The WORST episodes of Queen's Blade
Every episode of Queen's Blade ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Queen's Blade!
In 4 years time the competition that will decide who the next Queen shall be will start. The strongest warrior will continue to rule the country according to tradition and expand it. The contestants need only be older than 12 years. They need not be human, intelligent or even of that country. The rules for the tournament are simple: murder is allowed. Any weapon can be chosen. The winner is decided when one of the participants flees or can't move anymore. Such event is broadcast through a crystal sphere by the court's magic teacher to all population to see and enjoy.
#1 - Rivalry - The General of Storm
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/2009
Claudette arrives where Reina and Listy were the night before and encounters Echidna who explains she let Reina go so that Claudette could become countess and hence reward her. Claudette goes to find Reina, and has a flashback to where she rescued Reina as a child. Reina eats a poisonous mushroom and Nanael turns up to help her out with some medicine. Reina asks Nanael where Listy is, but she does not know. Claudette arrives and chastises Reina for consorting with thieves and challenges her to a fight to decide who will be the next countess. Tomoe and Shizuka watch the battle from afar and decide Claudette will be victorious. Claudette forfeits to protect Reina's honor but Reina refuses to accept the forfeit and continues to fight, asking why she has to be the heiress and does not understand why Claudette just accepts it, when her father did not like her at all. Claudette says she does it for the Bansu family and attacks Reina, defeating her swiftly with a lightning attack. The ground gives way and Reina almost falls from the cliff, with Claudette grabbing her hand as she dangles over the edge. Reina slips from her hand and falls into the ravine below.
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#2 - Full Power - Veteran Soldiers
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/16/2009
Tomoe and Shizuka arrive on the mainland. Tomoe attempts to blend in by choosing an outfit more fitting for the mainland when she overhears a Queen's Blade battle being undertaken. Reina and Listy reach the entrance to where the Queen's Blade tournament is being held. Echidna is here, charged with returning Reina to Claudette. Echidna paralyzes Reina and Listy with her snake and steals Listy's gold. Reina decides to enter a competition to earn enough money to continue. The competition involves mud wrestling for a large crowd. Reina is victorious but only wins 5 gold, not enough to pay their bills, so she has to keep fighting, however this time in an oil match against Echidna. Echidna has the upper hand in the battle as Reina has difficulty fighting in the oil, and Echidna chases out all the spectators just as she is about to kill Reina. Meanwhile Listy breaks into where the winnings are kept and steals them. Echidna's snake Renta bites Listy on the chest and poisons her but at the last moment Echidna gives her an anti venom. Reina has passed out and when she comes to Listy is gone. Reina heads off to find Listy.
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#3 - Ambitious Undertaking - Warrior Shrine Maiden
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/9/2009
Tomoe, a Warrior Priestess, and Shizuka, a Demon Priestess who has defected are meditating in the shrine they tend to. Tomoe decides she is going to travel to the mainland to compete in the Queen's Blade tournament. During the night, Demon Ninja priests attack the temple. As the battle is being waged one demon ninja sets of a bomb destroying much of the temple the priestesses occupy. Trapped in the burning buildings Tomoe and the other priestesses attempt to escape. However the demon ninjas transform into a giant toad which starts killing the priestesses. Eventually Tomoe gathers her inner strength and defeats the giant toad. She is saddened by the loss of life of her friends, and declares she will avenge them, and will win the Queen's Blade tournament for them. The next morning Tomoe and Shizuka set off across the sea for the mainland.
#4 - High Spirits - Vagrant Warrior
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/2/2009
Reina is walking outside of town when she encounters Melona, and tells her she is going to defeat her for attacking travellers. Melona taunts Reina for being such a weak fighter, and says she only wants to fight decent warriors as she is a participant in Queen's Blade, a tournament held every four years to decide who is going to be the next Queen. Listy is watching the battle from the sidelines. Just as Melona is about to kill Reina, Listy intervenes and saves her life. Listy tends to Reina until she recovers and takes her as a prisoner back to the Bansu castle to recover the bounty on her head. When Listy arrives at the castle Claudette appears and arrests Listy for being a thief and imprisons her in the castle. Listy escapes from prison and steals the Bansu family heirloom breastplate. She hides in Reina's room and gives Reina the armor, then leaves, encountering Claudette outside and they fight. Melona appears at Reina's window. They fight, and Reina defeats Melona by stopping her shooting acid from her breasts, causing her to explode.
#5 - Assemble! Queen's Blade
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2009
Nanael is reassigned by the Head Angel to compete in the Queen's Blade as punishment for failing her prior assignment. Heaven suspects something is wrong with Queen Aldra. Everyone is looking for residences in Gynos: Tomoe with Shizuka, Ymir with Cattleya, Alleyne with Nowa, Nanael with Melpha, and Elina with Claudette. Echidna is there as well, and confronts the rogue assassin Irma. Melona tries to take things into her own hands and assassinate Aldra, but is turned to stone by Aldra's power. Nyx, a new contender, is revealed.
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#6 - Resurrected Curse - The Queen of Ancient Times
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/30/2009
Reina is missing, swept down the river at the bottom of the ravine, and Echidna goes searching for her. Reina has been enslaved by Menace inside her pyramid. Tomoe and Shizuka approach where Menace is holding Reina, in the Queen's Capital. A sandstorm appears and Reina, still possessed, attacks Tomoe and Shizuka. Nanael appears and turns this into a Queen's Blade round between the possessed Reina and Tomoe. Tomoe and Nanael become trapped in a pyramid with many booby traps however Nanael manages to escape by finding a hole in the wall. Just as Tomoe is about to drown in a water trap Nanael returns to witness Tomoe using her sword to wedge open a brick in the wall and drain the water out, encountering Reina after she escapes. Tomoe manages to break the curse on Reina, causing Menace to attack Tomoe, and causing the bridge they are standing on to crumble, with Reina falling into the abyss below. Shizuka rescues Tomoe from Menace, and explains to Menance how her kingdom failed because of the failure of the princess without realising Menace was that princess. Menace through her anger causes the pyramid to self destruct, and Tomoe, Shizuka and Nanael are washed outside as it is destroyed. Menace states her intention of resurrecting the Kingdom of Amar.
#7 - Promise - Forest of the Watchman
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/7/2009
Reina recovers outside the pyramid, on the edge of a forest, and a Maid of Temptation, Airi is turning the forest into a swamp. She is attacked by the Nowa, Watchmen of the Forest. Airi catches Nowa and steals her life energy. Reina intervenes and has to fight Airi. Airi starts draining her life energy but Reina breaks free and Airi disappears after slashing Reina across the chest. Nowa nurses Reina back to health, introducing her to Combat Instructor Alleyne who heals her wounds, after explaining how the elves do not normally humans into the forest. Reina enters the main elf city and the elves are not pleased, and confront Nowa about it. Elina goes to search for her sister, and holds Claudette in the castle. The elf council force Nowa to leave the village and fight in Queen's Blade. Alleyne wanted to compete, but was not allowed by the elders. Reina stops Nowa leaving the forest and causes her to fight, trying to dissuade her from competing. Nowa convinces Reina to let her compete and they two of them part ways.
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#8 - Kourin - Angel of Glory
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/14/2009
In heaven, Nanael is summoned by Seraphim, the head angel who plans to exile her as she has forced people to fight each other. Seraphim threatens to send her to hell unless she goes to where the Swamp Witch is and find out what the Swamp Witch is up to. Hachiel, a fellow angel, goes with her and falls into the swamp. She is rescued by Reina. Nanael is relaxing in a hot spring by the entrance to hell when Melona, Menace and Airi show up in a nearby spring. They all discuss about how they were defeated by Reina and Nanael passes out from the heat and turns up in the same spring as the other three. Nanael accidentally tells them she has come to observe the Swamp Witch. Nanael offers to tell them where Reina is for information about the Swamp Witch. They tell her that the three of them have been asked to participate in Queen's Blade. Nanael tells them the direction to go to find Reina and they run off to find her. Nanael realises she has put Reina is grave danger and goes to stop the three of them from reaching her and they fight, and Nanael swiftly defeats them. Upon returning to Heaven Seraphim still banishes Nanael from heaven, and tells her she must follow and help Reina on Earth.
#9 - Sincerity - Arms Dealer and Steel Princess
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/28/2009
Steel Princess Ymir announces that she will take vengeance against Cattleya for selling low cost weapons, compared to the Steel Mountain ones that she creates. Cattleya leaves her son Rana in charge of her store, and Echidna shows up asking after Reina. Cattleya runs into Reina on the road and asks to look at her weapons. Ymir shows up at Cattleya's store and encounters Echidna there who scares her off with her snake. Cattleya and Reina return and run into Echidna. Echidna relates the tale of how Cattleya and Owen used to be great warriors before they retired. Tomoe and Shizuka are looking for a map to get to the capital city and Listy shows up to sell them one. Echidna leaves during the night. Ymir finds the real Cattleya in the morning and challenges her to a fight. On Rana's insistence Reina tries to help, and finds a the Giant Slayer weapon, which she gives to Cattleya, and Cattleya defeats Ymir and decides to enter Queen's Blade. Cattleya gives Reina a new sword. On leaving town Reina runs into Listy on the road.
#10 - Secret Maneuver - Fang of the Assassin
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/21/2009
Nanael is following Reina on her journey. Tomoe and Shizuka are continuing on their journey as well, and rest at a hot spring. Elina is also on the road and encounters Tomoe and tells her to leave the springs but before she goes Elina realises that Tomoe has fought Reina. Elina announces she will also compete in Queen's Blade. Shizuka encounters Irma, a member of the Queen's Assassins of the Fang, and starts fighting her near the hot springs. Shizuka is defeated swiftly. Elina tries to fight Tomoe, but she refuses as it is an unjustified battle. Shizuka is captured by Irma after the battle and questioned about her time as a Demonic Ninja and is beaten unconscious. Tomoe spends the night looking for her and encounters Irma in disguise who brings her to Shizuka and threatens to kill Shizuka if Tomoe does not help her. Shizuka reveals that it was Irma who made the Demonic Ninjas attack them back in their homeland. Tomoe challenges Irma to a Queen's Blade fight to avenge the deaths of her fellow priestesses. After a long battle Tomoe defeates Irma, and Irma flees. Claudette announces to her father that she wants to participate in Queen's Blade.
#11 - Thunder - After the Death Battle
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/11/2009
Listy is fighting Claudette when she realises she is starting to go numb from some poison that Echidna has given her, and Claudette defeats her. Reina uses the Elven medicine she has to heal Listy. Reina then challenges Claudette to Queen's Blade. Elina witnesses the battle starting and rides as fast as she can to reach them. Claudette tells Reina she has always hated her for her immaturity. Listy recovers in time to see Reina be able to reflect one of Claudette's lighting attacks. Listy attacks Claudette with her Dragon Tail maneveur which Claudette deflects with her sword, only to have her sword explode injuring them both. Claudette realises that Reina has a true inner strength and reconciles with her. Nanael declares the match a draw. Elina arrives as the battle ends, and announces she will be entering Queen's Blade as well. Nowa and Cattleya see the Army of the Dead approaching Gainos. Queen Aldra reveals the Swamp Witch wants to prevent the Queen's Blade tournament, and Shizuka overhears this. Everyone is about to enter Gainos, and Melona, Menace and Airi shows up with the Army of the Dead.
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#13 - Smite Evil! An Unexpected Battle
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2009
Leina is having trouble finding accommodations until she mentions she is in the Queen's Blade, and the greedy hotel manager rushes to fill her order and ends up rooming her with Echidna. Tomoe and Shizuka meet Melpha, and Tomoe admires her for dressing more appropriately than other competitors. It is revealed that Nyx used to be a maid for the Vance Family, and was treated cruelly by Elina. Aldra wants a new servant to lead the Assassins, and sends a fake letter to lure Risty to her palace. Once there, she awakens the hate in Risty's soul, making Risty her servant. The first match is fought: Tomoe vs Melpha, where Tomoe finds that Melpha uses lewd "Holy Poses" to fight, giving Tomoe the resolve to defeat her perversion. Another match begins: Elina vs Nyx.
#17 - Spiritual Awakening - Surprise Attack
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/4/2009
Listy, Tomoe and Shizuka all reach the edge of Gainos, and Reina and Nanael catch up with them. Listy tells them to leave, so Reina challenges her to a fight for Queen's Blade and Listy accepts. Listy is about to defeat Reina when Tomoe intervenes to stop the battle. Listy tells Reina not to bother competing in Queen's Blade as she is not strong enough. Echidna arrives and challenges Listy to a fight, however after a few minutes of fighting they stop, and Listy announces they will fight again in three days. Reina admits she has no purpose for fighting like everyone else and Tomoe reassures her that she is still right to fight in Queen's Blade. Reina slips out during the night and meets Echidna, and asks her to teach her how to fight. Echidna makes her a suit out of tree sap to protect against being injured in the practice battles. Echidna fights her with all her strength and Reina is so afraid she can barely move. Emboldened by this, Echidna and Reina fight non stop for two days and nights. At the end of this Reina is finally able to land a blow on Echidna, a move Echidna refers to as the Dragon's Tail. Reina comes to fight Listy, only to discover she has already been defeated by Claudette.
#19 - Cherished Desire! Reason For Fighting
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/2009
Nanael is drinking milk to drown her sorrows at the bar where Nyx works, and Nyx tells her of the rumor about the horned monster seen in the woods. Nanael thinks it might be Melona, and goes to seek her with Melpha. She instead finds Tomoe in a dangerous mood. Elina returns home after Claudette tells her that she is the only one of the three sisters capable of serving Count Vance any more, as neither Claudette nor Leina have the will to. Nanael tries to get Leina to ambush Tomoe in the forest, but then decides to tell her what they know about Aldra so far. Between them, Nanael, Leina, and Ymir determine that Aldra has to be allied with some sort of heavenly creature because the sacred milk actually has a negative impact on the divine (and conversely a positive one on the demonic, which is how it was able to revive Melona). Melona spies on the conversation, posing as Lana. Leina is summoned at last to fight Tomoe, and they battle in the ruins of Tomoe's old shrine in Hinomoto. Tomoe's hair has turned white, and Aldra says that she is driven by the ghosts of her friends and the suffering in her heart. Tomoe says that, for Shizuka's sake, she has become a demon who will win at any cost. A desperate fight begins with Tomoe having the upper hand, utilizing a lot of powerful techniques. Leina eventually recovers and says that she cannot lose either, and that she accepts everything that has happened, including Tomoe's feelings. Tomoe rejects that, replying that one needs to be heartless to be strong. Leina triumphs, and Tomoe claims she finally understands her. Ymir uses the fight as advertising for the sword she re-forged, and sells many cheap knockoffs of it. Tomoe awakens in the Palace of Grief.
#20 - The Secret of the Castle at Gainos
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/1/2012
While trying to sneak into the castle, Yuit and Annelotte have come across a colosseum underneath the castle. In exchange for Annelotte entering the fights and winning, her backer will tell them where to find Ymir. An easy agreement until she has to fight the dragon warrior, Branwen
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#21 - The Open Door - Path to the Queen
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/18/2009
Cattleya and Ymir head to Gainos to help out those being attacked by the Army of the Dead. Melona, Menace, Airi and the Army of the Dead continue the onslaught against Reina, Listy, Elina, Claudette and Tomoe. Reina is separated from the rest and must fight Melona. Airi and Menace alone. Reina is about to be defeated when Nowa and Alleyne show up and save her. Listy destroys all the Army of the Dead in one fell swoop once the Queen's Blade battle is announced. Melona shapeshifts into various other characters to try and confuse and outwit Reina. Tomoe comes to aid Reina against Melona dispatching her and continuing the fight against Menace. Melona transforms into Reina to precipitate an ironic end to Reina, however Reina overcomes Melona with her Dragon Tail. In desperation, Melona summons a massive Demon Serpent from Hell. Tomoe attempts to attack it but is paralyzed. Claudette attempts to use a lightning attack, also to no avail. Nanael flys Reina up to the Serpent's face, and Reina stabs her in the eye defeating her. Queen Aldra appears and disintegrates the Serpent. Nanael informs them all she is returning to heaven. Tomoe apologises to Reina for underestimating her. Queen Aldra annouces they can all enter Gainos, and can start the tournament for Queen's Blade.
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#22 - The Unstopping Hyper Vibration
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/24/2012
While performing her duties as an Inquisitor, Sigui is asked by the town people to listen to their problems. The perceived arrogance of one confession leads her to declaring that person a heretic. All heretics must be burned
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#23 - A Samurai Arrives
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/29/2012
Annelotte accidentally travels to a small village of orphaned children, where she meets the self-proclaimed "Samurai God" Izumi. Realizing that Annelotte is a stronger and more skilled fighter, Izumi asks Annelotte to teach her better swordsmanship. And not a moment too soon, for the underworld demons Belphe and Dogor just appear in their village to eat the children.
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#24 - Showdown! Mutually Seeking Bonds
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/2009
Irma refuses to help Echidna, so Alleyne and Nowa resolve to pick them off one by one. Echidna's past is revealed. Echidna manages to trap Alleyne in a pitcher plant, then to pin Nowa. Alleyne breaks free and takes the initiative against Echidna, but Irma appears, threatening to kill the trapped Nowa and forcing Alleyne to surrender. Leina brings her sword to Cattleya for repair again, while Ymir's attempts to sell weapons go unnoticed in the market. Cattleya states her resolve to reunite her family. The next set of matches begins: Reina vs Ymir and Cattleya vs Airi, the latter being fought in the room where Aldra keeps all of those she has turned to stone.
