The first sea­son of Queen’s Blade was under­whelm­ing, bey­ond the ini­tial devi­ance on dis­play it went only slightly fur­ther than many of the other fighting-fanservice genre shows and exploited none of the oppor­tun­it­ies a guar­an­teed late night, paid chan­nel slot offers. Sea­son two does noth­ing to change this status quo and, if […]

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Cast­ing Aya Hir­ano as the lead char­ac­ter is not the worst thing that Fairy Tail does, but it comes close. Her voice is so iden­ti­fi­able and her status so con­found­ingly over­whelm­ing that it over­shad­ows many of the other more accom­plished act­ors such as Rie Kugim­iya (Alphonse from Full­metal Alchem­ist) and Tet­suya Kakihara […]

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The pro­duc­tion of a Queen’s Blade anime builds on the fighting-fanservice genre cham­pioned by titles such as Ikkit­ousen and Tejou Tenge and takes it to the most logical next step. The series, like the “visual com­bat books” pre­ced­ing it, is a cyn­ical mar­ket­ing play, a mul­ti­fa­ceted brothel cater­ing to every fet­ish and […]

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