Flame of Recca Episode 2 Recap

September 25, 2009 by r2moo2 · 0 Comments
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Well folks, the episode 2 is coming right up! I tried to change the wordpress template so that it is easy to read for users. Hence pardon me for changing the template so quickly!

Flame of Recca Episode 2 Recap

Sakoshita Yanagi was walking to school when suddenly she heard Hanabishi Recca calling her name. At first, she didn’t notice where was Recca, but she found out soon enough.

Recca was walking on top of peoples’ heads just to pass through the crowd. Domon’s head got stepped on by Recca on the way.

Upon reaching Yanagi, Recca immediately called her “Hime”, which means Princess, and bowed before her as her loyal ninja.

At first Yanagi was impressed, but everyone at the vicinity saw and heard that Recca became Yanagi’s loyal ninja. Immediately everyone thought that Yanagi must have completely defeated Recca in a fight, for Recca had sworn that the first person to defeat him will get his ninja services.

Yanagi became uncomfortable with the stares of the crowd, and ran away. Recca chased after her.

Afterwards, Yanagi and Recca were found under a sakura tree talking. Yanagi tried to deter Recca from calling her “Hime”, but Recca asked her not to be bothered by it.

Suddenly, Recca was picked up by Domon, and Domon demanded an answer to the rumor that Recca is Yanagi’s ninja. Recca replied in agreement nonchalantly, and he was flung onto a dustbin by Domon.

Domon was seriously agitated for the fact that he didn’t have a chance to beat Recca, and yet Recca had his ass kicked by Yanagi. Recca assured Domon that he wasn’t defeated by Yanagi. When Domon enquired further for the reason, Recca said, “Ask me again when you don’t have something hanging off your nose!” (Domon likes to wear a nose ring for some strange fashion sense.)

Domon was infuriated about Recca mocking his nose ring, and wanted to approach Recca.

Sad for Domon, Recca planted caltrops (an anti-personnel mine-like weapon) on the ground, and Domon was dancing in pain for his legs. (I really like this cute scene!)

Recca was about the leave the place with Yanagi, when he was reminded by the dancing Domon, “Do you think Fuuko will stay quiet about this?”

Recca paused for a moment upon hearing Fukko’s name, and he picked up Yanagi instinctively with his hands, and escaped the area.

Recca and Yanagi arrived at the roof of the school building to hide. When Yanagi enquired about who Fuuko is, Recca said that she is his arch enemy who has been seeking to defeat him ever since he was little.

A dart was shot towards the couple, and Kirisawa Fuuko made her entrance.

Recca was ranting and raving for the fact that Fuuko shot a weapon towards them, but Fuuko totally ignored Recca and walked towards Yanagi.

Fuuko stood before Yanagi, and after introducing herself to Yanagi, she gave a slap to Yanagi.

To Fuuko’s surprise, Yanagi didn’t even move, and she thought that the person who had defeated Recca would have been very skilled and strong.

Recca and Yanagi was trying to explain to Fuuko that Yanagi didn’t defeat Recca, but Fukko wasn’t given into excuses and she pulled out her darts in fury.

Recca was about to escape with Yanagi when his hand was pinned to the wall by Fuuko’s darts. It was then revealed that Recca and Fuuko had been fighting each other for 10 years, and Fuuko had defeated everyone else except Recca.

Fuuko was upset with the humiliation of not being able to defeat Recca, and she took it upon herself that she will make Recca her personal loyal ninja by defeating him one day. Hence, Fuuko pinned Recca to the wall so that she can challenge Yanagi to a duel, and if Fuuko wins over Yanagi, it should be counted her victory over Recca.

Fuuko was running after Yanagi with her darts on her hands, when Recca escaped from her darts and ran after Fuuko. Recca got a kick on his stomach when Fuuko turned around and unleashed a side kick.

However unaware to Fuuko, it was a distraction tactic for Recca to get hit, for he already launched his net while running after Fuuko. The net fell neatly in place over Fuuko after Recca was kicked away.

Recca finally was able to explain to Fuuko when he told her that Yanagi didn’t defeat him. Recca revealed that he became Yanagi’s loyal ninja only because he wanted to be.

Fuuko was defeated, and later Fuuko was found taking out her anger at a tree with her darts when Kage Houshi appeared before Fuuko. Kage Houshi encouraged Fuuko to fight with Recca, and presented the artifact, Fuujin, to assist Fuuko in defeating Recca.

Fuuko initially declined for help, but Kage Houshi demonstrated the power of Fuujin to Fuuko, and Fuuko was amazed.

A short snippet of the antagonists, Kouran and Kurei resurfaced again.

Kurei received reports of Yanagi’s healing power being demostrated, and he alerted Kouran over it.

At night, Recca received a phone call at his own residence. Fuuko was the caller, and she didn’t sound her usual self. Fuuko asked Recca to meet her at school, and when Recca refused, Kage Houshi took over the call. Immediately Recca recognised the voice of Kage Houshi, and Kage Houshi said that Fuuko and her will be waiting at school.

Recca was rushing to school, when Yanagi spot Recca while buying some snacks.

After arriving at the school, Recca found Fuuko, however she seemed not herself and appeared sort of drunk.

Fuuko explained to Recca that she can manipulate wind through the artifact Fuujin, and now she has an insatiable urging to fight.

Recca rushed over to her for the concern of her safety, but Fuuko was aggressive and blew him off with her artifact.

Fuuko acted like a maniac who enjoys hurting Recca.

Recca was asking what was happening to Fuuko, when Kage Houshi appeared beside Fuuko. Kage Houshi explained that the artifact Fuujin allows the user to manipulate wind power, but inexperienced users who uses the artifact will have an abnormal state of excitement and at insatiable desire to fight.

Recca was shouting to Fuuko to come to her senses and not use the Fuujin, but Fuuko began attacking using the power of wind.

I don’t know why but Yanagi seems to have the 6th sense to know that Recca is in danger, and she was running towards the school.

Recca was easily thrown towards the gate. Yanagi saw the seriousness of the situation, and ran away to seek for help.

Fuuko seemed to want to chase after Yanagi, but Recca distracted her into a fight, and he began his counter attack with his smoke bombs.

As Yanagi was running to seek help, Kage Houshi intercepted her, and knock her out. It appears that Kage Houshi was appreciative for Yanagi’s concern for Recca, and that Kage Houshi is wanting Recca to grow beyond the challenge of Fuuko.

Yanagi struggled and woke up for awhile, and cried for help. Someone came, and held her up.

Back to Recca, his smoke bombs obviously doesn’t work against Fuuko, as the gunpowder is easily blown away by the wind.

Fuuko chased after Recca, and attempted to kick him, but Recca jumped to the air and threw smoke bombs in retaliation.

Fuuko created a shield of wind, collected the gunpowder before redirecting it back to Recca. Recca tasted his own medicine for his gunpowder and was flung back.

Fuuko attempted to finish Recca off with her final blast.

Domon deflected the attack to save Recca. Domon revealed to Recca that Yanagi told him about the fight, and he came over to save Fuuko and Recca. Yanagi appeared to be unconcious under a tree.

Agitated by the fact that Domon and Recca totally ignored Fuuko, Fuuko launched wind attacks against the duo. Recca dodged, but Domon took it head on.

Domon was cut by the wind. Domon walked towards Fuuko, and Fuuko kept firing wind power against Domon, but Domon refused to dodge. Domon was cut everywhere in the process.

I guess Domon’s speciality is his tremendous physical power, and he just continued towards Fuuko while enduring the wind attacks. Recca shouted to Domon to dodge but he wouldn’t listen.

Upon standing before Fuuko, Domon held Fuuko on her shoulders, looked directly at her eye, asked her to snap out of her trance and cried.

Fuuko momentarily came back to her senses, being moved by Domon. Fuuko struggled against her desire to fight, and she cried out for help towards Domon and Recca.

Kage Houshi saw that Fuuko might return to her senses, and she resumed her mind control on Fuuko again. Fukko returned to her crazy self to fight once more.

This time, Recca was infuriated at the injuries of his friends and at the agony of Fuuko.

And finally Recca released his fire strength. (Finally…)

Fuuko and Domon was surprised that fire is emitting out of Recca’s arm.

So it was fire against wind for the battle, and stay tuned for the next episode.

Comments for this episode

Well the episode just ended off with that, and it wasn’t me!

And yes, the real action can only be viewed in the next episode.

The highlight for this episode is actually the chibi scene near the start of the episode, and when Fuuko did her wind shield. I thought the latter was pretty cool.

The rest is just building up for the story.

Anyway there are some differences between the manga and the anime of Flame of Recca:

Yanagi wanted to be a children’s book writer, and drew Recca, but it wasn’t in the anime.
There are some setting differences, like Domon flung Recca in the classroom, and not under a tree.

Beyond these differences, the rest is almost about the same.

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