Blue Dragon (ブルードラゴン, Burū Doragon) is an RPG for the Xbox 360 video game console. It was developed by Artoon based on a design by Final Fantasy series originator Hironobu Sakaguchi, who is also supervising development.

This game is the first of a series of Blue Dragon games, manga and anime.

Plot:
Each year for the past ten years, purple clouds would appear, and bring disasters to people around the world.

When their village is attacked again Shu, Kluke, and Jiro fight back against the fin that appears to kill the people. However they discover it is a strange machine. But even after damaging it, it takes them back to the flagship, with the three still on it.

There, they encounter constant attacks from metal soldiers until they discover three orbs of light. After hearing a voice tell them to swallow the orbs, they do and discover their shadows grow into monsters; Kluke's becomes a blue phoenix, Jiro's a blue minotaur, and Shu's a blue dragon. They then fight the ship's captain, Nene, and discover that Nene is behind the yearly attacks on their town. He easilly defeats them, and they can barely make it to a escape capsule. They then land far from home and must then journey to find a way to save their land.

Following their escape from Nene's air fortress, they encounter more people from towns that have also fallen victim to the purple clouds, and decide that they must try to stop Nene from continuing to bring ruin on their world.


Characters:

Heroes
    * Shu: The protagonist, a 16-year-old boy who lives with his grandfather. Has a dragon shadow.
    * Kluke: A childhood friend of Shu and Jiro. 16 years old. She is kind and mature. Has a phoenix shadow.
    * Jiro: A childhood friend of Shu and Kluke. 17 years old. He is smart and enjoys it when his plans work out. Has a minotaur shadow.
    * Zola: A mercenary. She is strong and distant from the others. 20 years old. Has a killer bat as her shadow.
    * Marumaro: A cat-like humanoid from the "Debi" tribe. Looks about 14 years old. Has a saber-tooth tiger shadow.

Villains
    * Nene:Main Antagonist. A man from an ancient 10,000-year-old race. He leads the attacks on Shu, Kluke and Jiro's village. He has a purple dragon shadow that has similarities to all blue shadows.
    * Deathroy:Nene's pet, who enjoys watching him cause suffering.
    * Mecha General Szabo: Causes suffering all over the world.

On the November 14, 2006, Shueisha announced that a manga adaptation of Blue Dragon will be produced. Blue Dragon ST (Secret Trick) will be drawn by Shibata Ami and will premier in Monthly Shonen Jump in January.[5] Takeshi Obata, the illustrator of Death Note is handling Blue Dragon Ral Grado, which began serialization in Issue 1 2007 of Weekly Shonen Jump.[6] An anime adaption to be directed by Yukihiro Matsushita and animated by Studio Pierrot was also announced in November 2006.[7] The anime is set to air in April 2007 and is to feature a different voice cast from the game.

Blue Dragon Ral Grado's drawing is much more meaner.

And it has more boin boins. 

Holy mama another Bleach/Naruto in the making

gonna see this ..  btw the game f***ing rocks ! .

somehow the picture reminds me of Dragon Quest VIII game i played long ago on my ps2...

That's right, Blue Dragon could be the last anime for Akira Toriyama, creator of Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Quest character designer. It's based off the Hironobu Sakaguchi Xbox 360 game of the same. At the recent Tokyo Anime Fair, the animator said:

    The offer to direct an animated version of Blue Dragon came in February of last year. Studio Pierrot approached me regarding it. I knew that Sakaguchi had been working on assembling staff to produce a game, although at the time Blue Dragon hadn't yet been formally announced. According to the materials, it was to be a fantasy world like "Lord of the Rings", with a detailed world view and story.

    This may be my final anime, I'm a little worried (about it). There's incredible pressure, but at the same time, there's a sense of accomplishment - that it's worth doing. Blue Dragon will be a masterpiece, not simply because I'm working hard on it, but because the staff is expecting nothing less.

Blue Dragon begins airing on TV Tokyo on April 7th.

Holy mama another Bleach/Naruto in the making