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Blue Dragon (video game)

Blue Dragon (ブルードラゴン) is a 2006 role-playing video game for the Xbox 360, designed by Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi with characters by Akira Toriyama and music by Nobuo Uematsu.

Blue Electric Auto (蓝电汽车)

Blue Electric Auto (蓝电汽车) is a mass-market electric vehicle brand launched by China's Seres Group in Chongqing in March 2023, selling plug-in hybrid and electric SUVs priced from RMB 99,800.

Blue Energy

Blue Energy (Blue Energy Global Inc.) is an American startup founded in 2023 that builds prefabricated, project-financeable nuclear power plants for data centers and other large electricity customers.

Blue Exorcist (青の祓魔師)

Blue Exorcist (青の祓魔師) is Kazue Kato's ongoing shonen manga serialized in Shueisha's Jump Square since April 2009, following Satan's son Rin Okumura training as an exorcist at True Cross Academy; over 25 million copies in print, with a 2011 A-1 Pictures TV anime, a 2012 film, Kyoto Saga (2017), and 2024 seasons.

Blue Eye Samurai

Blue Eye Samurai is a Netflix adult animated action series by Michael Green and Amber Noizumi about Mizu, a mixed-race onna-musha seeking revenge in Edo-period Japan; Emmy-winning, animated by Blue Spirit, season 2 in January 2027.

Blue field entoptic phenomenon

Blue field entoptic phenomenon, or Scheerer's phenomenon: bright moving dots seen against blue sky, caused by white blood cells passing through macular retinal capillaries; used to measure macular blood flow.

Blue Film (2025 film)

Blue Film (2025) is Elliot Tuttle's debut queer drama thriller, also called a chamber two-hander. Camboy Aaron Eagle (Kieron Moore) takes $50,000 from masked client Hank Grant (Reed Birney), his former teacher and a convicted pedophile; premiered at Edinburgh 2025, US release May 2026.

Blue Film (album)

Blue Film (album): the 2014 debut album by Lo-Fang (Matthew Hemerlein) on 4AD, 12 tracks, 42 minutes; also albums of the same name by The Tissues (2020) and DALIAN (2003).

Blue Film Woman

Blue Film Woman (Buru firumu no onna) is a 1969 Japanese pink film directed by Kan Mukai, one of the first pink films shot in color.

Blue Flag beach

Blue Flag beach: a beach awarded the Blue Flag eco-label by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE), begun in France in 1985. Requires 33 criteria on water quality, safety, education, and management; over 5,000 sites in 50+ countries.

Blue Fugates

Blue Fugates, also Blue People of Kentucky: a Fugate family line from Troublesome Creek, Kentucky, founded by Martin Fugate (1820), with blue skin from recessive CYB5R3 methemoglobinemia concentrated by intermarriage.

Blue Gate Crossing

Blue Gate Crossing (藍色大門) is a 2002 Taiwanese coming-of-age drama by Yee Chih-yen, starring Gwei Lun-mei and Chen Bo-lin, screened at Cannes Directors' Fortnight and credited with launching Taiwan's xiaoqingxin youth-film wave.

Blue Gender

Blue Gender (ブルージェンダー) is a 1999-2000 AIC/Toshiba EMI 26-episode sci-fi horror TV anime directed by Masashi Abe; cryo-sleeper Yuji Kaido awakens in 2031 to an Earth overrun by the Blue insects, distinct from the unrelated Blue Giant manga.

Blue Ghost Mission 1

Blue Ghost Mission 1 was a robotic lunar lander flown by Firefly Aerospace that landed in Mare Crisium in March 2025, the first fully successful commercial Moon landing.

Blue Ghost Mission 2

Blue Ghost Mission 2 is a planned Firefly Aerospace lunar mission under NASA's CLPS program, targeting the first American landing on the Moon's far side near Nassau crater.

Blue giant

A blue giant, sometimes called an O-type giant, is a hot evolved star of spectral class O, B, or sometimes early A, more luminous than main-sequence stars of the same mass.

Blue Giant (BLUE GIANT) (2023 film)

Blue Giant (BLUE GIANT) is a 2023 Japanese anime film directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa, adapted from Shinichi Ishizuka's jazz manga, following saxophonist Dai Miyamoto and the trio JASS in Tokyo, with music by Hiromi Uehara, released February 17, 2023.

Blue Grass Army Depot

Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is a US Army munitions depot near Richmond, Kentucky, established in 1941, which stored the last US chemical weapons until 2023.

Blue Grotto (Capri)

Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), a sea cave on Capri's northwest coast in Anacapri, Italy, famed for blue light from a submerged opening; a Roman nymphaeum of Tiberius, entered by rowboat, closed in rough seas.

Blue halide perovskite LEDs

Blue halide perovskite LEDs (blue PeLEDs) are light-emitting diodes whose perovskite emissive layer emits blue light, roughly 405 to 495 nm; they are the least mature primary-color device.

Blue Harvest

Blue Harvest is the hour-long Family Guy season 6 premiere (September 23, 2007) parodying Star Wars: A New Hope, with Peter as Han Solo, Stewie as Darth Vader, and Chris as Luke; its title borrows the Return of the Jedi codename, and it launched the Laugh It Up, Fuzzball trilogy.

Blue Hawaii

Blue Hawaii (1961) is an Elvis Presley Paramount musical directed by Norman Taurog, his eighth film, shot in Hawaii; its soundtrack, with "Can't Help Falling in Love", spent 20 weeks at number one.

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series that ran on the Seven Network from 1994 to 2006, following officers at the Mount Thomas police station.

Blue Heron (film)

Blue Heron is a 2025 Canada-Hungary drama, the feature debut of Sophy Romvari, about a Hungarian immigrant family on Vancouver Island destabilized by son Jeremy; Locarno Swatch First Feature Award winner, 97% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Blue Heron Capital

Blue Heron Capital is a Richmond, Virginia-based growth equity firm investing $5 to $10 million per deal in healthcare and enterprise technology companies, mostly east of Dallas.

Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory

Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, also known as Blue Hill Observatory, is a weather station in Milton, Massachusetts, holding North America's longest continuous weather record since 1885.

Blue hole

Blue hole: a large marine cavern or sinkhole open to the surface, formed in limestone or coral bedrock during ice-age low sea levels. Examples include Belize's Great Blue Hole and the Bahamas' Dean's Blue Hole; anoxic sediments record ancient hurricanes.

Blue Hole (New Mexico)

Blue Hole (Santa Rosa, New Mexico), also called Blue Lake, is a bell-shaped artesian spring-fed sinkhole about 80 feet deep with 62°F water flowing at ~3,000 gpm, a major scuba training site whose cave was sealed after 1976 drownings.

Blue Hole (Red Sea)

Blue Hole (Red Sea): submarine sinkhole near Dahab, Egypt, in Abu Galum reserve; over 100 m deep with the 55 m Arch tunnel; nicknamed the divers' cemetery, with an estimated 130 to 200+ diver deaths, mostly on the Arch.

Blue Homeland

Blue Homeland (Mavi Vatan) is Turkey's maritime doctrine, coined by Admiral Cem Gürdeniz in 2006 and promoted by Cihat Yaycı, claiming 462,000 km² of the Black Sea, Aegean, and Eastern Mediterranean, contested by Greece and Cyprus under UNCLOS.