History Anime / QueensBlade

* BleachedUnderpants: Most of the artists and designers hired by ''Hobby Japan'' were/are Hentai artists, notable examples being ''Oda Non'' and ''Koume Keito''.

* '''Queen's Blade''': Where it all began. The story centers around Leina Vance, the heiress to the Count Vance, travelling to Gainos to compete in the Queen's Blade tournament, while fighting against other warriors along the way and participating in the [[IncrediblyLamePun tit]]ular tournament, and eventually fighting against the two-time champion, the wicked [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen Queen Aldra]].

* BreastExpansion: One of the chapters of the ''Rebellion Zero'' manga shows that when the girls lick Luna-Luna's horn-like piece, their breasts grow in size. Apparently it's one of the secrets of the Calibara tribe. The effect is temporary, though.

* RotatingProtagonist: While Leina is the main focus for the first two seasons, she's still only part of a semi-EnsembleCast. ''Rebellion'' shifts focus to an entirely new set of characters with the previous seasons' cast being reduced to side-characters.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: Hinomoto, which is clearly Japan. It's name is in fact derived from an alternate way of reading the kanji for Japan. Amara, where Menace comes from, is an equally obvious stand-in for Egypt. Also, in Queen's Blade Rebellion, we have Shai-Fang, which is a stand-in for China.

* IstanbulNotConstantinople: Tomoe's FarEast country, Hinomoto, is literally just a different way to read "Japan" in {{Kanji}}.

* NoEnding: ''Rebellion'''s anime adaptation ends on a cliffhanger that has yet to be resolved, with the series instead being rebooted with ''Unlimited'', and even that is only two OVAs.

* ContinuityNod: All over the place in ''Queen's Gate'', like [[LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao Junko's certain problem]] at the BeachEpisode, and how [[LightNovel/SamuraiGirls Jubei]] first appeared to Muneakira. Seeing as [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Banpresto]] made the game, it would make sense that these events would be present.

** While this is normally averted in the TV series for obvious reasons (except during the final battles from both seasons), it's played straight in the ''Spiral Chaos'' games: Including the TV series along, we have five princesses (Leina, her sisters, Ymir and Cute, each one with different personality quirks), a thief (Risty), an angel (Nanael), a sword-wealding miko (Tomoe), an half-elf (Nowa) and her instructor, a normal Elf (Alleyne), a Mercenary Elf (Echidna), a big-breasted Monster hunter (Cattleya) and her son (Rana), an assassin (Irma), a dimensional-traveling gunslinger (Alice), a Magical Cook (Maron), a queen (Aldra), a nun (Melpha), a street-fighting {{Ojou}} ([[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Lili]]), three ninjas (Shizuka, [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]] and [[LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao Junko Hattori]], make it ''four'' later with the inclusion of [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Taki]], or ''five'' if we also include [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Kasumi]]), a MagicalGirl (Ink), a nurse (Kotone-chan) a [[HenshinHero Power Ranger-wannabe]] (Wonder Momo), two humanoid girls with massive power ([[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Dizzy]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]]), a jungle girl ([[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Cham Cham]]), a ninja maid ([[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Iroha]]), a Medieval dominatrix ([[VideoGame/SoulSeries Ivy]]), two [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] Samurai ([[LightNovel/SamuraiGirls Jubei Yagyu and Sanada Yukimura]]), a [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Three Kingdoms]] General ([[VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou Kan'u/Aisha]]), a girl infused with an evil sword power ([[VideoGame/SoulSeries Pyrrha]]), the reincarnation of the last Tsaritsa of Russia (Katja) and her servant, a pedophile bully (Hana), ... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and a perverted male Cleric.]] (Jean)

** Many stages from the ''Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos'' game are named after episodes or titles from other anime series, mainly from the {{Mecha}} genre, like [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam "Blood-sucking Princess of Sorrow"]][[note]]哀・吸血姫, a parody of 哀・戦士 (Soldiers of Sorrow), one of the most famous songs of that series.[[/note]], [[Anime/SuperDimensionFortressMacross Booby Trap]][[note]]Named after the first episode of the series[[/note]], [[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Ink]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Weiss' Ambition.]][[note]]Named after the game Mobile Suit Gundam: Ghiren's Ambition[[/note]]

* [[BandOfBrothers Band of Sisters]]: The Rebellion Army in ''QB Rebellion''.

* [[HeroesPreferSwords Heroines Prefer Swords]]: Leina in the original series, Annelotte in ''Rebellion'' and Alicia in ''Grimoire'' use swords (albeit Annelotte also has a lance). On the other hand, Alice from the ''Queen's Gate'' novels and games uses handguns (due to the modern setting of the story) who also can be used as knives.

* MaleGaze: Practically every scene.

* PerpetuallyShinyBodies: The franchise often portrays the girls with high-gloss on their exposed skin, albeit it [[DependingOnTheArtist depends on the artist.]]

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: While this is normally averted in the TV series for obvious reasons (except during the final battles from both seasons), it's played straight in the ''Spiral Chaos'' games: Including the TV series along, we have five princesses (Leina, her sisters, Ymir and Cute, each one with different personality quirks), a thief (Risty), an angel (Nanael), a sword-wealding miko (Tomoe), an half-elf (Nowa) and her instructor, a normal Elf (Alleyne), a Mercenary Elf (Echidna), a big-breasted Monster hunter (Cattleya) and her son (Rana), an assassin (Irma), a dimensional-traveling gunslinger (Alice), a Magical Cook (Maron), a queen (Aldra), a nun (Melpha), a street-fighting {{Ojou}} ([[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Lili]]), three ninjas (Shizuka, [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]] and [[LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao Junko Hattori]], make it ''four'' later with the inclusion of [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Taki]], or ''five'' if we also include [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Kasumi]]), a MagicalGirl (Ink), a nurse (Kotone-chan) a [[HenshinHero Power Ranger-wannabe]] (Wonder Momo), two humanoid girls with massive power ([[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Dizzy]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]]), a jungle girl ([[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Cham Cham]]), a ninja maid ([[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Iroha]]), a Medieval dominatrix ([[VideoGame/SoulSeries Ivy]]), two [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] Samurai ([[LightNovel/SamuraiGirls Jubei Yagyu and Sanada Yukimura]]), a [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Three Kingdoms]] General ([[VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou Kan'u/Aisha]]), a girl infused with an evil sword power ([[VideoGame/SoulSeries Pyrrha]]), the reincarnation of the last Tsaritsa of Russia (Katja) and her servant, a pedophile bully (Hana), ... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and a perverted male Cleric.]] (Jean)

* ShoutOut: The game ''Queen's Blade Spiral Chaos'' includes many shout outs from many mecha anime (''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSeed Gundam SEED]]'', ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'', ''Anime/GreatMazinger'', ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'', etc.) and some non-mecha too (''Anime/FistOfTheNorthStar'', ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'', ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'', etc.) Justified, because the game was programmed by Banpresto, the creators of the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' series.

* [[WeAllLiveInAmerica We All Live In Japan]]: Despite the Western European Medieval setting of the series, some Japanese stuff still prevails on it: The biggest offenders are the armors of the Vance County [[spoiler:and later, the Claudette's army's]] soldiers, who looks a lot like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashigaru Ashigaru]] soldiers from the Japanese Sengoku period, the members of the Assassins of the Fang are Medieval Ninjas and we can hear a woman who sounds like a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benshi Benshi]] [[spoiler:announcing the final battle between Leina and Aldra in the second season]].

The story is as follows: Every four years, there is a [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority tournament to decide who will be the next queen of the land]]. The rules are extremely simple: as long as the contestant is over twelve years old, [[ThereCanBeOnlyOne the last one standing wins]].

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: The purpose of the Queen's Blade tournament. Only the strongest Beautiful Fighter can become queen.

* ImprobablyFemaleCast: Given the target audience and premise of the franchise, this is not surprising; still it's worth mentioning if one wants to take the story a bit seriously. There are only a few remotely significant male characters in the ''whole franchise'', and even so they are token motivations (Owen and Count Vance) or enemies (Delmmore) for the female characters.

* StatusQuoIsGod: More like the Status Quo is "Maintained by the Gods": The whole series (at least during Leina and Annelotte's sagas) makes it clear the Queen's Blade tournament is possibly the only thing that keeps the whole setting in check, since the whole Continent is recovering from a previous war that happened many decades before, and the gods created the tournament for avoiding another war that could [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the Continent or even the entire world.]] [[spoiler:In ''Rebellion's'' Illustrated Stories, our heroines, after many battles, decided to restore the former status quo, even if ''that'' status quo is the one who caused the whole mess in first place. In fact, after defeating Claudette, they found about this ''the hard way'', as they can't kill her, or even vanquish her, [[YouCannotFightFate since the gods (or Leina) choose her as the queen]].]]

* TrailersAlwaysLie: The trailers of the [=OVAs=] make you believe that many of the characters will face a serious life-threatning danger or may be doing something nefarious [[spoiler:(like Nanael), but at the end, everyone lives, [[BittersweetEnding but not always in a satisfactory way.]]]]

* {{Gainaxing}}: In a WorldOfBuxom, this is expected.

** The ''Queen's Gate'' side-stories also count: While the {{Fanservice}} is cranked UpToEleven, there are also instances of ''FanDisservice''. Since the novels were written in collaboration with ''Creator/{{Nitroplus}}'', this can be expected.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Excluding named males, secondary characters, and the licensed characters from ''Queen's Gate'', there's about 19 named characters that appears in both the gamebooks and the anime series. The sequel, ''Queen's Blade Rebellion'' adds another ''12 new characters'' (and counting), and that's ''excluding returning characters.'' So, including the prequels, there's about '''32 named heroines''' to this date. And the new series, QB ''Grimoire'' includes ''even more characters'', despite being set in an AlternativeContinuity.

** The whole point of the ''Vanquished Queens'' books, who are WhatIf situations where all the named characters are defeated and their dreams are shattered (or worse). Also, [[spoiler:the end of the animated adaptation of ''Rebellion'' counts, since Claudette managed to defeat everyone (unlike what happened in the novelizations) and only Maria/Leina managed prevent the outcome to become a full-blown KillEmAll, by putting herself between the Rebellion Army and her sister ''without fighting her'']].

* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Zigzagged in the show’s [[WorldOfActionGirls nearly all-female cast]]. Though women in the series can be both good and evil, almost all of the evil ones get at least something approaching a PetTheDog moment or a MoralityPet. Meanwhile, there are some benevolent male characters, but most of the men are usually faceless outlines and [[MenAreTheExpendableGender crow-fodder]], or evil and [[AllMenArePerverts lecherous]] [[JerkAss assholes]]. In particular, Dogura, the only male minion of the Swamp Witch, is also the vilest one by far, being a DirtyOldMan who gets his kicks from torturing women, while the female BigBad Aldra [[spoiler:[[DiscOneFinalBoss turns out to be a pawn]] of the male demon Delmore]]. On the other hand, the Swamp Witch herself is the OverarchingVillain and by far the evilest character in the series, [[spoiler:while Delmore is ultimately a pawn of her, and is actually female in both the [[ShesAManInJapan English version]] of the original anime and the ''Unlimited'' AlternateContinuity]].

** There's also a freeware PC game named ''Queen's Blade Battle'', that allows the player to use not only both the Queen's Blade and Queen's Gate gamebooks, but also the original Lost World books, the [[Creator/MarvelComics Marvel Battlebooks]], [[StarWars both Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader gamebooks published years ago]], and even fan-created gamebooks.

* ContinuityNod: All over the place in ''Queen's Gate'', like [[LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao Junko's certain problem]] at the BeachEpisode, and how [[LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls Jubei]] first appeared to Muneakira. Seeing as [[VideoGame/SuperRobotWars Banpresto]] made the game, it would make sense that these events would be present.

* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: While this is normally averted in the TV series for obvious reasons (except during the final battles from both seasons), it's played straight in the ''Spiral Chaos'' games: Including the TV series along, we have five princesses (Leina, her sisters, Ymir and Cute, each one with different personality quirks), a thief (Risty), an angel (Nanael), a sword-wealding miko (Tomoe), an half-elf (Nowa) and her instructor, a normal Elf (Alleyne), a Mercenary Elf (Echidna), a big-breasted Monster hunter (Cattleya) and her son (Rana), an assassin (Irma), a dimensional-traveling gunslinger (Alice), a Magical Cook (Maron), a queen (Aldra), a nun (Melpha), a street-fighting {{Ojou}} ([[VideoGame/{{Tekken}} Lili]]), three ninjas (Shizuka, [[VideoGame/FatalFury Mai Shiranui]] and [[LightNovel/DemonKingDaimao Junko Hattori]], make it ''four'' later with the inclusion of [[VideoGame/SoulSeries Taki]], or ''five'' if we also include [[VideoGame/DeadOrAlive Kasumi]]), a MagicalGirl (Ink), a nurse (Kotone-chan) a [[HenshinHero Power Ranger-wannabe]] (Wonder Momo), two humanoid girls with massive power ([[VideoGame/GuiltyGear Dizzy]] and [[VideoGame/BlazBlue Noel Vermillion]]), a jungle girl ([[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Cham Cham]]), a ninja maid ([[VideoGame/SamuraiShodown Iroha]]), a Medieval dominatrix ([[VideoGame/SoulSeries Ivy]]), two [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] Samurai ([[LightNovel/HyakkaRyouranSamuraiGirls Jubei Yagyu and Sanada Yukimura]]), a [[GenderFlip Gender Flipped]] [[Literature/RomanceOfTheThreeKingdoms Three Kingdoms]] General ([[VisualNovel/KoihimeMusou Kan'u/Aisha]]), a girl infused with an evil sword power ([[VideoGame/SoulSeries Pyrrha]]), the reincarnation of the last Tsaritsa of Russia (Katja) and her servant, a pedophile bully (Hana), ... [[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and a perverted male Cleric.]] (Jean)

* '''Queen's Blade Grimoire''': Takes place in another world, this time in a world based in classical fairy tales plunged into an eternal winter. The heroine this time is Alicia, who wants to find a way to her world, but first, she must fight in another version of the Queen's Blade tournament, winning the right to use the legendary Queen's Blade sword and dealing with the Winter Demon, the one who is causing the eternal winter.

* WorldOfActionGirls: Good luck finding a named female character in this franchise that can't fight. A nobleman's daughters? They must be trained to become proper heirs. A {{Miko}}? She learns enough sword techniques to make a samurai jealous. Nuns? They know many techniques to exorcise spirits and punish heretics. That friendly weaponsmith? She and her husband are former adventures who once killed a dragon. That dwarf girl, part of a race known for making weapons rather than fighting? What better way to demonstrate how good her weapons are than beating people with them?

** Also, if you press the Select + Start buttons together to activate the Panic Mode, in the first game, you will see Leina in a 8-bit RPG game VideoGame/DragonQuest-style and in the sequel, you will see Jean and Maron (the new [[OriginalGeneration original character]]) parodying VideoGame/MegaMan instead.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The sequel, ''Queen's Blade Rebellion'' have a darker narrative and setting, since the QB world transformed from a CrapsaccharineWorld to a full CrapsackWorld in less of a year. Oddly, the anime adaptation doesn't change the status quo too much.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: That milk is awfully thick isn't it? Wonder why it always coats a heroine's face, though...
** Also, in the 4th OVA episode, when Airi tries to sneak out of Cattleya's house to drain life force, Rana pleads with her to not do so. His lines are.... well let's just say it sounds like something out of an H-manga.

* DownerEnding: The whole point of the ''Vanquished Queens'' books, who are WhatIf situations where all the named characters are defeated and their dreams are shattered (or worse). Also, [[spoiler:the end of the animated adaptation of ''Rebellion'' counts, since Claudette managed to defeat everyone (unlike what happened in the novelizations) and only Maria/Leina managed prevent the outcome to become a full-blown KillEmAll, by putting herself between the Rebellion Army and her sister ''without fighting her'']].