Queen's Blade Grimoire

 So, here we are at perhaps the most difficult letter of the alphabet challenge, the Q.

Luckily in a way, there was still a short OVA series I needed to watch from the Queen's Blade series, and that was Grimoire.

While counting only 2 OVA episodes, this sidestory takes place after Leina's championship ended, focussing on royal court magician Alicia who by using black magic opens a door to another dimension.  Lured in there by a rabbit, she finds herself in Melfairland, which is holding it's own Queen's Blade tournament which she enters in an effort to find a way back home.

 

Encountering a big wolf, Zara or Red Riding Hood, a kind girl she met earlier, breaks her way out from the beasts stomach, engaging her in a Queen's Blade duel, possessed by undead powers.  In the meantime, more beautiful warrior girls enter the call for the tournament, recruited by Kyuel.

 

 

Like Tiina, a mermaid princess who, against the will of her father, uses the sacred orb of her Kingdom to be able to walk on land and as such enter Queen's Blade, even though she just dreams of going to a dance. She defends her kingdom though from the pirate queen Liliana, getting her father's approval to join the tournament.

But there this series ends, seemingly no further episodes have been made and as such we never know if Alicia ever gotten back home or who won this tournament.  An issue that seemingly is strife with Queen's Blade series after the first one, as this is now the second OVA set that never concluded...