Anyway, sorry for the update, I wasn’t feeling well at all, and had other responsibilities to handle. Will update more often when I am better.

This is from Veoh. If you only have 5 minutes preview, I suggest registering and installing their veoh player, which is free.

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I really like this movie, as the fighting is really well illustrated. The storyline is otherwise okay.

Enjoy it!

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However I am not responsible for the videos, because I didn’t upload them. I will only help in providing links, but if the video ends up missing some time in future, I won’t be able to help it.

I like this opening song for the anime as the chorus was very catchy, although I know no Japanese at all (I am beginning my classes this coming Thursday!).

Flame of Recca Episode 1 Recap

The story starts off with a distant past in the age of ninjas and samurais. A lady carrying baby Recca was running away from a war and used a technique to open up a portal to allow Recca to escape. It was also revealed that Recca was to be the leader of the Hokage Ninja Clan.

Afterwards, the story swtiched back to modern times. Recca reappeared as a teenager and was found fighting an impossibly strong teenage guy by the name of Ishijima Domon (C’mon, which teenager could crash through a wall of bricks without a scratch?).

Recca was dodging and running away from Domon at the start, and clearly Domon was agitated with Recca for not confronting him to a physical fight.

Recca, standing on a tree branch,  replied that he just couldn’t get serious with Domon because of Domon’s nose ring, and Domon was infuriated! Domon then ran forward and struck the tree with his palms to knock Recca out of balance.

But alas, it was a body double that fell off the tree!

Recca escaped from Domon’s attack, and proceeded to counter attack Domon with fireworks bombs. Domon got hit straight on, but he was struck with the same trick before, therefore he didn’t seemed interrupted nor hurt.

Domon ran after Recca, smirking to the fact that Recca’s attack was useless, and suddenly he fall into a hole! It was a trap by Recca, and Domon accused Recca for using a dirty trick.

Recca refuted that accusation, and began reciting the theories of being a ninja. Domon was unfazed, and began mocking Recca concerning his ninja ideologies.

Recca punished Domon by lighting up fire crackers into the hole!

Recca challenged Domon that if Domon ever defeats him, he will be Domon’s little suck-up ninja.

Recca went home, and a short introduction about Hanabishi Recca was given. It also appears that someone was monitoring Recca’s movements through a crystal ball.

Recca was hungry, and he looked for his dad to have his lunch. His dad is a fireworks manufacturer, and Recca gave a good kick to his dad for smoking while manufacturing fireworks!  His dad retaliated back with a similar kick, and replied that he ate Recca’s share of lunch.

So far the story is just building the background of Recca, hence we got to be patient with the show.

A short snippet of the antagonists is revealed, Kouran and Kurei.

It appears that Kouran was looking for the secret of immortality, and Kurei was responsible to find “it”.

Back to Recca, Recca was eating his lunch, and he was so charmed by a kind and beautiful girl momentarily, to the point that he was pouring milk on his legs and dropped his lunch.

The girl was taking care of a group of young children, and they were watching some construction taking place. I don’t really believe that young children would be so interested with construction machines, but anyway that was happening at this point.

Recca went to seek the girl, and saw that an accident was about to take place when one of the vehicles lost control. Metal pillars were found crashing towards the girl, and the girl was using her body to shield the young children.

Recca saved the damsel in distress by doing his acrobatic jump, and pushed the girl with the children away while he got hit on his head by the metal pillars. (Yes, it is a typical set-up, I know.)

Blood was flowing from Recca’s head, and he passed out. However it seems that the girl has a healing ability, and she proceeded to heal him.

While Recca was unconscous, he saw a princess in his dream, and that princess was healing him too. Recca woke up from his dream, and found that he was healed, with many spectators staring at him. I don’t know why but he got up in a frantic state, and ran away from the scene.

The girl found Recca at a park and introduced herself as Sakoshita Yanagi. Recca was surprised that Yanagi knew his name, but found out that they were actually studying in the same school. Recca was musing that Yanagi looked exactly  the same as the princess in his dream.

Yanagi revealed to Recca about her healing powers by healing another of his wounds. Yanagi wanted Recca her healing powers to be kept a secret, for fear that she might be labelled as weird.

To show his gratitude for healing him, Recca brought Yanagi to a dark and abandoned warehouse to show his hand-made fireworks to her.

The little romantic and peaceful view didn’t last long, as Recca and Yanagi was attacked by a mysterious lady. The lady introduced herself as Kage Houshi, and it was revealed that she was seeking Recca for the past 400 years. She revealed that Recca was transported 400 years earlier into this modern dimension to escape the war that engulfed the Hokage clan, and Recca was the sole survivor of the Hokage clan.

Kage Houshi wanted Recca to create flames with his right arm for her to see.  Recca was unfazed about the story, and he didn’t believe he had the ability to create flames. In order to escape from Kage Houshi, Recca attempted to use a smokescreen to mask their traces, but Kage Houshi proved to be a veteran ninja by wounding Recca with a thrown dagger.

Kage Houshi resort to attacking Recca to force flames out of Recca’s arm. Recca was so weak against Kage Houshi that he was almost instantaneously defeated without any fightback, however Yanagi stepped in to shield Recca with her body.

Kage Houshi slashed Yanagi with a dagger, and it was revealed that though Yanagi had the power to heal, she cannot heal herself.

Recca was infuriated, and he proceeded to counter-attack by using a smoke screen. Kage Houshi thought that it was another usual smoke-screen, but Recca got a nice good kick at her side after Kage Houshi shot a dagger at the wrong target.

However Kage Houshi could manupilate and teleport through shadows, and she attacked Recca mercilessly with physical blows and cuts. Recca could not even retaliate.

Recca was pushed to the wall and fell on the ground. Kage Houshi walked over to the injured Yanagi and was about to put an end to Yanagi’s life.

Recca cried out helplessly with his arm stretching out to Yanagi, “No!”

In his anguish, frustration and anger, Recca’s right arm started to burn.

And flames were emitting out of his arms. Recca was surprised.

Recca couldn’t control it, and he fired his flames at Kage Houshi with a dramatic pose.

And to everyone’s disappointment to that spectacular display, Kage Houshi wasn’t even scratched. However Kage Houshi was pleased to see the flames, and challenged Recca to become even stronger before disappearing from the scene.

Recca then picked up Yanagi and carried her to safety. In the midst of it, Yanagi woke up, relieved to find out that Recca was alright and that their enemy left them alone. Recca started to call Yanagi, “Hime”, which means Princess, and swears that he will be Yanagi’s ninja to protect her.

Some additional comments

The story starts off pretty slowly and it is just building the background for a better series. The interesting fights will begin in latter episodes.

There are differences between the manga and the anime series.

1. Recca didn’t get to eat at home not because his dad ate his share, but rather Recca took some fireworks bombs for himself to fight and his dad punished him by not allowing him to eat.
2. Recca didn’t meet Yanagi by saving her from an accident; rather in the manga series Yanagi was approached by several guys, who were trying to pick Yanagi up, and Recca fought them off.
3. Recca swore to himself to protect Yanagi not after meeting Kage Houshi, but before. He just felt like it, and after witnessing Yanagi healing a dog, he thinks that Yanagi is fit to be a princess.
4. Recca isn’t surprised that he could create flames. In fact, he could create them as and when he will, but in the anime series, he was literally surprised and he didn’t know he had that ability.

This anime episode is actually chapters 1 & 2 of the manga series.

I took 3-4 hours doing this post. I hope by practise I will take a lesser time, or else it will be difficult once school starts next week.

Links to view this episode

As promised, here are the links:
Flame of Recca Episode 1 (Veoh)

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For the Veoh version, you would need to register with Veoh and download its web player, or else it gives you a 5 minutes preview.

I watched it in Veoh though, and it is good!

Flame of Recca Episode 1 part 1 (Youtube)

Flame of Recca Episode 1 part 2 (Youtube)

Flame of Recca Episode 1 part 3 (Youtube)

For the Youtube versions, I didn’t put in links for the English voice dub, because it sounds off and horrible. The subtitles are okay, but not as good as the Veoh’s version.

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As I am still preparing my materials for this site and organizing this blog, I will briefly reveal what is to be expected in the next few days.
Flame of Recca anime series will be the first anime review and also my first episode recap series for this blog. It will be challenging because I am going to recap every single of its 42 episodes here, while providing links to video streaming websites for this anime.
It will be time-consuming, but I do want to see how this turns out. If it’s a feasible project, I will definitely continue with it.

How am I going to review the anime?

I am not so sure whether I should be giving a summary of the anime series at the beginning or at the end of the episode recaps, but basically I will make the anime reviews simple and easily digestable for everyone to swallow.

The episode recaps should be a fun project. We will run through the episode together and have comments at the end of every episode.

Like I have suggested, I will try to post up video streaming links for the every episode that I am reviewing, but no promises! I do not have the time to painstakingly go through search engines just to get the links up.

Concerning the rating system, I already have an idea of what is to come, but I shall not reveal it for now. It will be known after gathering more materials for this blog.

Summary of the Flame of Recca anime series

This anime series was so interesting and exciting, that it got me to search for its manga series and I recommend it highly!

However sad to say, the anime series and its manga counterpart are not exactly identical; the 42 episodes is not the full story of the Flame of Recca, therefore there is a need to read the manga series to find out the second half of the story. Also there are some differences in how the story is told.

Overall, it is still a pretty good series to watch, and anyone who likes to watch or read Naruto, Bleach or One Piece, this is definitely for you!

Final words for this post

For my manga journey viewers, thanks for coming to see this blog! And for everyone, constructive comments are greatly appreciated!

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I was thinking of doing this anime review at my blog at http://manga-journey.today.com/, but I found today.com very restricting in its layout and themes, so decided to do it at my own domain instead.

Hope that everyone enjoys here at anime review!

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