Tits, asses and swords is a pretty simple explanation of what Queen's Blade is. Another one would be Ikkitousen in a very small middle ages world...with even less clothing. I mean really there is just SO much fanservice in this series that it's borderline hentai.
For me Queen's Blade has been pretty interesting more for it being the first time I've ever gotten a DMCA Violation notice and having the Internet shut off for a couple hours. Just to bad there are so many other ways to get things when you really want them and getting the notice only wanted me to keep watching it that much more. SUCKERS! The second part is that for something like this I really thought there would be some great subs for it but what the hell it seems like not a single one of the bigger sub groups wanted to touch it with a ten foot pole. So to be honest the subs were not all that great some got a bit better after a couple episodes but then fucking hell the sub groups had to get all territorial and totally screwed the last episode up just for a bitter little battle with another sub group. Really ruined the last episode in my opinion but what can you say for watching it for free. Guess I'll just have to wait for someone smart to license it here in the states. After all it was good enough to get the studios to green light a second season.
To be honest Queen's Blade is heavy in T&A but it's lite in plot and substance. You can see that they occasionally tried to toss in some substance with the main character doing a bit of character building and fighting skills improvement ala most Shonen titles but really it's a travelers getting into fights with the bad guys looking to win the ultimate prize after reaching the Queen's castle. Where it'll be an all out grudge match to see who gets to be the next Queen. There is a bit of humor tossed in as well but mostly it's just glorified fighting that is mostly used as an excuse to tear each other's clothing off each episode.
It's a totally mindless guilty pleasure show that succeeds at doing what it sets out to do. It's not looking to be taken seriously as a great fighting anime it's not looking to be the best buddy adventure anime it's just trying to give the fans of the Queen's Blade franchise something to droll over for 12 episodes and it did that hands down. Could it have been better you bet but really why there just isn't any real need to do so. Like Ikkitousen the DVDs are getting short 3 minute long OVA episode which are just plain total fanservice I just watched the first one and I think they had their cloths on for less than a minute of the episode. Now I just need to get it subbed to see what they were talking about. Here's looking forward to the next season and even more T&A with swords action and hopefully to a good safe release that will make it even that much more enjoyable.
Looked for the OVA on YouTube but couldn't find it but I think you might like the non credit opening that I found. Hopefully it actually stays around for a while.
