Reviews

Queen's Blade could certainly qualify for being a guilty pleasure anime. It knows what you're here for and it delivers on that front in virtually every episode. Nearly everything about Queen's Blade's premise is to facilitate placing the characters in compromising positions and sexualizing them for the audience's consumption, much to the degree that many outsiders looking in could easily write this off as just pure fanservice.

And yes, while those elements never change, it is possible to look beyond it at times and be able to observe some genuinely good bits of music, animation, and fight scenes. I won't make the claim that any one of these aspects make the anime fantastic, but I did find myself relating somewhat to a few characters and becoming invested in the more important battles that occur.

My only real gripe with this show is that it for it's first season almost exclusively introduces new characters and establishes plot points that won't be followed through until the second season. While the show is about the Queen's Blade tournament, the tournament itself does not matter much in the first season, as it is primarily about the main characters travelling to the capital where the event takes place.

I'd say give this one a shot if you enjoy the medieval fantasy genre and don't mind a little bit of eye-candy here and there.