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NEWS: Queen's Blade Fantasy Game Books Get TV Anime




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e-imi



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:30 am Reply with quote
It was just a matter of time. Cool

Looking forward to it!
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:37 am Reply with quote
Indeed. What wasn't mentioned is the impressive number of statues and figures that have been churned out as well. I love seeing artist collaborations like this that still maintain a similar sense of style. Good stuff, even if most of the girls don't actually appeal to my own personal tastes.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:20 am Reply with quote
Oh lard, should've seen this coming. Well, that's more fanservice craziness that they'll be sticking to the backs of the "otaku" economy. Considering the amount of fanworks that were being done on the side. If you know what I mean. Razz Of course more money for the creators as well.

Man 'Hisayuki-san' is getting "mad" work yo! Razz
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:39 am Reply with quote
Let me guess, underaged girls doing lewd postions or wearing skimpy clothing?

Or even worse, inapporiate amount of fanservice that push the boundries of normalcy?
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nooneofconsequence



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:02 pm Reply with quote
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Let me guess, underaged girls doing lewd postions or wearing skimpy clothing?

Or even worse, inapporiate amount of fanservice that push the boundries of normalcy?


Not really, it's more like falls between Ikkitousen's paper mache-like clothing and the upcoming Soul Caliber IV's destructible armor were clothing at a point is destructible but not as ecchi as the former where main Queen's Blade books will not show complete topless or full nudity, but potentially not quite as tasteful (I'll be using term loosely considering the diverse membership here) as how the latter will be doing it.

While the main books of the series are supposed to be part of a game, most people I know collect them as affordable artbooks.
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:24 pm Reply with quote
nooneofconsequence wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:
Let me guess, underaged girls doing lewd postions or wearing skimpy clothing?

Or even worse, inapporiate amount of fanservice that push the boundries of normalcy?


Not really, it's more like falls between Ikkitousen's paper mache-like clothing and the upcoming Soul Caliber IV's destructible armor were clothing at a point is destructible but not as ecchi as the former where main Queen's Blade books will not show complete topless or full nudity, but potentially not quite as tasteful (I'll be using term loosely considering the diverse membership here) as how the latter will be doing it.

While the main books of the series are supposed to be part of a game, most people I know collect them as affordable artbooks.


What irks me is the fact the female cast is probably a bunch of underaged girls, so that is midly disturbing.

Now if the female cast were adults, then at least the disturbing factor would go away.
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Emerje



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:09 pm Reply with quote
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:


What irks me is the fact the female cast is probably a bunch of underaged girls, so that is midly disturbing.

Now if the female cast were adults, then at least the disturbing factor would go away.


Not really. They didn't seem to want to cater to any one fetish with the characters. It's a very broad range of types going from the petite young girls to the overly endowed mother figures and pretty much everything in between. Most of the youngest looking characters are pretty well covered in typical maid outfits and whatnot. Look it up, you might be surprised.

Emerje
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Teriyaki Terrier



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:10 pm Reply with quote
Emerje wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:


What irks me is the fact the female cast is probably a bunch of underaged girls, so that is midly disturbing.

Now if the female cast were adults, then at least the disturbing factor would go away.


Not really. They didn't seem to want to cater to any one fetish with the characters. It's a very broad range of types going from the petite young girls to the overly endowed mother figures and pretty much everything in between. Most of the youngest looking characters are pretty well covered in typical maid outfits and whatnot. Look it up, you might be surprised.

Emerje


Maybe your right. You do make a valdid point though.
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nooneofconsequence



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 4:12 pm Reply with quote
Emerje wrote:
Teriyaki Terrier wrote:


What irks me is the fact the female cast is probably a bunch of underaged girls, so that is midly disturbing.

Now if the female cast were adults, then at least the disturbing factor would go away.


Not really. They didn't seem to want to cater to any one fetish with the characters. It's a very broad range of types going from the petite young girls to the overly endowed mother figures and pretty much everything in between. Most of the youngest looking characters are pretty well covered in typical maid outfits and whatnot. Look it up, you might be surprised.

Emerje


http://queensblade.net/character/

A good place to start if you're interested TT, or anyone else.
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MH Knights



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PostPosted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 8:26 pm Reply with quote
I have always had a hard time seperating the official art form the doujin. For a great while I though it was some sort of PnP H-RPG.
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neko ewen



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PostPosted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 6:18 pm Reply with quote
The thing that makes this doubly weird is that Queen's Blade uses the rules from Lost Worlds, which was put out by Flying Buffalo (the company that did the second ever tabletop RPG, Tunnels & Trolls), and the original versions tended to look more like this.
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