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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 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. The anime has since been picked up by Discotek Media who will re-release the series on DVD in 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Discotek Licenses Flame of Recca TV Anime Series )〕 ==Plot== (詳細は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. The Hokage ninjas wielded mystical objects called , 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 , 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,〔The team called Saakasu, who forfeit against Recca's Team Hokage in volume 10, chapter 78 of the manga, are not included in the anime; the anime shows Raiha of Uruha Ikazuchi forfeiting instead.〕 and several of the characters' physical appearances are slightly different from the manga.〔A few examples would be Tokiya Mikagami, whose hair appears to be brownish throughout the anime series while being light blue-green on the covers of volumes 31 and 25 of the manga, and Fuuko Kirisawa, whose hair and eyes appear to be red-violet and blue respectively in the anime while shown to be brown and green on the cover of volumes 11 and 30 of the manga.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Flame of Recca」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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