Illustration from La geste des chevaliers dragons showing the main character being dressed by her squire (a red haired girl), the main character is a brunette woman with a long braid and her armor covers 1 breast but the other one is open and covered by her ponytail (a red circle has been put on-top for additional censorship)

cover image from La geste des chevaliers dragons vol 4 showing the main character, a female knight with long brown hair in jagged dragon armor standing on top of corpses with her arms tucked inward to her body but coming out at her elbows and holding a sword, her armor covers one breast with the other covered separately by her hair shooting out to the side

cover image from La geste des chevaliers dragons showing a dark haired woman holding a sword while wearing a crop top and bikini bottoms standing between a dragon's body

cover of "La Geste De Chavaliers Dragons" art book showing the main character (a woman with brown hair) from her mouth downward, she's wearing plate mail on her shoulders and arms and around the sides of her breasts with a big window in the centre showing her breasts, the rest of her body is uncovered down to her waiste which is covered by a belt and a thong

panel from La geste des chevaliers dragons showing the main character and her squire fighting enemies standing back to back, the main character is in an open vest showing her cleavage and her squire is in a crop top v-neck black shirt showing her cleavage and tight black pants

cover of Chronicles of the Dragon Knights/La Geste de Chevaliers Dragons #9 comic cover showing a dark haired woman wearing a red fully covering medieval style dress, next to her is a female knight with short dark hair in a blue shirt and pants with knight armor pauldrons and grieves holding a halberd in one hand and a sword in the other

La Geste Des Chevaliers Dragons submission

"Despite it shows a stage of dressing : it is not in progress, it’s the final form of Jaïna's armor ! (Jaïna being the female knight, Ellys her squire.)

She the heroine of the first book ( called Jaïna ) of the french comics La geste des chevaliers dragons. (“Geste of the Knights dragons”) The protagonists change in every of the 15 currents issues.

I used to have a fondness for this series due to the-paradoxically - feminist subject. In that world, dragons make go crazy any living creature due to a malefic influence except virgins women. Bonus, the monsters can’t see the maids, too.

So in that otherwise patriarchal society, the order of dragons knights is exclusively female, and of course they never have sex or get married, the majority being pretty happy of this. And when they fight, God they know their job properly.

The problem is, certainly to appeal male readers, their armors made of dragons scales does not even cover one of the nipple. With no reason. (Warning, spoiler: a sudden dragon attack will fatally wound Jaïna …where she wear no protection. Genius!) Need I say male knights are decently clothed?

The habit was kept for most of the series: (images 2, 3, 4)

The squire attire: (image 5)

Thanks God this is not always true: (image 6)

I don’t know…Maybe because the subject was feminist, the scenarists (a couple, man and woman) supposed we would swallow the half naked armor with no problem?

La Geste des Chevaliers Dragons, created by Ange, by Soleil productions."

Important note: This was not meant to be posted. It was sitting in my queue and I hadn’t meant for it to post but I forgot to move the posting time. -_- I hadn’t yet formulated my response to it, and usually I leave things sitting in the queue until I have time to write my response.

I would delete it and put it back in the queue, but there’s already been discussion in the comments about the subject matter, so I feel deleting it now would cause more problems.

I think it’s sad that a story where women get to be these heroic dragon slayers and the only warriors in the society capable of stopping this big threat has to tie their powers and worth to their virginity. :\ A woman’s worth or purity being related to us being virginal is an age old sexist trope and it’s disappointing that the concept ties so heavily into that, and that the art is the usual battle bikini stuff (and as wincenworks points out, doesn’t lead to covers that inform us very much to the contents of the book). Also, it would have been interesting to examine how a society where women are the only possible defenders against a huge menace would have evolved and changed women’s place in society rather than having it be necessarily patriarchal.

It seems like they tried to do a subversion of the “virgins sacrificed to dragons” thing with the virgins being equipped to kill dragons rather than be sacrificed to them, but ended up playing into traditional narratives of female virginity being a societal good, and women having sex causing ruin (as Ozzie Scribbler points out in the disqus comments.)

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