Blue Archive

Blue Archive (Korean: 블루 아카이브; RR: Beullu Akaibeu) is a 2021 real-time strategy role-playing game developed by MX Studio, under the management umbrella of Nexon Games (formerly NAT Games) and IO Division. The player and protagonist is a sensei who was summoned from outside the academic city-state of Kivotos by the president of the General Student Council, an extrajudicial committee governing the culturally rich regional school districts. Following her sudden disappearance, criminal activity rises around Kivotos and the player is tasked by the remaining members of the council to resolve issues that crop up and help search for the president. It was first released in February 2021 for Android and iOS devices in Japan by Yostar and self-published worldwide in November of the same year by Nexon, with a global release on Microsoft Windows in July 2025 via Steam, barring Benelux, Vietnam, and Germany and Yostar-managed regions. The game is free-to-play with gacha game mechanics as a means to obtain new characters and improvise strategies via team building. Two short-length original net anime productions were released between July and November 2022; a full-length anime television series adaptation, announced in 2023, was produced by Yostar Pictures and Candy Box, and was broadcast from April to June 2024.