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After watching the disappointment known as Queen's blade rebellion the anime. I was curious about it's manga version. Most manga is usually better than the anime adaptation, and this series is no exception. Whoever wrote this comic took the same story from the anime and structured it better and gave it a much better pace. Annelotte was much more fleshed out as a character than her anime counterpart. The anime version of Annelotte was so two dimensional and bland. Throughout all 12 episodes of the show, Annelotte's character traits consisted of two; 1) "I am a knight! Prepare to fight me!" 2) "I am a ... nice person and I'm going to help everyone." That's basically all Annelotte ever did as a character throughout the whole show, and for that she was kind of boring. However, in the manga she reveals much more about herself like; how she's a clumsy bumbling idiot, she curses out loud, she makes death threats, she cries, she has conflicts with her demon self(which was a huge missed opportunity in the anime), and as a character can be humorous at times unlike her anime counterpart who played it straight. Another huge improvement in the manga was Elina, she obviously had more to do. In the anime she just stood around like, "I'm the bad guy!" Leina's presence is more involved. Tomoe also makes an appearance.

Unlike the anime which started off kind of slow, this version started pretty strong with Annelotte already going after Queen Claudette and threatens her on how she wants her head. Another huge plus about the manga, which is a complete shocker, is the fact that the fan service is completely toned down! Most people hate the queen's blade series because the fan service keeps slapping you in the face with every episode. Clothes being ripped off, nipples and boobs galore, panty shot after panty shot, getting molested, and etc. However, The fan service in the manga only shows some bath scenes here and there, no nipples only butts and occasional panty shot but that's it. I think some readers might appreciate that. I don't mind fan service, but some shows like queen's blade do it so much that it distracts the viewers too much from the story. Another bonus is that there is blood shown and the violence is a little more indulged.

The only problems I had with was the artwork, missing scenes and the ending. No offense, but I did not find that artwork design that appealing. Some people may like it, but unfortunately I wasn't one of them. There seemed to be too many missing scenes, usually in normal stories we see point A to point B. But there are times we see point A to point D, like something important was skipped. A great example of this was when Izumi appeared out of nowhere with no introduction and is already following the MC. However, the biggest issue with the manga is the ending. It literally ended just when the story was starting to be built, and had barely reached the second act. It's unfortunate that the manga ending was actually worse than the animes. I'm not quite sure why, maybe the author dropped it entirely or gave it a rest. We'll never know!

So final verdict:

Pros: The story had better structure and pace than the anime. The beginning started out stronger than the anime. The mc Annelotte is more fleshed out and interesting. Elina and Leina are used more. The fanservice is toned down. Blood and violence.

Cons: Not a fan of the art style. Obvious missing scenes. Horrible Ending.

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Story: I thought the story was okay for the most part. However, the only real problem I had with the story, was the lack of danger. I didn't really feel there was any real danger in this story. The story keeps talking about this huge uproar of the people and that things are bad. Judging by from I saw in this series, the people seemed to be happy and prospering for the most part. I can compare this to a movie or story about a zombie apocalypse without seeing any zombies.

Art: I liked the art and character designs with the exception of episode 2, the ... character designs in that particular episode was a little off-putting.

Sound: No problem with the sound, I liked the music especially the ending song.

Characters: Okay this is Queen's Blade Rebellions biggest problem. The real reason I think that the original QB was good, was because the cast of characters were either interesting or somewhat interesting and likeable. We did not quite get that in this one, I felt it fell short. Some of the old characters from the original series took a back seat and their character designs changed and not for the better. As far as the new characters go, Annelotte, Sigui, and Captain Liliana are the only ones that were remotely interesting. LunaLuna, Tarnyang, and Yuit were just flat out annoying, and there only purpose is to be obnoxious and perverted while burying their faces in the main protagonist breasts. I seriously wanted to put my foot up their A$$'s. Characters like mirim, Sanyang, and vante were just there, they had no point being there, they served no purpose( well maybe a little bit with vante but it's just a robot that assists yuit nothing special). This is the huge problem with this series, like I said before I think the original had a much better cast of characters. Even Ikkitousen has a much better cast of characters, but that's a rant for a different time.

Enjoyment and Overall: Besides the characters and maybe a story that should been worked a little bit more, I think it's an okay series. If your a queen's blade fan or an ecchi fan check it out. If not, you may want to stay away.