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In preparation for the upcoming release from Media Blasters of the series Queen’s Blade (Volume 1 streets next Tuesday, May 18) I decided to import a few of the R2 and R3 DVDs. Mainly for the boxes of course, given that Media Blasters generally doesn’t do quality boxes for their singles. In fact as it was announced recently on Mania (formerly AnimeonDVD) it turns out that this series will be one of the last anime series that Media Blasters will be releasing in singles format. Kind of a shame really since even though they didn’t go all out on the packaging at the very least you did have individual cover art. And even if they didn’t do a proper art box there was a good chance you could import one from another region, which is what I did here.

First up we have a group shot of all three boxes (two from R3 TW and one from R2 JP) plus the Ikki Tousen Xtreme Xecutor promo DVD. Next up is the opposite side of the Queen’s Blade boxes. Then next are the boxes and DVD front covers and then the reverse side of both. Finally we have the contents of each of the DVDs here, here and here. Each set came with a booklet, postcards and a bonus CD with some BGM. There was also what appears to be a mail-in bonus item on the R3 boxes if you bought all the DVDs and collected the puzzle pieces. I’ll put all these DVDs in the R2 box (the one with Risty on the cover) and use the other two for the first and second series from Media Blasters.

Enjoy!!