Blade & Soul (game) (Korean: 블레이드 앤 소울) is a Korean fantasy martial-arts massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by NCSoft's Team Bloodlust. On September 13, 2012, NCSoft announced that Blade & Soul would release in Western territories, which eventually happened on January 19, 2016. An anime television adaptation began airing on April 3, 2014 on Tokyo Broadcasting System and other stations.