The Orix BlueWave (オリックスブルーウェーブ) is a baseball team in Kōbe, Japan, that plays in the Pacific League. The team is owned by the Orix Group, a leading diversified financial services company based in Tokyo. Orix BlueWave was founded in 1936 as Ōsaka Hankyu Baseball Club (大阪阪急野球協会) and later nicknamed Hankyu Braves (阪急ブレーブス) under the ownership of a Japanese railway company Hankyu Dentetsu (Hankyu Electric Railway). In October 11, 1988 Hankyu Dentetsu sold the ownership to a lease company Orient Lease (since 1989 Orix Group) with two assurances to keep the team name Braves and its franchaise in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture. During first two years under a new ownership the team were the Orix Braves, in Nishinomiya, Hyōgo. Since 1991 the team however has been Orix BlueWave in Kōbe. Old fans were shocked by these changes but, fortunately, Nishinomiya and Kōbe are not so far from each other. And the new home ground of the team are better than the former, most of fans are content to moving but there are some who have nostalgia for the name of Braves. Today the team is sometimes called Aonami (青波) by fans and baseball mass media, which means "Blue Wave" in Japanese.

In 1995 and 1996, the Orix BlueWave won the Pacific League pennant and in 1996 won the Japan Series too.

Famous players who have played for Orix BlueWave include Ichiro Suzuki and Shigetoshi Hasegawa (both of whom now play for the Seattle Mariners of the American League), as well as Fukumoto Yutaka, and So Taguchi.

After the 2004 NPB season, the Ōsaka Kintetsu Buffaloes were acquired by the Orix Group and merged with the BlueWave to form the Orix Buffaloes.