edgepedia

All articles starting with B

27,400 articles

Blood: The Last Vampire (ブラッド・ザ・ラスト・ヴァンパイア)

Blood: The Last Vampire (ブラッド・ザ・ラスト・ヴァンパイア) is a 2000, 48-minute Production I.G anime film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo, Japan's first fully digital animated feature, about the hunter Saya fighting chiropterans at Yokota Air Base in 1966; it spawned Blood+, Blood-C, and a 2009 live-action remake.

Blood+

Blood+ (ブラッドプラス) is a 50-episode Production I.G/Aniplex anime (2005-2006), directed by Junichi Fujisaku, a spiritual successor to Blood: The Last Vampire set in Okinawa, with three Kadokawa manga adaptations.

Bloodaxe (TV series)

Bloodaxe is a Prime Video historical drama premiering January 20, 2027, created by Michael and Horatio Hirst of Vikings, starring Xavier Molyneux as Erik Bloodaxe and Jessica Madsen as Gunnhild, renewed for Season 2 before Season 1 airs.

Bloodbath

Bloodbath is a Swedish death metal supergroup formed in Stockholm in 1998 by Mikael Åkerfeldt, Anders Nyström, Jonas Renkse, and Dan Swanö; named after a Cancer song, it has released six albums including Survival of the Sickest (2022).

Bloodborne

Bloodborne: 2015 FromSoftware action RPG for PS4, directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, published by Sony. Gothic Yharnam beast-hunting, Regain/Rally system, Insight, Chalice Dungeons; never officially released on PC.

Bloodborne PSX

Bloodborne PSX is a free 2022 fan demake of Bloodborne by Lilith Walther (LWMedia), reimagining the PS4 exclusive as a PS1-era Unreal Engine 4 game ending at Father Gascoigne; removed from itch.io by Sony via MarkScan in February 2025.

Bloodflowers

Bloodflowers, The Cure's eleventh studio album (Fiction, 15 February 2000), third of Robert Smith's trilogy with Pornography and Disintegration; no singles, Swiss chart peak 3, Grammy-nominated, later performed live in Trilogy.

Bloodhound

Bloodhound (Chien de Saint-Hubert): large Belgian-origin scent hound bred for man-trailing, with about 300 million scent receptors, 23–27 inch height, 80–110 lb weight, used by police since 1805.

Bloodhound Gang

Bloodhound Gang: American comedy rock/rap-rock band formed 1992 in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, led by Jimmy Pop. Known for "Fire Water Burn", "The Bad Touch" and Hooray for Boobies; over 6 million albums sold; albums through Hard-Off (2015).

Bloodhounds (사냥개들) (South Korean TV series)

Bloodhounds (사냥개들) is a 2023 South Korean Netflix action series by Kim Joo-hwan, adapted from Jeong Chan's Naver webtoon, starring Woo Do-hwan and Lee Sang-yi as boxers fighting loan sharks; a second season premiered April 3, 2026.

Bloodhounds Season 2 (사냥개들 시즌2)

Bloodhounds Season 2 (사냥개들 시즌2) is the 2026 second season of Netflix's Korean action series Bloodhounds: 7 episodes, directed by Kim Joo-hwan, with Woo Do-hwan, Lee Sang-yi, and Rain as villain Baek-jeong in an underground boxing league.

Bloodlands (TV series)

Bloodlands is a BBC One Northern Ireland crime drama created by Chris Brandon, starring James Nesbitt as PSNI detective Tom Brannick hunting the assassin Goliath; two seasons, 2021 and 2022, produced by Hat Trick Mercurio Television.

Bloodless Medical and Surgical Procedures

Bloodless medical and surgical procedures, also called transfusion-free medicine or patient blood management, provide care without allogeneic blood transfusion via anemia treatment, blood loss minimization, and oxygenation optimization, pioneered by Denton Cooley in 1962 for Jehovah's Witnesses.

Bloodless surrender of Edo

The bloodless surrender of Edo (Edo muketsu kaijō) was the peaceful transfer of Edo Castle to the imperial government on April 11, 1868, negotiated by Saigō Takamori and Katsu Kaishū.

Bloodletting

Bloodletting (venesection, phlebotomy): withdrawing blood as therapy, based on Galenic humoral theory, from ancient Egypt through the 1800s; abandoned after Louis's statistics and germ theory, surviving as therapeutic phlebotomy for hemochromatosis and polycythemia vera.

Bloodline (Alex Warren and Jelly Roll song)

"Bloodline" is a May 22, 2025 folk-pop duet by Alex Warren featuring Jelly Roll, released via Atlantic Records on You'll Be Alright, Kid; about generational trauma, it debuted at No. 32 on the Hot 100 and peaked at No. 9 in the UK.

Bloodline (TV series)

Bloodline is a Netflix drama thriller (2015-2017) by Todd A. Kessler, Glenn Kessler, and Daniel Zelman of Damages, about the Rayburn family of the Florida Keys, 3 seasons, 33 episodes, Emmy winner Ben Mendelsohn.

BloodPop

BloodPop (Michael Tucker, born 1990, Kansas City) is an American producer and songwriter, formerly Blood Diamonds, known for Bieber's Purpose and "Sorry", Lady Gaga's Joanne and Chromatica, and "Friends".

BloodRayne

BloodRayne is a video game series about Rayne, a dhampir agent of the Brimstone Society fighting Nazis in the 1930s; three games by Terminal Reality and WayForward, plus a poorly received 2005 Uwe Boll film.

BloodRayne (film)

BloodRayne is a 2005 American-German horror action fantasy film directed by Uwe Boll, starring Kristanna Loken, Ben Kingsley, and Michelle Rodriguez, based on the BloodRayne video game series.

BloodRayne (video game)

BloodRayne (2002) is Terminal Reality's third-person action game for Majesco starring Rayne, a dhampir Brimstone Society agent fighting Nazis and supernatural threats between the world wars; known for blood-feeding, harpoon and wrist-blade combat, mixed Metacritic scores (65-76), 2004 sequel, 2006 Uwe Boll film, and 2020 Terminal Cut remaster.

Bloodride

Bloodride (Blodtur) is a Norwegian-language Netflix horror anthology series, six half-hour episodes linked by a spectral bus frame, created by Kjetil Indregard and Atle Knudsen, released 13 March 2020.

Bloods

The Bloods, also known as the Blood gang, are a loose association of predominantly African American street gangs that formed in Los Angeles in the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Bloods & Crips

Bloods & Crips was a 1993 Los Angeles gangsta rap collective of actual Bloods and Crips gang members, organized by producer Ronnie Phillips with rapper Tweedy Bird Loc to record Bangin' on Wax on Quality Records, which sold over 400,000 copies; a 1994 follow-up ended the collaboration.

Bloodshot (comics)

Bloodshot (comics): Valiant Comics anti-hero created by VanHook, Perlin, and Layton, first published 1992 (Eternal Warrior cameo, Rai debut). Nanite-blooded Project Rising Spirit operative with erased memories; relaunched 2012; 2020 Vin Diesel film.

Bloodshot (film)

Bloodshot is a 2020 American superhero film based on the Valiant Comics character, directed by Dave Wilson and starring Vin Diesel as a soldier resurrected by nanotechnology.

Bloodsport (character)

Bloodsport is a DC Comics supervillain, the codename of Robert DuBois, created by John Byrne in 1987 and known for shooting Superman with a Kryptonite bullet.

Bloodsport (film)

Bloodsport (1988), directed by Newt Arnold for Cannon Films, stars Jean-Claude Van Damme as Frank Dux, a Marine who enters the secret Hong Kong Kumite tournament; a cult martial-arts classic that inspired Mortal Kombat's Johnny Cage.

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon

Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon is a retro 2D action platformer by Inti Creates, released in 2018 as a Kickstarter stretch-goal homage to classic Castlevania, with four playable characters.

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a 2019 2.5D metroidvania action RPG by ArtPlay, directed by Koji Igarashi, funded by a record $5.5 million Kickstarter; it sold 2 million copies by 2023 and received updates through 2024.