Mirage of Blaze

Mirage of Blaze is a shōnen-ai light novel series by Mizuna Kuwabara, which are published under Shueisha's Cobalt label. It was adapted into an anime TV series directed by Susumu Kudo in 2002 and an OVA in 2004. Difficult to classify, Mirage of Blaze is equal parts melodrama, historical romance, and supernatural fantasy. Japanese history predominates a heavily structured plot, which mainly involves the continued aggression between magic using guardians, or "possessors," and the denizens of a "feudal underworld," or the restless souls of long-dead samurai attempting to re-ignite ancient war on the modern plane. The anime TV series and the OVAs have since been released in North America by Media Blasters, and both have aired on Encore Action and Encore WAM.

Animation Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Toshihiko Seki

(Takaya Ohgi (voice))

Sakiko Tamagawa

(Ayako Kadowaki (voice))

Rokuro Naya

(Ujimasa Hojo (voice))

Taiki Matsuno

(Yuzuru Narita (voice))

Show Hayami

(Yoshiaki Tachibana (voice))

Ai Orikasa

(Yui Takedo (voice))

Akiko Yajima

(Saori Marino (voice))

Fumihiko Tachiki

(Kojuurou Katakura (voice))

Hideyuki Tanaka

(Ujiteru Hojo (voice))

Hiroshi Kamiya

(Kojirou Date (voice))

Hiroshi Naka

Katsunosuke Hori

(Genan Hojyo (voice))

Kazuaki Ito

(Kinue (voice))

Kazuya Nakai

(Sinya Asaoka (voice))

Kenyu Horiuchi

(Danjo Kousaka (voice))

Misa Watanabe

(Maiko Asaoka (voice))

Mitsuru Miyamoto

(Kotaro Fuuma (voice))

Ryotaro Okiayu

(Nobunaga Oda (voice))

Shingenori Souya

(Kasuke (voice))

Tomokazu Seki

(Ranmaru Mori (voice))

Tomokazu Seki

(Satoshi Hatayama (voice))

Tomoku Miura

(Miya Ohgi (voice))

Yasunori Matsumoto

(Shuhei Chiaki (voice))

Yukitoshi Hori

(Masamune Date (voice))

Yukitoshi Hori

(Shingen Takeda (voice))

Miho Yoshida

(Minako (voice))

Masanori Ikeda