Audience reviews
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Matthappy
What Can i say about FoR? Is a shitty fighting Shonen that is also a very bad copy of YYH (Yu Yu Hakusho) but… You know what is a very obligatory Watch of this show and every-fucking-body should Watch? The seventh episode… That thing is SO SATANIC… That is good and is a very obligatory watch first for otakus and after that for every-fucking-body that wants to see a very awesome audiovisual thing and quality cinematography ( is the second best cinematographic thing) its satanism (the inner satanism of the seventh episode of FoR) is so big that makes it a very enojoyable thing to watch and makes it a very worthy thing (forgetting how odd could that sound). So, you know it, the seventh episode of FoR is a so SATANIC thing that everybody should Watch and makes the Anime of FoR a true 6/10, the…
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7.5/10
Watching Flame of Recca sparks feelings of a more innocent time. The life of teenage Recca Hanabishi undergoes a transformative change after awakening to a mysterious power following an encounter with an evil witch and his idol, Yanagi Sakoshita. This classic battle shonen greatly captures what’s so enjoyable about the superhero genre. With a fiery but heart-of-gold protagonist, a sweet romance, an evil brother, comical sidekicks, impressive action sequences, and enigmatic lore, what could be better? The framework conceived by author Nobuyuki Anzai has served as the foundation for numerous beloved stories today.
Unfortunately the anime’s final presentation favors style over substance, favoring action and filler over themes, coupled with subpar animation and sound. The framework is…
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This show tells the story of a young ninja who wants to be a Hokage. He relies on elemental attacks and ninjutsu. This is probably the kind of story you already know.
But it doesn’t match the benchmark of Naruto. It is not as diverse or complicated. Plus, it's not even finished. The show fails to generate sufficient tension as it lacks seriousness. For instance, the main character belongs to history and is moved to the present-day. This generates a sense of bewilderment.
The show only lasts for 42 episodes. But that is not enough time to care about the characters or the story. The show was stretched too thin by all the characters. They cannot be properly developed within the given time. The show focuses too much on fights or training. This leaves little room for character development. Th…
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So I know this’ll be funny, but I discovered Flame of Recca almost a week ago when I turned my TV on to watch Hulu, and it took me to Vizio Free Watch instead of Hulu. Well when Vizio Free Watch came on I saw the Retro Crush Anime channel and saw some of Flame of Recca and fell in love with to. So I took my laptop out and went on 9ANIME.to and began watching Flame of Recca. I loved the series so much that I binged watched the show in almost a week despite having school. I really enjoyed how the anime was really entertaining from characters to plot. The story was amazing I enjoyed how Recca was a boy who lived with his adoptive dad who made fireworks, to meeting his princess Yanagi, to finding out a shady woman who lived for over 400yrs was his mother, to finding out his brother was a villa…
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Flame Of Recca is the anime adaptation of the manga with the same name by Nobuyuki Anzai. It is a shounen, martial arts, adventure and superpower anime. It tells the story of Recca Hanabishi a boy that has been sent 400 years into the future after his mother Kagerou used a forbidden technique in order to rescue him from getting wiped along with the Hokage ninja clan. In modern day times Recca has grown up to become a troublemaker promising foes that he will become their loyal ninja if they can beat them at a one on one fight, one day he encounters Sakoshita Yanagi a girl with the power of healing in danger at a construction site, he then saves her and then after that Recca's world starts delving into a whole new direction going forward. At it's core Flame Of Recca is a average shounen at b…
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Story: 1/10
This anime has gone to great length to rip off a much better, much more competent anime... by the same studio house (seriously, guys? I know you want to relive the glory of creating Yuu Yuu Hakusho, but there are better ways to do that). Sure, there's some originality here, but it's so contrived and poorly constructed that you can make it all fall apart just by glancing at it.
Art: 1/10
It's Studio Pierrot, I don't know why you'd be expecting good art... Every frame of it looks terrible, and to call this animated is, well, generous.
Sound: 3/10
Someone let Yusuke Honma do the soundtrack for this. That someone needs to stop doing that, because he's honestly one of the worst music composers around. That said, at least the sound balance is okay and their folley... tried...
U…
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This is your typical shounen anime when it all comes down to it. It was produced by the huge Studio Pierrot and even directed by the same man whom directed Yu Yu Hakusho, Noriyuki Abe. Needless to explain that when it came to shounen anime, this combo does it right.
Even the plot reminds any shounen anime fan of what they could be watching instead. Flame of Recca focuses on the main character by the name of Recca Hanabishi. He is the last living member of a ninja clan famous for their use of crazy weaponry. The weaponry becomes a huge plot point soon enough when the story gets into a saving the world through an elimination tournament with our main character fighting the ultimate bad guy at the end. All extremely similar to Hakusho. Before the tournament arc, Recca confronts in “ninja-like…
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Rekka (or Recca in english) is a 90s shonen and that's literally a good enough description for you to understand it. It's exactly what you'd expect. It's got a squad of teens with supernatural weapons. They encounter enemies one by one. Eventually it leads to the a tournament arc.
I shouldn't be so harsh, cause it's really not bad. Most of the characters are enjoyable and those that aren't around long enough to be too much of a bother. The animation is shifty, sometimes awful sometimes eye popping. The story kind of a mess. Half the plot points are rushed to an end or don't make sense to begin with.
If you're looking for some 90s cheese, this isn't a bad place to go. (Especially since it's free on youtube).
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This is a really obscure anime, at least to me. I was scrolling on the internet for pictures of Kenshin for my next Sword Technique review, and came across a site in where someone had collected Kenshin look-a-likes. One of them was Tokia, a character from Flame of Recca. I was bored anyway, so without having any knowledge of what I was going to get I decided to give it a shot.
After watching the first few episodes, I was getting into it, but the following part was almost too much to comprehend, and not in a good way.
Recca's character was devoid of any development beyond three or two episodes. He's a fast, witty guy with ninja skill. And he MUST. ALWAYS. PROTECT. HIS. PRINCESS. NO. MATTER. WHAT.
Almost insulting is the morality the show teaches: If your friend is dying, just let them! D…
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My first full review of an anime. WOOT! Well, let me start off with a foreword.
This show is simply fantastic in its entirety. I've seen a lot of anime in my 14 years of life, but this one is easily one of the best. Everything about this show is flawfree, and I recommend anyone who's a fan of Naruto, DBZ, Fairy Tail and Bleach to watch this as you'll see where the aforementioned four shows got their inspiration from.
Story:
The story is so flawfree that flawfree might be an understatement. I'll try not to spoil much, but it's so good. SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD. Whoever said the Big Three will never be topped needs to watch this show like RIGHT NOW. The feels, plot twists, irony, overall story, like I literally could sit here and type up every single plot element there is and tell you how fla…
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The only thing I like about this anime is the art and music. In fact my favorite music is "Love is Changing" 1st ending. Art is given a 6 and music is given a 8.
The plot is so generic and boring. The first half of the anime starts off with Kurei kidnapping Yanagi and the team Hokage had to rescue her. Oh my not another damsel in distress! Then the second half is the tournament whereby Team Hokage have to beat the opposing force in order to save the world.
Yanagi Sakoshita is the team healer of the team but is very vulnerable to situations and is also a big crybaby. Too bad I am being sarcastic. If she cannot fight, why must she be here in the tournament in the first place? Is it because she is so obsessed with Recca? Yes.
Yanagi Sakoshita starts off with being badass but then reduced…
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I've watched this way back before 2001 and it was already dubbed in Filipino to be exact "Tagalog", Philippines national dialect and I really enjoyed it. Without reading the manga (as some say they felt cheated) because it does not clarify the end as a whole on what happened to the MC or to his half brothers as per Manga readers.
All I can say is this. As an anime series it really is spectacular in the sense that it is one of the predecessor of the big 3 that we have today. Which are Naruto, Bleach and FT.
Before Natzu Dragneel there was Recca Hanabishi the graphics may turn off some viewers but the over all concept is really amazing. It greatly resembles 2 legendary shounen anime (Dragon Ball Z) and (Yu Yu Hakusho) because of the tournament format and the batlle to save humanity and th…
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Recca hanabeshi is a plucky high school teen with a love for ninjas,yes i said ninjas.one day his life changes when after saving a girl called Yanagi,he encounters a strange woman who refeels recca true past as a member of the Hokage ninja clan of hundreds of years ago.Recca and his friends are inexplicably cought in a conflict involving magical items called modogues and those who wish to use them for evil.Recca is eventually force to participate in a tournament to win yanagi's life from his evil half brother Kurei who also has a connection to the hokage clan of the past.
May i just start off by saying that this anime has a remarkable similarity to yu yu hakusho.From similar fight scenes to similar attack,powers and even character design.At times this anime borders upon being a rip -off.T…
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if you're a fan of the following animes u will enjoy flame of recca: yu yu hakusho,naruto,fairy tail,mebbe even a lil dbz. lots of times i could see how this anime might've possibly inspired some of the newer animes. i could also see a lil "borrowing" from older animes too. its a typical good vs evil fight, a hero who has something to protect, with friends to support and depend on. sound familliar? the characters felt pretty cookie cutter standard.
it has a fighting tournamanent with a whole bunch of interesting weapons and difficult enemies. there are adorable furi referrees and lil bits of dark fanservice as well as some successful and unsuccessful attempts at comedy.
all in all a very good anime to keep u busy. the elemental powers were pretty cool and i really liked the bad guy. howe…
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Flame of Recca begins as a promising anime but simply falls into the generic episodic theme in which each character gets stronger to prove themselves, has a semi inspiring speech about how they must win and in the end always will... all this while the characters standing to the side do nothing and fill in the gaps.
This show just doesn't separate itself from the others.
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Story.
I hate myself for beliving this anime was worth spending my time...And I don't say because it was bad...I say this because the ending left me hanging the cliff wondering what hapened before...I know is not allowed to rage and all that stuff...but...why in the fuck's name the producers left the ending so....plain?!? What hapened with Kurei? Did he ever fighted Recca again? Did he became a good guy? or is still the plain "bad guy" type? Did he go to his time again? Wait...What about Kougane'si Kogan Anki [it was suposed to show us the "legendary cool 6'th form" of his madougu...Never shown to us saddly-]...What about Fuuko? Did she find the "main component" of Fuujin's power? What about Recca? Did he ever tamed the 8'th dragon? What in the bloody hell hapened in the end? [I know that…
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As I was reading other reviews, I noticed one person mention that the anime doesn't do the manga justice. I haven't read the manga, so my review is based off the anime solely. However, I think Flame of Recca was a fast-paced, action-based, easy to understand story. All the different opposing groups from Team Hokage were explained fairly well, given the style of the series. The story was very easy to understand and was smooth in delivery. I liked the art, it was reminiscent of 90's style, which I've always liked. The sounds were great, although since I watched the dubbed version, some of the characters voice overs were gyrating to the ears.. The characters were nicely developed throughout the series. Although, the ending was a little abrupt. Overall, it was a very good, enjoyable series I'd…
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This show, called Flame of Recca, is a ridiculously retarded version of Yu Yu Hakusho.
I will give credit where credit is due: They did a great job of combining Hiei and Kurama into one character, Tokiya Mikagami. But other than him, this pitiful mistake of a show is unworthy to be deemed an anime.
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It only offers a very small fraction of what the manga truly has to offer. It only focuses on 2 or 3 story arcs and I feel that if you’re at all a fan of the original manga, you’re certainly going to be cheated because it only offers a true fraction of what this series truly has to offer. But for this anime as a whole, it covers enough ground to give the viewers an introduction to the characters and offers excellent development. A majority of the main cast starts out as Recca’s rivals such as Domon and Fuuko, but eventually bigger circumstances such as saving the world unites them to become an unstoppable team. The anime itself is decently paced and the characters share equal time and develop sensibly for what this series has to offer and individually have their own use t…
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The most prominent precursor to the ever popular Naruto, Flame of Recca is essentially, Dragon Ball, Rurouni Kenshin, Naruto, and Kaze no Stigma all rolled into one package. Of course, in terms of originality, it deserves a high commendation, but that's about all the praise I can muster for this series.
The story is lethargic. It follows a very formulaic approach. The main protagonist, Recca goes through a sequence of ordeals to realize his true strength and then manages to win over enemies with his never say die attitude. Banal. Seen that a million times. But that doesn't mean it's not enjoyable.
The animation is fair, to be honest, I feel that the studio started pumping more money into Yu Yu Hakusho (which was being released at the same time), and the later episodes suffer from a marke…
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