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Granblue Fantasy is a Japanese role-playing video game developed by Cygames for Android, iOS, and web browsers. It first released in Japan on the 10th of March 2014, as a free-to-play title published by Mobage.
Nobuo Uematsu composed eleven tracks for Granblue Fantasy, with Tsutomu Narita contributing nine additional tracks. Uematsu and art director Hideo Minaba had previously worked together on Final Fantasy V, VI, IX, and Lost Odyssey.
In December 2015, a player live-streamed spending around 700,000 yen (approximately 6,000 US dollars) trying to obtain a character named Andira through the game's gacha system. The incident prompted the Japan Online Game Association to impose stricter industry rules, and Cygames issued an in-game apology on January 8 while committing to a pity system guaranteeing a character after 300 draws.
Granblue Fantasy surpassed 10 million downloads in Japan by March 2016 and had reached over 25 million downloads by December 2019.
Granblue Fantasy: The Animation aired in Spring 2017, produced by A-1 Pictures, with a second season in Fall 2019 from MAPPA. A separate short anime, Grand Blues!, based on a four-panel comedy manga by Kikuhitomoji, aired in Fall 2020.
Granblue Fantasy Versus, a 2.5D fighting game by Arc System Works, released in February 2020 for PlayStation 4 and PC. A sequel, Granblue Fantasy Versus: Rising, followed in December 2023. Granblue Fantasy: Relink, an action RPG developed by Cygames Osaka, launched in February 2024 to highly positive reviews.