Queen's Blade 2008 Summer Designs: Melpha (3)

For the "Which of the 7 Sins represent you better" poll, "sloth" won with 15v-31%, followed by a tie between "lust" and "wrath" with 11v-22%. After that, there was another tie, this time between "envy" and "pride" with 4v-8%, then "greed" with 2v-4% and finally, and "gluttony" with 1v-2%.
Guess we kinda wouldn't be around here if we didn't have some lust in us, would we? lol

Next poll is a rare inspiration I had: what's the QB elf which represents them better?

And here we finish with Melpha!

Enjoy!

Next: my waifu, Menace~!

Queen's Blade 2008 Summer Designs: Melpha (2)

Regarding the "Unlimited reboot is a good choice" poll, "only time will tell" won with 25v-43%, followed by "the idea makes sense" with 14v-24%. After that, there was "reboots never are the way to go" with 8v-14%, "it was the only choice!" with 6v-10%, and lastly "they should have tried with a new series honestly" with 4v-7%.
Hm, lots of differing opinions, there have sure been lots of successful and unsuccessful reboots through the story of anime, huh? Let's hope we get lucky with this one~

Now, apparently the 7 Sins gals will be joined (for now in figure form?) by the new "7 Virtues", so we wanted to do a poll somewhat related to that. Which sin would you say fits you most?

And here we continue with our classic priestess!

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade 2008 Summer Designs: Melpha (1)

For the F.S. artbook poll, "I'd love to get a look at it" won with 34v-62%, followed by "pretty neutral on it" with 9v-16%. After that was "preordered the book long ago!" with 5v-9%, and then a tie between "not really my kind of artbook" and "who's F.S.?"at 3v-5%.
Is it too obvious if I say I did get it? It's pretty cool tho, lots of rare pictures you just don't find everywhere.

Then next poll, we couldn't resist addressing the Unlimited reboot, would that have been your go-to choice?

So now we start with Melpha, introduction page with a few obscure tidbits! A noteworthy detail though, is the fact that some of the finer text was handwritten and blurry as all heck, so we had to resort to mercenaries (i.e. hired help) to clear it up for us. These are the kind of binds having a Japanese speaker on board would easily solve, oh well...

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade Unlimited OVA announced!

So, you guys know how we haven't getting QB news for a couple months? Well, apparently they were working on the next OVA for this year... that surprisingly isn't Grimoire or even Rebellion, but a new reboot of the franchise, that brings new designs with it.
In fact, a pic just surfaced from this month's HJ magazine:

What will this OVA actually mean for the series...? (besides longer hair for everyone, lol)
More news as it develops!!

Queen's Blade 2008 Summer Designs: Claudette (3)

On the "loneliest QB girl in most dire need of a childhood friend" poll, Nyx won with a 30v-57%, followed by a last-minute tie between Nowa and Aldra with 11v-21%.
I reckon my partner wanted Nowa to win; I guess she deserves it, but then again, she's the kind of girl who could stay cheery through worse, don't you think?

Next poll, you guys know about the FS artbook that came out like last month, right? Any particular opinions on that?

And so, we finish with lady Lord of Thundercloud!

Enjoy!

Next: Melpha!

Queen's Blade 2008 Summer Designs: Claudette (2)

(In case you actually noticed, yeah, screwed up last week and made the post as "2006 Winter", when this is from the "2008 Summer")

Regarding the previous poll about great power coming with great responsibility cost, "I'd rather keep my pride" won with 19v-39%, followed by "bring it on if I'll become strong!" with 15v-30% and then "I'd be okay with somethings if I can be super strong" with 14v-29%.
Nothing like good ol' confidence, right?

For the next poll, if any of the more "lonely" QB gals could have gotten a friend, who'd you preferred to?

Aaand, here's another dosis of Claudette!

Enjoy!

Queen's Blade 2008 Summer Designs: Claudette (1)

Regarding the poll about armor practicality whose choices got increasingly crazier, it ended with a tie between "a bit of design isn't bad" and "intimidate and dazzle everyone all you want!" with 17v-36%, followed by "100% decorative, 0% practical, AHAHAHAHAHA!" with 8v-17%, and lastly "100% practical, 0% decorative, so long as I survive" with 4v-8%.
Not many survivors among you lot, lol?

Now next poll, is power worth some unpleasantness?

And here we begin with Claudette! For a change, we're translating the introduction thingie, that has a few details about how she came to be. Since it's kinda long too, that's all you're getting this week, pity that :p

Enjoy!

Now, you might have noticed that it says "Chrona" was the proposed initial name of our redhead. Leaving aside other possible romanizations (Krona? Clauna?), it does sound different than her sisters' all right... but the other day we happened to find some messages in the ancient Yahoo QB group where it all started, and our legendary predecessor mentioning that one of the earliest QB chars was called "Celica"... was that Leina's original name? Hmm...