Reka no Honoo
Flame of Recca

 

Series Info

Aired by GMA 7, this exciting animé by Nobuyuki Anzai is literally is "hot" series with good plot, fighting scenes and great soundtracks spread over 42 episodes of non stop ninja action.

This show chronicles the life Reka Hanabishi, son of the last flamesmaster of the Hokage Ninja Clan. After being teleported by his mother to the future 400 years ago, Reka's penchant for anything that has to do with ninjas seemed like a normal hobby but one day Reka met a girl named Yanagi (Anna) Sakoshita whom he saved from falling pipes from a construction site, then from that day on Reka called Yanagi "Hime"(princess) and promised to protect her forever has her ninja. Things started to get hot when he met Emma Kagehoushi, who "tested" his skills by pitting Reka with his schoolmates Fuuko (Aira) Kirisawa and Tokiya (Dylan) Mikagami. In the course of these tests Emma shows Reka how to use his flame power and tells them about the Hokage clan and tells them to be strong because they will have to face a stronger foe. Reka, who was not convinced about the existence of the Hokage ninjas was verified by his teacher, Fumio Tatesako. During this time, Reka's hime-- Yanagi was abducted by members of Mori Kouran Uruha Death Squad who wanted her because of her power to heal people.

With his hime's life in danger Reka lost no time to rescue her. Together with his friends Fuuko and Domon (Max) Ishijima, who used to fight Reka, they stormed Mori's castle and fought the guardians of each level (They get to befriend Ganko Murikawa, who joins them), Tokiya joins them later in their fight with Kaoru Koganei. Then they faced Kurei, who also verifies to them the existence of the Hokage clan and tells them that he is Reka's half-brother. They fought gallantly but eventually lost to Kurei's powerful flame, Kurenai. Then Emma Kagehoushi comes to aid them and tells Reka to remove his "tekkou" or armband to release the true power of a flamemaster -- the KaRyuus (Fire Dragons) Saiha, Nadare, Madoka, Rui, Homura, Koku, Setsuna, and Resshin. Reka beat Kurei who told him and his friends to train themselves so they could fight again.
After a while, the group was invited by Emma in her house. There they were told of the true story of the Hokage clan and revealed that she is Kagero, Reka's true mother and told them about the battle to get hold of the Hokage's "madougu" or mystical weapons, Kagero decided to use Hokage forbidden technique of Time-manipulation to send Reka into the future hoping that Reka would have a peaceful life. She would not have bothered Reka if not for Kurei who followed Reka into the future. Reka could not accept that fact. Then they were attacked by three stupid goons with madougus, and when Kagero was threatened to be killed Reka saved her and al last accepted her as his mother.
After the beating they got from Kurei, the gang started to train themselves, with Reka trying to tame his flame dragons and his friends Fuuko training with her madougu "Fuujin", Domon with his madougu "Dosei no Wa". Then they get an invitation from Kurei to join the Ura Butou Satsujin, whose sole purpose is to collect all the madougus for his father Mori Kouran.
The Hokage team, as they were known, were forced to bet Yanagi's life to enter the tournament proper. For their first bout they met Team Ku--Dakoku, Minamio, Fujimaru, Saicho, and Kukai, whom they easily defeated, Reka uses Nadare for the first time in combat, they get to befriend members of Team Ku after their bout. Then they get their first real test began when they met Genjurou of Uruha Makuroshi. Since two members of the Hokage team was "kidnapped", they could have lost by default, but was saved by Kaoru (Lorkan) Koganei. He joined the Hokage team to protect Yanagi from Mori Kouran. He first defeated Genjurou's creation, a werewolf-type of monster before falling a trap set up by his former Uruha buddy Mokuren (Gideon), Mokuren uses the madougu Kodama which controls plants from the user's body, but it was amplified by Genjurou's psychic surgery. Tokiya fought Mokuren and defeated him with his absolute zero technique and saved Kaoru's life. Then Reka fought Sakura (Nina) Menou, who was fighting against her will because her father was trapped inside an hourglass, so she has to defeat Reka in order to save her father. She uses the madougu Shiki Gami, which she uses to control her hair and to attack Reka with it. When Reka discovers that she was fighting under duress, he decided to help her and destroys Genjurou's madougu Muken, which can shrink anyone to a small size. After Reka freed Sakura Menou's father, she declined to fight him and Reka won. Now it is Genjurou's turn. Reka was no match for him and he was cornered and Genjurou's true plans were revealed -- he wanted to get Reka's ryuus so he can be as powerful as Kurei and defeat him. He performs his psychic surgery and extracted a ryuu, unfortunately, he extracted what Reka calls a psychotic ryuu, Setsuna, who retaliated against Genjurou with his technique Shon-En. This ended the match with Reka as the winner for Genjurou was badly burned.
The next team to fight the hokage was the all-girl, Uruha Oto, with Neon (Naomi) as the leader and her sisters, Aki and Miki. This time Domon (Max) Ishijima gets to fight after their "abduction" (They were freed by Raiha for unknown reasons). Aki with her madougu, Kotodama, which cast illusions, nearly defeated Ishijima but he overcame the illusions and destroyed Aki's Kotodama, this ended the bout. Then came the tag-team bout, Neon and Miki versus Reka and Tokiya. At first, Reka and Tokiya were competing with each other and they were being drubbed by Neon, who uses the madougu Fukyou Waon, which is a flute in which its sound waves produces tremendous amounts of damage, and by Miki who uses the madougu, Idaten, which she wears on her boots to attain extraordinary speed and the madougu, Yama Biko, which acts as a shield and a reflector for Neon's sound wave attacks. Reka and Tokiya realized that they were fighting for the same cause and stopped competing with each other. They attacked together and  neutralized Miki. Then Neon uses her most powerful technique "Requiem", but Tokiya counters with his dancing icicles. When Neon was about to fall to her death she was saved by Reka's dragon Madoka using the Kikai- En technique. This ended the bout with the Hokage team advancing to the semifinals.
In the semifinals they meet the deadly Uruha Ma also called Uru Uruha because they are the assassins within the clan of assassins. Kaoru first fought with Tsukishiro, who was armed with the madougu Kaigetsu, which was like a large half-moon shaped blade. The match was pretty even until Tsukishiro uses his other madougu, Oboro, a cloak which blocks light and renders the wearer invisible. Kaoru got a hard beating before he defeated Tsukishiro. Then it was Reka's turn to fight. He was up against a sly ninja, Kashamaru  with the power to copy his flame dragons courtesy of the madougu, Nisebi. Reka nearly lost until the appearance of a new dragon, one that Kashamaru cannot copy, the flame ryuu Rui, the Katanashi. With Rui's illusion techniques Reka was barely able to beat Kashamaru. Then it was Fuuko's turn who was itching to fight since her last bout was during the eliminations. He faced the huge and heavily armored Gashakura, who was armed with a large spiked ball and chain. Fuuko destroyed Gashakura's weapon but he revealed his true power, the "armor" he was wearing was actually the madougu Magagumo, which can be worn as an armor or use its eight deadly tentacles to attack the opponent.  Fuuko barely survives the attacks, because she is fighting from outside the ring when she was tagged by lasers placed within the ringside to prevent her from using the that tactic. She was badly burned but was still determined to fight. Gashakura who was very honorable destroyed the post which was deploying the lasers and was also hurt in the process. Now with both warriors badly hurt, they continued to fight, and when Fuuko released her Kasenokodama gem against Gashakura, she won the bout. Now she faced the "immortal" Uru Uruha leader Magensha and was placed in the world of nothingness, with Magensha's madougu Houmashin. Magensha now faces Ishijima, but was tasked by Mori Kouran to get Yanagi, who was at the infirmary with Saicho to look after Kaoru. Magensha split his life-force with the madougu Jigen Kaigyoku and went to the infirmary. He easily disposes of Saicho but Yanagi was able to run towards a cliff. It seems that Magensha will get Yanagi if not for Reka who quickly defended his hime. Magensha was beating Reka, but Reka was trying out his flame ryuu combos. He succeeded in damaging Magensha's Jigen Kaigyoku. During this time Magensha's shadow was fighting with Ishijima and was losing to him, but after he retreated from Reka he was beating Ishijima to a pulp. When he used the Houmashin against Ishijima it did not work. Also during this time Fuuko, together with the exiled Uruhas Kashamaru and Tsukishiro, who were in the world of nothingness, was able to find the real Magensha and fought him in his dimension. They succeeded in bringing the real Magensha to the arena and survived the world of nothingness. Now it was Ishijima's turn to beat Magensha to a pulp and thus earned the bout for the team Hokage. Now they are in the finals. They watched the semifinals between Kurei's Uruha Kurenai and the the one-man team of Raiha. Raiha conceded the match without fighting, and now the cast is complete--- its the team Hokage of Reka Hanabishi and the Uruha Kurenai led by Kurei who will fight in the finals of the Ura Butou Satsujin !!!.

 

Dramatis Personae
Name: Reka Hanabishi
Age: 16
Madougu: none (Uses his Densetsu no Ka-Ryus(Legendary Flame Dragons))
Element: Fire
Background: Reka is the direct heir of the Hokage ninja's last flamemaster. He was sent by his mother from 400 years in the past because at that time a war is raging and the Hokage ninjas where being hunted down and killed. He was just an ordinary high school kid who love ninjas, but unbeknownst to him he has the natural abilities of a ninja and the ability to create flames from his arm. Reka could summon several ryuus provided that he followed the following "rules"--1. He must call the karyuus from the last to the first one. 2. He can call the karyuus depending on his power level. 3. Not all karyuus are compatible with each other. His power is contained by his tekkou(arm protector), which every flamemaster carries and like the rest of the powerful leaders of Hokage, can use fire as his weapon. Reka's hands hold eight karyu or fire dragon, these dragons are the souls of Rekka's ancestors. Each dragon have its own characteristics and power.

Nadare - this dragon produces fire balls to attack enemies.
Saiha - this dragon produces a scythelike blade that can cut through almost anything.
Homura - this dragon produces a flame whip.
Madoka - this dragon can create an impenetrable shield of flame.
Rui - this dragon casts illusions as its weapon.
Setsuna - this is what Reka calls a psychotic dragon, This blind dragon incinerates all who looks at him with a powerful blast wave.
Koku - this dragon produces a flame around it to protect or attack its enemies.
Resshin - The last dragon is the soul of Rekka's biological father, Ohka. This dragon's power is unknown.
Name: Yanagi (Anna) Sakoshita
Age: 16
Madougu: ---
Element: ---
Background: A sweet and kid-loving first year high school student. She was sight seeing with some kids when Reka saved her from an accident in which Reka became injured. She healed her and Reka called her his "hime" or princess. Their constant contact blossomed into love. She has the natural ability to heal people and it is this ability of hers that made her a target of Mori Kouran.
Name: Fuuko (Aira) Kirisawa
Age: 16
Madougu: Fuujin(Wind God), Oni no Tsume (Ogre's Claw), Kasenokodama
Element: Wind
Background: She is a childhood friend of Reka, whom she was trying to beat to make him her ninja and call her hime. She was pissed off when she learned that Yanagi became Reka's hime and she didnt even had to defeat him. She is kind-of a tomboy and is good at using throwing knives. She was used by Kagero to test Reka's abilities and uses the madougu Fuujin. She symbolizes the element of wind. The Fuujin controls air and wind and consists of a central stone and four satellite stones. The central stone is currently lost and Fuuko uses the madougu Onitsume as the Fuujin's central stone to project claws made of the wind, this technique is called Kazetsume.
Name: Ishijima (Max) Domon
Age: 16
Madougu: Dosei no Wa(Saturn's Ring); Kuchibashi Ou; Kuraou; Tetsugan(Iron Pill)
Element: Earth
Background: Reka's classmate whom he fondly calls "Franken" for Frankenstein. Domon is an old enemy of Reka who became his ally during Reka's battle with a manipulated-Fuuko. His former goal was to defeat Reka and make him his servant but stopped when he learned that Reka was already Yanagi's ninja. He is also Team Hokage's strongman, though he is not that smart, he is very loyal and is known to have a crush on Fuuko.He uses the madougu Dosei no Wa and symbolizes the element of earth. He also uses the madougu Kuchibashi Ou, which he won in a fight and the madougu Tetsugan which was given by Koku, this madougu turns his body into steel.
Name: Tokiya (Dylan) Mikagami
Age: 17
Madougu: Ensui
Element: Water
Background: A second-year student at Reka's school, he is the heir to the Yoman-Ken technique. He is Meguri Kyoza's best student. He fought Reka because he was manipulated to think that Reka belong to the group which murdered his sister, Mifuyu, seven years ago and only the intervention of Yanagi who looked like her murdered elder sister stopped him. He uses the madougu Ensui and symbolizes the element of water.
Yoman Ken techniques:

Mizu Kugutsu - an after image technique which creates illusions of the user to attack from another direction.
Absolute Zero - this technique freezes everything in its path.
Tsurara Mai - the user creates dagger-like ice projections to attack his enemies.
Mizu Hebi(Water Snake) - the user creates snake-like ice creatures which can attack his enemies.
Name: Kaoru (Lorkan)Koganei
Age:  
Madougu: Kougan Anki
Element: Metal
Background: He was once an Uruha member but he switched sides because he cant bear killing people. He is very skilled for someone so young and uses the madougu Kougan-Anki. He symbolizes the element of metal. The madougu Kougan-Anki is a powerful weapon and the multiple forms of this weapon also makes it complicated to use. An average user can change it in about 10 seconds from one shape to another but Kaoru can transform it in 0.6 seconds. This madougu has six different shapes:

1. Tooth - it is used as a large blade.
2. Dragon - it is shaped like a kusarigama, a scythe and a chain.
3. Cutter - it is shaped like a pair of giant scissors that is used to cut the enemy's weapon.
4. New Moon - it is used as a boomerang by the user.
5. Bow and Arrow - a bow and arrow that the user can use for ranged attacks.
6. Multiple - the hidden form of the Kougan-Anki, in this form the Kougan-Anki is split into several pieces and is thrown to attack the enemy.
Name: Emma Kagehoushi/ Kagero
Age:  
Madougu: Eikai Gyoku
Element: --
Background: She is Reka's the legal wife of Reka's father, and biological mother. She used the forbidden techniques of time manipulation to save his son Reka from those who destroyed the Hokage clan, as a result of this she is immortal and she cannot hold Reka physically. She now guides the Hokage team in their adventures.
Name: Kurei
Age:  
Madougu: none (Uses his natural-born flame powers, he uses the "Angel Flame" Kurenai and the more powerful Holy Flame Phoenix)
Element: Fire
Background: He is the descendant of the Hokage ninja clan was born to the leader of the Hokage and his concubine Reina. He is Reka's ibo-kyoudai (half-sibling with different mother)., and is also a flamemaster. His powers are contained because of the bracelets he wears. He is quite arrogant and sadistic at times, this is because of the maltreatment of his mother whom he witnessed before. He came to this timeline together with Reka. He worked for Mori Kouran to protect his "mother" in this timeline, Tsukino, from him.. His Angel Flame called Kurenai was once a woman whom she loved so much but was killed by Mori to release Kurei's hidden power.
Name: Kouran (Augustus) Mori
Age:  
Madougu: Tendou Jigoku
Element: ---
Background: Mori Kouran is an influential and powerful crimelord, who dreams of collecting all of the Hokage's madougus. He created the Uruha assassins to facilitate his plan of domination. He uses the dangerous Tendou Jigoku, the last and most powerful of the madougu created by Kaima, which was sealed for a long time, but to satisfy his desires, after it fell into his hands, Mori Kouran united with it, and became extremely powerful and in order to create the perfect body using the Tendou Jigoku, Mori Kouran kidnapped Sakoshita Yanagi.

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Episode Guide
Episode 01 Hime and Ninja Powers Awaken!
Episode 02 Flame against Fujiin Dangerous Temptations!
Episode 03 The Water Knight, The Sword of Revenge!
Episode 04 Labyrinth of Mirrors Flames's Do or Die spirit!
Episode 05 Shadow Ninja Group, Mystery of Hokage!
Episode 06 The Mad Flame Master Kurei!
Episode 07 The Stone Guardian, Death Game!
Episode 08 Doll House! Fuuko's Deathmatch!
Episode 09 Domon the Oni! Unknown Power!
Episode 10 Crashing Flames! Two Hokage!
Episode 11 Kougan-Anki! Five Blades!
Episode 12 Kurenai the Flame! Angel of Death!
Episode 13 The Ultimate Flame! The Legendary Ka Ryuu!
Episode 14 The Rebirth of Past! 400 years of Truth!
Episode 15 Time's Cursed! A Mother and Her Son!
Episode 16 Fighting Determination! Reka's Challenge!

 

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