Trivia / Queen's Blade

• Acting for Two:
  • Yōko Hikasa as Dora, the Guest Fighter Junko Hattori and The Qwaser of Stigmata's Hana Katsuragi.
  • Aya Hirano as Nanael and Guest Fighter The Qwaser of Stigmata's Katja.
  • Rie Kugimiya as Melona, Rana and Weiss.
  • Eri Kitamura as Alleyne and Cham Cham.
• All-Star Cast: Excluding Aldra (at least in the original series) and, in less degree, Irma's VA's
• Alan Smithee: Everyone in the English dub's cast besides Jessica Calvello (Nanael) and Dan Green (Vance) used pseudonyms.
• He Also Did: Many of the artists who designed many of the characters are well known for many other series they worked before:
  • Hirokazu Hisayuki (The Vance Sisters): Character designer in Future GPX Cyber Formula, GEAR Fighter Dendoh and My-HiME.
  • Kazuhiro Takamura (Airi): Directed and character designed Strike Witches and Vividred Operation.
  • Keiji Goto (Aine and Charlotte) Character Designer in Martian Successor Nadesico and Kiddy Grade.
  • Hirotaka Akaga (Irma and Laila): Character Designer in Arcana Heart 2 & 3.
  • Kaneko Hiraku (Cattleya and Rana): Character Designer in Manyu Hikencho and Witchblade
  • Akio "Popoyon Rock" Watanabe (Cute, Jean, Maron and Aruta): Character Designer in Bakemonogatari and its sequels, Nurse Witch Komugi and The SoulTaker.
  • Kuuchuu Yousai (Nanael and Izumi): Guest Character Designer in Half-Minute Hero.
  • Koume Keito (Huit and Vingt): Illustrator in the Spice and Wolf light novels (but not in the anime).
  • Haruyuki Morisawa (Captain Liliana): Character designer in Dream C Club and Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts.
  • Niθ (Alice and everyone else from the Queen's Gate novels) Character Designer in Demonbane and Samurai Girls.
  • MatsuRyu (Alleyne and Werbellia The Swamp Witch): Character Designer in CROSS†CHANNEL.
  • Shinichiro Otsuka (Annie): Character Designer in Summon Night X and Unchained Blades.
  • Kantaka (Aldra and Gretel): Character Designer in Koihime†Musou.
  • Rin-Sin (Animated adaptations' character designer): Character Designer in Ikki Tousen.
• No Export for You: The light novels Queen's Blade: Sword of Unicorn, Fierce Battle: Queen's Blade, and Queen's Blade: Exiled Warrior, the manga Queen's Blade: Hide & Seek, and Queen's Blade Struggle, the art books Queen's Blade: Beautiful Fighters Biographies, Picture Scroll of the Musha-Miko, Tome of the Ancient Princess, and Adventure of the Exiled Warrior, and the card series Queen's Blade Collection Card have not left Japan. Only four of the gamebooks, Alleyne, Melona, Nanael and Tomoe have received localisations.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Halko Momoi replaces Ayako Kawasumi (now playing as Leina), who voiced Wonder Momo in Namco × Capcom, since the Momo of Spiral Chaos is very different from the Namco × Capcom one.
  • Rina Sato replaces Joy Jacobson in QG Spiral Chaos, making her Lili's first Japanese voice actress, althrough she's replaced later in Street Fighter X Tekken.
  • Yumi Touma is back after not voicing Ivy in SC Legends and SC 4, but only in this game, as she's doesn't reprise that role again in latter games.
  • Rie Tanaka becomes Mina Majikina's third voice actress.
• Pop-Star Composer: Naomi Tamura, who sings the OP theme of Queen's Blade Rebellion is maybe well known for singing the catchy opening themes in Magic Knight Rayearth, another fantasy series.
• Reality Subtext: Originally, Laila was designed as Nanael's partner in the same vein as Hachiel from the animated series, but after Nanael's VA was temporarily blacklisted from her agency, she replaces her instead and now works in her place.
• Recycled Script: The script of the second Beautiful Warriors OVA recycles the plot of the Queen's Blade Bitoshi Retsuden: Adventure of the Vagrant Warrior book who originally starred Leina and Claudette vs Nyx. They're replaced by both Nowa and Alleyne instead, and the battle against Nyx is in a beach in the OVA rather than a volcano like in the book.
• Uncredited Role:
  • Owen's Japanese voice isn't listed in the final episode cast list and, to this date, it hasn't been explained why he's not listed in the cast.
  • Delmore's English voice actor isn't credited.
• Word of Dante: A minor one regarding Claudette: Fanon normally gives her Vance's last name, despite Claudette being a bastard daughter and as such, she can't have any nobility title and she's basically a glorified servant for Count Vance. In canon, only Leina and Elina Vance (the biological daughters of the Count and Maria) have last names and they are addressed as such in many other works, including in the animated adaptation.
  • It seems this is mostly (emphasis on mostly) canon, as it appears in a official relationship chart used in Queen's Gate Spiral Chaos◊, only Leina and Elina appear listed under their official last name of Vance, but Claudette is excluded of it.

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