who becomes that horrific monster… I’ll definitely do a google search on “unico” to see what turns up… many thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Gravity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gravity/32/14322_2.png) [@Gravity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gravity)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832/4 "2003-01-25T17:48:49Z")
The first one, I am pretty sure, is from a russian folktale. I’ve seen this cartoon. I think it’s called “the Ice Princess” or “the Ice Queen”. It’s a brother and sister, not two brothers. ---
**Author:** ![Einmon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Einmon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Einmon)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832/5 "2003-01-25T18:24:21Z")
The first one probably comes from a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen: [The Snow Queen](http://www.classicreader.com/read.php/sid.3/bookid.109/sec.6/). ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-identify-these-2-anime-manga-movie-shows-from-my-youth/150832/6 "2003-01-25T18:38:56Z")
The Snow Queen movie: [http://us.imdb.com/Title?0050987](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0050987)