As our buddy dranzerstar noticed in the Discord channel, today's HJ site update revealed the new site for QB Unlimited. Granted, it's still a bit barebones, but it does show a quite beautiful and intriguing pic of the new show:
Plus a banner in the main site:
The text there reads: "A stronger, and more intense reboot!", and below the pic they say something quite similar to what the previous teasing illustration from the magazine ended up saying, more or less:
"The beautiful fighters of Queen's Blade are back into action!
The reboot's name is: "Queen's Blade Unlimited"
It'll be keeping the settings of the characters and those of the world as a whole almost as they were, but the new story will act as a new stage for both anime and figures!
In charge of the reboot's designs will be Osaki Shinya from UNKNOWN GAMES (representative works: Frozen NECRO <Tokyo & Necro>, among others), keeping in mind the theme of "cool and sexy".
Stay tuned for the new struggles of our 18 beautiful fighters!
We will keep releasing news about its development on our official page"
More info as it develops!
as I feared, the redesigns are all being done by ONE guy. which really makes me worry the characters will loose their uniqueness. (Nowa for one already Look Generic as all hell, and Leina having long hair goes against the first thing she does in the series).
ReplyDeleteI hope the story will be nice but I REALLY dislike the idea of this one guy redesigning all the characters.
Well, I do think I see a bit of same-face syndrome. Other than that, their clothing designs remain the same and are still unique with the exception of Elina. Nowa's design in particular is almost identical aside from the longer twintails.
Deletemy main problem with Nowa is that her face looks way too "Moe", Nowa had a child-like face but her hair-style and a overall facial structure made her look relatively diferent from other flat-chested cute girls, now she looks like a random kawaii girl cosplaying as Nowa.
DeleteI think understand why it doesn't look like Leina, aside from the long hair. It's the bangs. The original Leina design has her bangs cropped quite short, showing off her forehead and giving her a baby-face. This new Leina has her bangs really long, giving her a more serious aura.
ReplyDeleteyeah, I always found interesting how Leina's bangs were so short, Is pretty rare for a female character to have her hair like that, Specially the main character in an Ecchi series, but now she looks just like any generic protagonist.
DeleteHonestly, the short hair cut was kind of cliche to begin with. So either they start her off with short hair or keep the long hair, I'm good with either. Besides, they might be doing this specifically so Leina looks a lot more different so that viewers have an idea that this is a retelling of the story.
ReplyDeleteWTF?!!! Why is Airi looking like a pet for Elins?!! BS Man!! This Reboot is gonna suck!! I just hope they don't screw up Menace and Tomoe!!
ReplyDeleteOh c'mon, talk about exaggerating. What's wrong with Airi getting captured for a while? Same thing did happen with Cattleya, Risty and Elina in the original series, right? (not to mention VQ)
DeleteI was expecting Nyx to be enslaved I mean maybe Airi gets "Captured" only to have Menace and Melona free her and kick Elina's Butt?!! I could go for that.>:)
DeleteOh yeah about the elf poll. Vante shouldn't count because she's a robot/android. The QB equivalant of Rosie from the Jetson or Irona from Richie Rich. Nowa is a half elf/half human and should be in a different group all together. Mainly it's between Huit, Allyene and Echidina
ReplyDeleteVante was clearly created to ressemble the classic elf rather than the little elves Yuit and her mom are. So she does embody the tropes enough to qualify. Nowa has more Elf traits than Echidna if you ask me. In fact, Echidna is the least elfish of the bunch IMO, she barely even qualifies for dark elf given her nature, but standard elf? Not even close!
DeleteFor people interested in figure, the prototype for Alice's new figure was revealed.
ReplyDeletePic here: http://myfigurecollection.net/item/285036
Oooh, looking forward to that one. Hopefully they get some new art for her in poster form or something too.
Deletei hope Branwen and Sigui are giving more shine in this reboot. I also hope neither character's design is messed with too much
ReplyDeleteI think they're not even gonna make it to a rebellion remake...
DeleteI guess it will depend on how succesful this one will be.
Deleteesta serie va ser muy buena
ReplyDeleteHow can you tell? Because you like the new design?
DeleteI do like the thigh highs on Elina.
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to see redesigned Melona
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