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BlazBlue (ブレイブルー) is a 2D fighting game series that first released in Japan on arcades on November 20, 2008, as BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. Since then, the BlazBlue series has released a variety of games and evolved into a multi-media franchise, producing novels, comics, animation, and theater.
Overview
- The earliest release date regardless of region is used for consistency.
C-Series
The main part of the BlazBlue series is named the "C-Series" because the subtitles of the main games in this series all start with the letter C. The series focuses around the life of its protagonist, Ragna the Bloodedge.
- BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (2008)
The first mainline game in the C-Series.- BlazBlue: Chimelical Complex (2011)
A manga adaptation of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger focusing on Ragna the Bloodedge. - BlazBlue (Manga)
A manga adaptation of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger. - BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger (Novel) (2013)
The novelization of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger, consisting of two novels. - BlazBlue Material Collection
BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger's material collection, which included one short story for each playable character.- Memory of BLUE (Ragna's short story)
- purgatory hell (Jin's short story)
- THE BLUE (Noel's short story)
- Trust You (Tager's short story)
- Capricious Us (Taokaka's short story)
- Endless Waltz (Rachel's short story)
- The Diary (Arakune's short story)
- Borderline (Litchi's short story)
- Puppeteers (Carl's short story)
- Fortune favors the bold (Bang's short story)
- Innocent Black (Hakumen's short story)
- an evil sign (Nu-13's short story)
- BlazBlue Manga
Lighthearted four-panel comics published online. A second season was published in issues of the now-defunct arcade gaming magazine Monthly Arcadia and also provided online. - BlazBlue Official Comics (2009)
A series of two volumes of lighthearted four-panel comics.
- BlazBlue: Chimelical Complex (2011)
- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (2009)
The second mainline game in the C-Series.- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II (2011)
An arcade remake of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, that was later provided as a free update to the console version of the game. - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend (2012)
An extension of BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger introducing new playable characters. - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift (Novel) (2013)
The novelization of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift, consisting of two novels. - BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Material Collection
- Live Act BlazBlue ~Continuum Shift~ (2016)
A live play adapting the story of BlazBlue: Continuum Shift. - BlazBlue Drama CD The Wheel of Fortune (2010)
A drama CD detailing an alternative universe where Noel doesn't exist and Tsubaki serves as Jin's secretary instead. - BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale (2010)
A lightweight action spinoff for Nintendo DSiWare.
- BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II (2011)
- BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma (2012)
The third mainline game in the C-Series.- BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend (2015)
An extension of BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma introducing new playable characters. - Arc System Works 25th Anniversary Official Character Collection
- Scarlett rose
A short story focusing around Rachel shortly after she wakes up from her long slumber after the Dark War. - Evergreen Eyes
- Scarlett rose
- BlazBlue: Alter Memory (2013)
An anime series that adapted various parts of the CT and CS novels with some of the CP story. - BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma (2012)
A lightweight action spinoff following in the vein of BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale for Nintendo 3DS. - BlazBlue Revolution Reburning (2015)
A third-party RPG spinoff for mobile platforms acknowledged by Arc System Works.
- BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend (2015)
- BlazBlue: Central Fiction (2016)
The fourth and final mainline game in the C-Series.- BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition (2019)
A port of BlazBlue: Central Fiction to Nintendo Switch, containing all DLC from the original.
- BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition (2019)
BlazBlue: Phase Shift
Consisting of the four BlazBlue: Phase Shift novels, numbered simply from one to four, and sometimes including a fifth book, BlazBlue: Phase 0, all of which are set during the Dark War.
- BlazBlue: Phase Shift (2011)
A series of four novels that follow the Six Heroes and Celica A. Mercury through the Dark War. - BlazBlue: Phase 0 (2010)
A standalone novel that details the Dark War during the very first loop of the Looping World. Due to the similarity of its title to those of the Phase Shift series, it is often lumped together with them.
BlazBlue: Remix Heart and BlazBlue: Variable Heart
Two series of manga that focus around protagonist Mai Natsume during and shortly after her time in the Military Academy.
- BlazBlue: Remix Heart (2013)
A lighthearted manga that showcases the Military Academy as Mai becomes fast friends with Tsubaki, Noel, and Makoto. - BlazBlue: Variable Heart (2016)
The sequel to BlazBlue: Remix Heart but no longer set within school bounds, which picks up shortly before graduation, just as the Ikaruga Civil War ends.
BlazBlue: Bloodedge Experience
- BlazBlue: Bloodedge Experience (2014)
A series of novels set in an alternate universe to the mainline C-Series, following the protoganist Naoto Kurogane and the troubles of his Drive, Bloodedge, through a close-to-modern time period.
XBlaze
A couple of visual novels set in an earlier alternate universe to the mainline C-Series. It introduced the Mitsurugi Agency and was the first to focus heavily on Drives.
- XBlaze Code: Embryo (2013)
The first game in the XBlaze series, following Touya Kagari and his misadventures with Es and other lively characters surrounding the mysteries of the Wadatsumi Incident. - XBlaze Lost: Memories (2015)
Following the unnamed protagonist as she searches for her younger sister and is pulled into a mysterious space known as the "Phantom Field".
BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War
- BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War (2021)
An RPG for mobile platforms featuring a new protagonist, Ciel Sulfur.- one emerging possibility (2018)
The prologue to BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War - BlazBlue Walker (2018)
A companion web comic to BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War, published online.
- one emerging possibility (2018)
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
- BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (2018)
A spin-off tag-team fighting game that crosses over the BlazBlue universe with those of fellow fighting game series Persona 4 Arena and Under Night In-Birth and the 3DCG animated series RWBY.
Miscellaneous
- BlazBlue: Spiral Shift – Hero of the Frozen Blade (2016)
A novel from Jin Kisaragi's perspective during the Ikaruga Civil War.
- Eat Beat: Dead Spike-san (2015)
A simple rhythm game for Android and iOS, which was ported to Nintendo Switch in 2018. - BlazBlue Radio
A companion, animated, Japanese-language web radio show that brings on various voice actors to have a generally good time and share news. From the eighth season onwards episodes are subbed officially in English, Simplified Chinese, and Korean. - BlazBlue Cats
A series of short animated videos featuring characters from the BlazBlue cast as cats.
Creation & Development
Name Origin
The series experimented with different titles before it was finalized as BlazBlue. The story was set to be about the "Azure," so staff wanted to include the word "Blue" in it no matter what. The Blue Blood was the first idea, but became Blue Bloods to shorten the length. Other logo variants included Blue Blood and Vergatorion: The Blue Blood. From there the word "riot" was incorporated, first as Riot: The Blue Blood, then RiotBlue. RiotBlue: Calamity Trigger almost became the decided title, but had to be changed due to a potential copyright issue; the final title was changed to BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger just two days before the official release. Mori Toshimichi mentions that upon the sudden name shift, a designer suggested that the "Blaz" in BlazBlue be pronounced "blay." The title of the Genesis of the Azure Flame artbook suggests that "BlazBlue" may in fact a play on the word "sapphire" (saph-fire), written in Japanese as 蒼炎 (safaia) using kanji meaning "azure flame."[1]
History
| Date of Release | Title | Visual |
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| 2008 | ||
| November 20, 2008 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger |
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| 2009 | ||
| April 9, 2009 | WEB RADIO BlazBlue Radio |
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| June 25, 2009 JP June 30, 2009 US |
PS3, XBOX 360 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger |
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| November 20, 2009 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Continuum Shift |
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| 2010 | ||
| January 27, 2010 JP | NINTENDO DSIWARE BlayzBloo: Super Melee Brawlers Battle Royale (BlazBlue: Battle X Battle) |
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| February 20, 2010 | EVENT BlueFes 2010 -Spring Raid- at Shinagawa Stellar Ball |
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| February 25, 2010 JP | PSP BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger |
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| July 1, 2010 JP July 27, 2010 NA December 3, 2010 EU |
PS3, XBOX 360 BlazBlue: Continuum Shift |
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| August 7, 2010 | EVENT BlazBlue Streaming at Shibuya AMG Hall |
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| August 19, 2010 JP | MOBILE BlazBlue: Mobile Battle |
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| August 20, 2010 JP | NOVEL BlazBlue: Phase 0 |
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| August 26, 2010 JP | PC BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger |
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| September 9, 2010 EU | PS3, XBOX 360 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger |
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| December 9, 2010 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II |
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| 2011 | ||
| January 22, 2011 | LIVE Guilty Gear X BlazBlue Music Live 2011 at Kawasaki CLUB CITTA' |
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| February 14, 2011 JP | COMIC BlazBlue: Chimelical Complex |
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| March 31, 2011 JP May 31, 2011 NA Nov 4, 2011 EU |
PSP, 3DS BlazBlue: Continuum Shift II |
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| April 20, 2011 JP | NOVEL BlazBlue: Phase Shift 1 |
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| July 1, 2011 | NEWS BROADCAST PUPPET SHOW BlazBlue Play |
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| December 17, 2011 JP | PS3, XBOX 360, PS VITA BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend |
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| 2012 | ||
| February 14, 2012 NA | PS3, XBOX 360 BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend |
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| February 14, 2012 NA February 22, 2012 EU |
PS VITA BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend |
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| March 24, 2012 | TOURNAMENT BlazBlue Revolution at Differ Ariake |
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| May 31, 2012 JP | PSP BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend |
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| August 5, 2012 | EVENT BlueFes 2012 -Riot Summer Again- at Shinkiba Studio Coast |
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| November 11, 2012 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma |
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| December 21, 2012 JP | WINDOWS 8 BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger |
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| December 26, 2012 JP | 3DS BlazBlue: Clone Phantasma |
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| 2013 | ||
| January 19, 2013 JP | NOVEL BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger - Part 1 |
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| February 7, 2013 JP | COMIC BlazBlue: Remix Heart |
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| May 19, 2013 | EVENT Arc System Works Festival at Pacific Yokohama |
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| September 20, 2013 JP | NOVEL BlazBlue: Continuum Shift - Part 1 |
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| October 8, 2013 | ANIME BlazBlue: Alter Memory |
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| October 9, 2013 JP | COMIC BlazBlue |
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| October 24, 2013 JP | PS3 BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma |
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| October 24 - November 10, 2013 | EVENT BlazBlue Museum at Akihabara Gamers |
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| 2014 | ||
| March 3 - March 9, 2014 | STAGE Live Act ''BlazBlue'' ~Continuum Shift~ at The Galaxy Theatre (Tennōzu) |
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| March 25, 2014 NA | PS4, PS3, XBOX ONE BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma |
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| April 24, 2014 JP, NA | PS VITA BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma |
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| June 20, 2014 JP | NOVEL BlazBlue: Bloodedge Experience - Part 1 |
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| July 12, 2014 | LIVE Guilty Gear X BlazBlue Music Live 2014 at Kawasaki CLUB CITTA' |
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| October 9, 2014 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Ver 2.0 |
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| December 11, 2014 | STEAM BlazBlue: Continuum Shift |
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| 2015 | ||
| January 7, 2015 JP February 23, 2015 NA March 23, 2015KR |
APP Eat Beat: Dead Spike-san |
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| March 29, 2015 | LIVE BlazBlue Music Live 2015 at Zepp Tokyo |
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| April 23, 2015 JP June 30, 2015 NA July 28, 2015 NA (PS Vita) October 23, 2015 EU |
PS4, PS3, XBOX One, PS VITA BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend |
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| July 12, 2015 | EVENT Blue Fes 2015 -Lord☆Ultimate~- |
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| November 19, 2015 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Central Fiction |
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| 2016 | ||
| March 2, 2016 | STEAM BlazBlue: Chrono Phantasma Extend |
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| August 10 - 14, 2016 | STAGE Live Act BlazBlue ~Continuum Shift~ at Shinjukumura Performing Theater |
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| October 6, 2016 JP | PS3, PS4 BlazBlue: Central Fiction |
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| October 20, 2016 JP | NOVEL BlazBlue: Spiral Shift – Hero of the Frozen Blade |
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| December 12, 2016 JP | COMIC BlazBlue: Variable Heart |
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| 2017 | ||
| April 27, 2017 | STEAM BlazBlue: Central Fiction |
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| August 3, 2017 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue Central Fiction Ver 2.0 |
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| 2018 | ||
| March 22, 2018 JP, NA | NINTENDO SWITCH Eat Beat: Dead Spike-san |
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| March 31, 2018 JP June 5, 2018 NA June 22, 2018 EU |
PS4, NINTENDO SWITCH, STEAM BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle |
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| November 20, 2018 | BlazBlue 10th Anniversary | 
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| 2019 | ||
| February 7, 2019 JP, US February 8, 2019 EU |
NINTENDO SWITCH BlazBlue: Central Fiction Special Edition |
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| April 25, 2019 JP | ARCADE BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle |
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| November 21, 2019 | PS4, NINTENDO SWITCH, STEAM BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Ver 2.0 |
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| 2021 | ||
| February 16, 2021JP | MOBILE BlazBlue Alternative: Dark War |
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External Links
- BlazBlue official website (Japanese)
- BlazBlue official Twitter (Japanese)
References
- ↑ BlazBlue: Original Setting Material Collection - Genesis of the Azure Flame, Chapter 1 - Phenomena: Dawn (事象：黎明), BLAZBLUE Title & Logo Transition