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BlazBlue: Central Fiction

BlazBlue: Central Fiction (ブレイブルー セントラルフィクション) is Arc System Works' fourth main BlazBlue fighting game and the final Azure Saga entry, released in arcades from November 19, 2015 and on consoles, Steam, and Switch, with 35+ characters, Overdrive and Active Flow systems, and 2022 rollback netcode.

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle

BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle (ブレイブルー クロスタッグバトル) is Arc System Works' 2018 2v2 tag fighting game crossing BlazBlue, Persona 4 Arena, Under Night In-Birth, and RWBY, with 20 base characters, Smart Combos, and a Cross Gauge.

Blaze and the Monster Machines

Blaze and the Monster Machines (also marketed as Blaze y los Monster Machines) is a Nickelodeon CGI preschool series (2014-2025) by Jeff Borkin and Ellen Martin about monster truck Blaze and driver AJ solving problems with STEM in Axle City.

Blaze Bayley

Blaze Bayley (Bayley Alexander Cooke, born 1963) is an English heavy metal singer, frontman of Wolfsbane from 1984 and Iron Maiden's vocalist 1994-1999 on The X Factor and Virtual XI, later a prolific independent solo artist.

Blaze Berlowitz

Blaze Berlowitz (born 2005) is an American college football quarterback, Vanderbilt Commodores senior from Cushing, Oklahoma, formerly at New Mexico State; named Vanderbilt's 2026 Week 1 starting quarterback before losing the job to Jared Curtis.

Blaze Foley

Blaze Foley (Michael David Fuller, 1949-1989), Austin country-folk songwriter of "If I Could Only Fly" and "Clay Pigeons"; no lifetime albums, posthumous legend via Lost Art Records, Duct Tape Messiah, and Hawke's Blaze.

Blaze Jordan

Blaze Jordan (born 2002) is an MLB corner infielder for the St. Louis Cardinals; drafted 2020 3rd round by Boston, traded for Steven Matz, debuted June 12, 2026.

Blaze Media

Blaze Media, home of The Blaze TV, is an American conservative media company formed by the 2018 merger of Glenn Beck's TheBlaze and Mark Levin's CRTV, based in Irving, Texas.

Blaze of Perdition

Blaze of Perdition is a Polish black metal band from Lublin, formed in 2004 as Perdition and renamed in 2007, known for its ritualistic, occult-driven orthodox black metal.

Blazed grating

A blazed grating, also called an echelette grating, is a diffraction grating whose tilted sawtooth grooves concentrate most diffracted light into a single chosen order, maximizing efficiency for spectrometers.

Blazegraph

Blazegraph, formerly Bigdata, is an open-source RDF and graph database developed by SYSTAP, LLC since 2006, best known as the storage engine behind the Wikimedia Foundation's Wikidata Query Service.

Blazenko Lackovic

Blaženko Lacković (Kuna, Lac), born 1980, Croatian handball left back; Olympic gold 2004 and bronze 2012, world champion 2003, Champions League winner 2013 with HSV Hamburg, retired 2020.

Blazer

Blazer: a lightweight semi-tailored jacket, usually navy, with metal buttons and patch pockets, worn with contrasting trousers. Origins in HMS Blazer 1837 and Lady Margaret Boat Club; distinct from suit jacket and sport coat.

Blazhko effect

The Blazhko effect is a quasi-periodic modulation of pulsation amplitude and phase seen in some RR Lyrae stars, discovered in 1907 and still lacking a full theoretical explanation.

Blaziken (バシャーモ)

Blaziken (バシャーモ, Bursyamo), the Blaze Pokémon, is National Dex #257, a Fire/Fighting Pokémon introduced in Generation III, final form of Torchic with a Mega Evolution via Blazikenite, base 530 stats, and the hidden ability Speed Boost.

Blazin' Squad

Blazin' Squad is a ten-piece British pop/R&B-rap group from Chingford, London, whose 2002 cover "Crossroads" topped the UK chart; other hits include Flip Reverse. Known for Love Island's Marcel Somerville and their later four-piece revival.

Blazing Fists

Blazing Fists (BLUE FIGHT ~蒼き若者たちのブレイキングダウン~) is a 2025 Japanese action drama by Takashi Miike, written by Shin Kibayashi from Mikuru Asakura's autobiography, about two juvenile-detention youths training for the Breaking Down fight event; released January 31, 2025, 119 minutes.

Blazing Saddles

Blazing Saddles (1974) is Mel Brooks's Warner Bros. satirical comedy Western starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, written with Richard Pryor and Andrew Bergman from Bergman's Tex X; a National Film Registry entry and AFI's funniest film of all time.

Blazon

Blazon: the formal heraldic language describing coats of arms and flags precisely enough to reproduce them from text alone; Norman-French vocabulary, classic form about 1250, rule of tincture.

Blazor

Blazor is a web framework from Microsoft, part of ASP.NET Core, for building interactive web user interfaces with C# and Razor syntax instead of JavaScript, first announced in February 2018.

Bleach

Bleach is a household cleaning and disinfecting product whose active ingredient is sodium hypochlorite, typically 5%–9% in US solutions. It kills germs, whitens fabrics, and is used for water treatment and emergency sanitation.

Bleach (Nirvana album)

Bleach, Nirvana's 1989 Sub Pop debut album, recorded for $606.17 with Jack Endino, initially sold about 35,000 copies, later 1.7 million in the US after Nevermind.

Bleach (TV series)

Bleach (TV series): Studio Pierrot anime adaptation of Tite Kubo's manga, 366 episodes 2004-2012 with about 45% filler, followed by the filler-free Thousand-Year Blood War sequel from 2022.

Bleach (ブリーチ) (2018 film)

Bleach (ブリーチ) is a 2018 Japanese live-action film directed by Shinsuke Sato, starring Sota Fukushi as Ichigo Kurosaki, adapting the Substitute Soul Reaper arc of Tite Kubo's manga, released July 20, 2018 by Warner Bros. Japan.

Bleach (ブリーチ) (manga)

Bleach (ブリーチ) is Tite Kubo's supernatural action manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2001-2016, 74 volumes, over 130 million copies, about Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki; Big Three member with One Piece and Naruto.

Bleach Rebirth of Souls

Bleach: Rebirth of Souls (BLEACH) is a Tamsoft-developed, Bandai Namco-published 1v1 fighting game released March 2025 on PS4/PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, covering Bleach's story through the Arrancar arc with a Konpaku life-stock battle system.

Bleach: Hell Verse (劇場版BLEACH 地獄篇)

Bleach: Hell Verse (劇場版BLEACH 地獄篇) is the fourth Bleach theatrical anime film, released by Toho on December 4, 2010. Directed by Noriyuki Abe at Studio Pierrot for the manga's tenth anniversary, it follows Ichigo Kurosaki into Hell against revolting sinners; it is non-canon.

Bleach: Memories of Nobody (劇場版BLEACH MEMORIES OF NOBODY)

Bleach: Memories of Nobody (劇場版BLEACH MEMORIES OF NOBODY) is the first Bleach theatrical anime film, released December 16, 2006 by Toho, directed by Noriyuki Abe, following Ichigo, Rukia, and the shinigami Senna against a banished clan.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇)

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇) is the four-cour Studio Pierrot anime adapting the final arc of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga, aired 2022-2026 with Tomohisa Taguchi directing and expanded anime-original content.

Bleached (漂白_)

Bleached (漂白, international title Bleaching) is a 2025 iQIYI Mist Theatre crime series directed by Cao Kai, written by Chen Ping from her novel, starring Guo Jingfei, Wang Qianyuan, and Zhao Jinmai, adapted from the Yang Shubin gang case and hit by plagiarism claims.