BlazBlue 10th Anniversary



The BlazBlue series celebrates its 10th anniversary on November 20, 2018, exactly ten years after the release of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger in Japanese arcades in 2008. To celebrate, BlazBlue staff launched a special website for the anniversary one year prior on November 20, 2017 as part of the "BlazBlue 10th Anniversary Project" (「BLAZBLUE」10周年アニバーサリープロジェクト).

Website
The website features a history of BlazBlue, a directory all the characters of the BlazBlue series and its spinoffs, creator's comments, and community contests. Information was released slowly over the course of the year.

The character popularity poll and the illustration contest both ran from the website's opening on November 20, 2017 until January 31, 2018. During this time, anyone could vote once a day on a character or illustration of their liking. Intermediate results for the popularity poll were released once during the monthly Arcnama on December 15, 2017 and once on the poll's page on January 22, 2018.

On January 22, 2018, the website received its first huge update, which switched out the splash image, opened up the 4-panel comic contest, added a section outlining the history of the BlazBlue series, and released the 2nd intermediary results for the character popularity poll.

On March 3, 2018, the website was updated to include results for the character popularity poll and illustration contest, as well as a new splash image to celebrate Ragna's birthday.

On the anniversary, November 20, 2018, the website included a new splash image drawn by Konomi Higuchi, and released the results of the BlazBlue series survey and cosplay contest.

Popularity Poll

 * See the final results at Polls/BlazBlue 10th Anniversary Character Popularity Poll

Creator's Comments
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Theater Cafe & Dining STORIA GGxBB Cafe
The Guilty Gear x BlazBlue collaboration cafe was opened at Theater Cafe & Dining STORIA in Ikebukuro, running originally between May 4 and May 31, 2018, but it was extended two weeks until June 15, 2018.

Attendees were given one trading card and one luncheon mat at random for each collaboration cafe food or drink item that was ordered. The exclusive merchandise that was sold were based on the results of the 10th anniversary popularity poll.


 * Schedule


 * Product Lineup

Theater Cafe & Dining STORIA BlazBlue Cafe
BlazBlue Cafe was a cafe hosted in collaboration with Theater Cafe & Dining STORIA in Ikebukuro between Oct 15 and Nov 20, 2018.

Attendees were given one trading card at random for each collaboration cafe food or drink item that was ordered, and for every ￥1000 spent they would receive one stamp on a stamp card. After obtaining three stamps, customers could choose one luncheon mat to take home.


 * Schedule


 * Product Lineup

GraffArt Shop with A3MARKET in P'Parco
On July 7, 2018 in collaboration with the GraffArt Shop with A3MARKET in P'Parco, a series of merchandise was released for BlazBlue.

SuperGroupies
On September 12, 2018, SuperGroupies announced a series of watches in collaboration with BlazBlue: Central Fiction. One month later on October 15, they announced a follow-up lineup of bags and smartphones cases.

GamSyrup
An accessory line in collaboration with GamSyrup was announced during the October 2018 episode of the ArcNama Regular Broadcast, on October 19. The lineup includes themed rings and necklaces with character crests based on the top ten characters in the 10th anniversary popularity poll.