Queen's Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono

After experiencing the numerous trials encountered on her journey, Reina has grown as a warrior. Determined to take part in the Queen's Blade tournament, she arrives at the capital city Gainos, where Queen Aldora awaits. There gathers a number of beautiful warriors who, like Reina, are there for the Queen's Blade.

Amongst them is Reina's sister, Claudette, determined to restore the glory of House Vance; Tomoe and Shizuka, who are both fighting for their homeland of Hinomoto; Nanael who has been ordered to participate by the Archangel; and the subordinates of the Marshland Witch.

All these beautiful fighters who gather in Gainos have been one objective, to win through the Queen's Blade, the tournament to select the strongest, most beautiful queen. Who would ascend to that glorious throne? That can only be determined via battle.

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Vance, Leina Main

Kawasumi, Ayako Japanese

Aldra Main

Takeuchi, Miyu Japanese

Tomoe Main

Noto, Mamiko Japanese

Risty Main

Kaida, Yuuko Japanese

Vance, Claudette Main

Tanaka, Atsuko Japanese

Airi ing

Itou, Kanae Japanese

Echidna ing

Kaida, Yuki Japanese

Melona ing

Kugimiya, Rie Japanese

Nanael ing

Hirano, Aya Japanese

Alleyne ing

Kitamura, Eri Japanese

Tanaka, Shinsaku Producer

Yokota, Masaaki Producer

Morijiri, Kazuaki Producer

Minami, Hiromasa Producer

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Jul 12, 2024

AnemoianArts

Recommended

The ultimate payoff for watching through the first season of Queen's Blade is that you're rewarded with this. The animation is even better, the fights begin to matter and have real stakes, the story and characters stand to become legitimately gripping at times. It is in every way an improvement from the previous season.

Queen's Blade truly starts at this point. From here on to the end, it is all about the tournament arc. You get to see all manner of exciting fights in so many cool and different arenas which can either elevate the tension or express awe-inspiring artistry. Each character in the arena brings ... something new and fresh to increase the stakes and show off some impressive technique or power. The moments outside of the fights serve well to meaningfully develop the characters and even pair them together in surprising ways that play into their strengths. Just about every member of the cast gets their moment to shine and do something important for the story.

Queen's Blade manages to stick the landing, and I feel pretty satisfied coming off this show knowing that it tied up everything so nicely.

Reviewer’s Rating: 8

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Mar 10, 2019

GonzyChan

Recommended

When your tiddie anime has more depth within its plot than most non-tiddie anime in the past ten years, you know you got some problems. Well, okay, that might be a bit hyperbolic on my end. Nevertheless, when your expectations aren’t exactly that high for an anime of this genre that usually ends up falling flat on its face, you can’t help but commend it for sticking out above the rest.

Now I am not saying Queen’s Blade’s second season, subtitled Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono (Inheritor of the Throne), is not without its flaws within its plot. It still suffers from the previous season, where there ... are so many characters in the show that you wished would have been explored more or given more screen time (my girl Menace deserves more love, dammit!). I’m hopeful that the 3rd season will fix this issue. There is also a new element of melodrama in parts of the story that does get a little overbearing to take seriously. There are instances where it does work involving the character Cattleya and her husband. How Leina and Ritsu resolve their conflict in the 2nd to the last episode was quite touching based on the circumstances. However, the one instance where it doesn’t work is when one character dies. They pummel the emotion to the ground to make you feel a strong emotional response, but something that tragic in an anime like this felt forced and too overblown.

Despite all of that, the story has many aspects that they improved from the 1st season. They focus on a plot point that impacts all of the other characters without unnecessary deviations from it. That way, I can easily the overall narrative focus without being distracted by sub-plots that do not have anything to do with the main story. The story involves all of the beautiful female fighters who want to be the Queen’s Blade to fulfill their common goals. Pretty simple but sweet to the point. The first season had this same plot, but I felt more emotionally involved due to the stakes being put in place.

Everyone who has watched Queen’s Blade says the same thing: Airi is the best girl. While I wouldn’t necessarily say she is my top favorite, Menace, the thicc queen is still my bae. This season showed me why a lot of people love her. It does help that Kanae Itou voices her, and any cutie she voices automatically gets my undivided attention. But she does have a nice well-rounded personality that makes her distinct from the rest of the girls. I thought her relationship with Cattleya’s son, Lana, was really cute and sweet. Seeing how she grows from a demon only wanting power for the Queen’s Blade title to being a caring big sister type to an innocent little boy she has no relation with. It gives her a three-dimensional growth as a character from this sub-plot.

Other characters do get more backstory and time to develop than their debut in the 1st season. For instance, Cattleya and her son are treated with a nice story, helping Leina achieve her goal and involving Cattleya’s husband, which is quite effective. Not to mention Nanael is still as perky and hilarious as ever, thanks in no part to Aya Hirano’s great performance as her. And the fact that they give Nanael something more to work with rather than be this side character is a major plus. As I have said before, I can only hope that with the 3rd season on the horizon, I can get a better feel for the girls that didn’t get as much love. I mean, when Irma and Echnida get less screen love than Ymir, that is a really big issue, in my opinion.

I must mention that I did not harp on from my review of the 1st season was the music. For some reason, the music on this season left a big impact while watching compared to the previous one. It is one of those soundtracks that you listen to outside the context of the anime and not even think it's part of some “trashy tiddie anime.” Also, the EDs for this season are now among my top favorite EDs ever. There are three different ones in random order. Each involves the three demon girls, Airi, Melona, and Menace. The fun, jazzy instrumentation, hilarious and sexy lyrics, and the great performances by the Rie Kugimiya, Kanae Itou, and Yuuko Gotou make this one of the few EDs I never skip after an episode was over. The animation of the EDs is also quite sexy and funny to look at, although Menace’s walking animation and pose were really weird to look at.

Queen’s Blade: Gyokuza wo Tsugu Mono is a big improvement. I have gone through this Queen’s Blade marathon, and I am optimistic that things can only get better or just as good from here. I’m not expecting anything groundbreaking to happen, but when my lewdness intensifies with each ing episode, that is groundbreaking enough to make me happy.

Grade: B+

Reviewer’s Rating: 7

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Feb 17, 2019

Intelligentleman

Mixed Feelings

Well chaps, here we are. The end of the Queen's Blade tournament. A much better season than the first, for whatever it's worth. One finds most of one's questions answered by the end of the season and the story actually gains and follows a structure! Marvelous! Once again we decided to watch this one dubbed so grab your flip flops lads, it's party time.

Story

In this season we follow Laina: The Wandering Warrior on her journey to win the Queen's blade by fighting her friends without being frozen in some sort of undescribed crystal of urine. The same cannot be said for some other characters however, ... opening a rather perculiar sub-plot where a demon very quickly turns to the side of good just by walking around with a child (who's entire body is smaller than his mother's boobs) for a couple of days. Not on my watch! I would have put this child in the ground as soon as he opened his mouth the cheeky brat! This demon maid and her strange comrads almost seem to be the focus of this season, recieving some solo screen time and jazzy walking in every ending. Some highlights of the story this season are evil agent Risty, sudden milk-addict Nanael, wand-tenticle rape, incest lesbian tension and straight-up nonsensical friend murdering! Spectacular!

Animation and Sound

The animation this season is mostly of the same quality as season 1. A rather strange amount of money, however, seems to have been spent on the ending animations. Near-60fps cycles of characters walking can be found here, accompanied by a story-relevant monologue and some energetic jazz music. As a connoisseur of jazz, this ending really rustled my jimmies! +1 to animation from last season! One wonders whether the entire plot of Queen's Blade could be extracted from these endings, saving the audience a large amount of time while providing both the visual and audio highlghts of the entire season! Alas, these endings have not been dubbed in English, a true let down leaving me emotionally drained and close to writing a strongly-worded letter to the blu-ray distributor! Maybe even to Masahiro Sakurai himself!

Characters

Season two of Queen's blade features the same characters as season one for the most part but still manages to include a few new entries. Not that this is a bad thing of course, Ikkitousen has already shown the damage that an excess of characters can do to a show and this season we needed some fodder for Leina to defeat. Perhaps the most questionable characters introduced here are Nyx and the current Queen Aldra, two characters seemingly possessed by tentacle monsters. To seperate these characters then, something drastic needed to be done and, as a result, Aldra has a horn-penis and an eyepatch and Nyx gets raped every now and again by her magic wand. Thanks Japan!

Summary

In summary, Queen's Blade season two somehow manages to outshine the already great season one, elegantly wrapping up the deep story threads and adding jazz to the ending! Unfortunatly the season does leave a major question unanswered by the end, just who the devil is this Swamp Witch? More importantly, does she have double-Ds too? I want to meet the character that created the acid-lactating pink slime girl! I guess I'll have to wait until next season to find out...

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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