What? She's just draining her essence.
Because in a World of Action Girls where the roles of men are often trivialized (both in-universe and in-story), how else are you going to have Shipping? Oh, and the copious ecchi helps.
Examples
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First Series
- Elina and Leina, hoo boy.
- In the first episode, Elina is clearly disappointed that she doesn't get to sleep with Leina.
- In the first Utsukishiki Toushi-Tachi OVA, Elina reminisces fondly of how, in the innocence of childhood, she was able to sleep and bathe with Reina at will, and the episode focuses in part on her sadness that, as Leina aged, she began to see such things as improper, while Elina still desires to do them... in a less innocent way.
- Another OVA, setting things in a High School AU, had one of the subplots focus on Elina's attempts to take advantage of her sister, and threw Claudette into the mix as well.
- Near the beginning of episode 9 (season 2), they're seen spooning beneath the covers, while both are in the nude. During which, Elina is shown happily using Leina's breasts as pillows.
- One of the ED shows them topless, with Elina groping Leina's breasts from behind.
- There's also several pieces of official art that border on outright incest; including one where Elina has Leina bound in wire, bondage style, while groping her.
- The Hide & Seek manga goes further, by having Elina pin Leina at the start of the semi-finals and molests her in the center of the arena. When Leina reminds her that the crowd is watching and that the match was being broadcast across the continent, Elina said she didn't care.
Leina: (shocked) "WHA...??" - Leina generally serves as an Even the Girls Want Her for many of the women she meets, outside of the explicity-hetero Cattleya and Nanael. Further examples:
- Echidna, who administers an antidote mouth-to-mouth. Or we can just strike it and say the entire oil-fight between the two of them was one big steaming pile of Les Yay.
- It's implied that Echidna molested Leina on several occasions throughout the first season of the first series.
- Her relationship with Tomoe seems platonic enough, but that doesn't stop Elina from getting jealous.
- Leina herself seems to have somewhat of a crush on Risty, as expressed by how she follows her around in the first season, or later how she is desperate to win her approval, or in the second season when she must rescue Risty from Aldra's Mind Control.
- The Hide & Seek manga features a romantic subplot concerning Claudette and Elina's hidden feelings for each other:
- Examples include Elina fantasizing about cuddling with Claudette and admitting her feelings for her, via internal monologue. Along with the fact that she became jealous both times that it appeared Ymir was getting too close to her sister.
- Claudette also admits her own jealousy toward Leina, since Elina had entered the QB tournament to be with Leina instead of her.
- There's also the scene where she carries Elina out of the arena, after her loss to Leina during the semi-finals. She also personally looks after Elina during her subsequent bout of depression and vows to defeat Leina and bring her home for Elina's sake.
- In chapter 28, Leina reveals that she knows about Claudette's feelings for Elina, and says Claudette shouldn't hide it from Elina. Then adds that she supports the idea of them being together.
- Echidna has tiny implications of bisexuality in some corners of the franchise, but is at least definitely lesbian.
- In her backstory with Irma, it is shown that they slept together while she was training her, in something resembling pederasty.
- Basically her end story with Irma implies that she settles down Happily Ever After with her, briefly appearing in the first Beautiful Fighters OVA to fight Elina, but later saying "I have some cats to take care of." Irma is a Kindhearted Cat Lover.
- The aforementioned oil fight with Leina, and her molestation of her.
- Echidna's interactions with fellow elf Alleyne sees her teasing the combat instructor like long-departed lovers.
- In one of the Vanquished Queens OVAs, she threatens to rape the amnesiac Aldra to see if that would make her dormant power awake. And she actually does it in the alternative ending.
- Menace is another explicit lesbian, with her backstory detailing betrayal by her lover in the ancient kingdom of Amara which led to her overthrow and death.
- In keeping with the above, Menace spends the entire series trying to Mind Control various individuals, preferring women. At one point she placed Leina under this control.
- "Hide & Seek" has Menace develop an interest in Elina instead, whom she refers to as, "Ms. Tiger". After witnessing her victory over Nowa in the QB Tournament, Menace says she intends to make Elina one of her new servants.
- In the Beautiful Fighters OVAs, she has built a kingdom of willing servants (all masochists). Her handmaidens are scantily clad, and at one point she drinks wine using their cleavage as a cup.
- Despite all the crap Anarista put her on, she still mourns over her betrayal.
- Airi, who regenerates her power by deep-kissing people to suck their life essence. She explicitly prefers female victims.
- Tomoe and Shizuka often seem awfully buddy-buddy. Heterosexual Life-Partners? Or something more? You decide.
- Aldra seems to have fun with taking over Risty's mind, putting her in a catsuit with Navel-Deep Neckline in the process. Rebellion gives her a husband (completely off-screen, no less), but her Les Yay tendencies remain.
- In Vanquished Queens (both the book and the OVA), she forces Irma to lick her codpiece to demonstrate her loyalty. It seems she did this often to the Assassins of the Fang as a punishment or just to humiliate them.
- Melpha, in turn, seems rather taken with the angel Nanael.
- This is actually important because Melpha states that she's only serving Nanael who is a servant of God and a messenger of heaven. Despite Nanael flat out lying to her about her title (she's not an archangel), she's not angered by Nanael one bit and still calls her archangel. And in the fifth OVA at first she is surprised that Nanael fell but when confronted with the angel she declares that it doesn't matter if Nanael has fallen or not because she would dedicate her life to her. Which shows that even someone who is faithful to God is willing to turn her back on everything she has known her entire life for a fallen angel who has taken advantage of her kindness but this kindness is enough for the viewer to know that Nanael does treasure Melpha. Their relationship is enough for the Head Angel to not send Nanael straight to hell.
Queen's Blade Rebellion
- The anime of Rebellion might as well be called There's Something About Annelotte. She's surrounded by girls who are, to varying degrees, taken with her, which she seems to take in stride.
- There's Yuit, who knew Annelotte growing up, but Annelotte was raised as a male, so Yuit still calls her Onii-chan, much to Annelotte's chagrin, and is just as competitive for her attention and affection as the others in their makeshift party.
- Mirim also seems to look up to Annelotte as a bigger sister figure (Oneechan), but that entails bathing with her and sleeping with her, and competing for the privelege. She also showed great admiration towards Ymir before joining the rebels, albeit it didn't go anywhere.
- Lunaluna is an oddly mixed case, since she perceives Annelotte to be her "Destined One," and was, at first, visibly disappointed to find out that her chosen one was a woman (as she starts by asking Annelotte how many children she wants). But then Lunaluna's "moon dancer" side seems as hungrily perverse for her as Echidna was for Leina.
- Sanyang, who sees herself as having a life-debt to Annelotte, and once again, is eager to compete for affection from her.
- Then there's all the severe hinting that Annelotte is Aldra's long-lost sister. When it seems like Annelotte's dark side is getting out of control, we're presented with a Destiny of the Shrine Maiden -esque naked embrace scene, albeit as an Imagine Spot or something similar.
- In her Combat Book, as well as in the Rebellion and Rebellion Zero mangas, Yuit feeds Vante a magical stone that serves as her power source, mouth-to-mouth. This isn't seen in the anime proper, but it shows up in the credits of the last episode.
- In the manga adaptation of Rebellion, Annelotte transforming into her demon form for the first time happens after her two sides meet inside her mind, and their dialogue ends with the demon side giving Annelotte a french kiss.
Queen's Gate
- Dorothy towards Alice, although her feelings are one-sided. But at the end of the trilogy, she manages to kiss her.
Queen's Blade Grimoire
- Keeping up the long-standing tradition of the franchise, the combat books alone bring plenty of Les Yay.
- Kaguya: The prologue of her book finishes with her meeting a female Beautiful Fighter and making her the same offer she made to a couple of noblemen. If she can defeat Kaguya in a fight while Kaguya is using her magic clothing, she can marry her.
- Gretel: When Hansel takes over in the prologue of the book, she does something to a female Beautiful Fighter. Whether a battle took place or they had sex is up to the reader. Note that while Hansel seems to identify as a male, the narration makes it clear that "his" body is still female.
- Seiten: Both the narration and a couple of images of the book have her making out with Genjou… who in this continuity is a female fighter Seiten killed and transformed into her pet using her necromancer powers.
- Despina: The entire point of her character is that she is a Psycho Lesbian version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin that uses her magic to kidnap pretty girls to add to her harem.
- In the second OVA, while Alicia and Tiina are sharing a dance, Tiina admits having a bit of a crush on the other girl while pressing their bodies together. Alicia replies that she doesn't swing that way, but that doesn’t stop Tiina from saving her from drowning with a Kiss of Life later.
Queen's Blade Unlimited
- After losing a Queen's Blade match against Elina, Airi is forbidden from getting life essence from anyone but her. Since she needs life essence to survive in this world, this essentially makes her Elina's slave. Elina herself doesn't care whether Airi lives or not, but she finds her to be useful, so she keeps her around. And since Airi's methods of getting life essence did not change from the first series, this means she must either let Airi lick her body or make out with her. Frequently.
- In this continuity, Echidna did not abandon Irma, instead she allowed her to become her personal spy and lover.
- Delmore's relationship with Aldra is the same as in the first series, but Delmore is now a female demon.
