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Snow Queen
At the start of Anderson's story, a mirror made by a mischievous
hobgoblin falls to earth, shattering into slivers, some no bigger than a grain of sand. Many of these fall into the eyes of humans,
and sometimes it affected their hearts, turning them to ice. Two children then find themselves affected by the mirror pieces:
Kay: "Oh, something struck my heart, and I have got something in my eye!"
The little girl put her arms round his neck, he blinked his eye, there was nothing to be seen.
"I believe it is gone," he said, but it was not gone. It was one of those very grains of glass from the mirror, the magic mirror.
You remember that magic mirror, in which all good and great things reflected in it became small and mean, while the bad things
were magnified, and every flaw became very apparent.
Later Kay meets the Snow Queen and leaves with her, forgetting those he loved, his heart now turned to ice by the piece of glass
from the mirror. At one point, Gerda is put under a spell by an old woman to forget Kay too. She lets Gerda play in her garden where every flower grows, but the old woman hides
the roses knowing that Gerda would remember Kay upoin seeing them. When Gerda accidentally sees the roses, she indeed remembers Kay.
In the end, Gerda makes her way barefoot to the palace of the Snow Queen, and
it is Gerda's hot tears falling upon his breast that melt the ice and mirror in Kay's heart when she finds him.
The above tale can be found in Fairy Tales From Hans Christian Anderson.
Magical Emi
In ep. 33 the fairy of snow, Parfy, becomes friends with Misaki. Unfortunately, as he plays with her often, if she takes him to her world and the snow melts
in the human world, the link between the two will close and Misaki will be lost in her realm. Mai must save her brother. When Mai transforms to Emi she sees him
in the sleigh pulled by the dragon, being taken into the world of snow. Mai does rescue him, and unlike the Snow Queen, Parfy is really a good
and kind fairy.
Princess Tutu
From Chris:
The prince is cold, no feelings, no memories, does as he's told, he's like a doll who just dances. The Prince who took out his own heart to seal a monster
Raven and whose heart shattetered falling into the cracks of peoples hearts and other places.
Sailor Moon
The Nehelenia arc at the beginning of the anime version of Sailor Stars contains a few possible references
to the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale of The Snow Queen.
In the anime, tiny pieces of glass from a mirror fall to earth and into the eyes of many humans, distorting their perception and turning
their hearts cold. Instead of two children, the story is Mamoru and Usagi, and Nehelenia takes the place of the Snow Queen in a
sense. A piece of glass falls into Mamoru's eye, turning his heart cold to Usagi and causing him to forget her, and Nehelenia takes
Mamoru away with her. When an illusion of a garden puts Usagi under a spell to forget Mamoru, it is the rose earring worn by Sailor Jupiter that
snaps her out of the dream-like spell and makes her remember him. In the end, Usagi journeys alone barefoot to the palace of Nehelenia and
it is Usagi's love which saves Mamoru and everyone else.