Flame of Recca
| Flame of Recca | |
Front cover of volume 1 of the Flame of Recca manga
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烈火の炎 (Rekka no Honō) |
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| Genre | Adventure, Action, Fantasy, Romantic comedy |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Nobuyuki Anzai |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Original run | April 1995 – February 2002 |
| Volumes | 33 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
| Written by | Hiroshi Hashimoto |
| Music by | Yusuke Honma |
| Studio | Studio Pierrot |
| Licensed by | |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| English network | |
| Original run | July 19, 1997 – July 10, 1998 |
| Episodes | 42 |
| Game | |
| Flame of Recca: The Game | |
| Developer | Konami |
| Publisher | Konami |
| Genre | Fighting |
| Platform | Game Boy Advance |
| Released | December 20, 2001 |
| Game | |
| Flame of Recca: Final Burning | |
| Developer | Konami |
| Publisher | Konami |
| Genre | Adventure, Fighting |
| Platform | PlayStation 2 |
| Released | June 10, 2004 |
Flame of Recca (Japanese: 烈火の炎 Hepburn: 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: The Game for the Game Boy Advance and Flame of Recca: Final Burning for the PlayStation 2.
The manga was 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. The anime has since been picked up by Discotek Media who will re-release the series on DVD in 2015.
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.
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