Saturday, November 27, 2021

Queen's Blade Unlimited Story: Chapter 10-3a

And with only a few more bits until the end of the story, we witness a kinda season-appropiate Christmas miracle, our first live birth...?

Enjoy!

Episode 10: Final Battle! End of the Beautiful Fighters! (Part 3)

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Drama CDs: Classic Vol 2(1/3)

For the news, today was QB's anniversary... tho we haven't heard much from HJ lately, have we.

Regarding the etiquette poll, Tomoe beat Melpha with 30v-81% vs 7v-19%.
Hm, so Tomoe's exotic allure kinda makes her seem more refined, is that it...?

And next poll, we finish the 2nd event polls!

So here we begin with a short, classic CD!
It *is* the second part of a drama cd we've had translated forever in the Downloads page (the one with Tomo, Leina and Nana on the cover), and as such might reference it a couple times... though I suppose listening to a CD while reading a DOC isn't really something couth, so we'll probably sub that one soon too.

Enjoy!

Happy Queen's Blade 16th Anniversary!

And one more year happened!

For our yearly recap:

-Games: Queen's Blade Limit Break was low-key announced! Not a lot of info on the Twitter so far tho, we got some sprites for all the girls that could fit just fine in an Arknights-like tower defense game, but who knows...?
-Books: None for now.
-Anime: Not a lot of progress on this front, and the mournful passing of the QB anime director won't help matters any...

And as we always do here for the community effort yearly, we reach for the community to display some nice QB swag!

First is Arahabaki:


Next is BladeKaizen:


And yours truly remembered I got some White Triangle stuff I never displayed:


Saturday, November 20, 2021

Queen's Blade Unlimited Story: Chapter 10-2a(3)

The battle in Maramaks continues, and we finish the second part of three...?

Enjoy!

Thursday, November 18, 2021

Queen's Blade White Triangle Event 2-5

No QBLB news yet alas!
For the Ikkitousen collab opinion poll, "pretty good" won with 12v-63%, with "could have been better", "didn't really like it" and "it was awesome" kinda clumped together with 4v-21%, 2v-11% and 1v-5%.
Well, not bad for a funky cameo with really bouncy live2d, I'll give them that :3

Next poll is about the Leina vs Airi etiquette match from last week!

And we end the second event with Leina's wish! Can she take as much as she can dish out?

Enjoy!


Saturday, November 13, 2021

Queen's Blade Unlimited Story: Chapter 10-2a(2)

No QBLB news this weeks I guess, but regarding the situation of the Fandom asshats banning the Monster Girl wikia in the upcoming weeks, we're finally taking a preemptive action and preparing to move to Miraheze! So, you can look forward to that.

And the last battle continues!

Enjoy!

Thursday, November 11, 2021

Queen's Blade White Triangle Event 2-4

For this week's news, the asshats at Fandom are apparently targeting ecchi wikias and giving 2 weeks advice before erasing it (like they're doing with the Monster Girl Encyclopedia), so maybe our QB wikia is going to follow the same steps...?

For the maths poll, Catt won with 22v-63% versus Clau with 13v-37%.
Hmm, guess a single mother with a shop has to manage a tighter budget than a noble general with a sizable army...

Next poll, what about the Ikkitousen collab? (that seems to be ending in a few hours, but you still have a few days left to pull for the gals)

And Leina reaches the final match, how is she gonna act...?

Enjoy!


Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Kinji Yoshimoto, Director of Queen's Blade Anime, passes away at age 55

Not the kind of upbeat news we deliver in this blog, but alas...

Thanks to our pal Darkworld97 for the heads up, it hasn't been reported in many anime sites yet, but the official japanese press release is here (which the japanese wikipedia seems to be confirming), and there are more details here: https://remonews.com/mexicoeng/fallecio-kinji-yoshimoto-director-of-arifureta-shokugyou-de-sekai-saikyou-kudasai/

Besides Queen's Blade, he worked on many other series, as you can see in his Wikipedia page...

And not much more I can say, except: rest in peace, sweet prince.

Sunday, November 7, 2021

Queen's Blade: Ikkitousen Extra Burst collaboration

The QBLB tweet released what could be the last OG chibi, Ymir's:


And here are my highlights of Ikkitousen EB collabing with QB! It'll keep going on for several days, so if you're interested, you can check the game here!
Yours truly was rather lucky this time around, since I only needed 11 pulls (encompassing 4 rerolls) to get Airi, and 6 pulls to get Elina.

Sorry if the vid looks choppy at times (especially the animations?), but Bluestacks apparently hogged too many resources for my recording app.
I might do a follow-through vid with the so-called "memorial scene" when I manage to unlock them, and if they're worth it.

So, what's the game about?
Well, just a simple RPG very reliant on auto (you have 3 skills but the cpu kinda decides which one to use for you?), and it's up to you to use the super (Extra Burst) whenever you want.
In pvp or raids you'll fight with your squad of 4, and in other modes you fight with 12 at the same time (you still only control 4 though).

And with that, here's my stuff!

Enjoy!


And, here are some timestamps for you:

00:00 Intro
02:24 Airi Comes Home!
03:36 Elina Comes Home Too!
04:48 Airi Stats Up & Burst Break
06:43 Elina Stats Up & Burst Break
07:51 Gameplay
11:54 My Room
12:48 Airi Title
15:35 Airi Voices
21:46 Elina Title
24:20 Elina Voices
29:58 Airi Event
35:07 Elina Event
42:20 Airi & Elina Event

Saturday, November 6, 2021

Queen's Blade Unlimited Story: Chapter 10-2a(1)

First, more chibis from QBLB!



And we start the second part of the story, with everybody together in one place!

Enjoy!

Episode 10: Final Battle! End of the Beautiful Fighters! (Part 2)
 

Thursday, November 4, 2021

Queen's Blade White Triangle Event 2-3

First of all, we're now in the middle of the Ikkitousen collab, waiting for Elina's banner to drop to see if RNGesus treats your boy right and I can show you all the good stuff I'm able to.

Secondly, the QBLB tweet is on fire with the chibis, so here's a gif with the latest ones!


For the funky QB game genre poll, "puzzle game" won with 11v-41%, followed by a tie between "rhythm game" and "shoot-em up" with 6v-22%, and last was "racing game" with a 4v-15%.
Lol, it'd sure be fun to think up concepts for these, huh? We had a nice thing going coming up with a Mario Kart-style roster in the comments :3

Next poll is event-themed, about the math contest from last week!

And Leina tries to reach further in the tournament...?

Enjoy!