Flame Of Recca

Flame of Recca
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Flame of Recca

Front cover of volume 1 of the Flame of Recca manga
烈火の炎
(Rekka no Honō)
Genre Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Romantic comedy
Manga
Written by Nobuyuki Anzai
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher Viz Media
Gollancz Manga
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run 1995 – 2002
Volumes 33 (List of volumes)
TV anime
Directed by Noriyuki Abe
Studio Studio Pierrot
Licensed by Viz Media
Network Fuji Television, Animax
Original run July 19, 1997 – July 10, 1998
Episodes 42 (List of episodes)
Game
Flame of Recca: The Game
Developer Konami
Genre Fighting
Rating CERO: B (Ages 12 and up)
Platform Game Boy Advance
Released December 20, 2001
Game
Flame of Recca: Final Burning
Developer Konami
Genre Adventure, Fighting
Rating CERO: B (Ages 12 and up)
Platform PlayStation 2
Released June 10, 2004
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Flame of Recca​ (烈火の炎, Rekka no Honō?) is a manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai, which was adapted into an anime series spanning forty-two episodes by Studio Pierrot. The series has also been adapted into two video games; Flame of Recca for the Game Boy Advance and Flame of Recca Final Burning for the PlayStation 2.

The manga was originally serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1995 to 2002. The 329 chapters that composed the series were compiled into 33 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. Both the anime and manga were licensed for North American distribution in English by Viz Media.

Contents [hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Media
3.1 Manga
3.2 Anime
3.3 CDs
3.4 Video games
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links


[edit] Plot
Flame of Recca follows the story of a teenage boy named Recca Hanabishi, who is interested in ninja and claims to be one himself. He often gets into fights because he made it publicly known that the person who manages to defeat him will earn his services as a loyal ninja. Despite this, he eventually pledges his loyalty and services as a ninja to Yanagi Sakoshita, a girl with the innate ability to heal any wound/injury, because of her kindness and compassion. Recca soon discovers that he possesses the innate ability to control/manipulate flames, and eventually learns that he is actually the son of the sixth generation leader of the Hokage, a ninja clan that was wiped out by Oda Nobunaga in 1576, roughly 400 years before the series' present day.[1]

The Hokage ninjas wielded mystical objects called madōgu (魔導具?), which are referred to as "psychic devices" or "elemental weapons" in the English versions of the series. Madōgu grant their users special abilities, such as allowing their users to manipulate certain elements (as in the case of the Fūjin, which allows its wielder to manipulate the element of wind) and enhancing their user's strength/skills (as in the case of the Dosei no Wa, which increases its user's physical strength and the Idaten, which increases its user's running speed). Oda Nobunaga had invaded the Hokage in 1576 for the purpose of acquiring these weapons, and the series' main antagonist, Kōran Mori, is searching for a madōgu that will grant him eternal life. Recca and his friends become entangled in Mori's quest for eternal life as he initially attempts to kidnap Yanagi, believing that her healing powers will help him achieve immortality. This leads them to join the Ura Butō Satsujin, a tournament wherein the warriors that wield madōgu gather to battle each other. After successfully winning the tournament, Recca and his teammates discover that Mori was on his way to acquire the Tendō Jigoku (天堂地獄, Heaven and Hell?), a madōgu said to grant its user eternal life, and once again attempt to stop him.

Though initially following the same basic storyline, the Flame of Recca anime series ends right after the Ura Butō Satsujin ends, while the manga goes on to include the subplot involving the Tendō Jigoku. The anime also omits certain characters from the story,[2] and several of the characters' physical appearances are slightly different from the manga.[3]

[edit] Characters
Main article: List of Flame of Recca characters

The main characters of Flame of Recca as they appear on the cover of Flame of Recca Original Soundtrack Vol. 1. Clockwise from top-left: Fūko Kirisawa, Domon Ishijima, Kaoru Koganei, Yanagi Sakoshita, Recca Hanabishi, and Tokiya MikagamiRecca Hanabishi (花菱 烈火, Hanabishi Rekka?) Voiced by: Kōsuke Okano (Japanese), Scott Roberts (English)
Recca, the primary protagonist of the series, is a teenager obsessed with ninja and anything related to ninja. Recca was born the second son of Ōka, the leader of the Hokage ninja clan that existed over 400 years ago. Recca's older half-brother, Kurei, was supposed to be the heir to the leadership because he was the eldest and was born with the ability to control fire, but Recca also exhibited the same abilities as an infant, and is declared the true heir of the Hokage leadership. In an attempt to save him during the slaughter of the Hokage ninja clan, his mother (Kagerō) used a forbidden technique that opened a portal that would transport him into the future, where the Flame of Recca storyline begins.
Yanagi Sakoshita (佐古下 柳, Sakoshita Yanagi?) Voiced by: Yuki Masuda (Japanese), Carol-Anne Day (English)
Yanagi is a teenage girl gifted with the innate ability to heal any kind of physical injury, and Recca immediately offers to serve her as his loyal ninja after seeing her compassion when she healed a severely injured puppy in a local park (in the anime series, she heals Recca after a pile of metal pipes collapsed on top of him). She is the prime objective of the series' main antagonist, Kōran Mori, as he believes that her healing powers will help him attain eternal life.
Fūko Kirisawa (霧沢 風子, Kirisawa Fūko?) Voiced by: Akiko Hiramatsu (Japanese), Kris Rundle (English)
Fūko, a tomboyish teenage girl, is Recca's childhood friend who has always aspired to defeat him in battle so that he would serve her as her ninja. She initially gets irritated by the fact that Recca chose to become Yanagi's ninja just because he wanted to. For this reason, she decides to accept the aid of Kagerō, who offers to lend her Fūjin (a powerful madōgu that controls wind) in order to enable her to defeat Recca. In actuality, Kagerō implanted a stone in the Fūjin that allowed her to brainwash Fūko, but Recca manages to defeat Fūko and destroy the sphere. Fūko ends up being friends with both Yanagi and Recca after the incident, and she also keeps the Fūjin and wields it throughout the rest of the series.
Domon Ishijima (石島 土門, Ishijima Domon?) Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (Japanese), Adam Hunter (English)
Domon is Recca's schoolmate who, like Fūko, has always wanted to defeat Recca. However, he is never able to do so, and ends up befriending and joining forces with Recca. Domon wields the Dosei no Wa ("The Ring of Saturn"), a madōgu which enhances his physical strength. Later in the series, he also wields the Kuchibashi-Ō ("Beak King"), a super-sharp snapping claw on an extendable chain, and the Tetsugan ("Iron Ball"), which transmutes his entire body into a living iron golem for brief periods.
Tokiya Mikagami (水鏡 凍季也, Mikagami Tokiya?) Voiced by: Hikaru Midorikawa (Japanese), Paul Hunter (English)
Tokiya is Recca's upperclassman and wields the madōgu Ensui ("Dark Water"), a sword that utilizes water to create its blade and is capable of creating and controlling all three states of water (liquid, solid and gas). Tokiya wanted to take Yanagi from Recca because she looks exactly like his sister, Mifuyu Mikagami, who was murdered when he was young. He uses the Hyōmon Ken style which was developed specifically for the Ensui. Tokiya joins forces with Recca in attempting to rescue Yanagi from Kōran Mori's mansion, and he continues to be part of their team throughout the rest of the series.
Kaoru Koganei (小金井 薰, Koganei Kaoru?) Voiced by: Motoko Kumai (Japanese), Brett Bauer (English)
Kaoru was once a member of the Uruha, but eventually becomes a member of Recca's team "Hokage" in the Ura Butō Satsujin. He wields the Kōgan Anki, a puzzle-like weapon that has five different forms.
Kage Hōshi (影子, Kage Hōshi?) / Kagerō Voiced by: Kotono Mitsuishi (Japanese), Mariette Sluyter (English)
Kage Hōshi, whose real name is Kagerō, is the first antagonist of the series, and is later revealed to be Recca's mother. She possesses the 'Eikai Kyoku' ("Shadow Ball"), which allows her to teleport through shadows, show people the past, and perform acts of scrying. She performed the Jikuryūri (a technique which allows the user to travel or send another person to a different time) to save the infant Recca from being killed along with the rest of the Hokage clan, but is cursed with immortality as a result of using the technique.
Kurei (紅麗, Kurei?) Voiced by: Ryōtarō Okiayu (Japanese), Jonathan Love (English)
Kurei is Recca's half brother who is four years older than he is. He is also a flame master with the power of the phoenix, being able to capture the soul of a dead person in his flame. The most notable manifestation of his flame power is Kurenai (紅), his former lover whose soul he absorbed using his flame when she was killed by Kōran Mori.