Online bookshop Mangaoh posted a listing last night for a rather surprising item: Queen’s Gate – On wo Kaesu Mono Iroha, (“Iroha – She Who Repays a Debt”). This is the same Iroha featured in the Samurai Spirits – Tenkaichi Kenkyakuden SNK fighting game, and Queen’s Gate is the recently begun crossover franchise to Queen’s Blade that brings characters from other settings into the Lost Worlds combat book system (Moetan‘s Nijihara Ink and the original Niθ-designed Mon wo Hiraku Mono Arisu were the first two entries). I wasn’t expecting to see a bona fide fighting game character emerge in the series, but given her popularity Iroha certainly makes sense as a selection – I wonder if this means we’ll finally get a castoffable Iroha kit from Megahouse (probably not). According to the Mangaoh entry she’s scheduled to make her queenish debut on April 18th, at the standard QB price of 1,500 yen (64 full color pages, hardbound). Queen’s Gate Iroha cover image below:
If you’re looking to fill out your Queen’s Blade artbook and / or figure collection, I’d recommend J-List for all your Q-B shopping needs (they don’t have the entire lineup listed quite yet, but it’ll be there soon).
Oh, and if anyone knows who the illustrator is for this Iroha I’d be very happy if you’d post it to comments – I’ll be digging around as well, but it’s not a style I’m immediately familiar with.
Update: suneo believes it to be the work of Iizuki Tasuku (known for his doujinshi, his most recent work on the Tech Gian-serialized Muv-Luv Total Eclipse, and previous work on [ERO] Parthenon‘s Temptation games), and I think he might be right. If that’s the case, this is sure to be a highly sought-after item indeed…
Update 2: The official Queen’s Gate site has been updated with information regarding the Iroha release, and the news that illustration duty is in fact being handled by Iizuki Tasuku. She’s looking great – I have a feeling this is going to be a really phenomenal release.
artist is Iidzuki Tasuku, aka TentenHuuhuu.
looks good! I really like this artist
>>suneo
Wow, I think you might be right. At that resolution it’s hard to pin it definitely as his work, but it does have a certain air about it… nice call, I’m a fan of his as well. This is going to be a fun release. :3
pretty cool entry in the crossover products realm.
Wow- definiet surprise here- this is awesome though. I was always a fan of this charater and her respective dynamics (heh heh heh >.>;). Hopefully a castoff pvc will be forth coming.
Keep an eye on this and for hopefully more unexpected additions. (cough cough Wonder Woman!!!) What?!! I can dream!!
Definitely a nice surprise. Hope they make it even better by releasing a castoffable Iroha. One can dream right? 8)
>>Work_Ethic
A Wonder Woman and Super Girl combo would be very nice indeed. 8D
Iizuki Tasuku <3
Why did they not choose Kasumi instead T____T
Well, I’d like even one book from ANY of the series of books. Haven’t bought even one yet, though I’ve wanted them for some time now..
And yeah, this is news, and good news at that. I too hope they follow in kind like the rest of the series of figures. MegaHouse will do it, you’ll see! ^^
Or Alpha x Omega ;)
(which is more or less the same… we will see ;) )
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