Sun Television
The first season of the anime, called , premiered on AT-X on April 2, 2009 and ran twelve episodes until June 18, 2009, with subsequent broadcasts on Chiba TV, Sun Television, and Tokyo MX. The show aired uncensored on AT-X, while it is heavily censored on other channels. Six DVD and Blu-ray Disc volumes were released by Media Factory between June 25 and November 25, 2009, each DVD/BD volume containing one of six OVAs called , which features the "Queen's Blade" fighters in a school setting. The anime is licensed in North America by Media Blasters under the title "Queen's Blade: The Exiled Virgin", and released three DVD volumes between May 18 and October 26, 2010. A DVD/BD box set of the series was later released on February 15, 2011.