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* InfromedFlaw: Wind magic is considered by the Kannagis to be completely inferior to fire magic, but in the series itself, there is very little evidence that this is the case. Wind magic users wield a huge amount of abilities, such as barriers, flight and even invisibility, while the only things fire magic can do are purify and destroy. Additionally, not only is Kazuma the most powerful character in the series, but a single (empowered) Fuga clan member was able to kill 5 Kannagi family members effortlessly. So exactly where the Kannagis got the idea that wind magic is a "lesser art" is anybody's guess.
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* InfromedFlaw: InformedFlaw: Wind magic is considered by the Kannagis to be completely inferior to fire magic, but in the series itself, there is very little evidence that this is the case. Wind magic users wield a huge amount of abilities, such as barriers, flight and even invisibility, while the only things fire magic can do are purify and destroy. Additionally, not only is Kazuma the most powerful character in the series, but a single (empowered) Fuga clan member was able to kill 5 Kannagi family members effortlessly. So exactly where the Kannagis got the idea that wind magic is a "lesser art" is anybody's guess.
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* AffablyEvil: Bernherdt Rhodes and Lapis are quite polite though evil .
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* DeadpanSnarker: KazumaWho else but Kazuma? He snarks the hell out of everyone and walks away with the series' best lines.
* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Catherine, being an American, is completely shocked by the existence of unisex baths in Japan.
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* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Ren's female schoolfriend tends to beat up his male schoolfriend a lot.
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* ElementalPowers
* InfromedFlaw: Wind magic is considered by the Kannagis to be completely inferior to fire magic, but in the series itself, there is very little evidence that this is the case. Wind magic users wield a huge amount of abilities, such as barriers, flight and even invisibility, while the only things fire magic can do are purify and destroy. Additionally, not only is Kazuma the most powerful character in the series, but a single (empowered) Fuga clan member was able to kill 5 Kannagi family members effortlessly. So exactly where the Kannagis got the idea that wind magic is a "lesser art" is anybody's guess.
* {{Jerkass}}: Genma has all but one PetTheDog moment in the whole series, which he dolled out before the series even began. Beyond that, he's a callous, arrogant man who insults his son, acts cold and indifferent towards everyone and constantly values family traditions over proper human decency.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kazuma... though it's really hard to see early on.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kazuma... though it's really hard to see early on.
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil And Evil]]: [[spoiler: Kazuma]], in the last arc of the anime.
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* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil And Evil]]: LoveMakesYouEvil: [[spoiler: Kazuma]], in the last arc of the anime.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Juugo is this in spades. He's very fair with Kazuma, is willing to pay him if it will get him to help, treats some members of the family nicer even than their own parents and strongly disapproves of the family's arrogance and discrimination against others.
* SatelliteCharacter:
** Despite being ThoseTwoGirls, Yukari and Nanase actually [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this. At first, they appear to exist only to comment on Ayano's {{Tsundere}} tendencies and growing feelings for Kazuma, but later their HiddenDepths are revealed and they grow into more of their own characters.
** Kanon and Tatsuya, on the other hand, play it straight. Their constant fighting over who's Ren's best friend and who gets to spend more time with him is just about the only characterization they get.
** Despite being ThoseTwoGirls, Yukari and Nanase actually [[SubvertedTrope subvert]] this. At first, they appear to exist only to comment on Ayano's {{Tsundere}} tendencies and growing feelings for Kazuma, but later their HiddenDepths are revealed and they grow into more of their own characters.
** Kanon and Tatsuya, on the other hand, play it straight. Their constant fighting over who's Ren's best friend and who gets to spend more time with him is just about the only characterization they get.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kazuma gives a verbal beat down to the Kannagi when he explains why the Fuuga turned on them. For 300 years the Kannagi treated the Fuuga and their wind magic like second class citizens, when in reality wind magic has properties that are very useful in support to fire magic. He also proceeds to tell them the Kannagi beat down on the Fuuga because they were weaker. And so the Kannagi have no place to complain once a strong Fuuga did the same to them.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kazuma gives a verbal beat down to the Kannagi when he explains why the Fuuga turned on them. For 300 years the Kannagi treated the Fuuga and their wind magic like second class citizens, when in reality wind magic has properties that are very useful in support to fire magic. He also proceeds to tell them the Kannagi beat down on the Fuuga because they were weaker. And so the Kannagi have no place to complain once a strong Fuuga did the same to them. [[JerkassHasAPoint Juugo agrees completely]].
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* ProdigalFamily: When the exiled Kazuma appears back in Japan, his family members are at first indifferent --why would they concern themselves with the weak former heir they already replaced and banished?-- but when Kannagi clan members start to die by the hand of a powerful wind mage, they start hating him as he fits the murderer's description.
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* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Ayumi. She was only created as a sacrifice to prevent Mt. Fuji from erupting, and would die soon even if the ritual didn't take place. Thus, she was unable to continue her sweet subplot with Ren.]]
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* TheThingThatGoesDoink: The Kannagi family have one.
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* LoveTriangle: Ren with his two best friends (a [[EvenTheGuysWantHim guy]] and a girl) is a [[TriangRelations Type 3]], while Kazuma with Ayano and Katherine is a [[TriangRelations Type 4]] (in the anime only; Katherine doesn't exist in the light novels).
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->''"Eyes as blue as the azure sky. That is the symbol of the 'Contractor'. Entrusted by the Spirit King of the Wind with [[BlowYouAway the powers of his domain.]] I bear this mark: the [[TitleDrop Stigma of the Wind.]]"''
-->-- '''Kazuma''' (OpeningNarration)
Four years ago, Kazuma Kannagi was defeated by his cousin Ayano Kannagi for the right to be the possessor of Enraiha, a sword passed down in the Kannagi family, a powerful and prestigious clan of fire mages. His pathetic defeat and complete failure at the fire arts resulted in his banishment from his family and unspoken exile from Japan.
Now named Kazuma Yagami, he suddenly returns after four years for a casual demon-hunting job, only now, he's somehow become a snarky, crazily-powerful ''wind'' mage who easily manhandles demons and his former family alike. And about this time, Kannagi members just happen to start being murdered by a powerful wind mage...
Adapted into anime from a series of light novels by the late Takahiro Yamato.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Bernherdt Rhodes and Lapis are quite polite though evil .
* AntiHero: Kazuma, through the anime tones this down a huge amount. In the novels, he is far more violent and tends to [[ShootTheDog kill]] most of the antagonists (and severely injure many others along the way).
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: "Who are you protecting now, Kazuma?"]]
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Fire Magic Clan]]: Being descended from a mage who made a contract with the Spirit King of Fire has given the Kannagi clan very big egos. Except for Ren and Juugo, everyone in the Kannagi family has some degree of a superiority complex. They believe fire to be the most powerful element, thinking lowly of wind magic in particular. A branch family member even goes so far as to think the lives of Kannagis are inherently worth more than the Fuugas.
* BadassAdorable: Ren
* BattleCouple: Kazuma is often paired up with Ayano for his missions.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Kazuma saves Misao, she saved him from bullies when he was
%%* BecomeARealBoy: Lapis.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to legends in the novels, King Solomon and Moses were both Contractors, too, just like Kazuma.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Ayano and Kazuma have a shining example of this trope.
* BerserkButton: Kazuma ''really'' hates those who perform [[HumanSacrifice human sacrifices]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Kazuma
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Ren, Kazuma, and Ayano. Alternatively, Yukari, Nanase (who has blue hair), and Ayano.
* BodyguardCrush: Ayano's father uses the excuse of hiring Kazuma as Ayano's bodyguard to keep the two together in hopes of pairing them off. Though Kazuma is wise to the scheme from the very beginning and tends to let Ayano learn lessons the hard way (both for her own good and for his own amusement), it ''still'' works.
* BreatherEpisode: Episodes 8 & 13.
* CaptainObvious: People spend a little too much time talking about things that are self-evident. We know she's using earth magic, Ayano. The giant stone spikes are a big hint.
* CherryBlossoms: The opening and episode 8.
* TheClan: Several of them, but most notably the [[PlayingWithFire Kannagis]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Ayumi. She was only created as a sacrifice to prevent Mt. Fuji from erupting, and would die soon even if the ritual didn't take place. Thus, she was unable to continue her sweet subplot with Ren.]]
* ClothingDamage: Ayano's clothes get shredded in a fight with the first BigBad, and of course she accidentally ends up straddling Kazuma as Ren runs up...
** Her dress also gets heavily damaged during her fight with Katherine and Metatron.
* CuteLittleFangs: Ayano
* CynicismCatalyst: Kazuma's failure to protect his lover in the backstory led him to undergo TrainingFromHell and becoming a pretty brutal AntiHero.
* DatePeepers: Although she vehemently denies it, Ayano goes into ClingyJealousGirl mode in episode 5 when she sees Kazuma with another woman. And again later when he's with Misao. She even calls Ren up to help her spy on him.
** Ayano's two friends spy on her while she's on a [[NotADate date]] with Kazuma in episode 13.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kazuma
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Averted.
-->'''Ayano:''' I thought you were saying with your fists what you couldn't with words!\\
'''Kazuma:''' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
* DiagonalCut: Done to high-rise apartment building. All other RazorWind attacks start ''out'' this way but quickly gets diced in the follow up.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Ren's female schoolfriend tends to beat up his male schoolfriend a lot.
** Ayano tries to do this to Kazuma, but he usually dodges it.
* ElementalPowers
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Each of the four elements has its own strengths. Fire is good at raw power and purification. Wind is good at reconnaissance and concealment; Kazuma uses it to ''fly'', but maybe he's just awesome like that. Earth can detect people touching the ground and cause earthquakes. Water mages don't appear in the anime.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Nanase Kudou.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ren.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It doesn't take long for everyone (except Ayano, of course) to see the attraction between Ayano and Kazuma. Yukari and Nanase are constantly pointing this out.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kazuma]], for a few episodes near the end.
* FancyDinner: At an expensive restaurant. It doesn't end well.
* FieryRedhead: Ayano, fire magic and red hair equals a Fiery Redhead.
* FlamingSword: Ayano has Enraiha. a wooden sword always in flames.
* FreeFallFight: Ayano versus Kazuma. She jumps straight off a building too.
* TheGadfly: Kazuma specializes in trolling Ayano and messing with her head in increasingly amusing ways, taking full advantage of [[{{Tsundere}} the feelings she doesn't even know she has]]. [[{{Troll}} Makes you wonder what he could do if you give him a keyboard and an internet connection]].
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* TheGlomp: How Ren greets people he likes.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Kazuma's eyes turn blue when he taps into his peak power and ''red'' when he switches to his SuperpoweredEvilSide.
* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:Poor Nanase and [[FrenchMaid Yukari...]]]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Ayano gets really, obviously jealous of any girl who seems interested in Kazuma or vice versa.
* HellishPupils: Ayano
* HeroicBSOD: In the novels, Ayano, after her friends shrink back from her in terror when she first demonstrates her power in front of them. She then gets enveloped by a puny slime monster that shouldn't have had a chance, and Kazuma has to bail her out and restore her confidence.
* HeroicResolve: Awww, isn't that cute, wittle Ren wants to save the day...
* HeroInsurance: Often played straight, but averted in at least one instance where the Kannagi family covers damages caused by one of the fights.
* HoldTheLine: Ayano has to buy Kazuma some time against the first arc's BigBad while he charges up a special attack and just barely makes it. Subverted afterward when he reveals that he had been ready to attack for quite some time but wanted Ayano to get [[strike:knocked around a bit]] some training in.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Episode 16.
* HumanShield: Ayano jokingly uses Ren as this in episode 7 in an attempt to stop or at least delay Kazuma long enough. However, neither Ren nor Kazuma takes it very seriously and the scene ends up being PlayedForLaughs.
* IHaveNoSon: Genma says he has only one son Ren, and is technically right as he has legally disowned Kazuma.
* IndirectKiss: Happens when Kazuma asks Ayano to hold his canned coffee for him while dealing with some rabble.
* IndyPloy: Ren to Ayano: "Oh great. Please tell me you have at least some idea of what you're gonna do..."
* IntimateHealing: Done by Kazuma to Ayano when he gives her medichine through a kiss.
* {{Kaiju}}: The beast sealed beneath Mt. Fuji is [[ShoutOut a dead ringer]] for Film/{{Gamera}}.
* {{Kamehamehadouken}}: Utsumi does this after receiving demonic powers, although the chant is [[{{Otaku}} A-ki-ha-ba-ra!]]
* {{Keet}}: Ren again.
* KidsAreCruel: Growing up, Kazuma was regularly beaten and tortured with fire by Kannagi children ranging from 5 year olds to teenagers, because of his lack of powers.
* KissingCousins: Ayano and Kazuma are second cousins.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kazuma... though it's really hard to see early on.
* LapPillow: The very last scene of the sixth novel; an injured Kazuma is resting on Ayano's lap.
* LegacyOfService: The first Arc is powered by the rebellion of a family of wind-ninjas who have been serving the Kannagi Clan for centuries, and have finally gotten tired of it.
* LightningGlare: Ren's two schoolfriends do it to each other in episode 13 at the theme park.
* LimitedWardrobe: Ayano wears her school uniform all the time, even when she spends the day out of school. {{Lampshaded}} in episode 13, when she takes her time choosing between [[http://fabien.li/tvtropes/KazeNoStigma.jpg three identical outfits]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: Ren towards Ayumi. [[spoiler: It ends sadly but [[ComingOfAgeStory not for naught]]]].
* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil And Evil]]: [[spoiler: Kazuma]], in the last arc of the anime.
* LoveTriangle: Ren with his two best friends (a [[EvenTheGuysWantHim guy]] and a girl) is a [[TriangRelations Type 3]], while Kazuma with Ayano and Katherine is a [[TriangRelations Type 4]] (in the anime only; Katherine doesn't exist in the light novels).
* MageSpecies: Mages come in [[ElementalRockPaperScissors four varieties]], each of which is inheritable. The Kannagi clan began as a fire clan when its head made a contract with the Fire Lord, gaining the Enraiha sword and ensuring that his children would be fire mages, too. Specialties also exist within each element, such as focusing on curses, barriers, summoning, or just fighting power.
* ManipulativeBastard: Kazuma, particularly with regards to Ayano. After watching the anime, one might get the impression that he deliberately put Ayano into desperate situations so that she could develop her powers.
* MaskPower: Averted: Kazuma runs into a masked, theatrical bad guy, recognizes him as a former minion to a guy he defeated in his {{backstory}}, makes fun of his costume, and gets ready to kick his ass.
* {{Masquerade}}: Magic, demons, and whatnot are kept secret from the general public. Stretches disbelief in the modern setting, considering the demons the mages are hired to exterminate and the occasional reckless mage. A giant flaming statue commanded by an heiress with the high ground fighting a demon down a city street--not to mention the occasional collapsing hotel--can ''not'' be that easy to cover up.
** In all fairness, Catherine's recklessness when it comes to public uses of her powers is actually noted by the Special Investigations Unit (who know about magic), and the police go to great pains to cover up public uses of magic, releasing doctored footage of building collapses and cordoning areas off in order to prevent public witnesses when there are huge magical battles about to go down, with the forewarning of the Kannagi family. That said, it'd be kinda difficult to explain the Pandemonium arc away as explosions and a lightshow.
* MaybeEverAfter: How the romance arc of the anime concludes.
* MightMakesRight: The Kannagi have this philosophy. Kazuma even tells them that because they ignore right and wrong, the Kannagi subsequently have no right to complain foul when someone bigger and stronger pushes them around.
* MindProbe: Used by Kazuma's evil side. Makes Kazuma's eyes glow stronger and the victim convulse.
* MistakenForMurderer: Kazuma is lured back to Japan at the beginning of a series to set this up. Given that he is an extraordinarily powerful wind mage with a very good reason to hate the Kannagi clan (the feeling's mutual), most of the clan naturally turns against him when family members start being murdered once he returns.
* MissingMom: It appears that Kazuma Ren and Ayano where only raised by their fathers. To be fair, Kazuma and Ren's mother does show up...for all of 30 seconds in a flashback.
* MoralityPet: Kazuma's brother, Ren. Kazuma tends not to be very interested in saving the day until Ren gets into trouble, as he tends to do from time to time.
* NobleDemon: Kazuma plays the part of a mercenary, is not above extorting gold out of pixies (who share his wind-alignment), enjoys pushing Ayano's buttons, and is content to sit in the background while others run around... but in the end, he's a pretty nice guy.
%%* NoRomanticResolution: Due to Takahiro Yamato's death.
* NotADate: It's not a date, it's a mission... that just happens to be at an amusement park with no demons in sight. Powerful fire mages with flaming swords need bodyguards too, really. Ayano's father engineers these convenient missions in the hopes of pairing her and Kazuma off; Kazuma isn't fooled but goes along anyway for the money and amusement of trolling Ayano.
%%* {{Ojou}}: Katherine
%%* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Kazuma. "It's the fundamentals of business," after all.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kazuma's dad disinherited him after he lost the succession "[[CurbStompBattle duel]]" against Ayano. His mom refused to give him any sympathy either, both denying that he was their son. Kazuma immediately sends his dad to the hospital after their reunion. It's a subversion, though. His father disowning Kazuma was to protect Kazuma and allow him to truly grow: had Kazuma remained a Kannagi, he would have been bound to become a sub-par fire mage. Considering how the family is structured, this would have put him in a very poor position. By being disowned, Kazuma was then free to find the branch of magic that best suited him: allowing him to become a master ''wind'' mage. In several scenes where Kazuma's father voices his private thoughts, it's clear he's rather proud of his prodigal son.
* PetTheDog: Kazuma visiting his father at the hospital after beating him in battle, and telling him to take care of himself; practically magnaminous behavior considering he was disowned by the old man.
* PlayingWithFire: The whole Kannagi family (except Kazuma) use fire magic due to the fact that the first Kannagi made a contract with the spirit king of fire .
* RazorWind: Favored attack of overpowered wind mages everywhere! Slice and dice everything from demons to hotels in seconds!
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Kazuma has this for most of the series, but [[spoiler:the situation gets especially dire after his first visit to Pandemonium]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: Misao, whose desire for revenge against Kazuma for his role in her brother's death goes so far as to kill hundreds of people without a second thought in order to gain enough power to kill him. [[TheAtoner She gets better]]
* SecondLove: Ayano to Kazuma.
* ShipperOnDeck: Juugo
* ShootTheDog: Kazuma, more so in the novels of course. In the first, when he gets surrounded by [[spoiler:the few members of the wind clan who remained loyal to the Kannagi family and were subsequently mind-controlled and given crude weapons]], Kazuma simply slices off all their heads in order to terrify the others and avoid even more bloodshed. In the last anime arc, [[spoiler:he shreds the humans who were irreversibly turned into youma]].
* StartingANewLife: Kazuma, after being banished following his failure in the successor tournament to one day lead the [[TheClan Kannagi Clan]], decides to leave Japan all together, cut all ties to his family, and settle in China under his new legal name of Kazuma Yagami. However, [[ILetGwenStacyDie things did not improve for him in the long run]]...
* StockSoundEffects: Plentiful. Starts in the first minutes of the first episode and continues all the way through.
* SummonMagic: Certain magicians summon Spirit Beasts to fight on their behalf. The cost, however, is that most Beast Users suffer when their beasts are injured.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Subverted: Although he seems crazy powerful, Ayano notes that he is actually ''weaker'' than he was before, and therefore isn't so far above her in power that it's pointless to be scared of him. Judging by the lack of technique or his more powerful abilities, she's almost certainly correct.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Happens with nearly every human antagonist in the anime.
* TakeAThirdOption: Kazuma and Ren believe in this (as opposed to the Tsuwubakis who believe they must perform sacrifices), leading the latter to challenge the representation of ''Mt. Fuji''.
* {{Tareme Eyes}}: Ren
* TheTease: Kazuma
* TechnicolorFire:
** Genma and Ayano have been seen using blue and red flames, respectively. True to real life, Genma's blue flame is considered the most powerful fire in the clan.
** Juugo, Ayano's father, has purple flame which is said more powerful than Genma's blue flame. The only reason why Genma is considered now as the strongest practitioner in the Kannagi is because Juugo has an accident which crippled him.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kazuma gives a verbal beat down to the Kannagi when he explains why the Fuuga turned on them. For 300 years the Kannagi treated the Fuuga and their wind magic like second class citizens, when in reality wind magic has properties that are very useful in support to fire magic. He also proceeds to tell them the Kannagi beat down on the Fuuga because they were weaker. And so the Kannagi have no place to complain once a strong Fuuga did the same to them.
* TheThingThatGoesDoink: The Kannagi family have one.
* ThoseTwoGuys
** Yukari and Nanase. [[spoiler:Although Nanase plays a larger part later on in the anime. As does Yukari, to a lesser extent]].
** Also "That one guy and one girl," in the form of Ren's admirers.
* TooLongDidntDub: The English dub is marketed as ''Kaze no Stigma'', despite the fact that it's perfectly easy to translate as "Stigma of the Wind."
* TrainingFromHell: Kazuma pushed himself to the brink of death on an almost weekly basis after [[spoiler:Rin's death.]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Averted, on more than one occasion Kazuma needs Ayano to keep the opponent busy while he charges up the contractor abilities.
* {{Troll}}: One of Kazuma's most defining characteristics.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ayano. She doesn't fool anyone though: her friends have fun watching her antics.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Ayano does not realize what she wants, she calls Kazuma a jerk, but tries to hold his hand at an amusement park, blushes all the time and flies into a towering rage if Kazuma makes a move on her or if she sees him with another woman.
* VerbalTic: Katherine: "...desu wa."
* WreathedInFlames: Most fire magic users do this at some point.
* YouTasteDelicious: While Kazuma was pouring some fine wine, some of it splashed onto Ayano's face. The powerful wind mage decides not to let it go to waste and licks it off his partner's face.
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->''"Eyes as blue as the azure sky. That is the symbol of the 'Contractor'. Entrusted by the Spirit King of the Wind with [[BlowYouAway the powers of his domain.]] I bear this mark: the [[TitleDrop Stigma of the Wind.]]"''
-->-- '''Kazuma''' (OpeningNarration)
Four years ago, Kazuma Kannagi was defeated by his cousin Ayano Kannagi for the right to be the possessor of Enraiha, a sword passed down in the Kannagi family, a powerful and prestigious clan of fire mages. His pathetic defeat and complete failure at the fire arts resulted in his banishment from his family and unspoken exile from Japan.
Now named Kazuma Yagami, he suddenly returns after four years for a casual demon-hunting job, only now, he's somehow become a snarky, crazily-powerful ''wind'' mage who easily manhandles demons and his former family alike. And about this time, Kannagi members just happen to start being murdered by a powerful wind mage...
Adapted into anime from a series of light novels by the late Takahiro Yamato.
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!!This series provides examples of:
* AffablyEvil: Bernherdt Rhodes and Lapis are quite polite though evil .
* AntiHero: Kazuma, through the anime tones this down a huge amount. In the novels, he is far more violent and tends to [[ShootTheDog kill]] most of the antagonists (and severely injure many others along the way).
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: "Who are you protecting now, Kazuma?"]]
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Arrogant Fire Magic Clan]]: Being descended from a mage who made a contract with the Spirit King of Fire has given the Kannagi clan very big egos. Except for Ren and Juugo, everyone in the Kannagi family has some degree of a superiority complex. They believe fire to be the most powerful element, thinking lowly of wind magic in particular. A branch family member even goes so far as to think the lives of Kannagis are inherently worth more than the Fuugas.
* BadassAdorable: Ren
* BattleCouple: Kazuma is often paired up with Ayano for his missions.
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: The reason Kazuma saves Misao, she saved him from bullies when he was
%%* BecomeARealBoy: Lapis.
* BeethovenWasAnAlienSpy: According to legends in the novels, King Solomon and Moses were both Contractors, too, just like Kazuma.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Ayano and Kazuma have a shining example of this trope.
* BerserkButton: Kazuma ''really'' hates those who perform [[HumanSacrifice human sacrifices]].
* {{Bishonen}}: Kazuma
* BlondeBrunetteRedhead: Ren, Kazuma, and Ayano. Alternatively, Yukari, Nanase (who has blue hair), and Ayano.
* BodyguardCrush: Ayano's father uses the excuse of hiring Kazuma as Ayano's bodyguard to keep the two together in hopes of pairing them off. Though Kazuma is wise to the scheme from the very beginning and tends to let Ayano learn lessons the hard way (both for her own good and for his own amusement), it ''still'' works.
* BreatherEpisode: Episodes 8 & 13.
* CaptainObvious: People spend a little too much time talking about things that are self-evident. We know she's using earth magic, Ayano. The giant stone spikes are a big hint.
* CherryBlossoms: The opening and episode 8.
* TheClan: Several of them, but most notably the [[PlayingWithFire Kannagis]].
* CloningBlues: [[spoiler: Ayumi. She was only created as a sacrifice to prevent Mt. Fuji from erupting, and would die soon even if the ritual didn't take place. Thus, she was unable to continue her sweet subplot with Ren.]]
* ClothingDamage: Ayano's clothes get shredded in a fight with the first BigBad, and of course she accidentally ends up straddling Kazuma as Ren runs up...
** Her dress also gets heavily damaged during her fight with Katherine and Metatron.
* CuteLittleFangs: Ayano
* CynicismCatalyst: Kazuma's failure to protect his lover in the backstory led him to undergo TrainingFromHell and becoming a pretty brutal AntiHero.
* DatePeepers: Although she vehemently denies it, Ayano goes into ClingyJealousGirl mode in episode 5 when she sees Kazuma with another woman. And again later when he's with Misao. She even calls Ren up to help her spy on him.
** Ayano's two friends spy on her while she's on a [[NotADate date]] with Kazuma in episode 13.
* DeadpanSnarker: Kazuma
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Averted.
-->'''Ayano:''' I thought you were saying with your fists what you couldn't with words!\\
'''Kazuma:''' That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard.
* DiagonalCut: Done to high-rise apartment building. All other RazorWind attacks start ''out'' this way but quickly gets diced in the follow up.
* DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale: Ren's female schoolfriend tends to beat up his male schoolfriend a lot.
** Ayano tries to do this to Kazuma, but he usually dodges it.
* ElementalPowers
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Each of the four elements has its own strengths. Fire is good at raw power and purification. Wind is good at reconnaissance and concealment; Kazuma uses it to ''fly'', but maybe he's just awesome like that. Earth can detect people touching the ground and cause earthquakes. Water mages don't appear in the anime.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Nanase Kudou.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Ren.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: It doesn't take long for everyone (except Ayano, of course) to see the attraction between Ayano and Kazuma. Yukari and Nanase are constantly pointing this out.
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Kazuma]], for a few episodes near the end.
* FancyDinner: At an expensive restaurant. It doesn't end well.
* FieryRedhead: Ayano, fire magic and red hair equals a Fiery Redhead.
* FlamingSword: Ayano has Enraiha. a wooden sword always in flames.
* FreeFallFight: Ayano versus Kazuma. She jumps straight off a building too.
* TheGadfly: Kazuma specializes in trolling Ayano and messing with her head in increasingly amusing ways, taking full advantage of [[{{Tsundere}} the feelings she doesn't even know she has]]. [[{{Troll}} Makes you wonder what he could do if you give him a keyboard and an internet connection]].
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* TheGlomp: How Ren greets people he likes.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: Kazuma's eyes turn blue when he taps into his peak power and ''red'' when he switches to his SuperpoweredEvilSide.
* GoGoEnslavement: [[spoiler:Poor Nanase and [[FrenchMaid Yukari...]]]]
* GreenEyedMonster: Ayano gets really, obviously jealous of any girl who seems interested in Kazuma or vice versa.
* HellishPupils: Ayano
* HeroicBSOD: In the novels, Ayano, after her friends shrink back from her in terror when she first demonstrates her power in front of them. She then gets enveloped by a puny slime monster that shouldn't have had a chance, and Kazuma has to bail her out and restore her confidence.
* HeroicResolve: Awww, isn't that cute, wittle Ren wants to save the day...
* HeroInsurance: Often played straight, but averted in at least one instance where the Kannagi family covers damages caused by one of the fights.
* HoldTheLine: Ayano has to buy Kazuma some time against the first arc's BigBad while he charges up a special attack and just barely makes it. Subverted afterward when he reveals that he had been ready to attack for quite some time but wanted Ayano to get [[strike:knocked around a bit]] some training in.
* HotSpringsEpisode: Episode 16.
* HumanShield: Ayano jokingly uses Ren as this in episode 7 in an attempt to stop or at least delay Kazuma long enough. However, neither Ren nor Kazuma takes it very seriously and the scene ends up being PlayedForLaughs.
* IHaveNoSon: Genma says he has only one son Ren, and is technically right as he has legally disowned Kazuma.
* IndirectKiss: Happens when Kazuma asks Ayano to hold his canned coffee for him while dealing with some rabble.
* IndyPloy: Ren to Ayano: "Oh great. Please tell me you have at least some idea of what you're gonna do..."
* IntimateHealing: Done by Kazuma to Ayano when he gives her medichine through a kiss.
* {{Kaiju}}: The beast sealed beneath Mt. Fuji is [[ShoutOut a dead ringer]] for Film/{{Gamera}}.
* {{Kamehamehadouken}}: Utsumi does this after receiving demonic powers, although the chant is [[{{Otaku}} A-ki-ha-ba-ra!]]
* {{Keet}}: Ren again.
* KidsAreCruel: Growing up, Kazuma was regularly beaten and tortured with fire by Kannagi children ranging from 5 year olds to teenagers, because of his lack of powers.
* KissingCousins: Ayano and Kazuma are second cousins.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Kazuma... though it's really hard to see early on.
* LapPillow: The very last scene of the sixth novel; an injured Kazuma is resting on Ayano's lap.
* LegacyOfService: The first Arc is powered by the rebellion of a family of wind-ninjas who have been serving the Kannagi Clan for centuries, and have finally gotten tired of it.
* LightningGlare: Ren's two schoolfriends do it to each other in episode 13 at the theme park.
* LimitedWardrobe: Ayano wears her school uniform all the time, even when she spends the day out of school. {{Lampshaded}} in episode 13, when she takes her time choosing between [[http://fabien.li/tvtropes/KazeNoStigma.jpg three identical outfits]].
* LoveAtFirstSight: Ren towards Ayumi. [[spoiler: It ends sadly but [[ComingOfAgeStory not for naught]]]].
* LoveMakesYouCrazy [[LoveMakesYouEvil And Evil]]: [[spoiler: Kazuma]], in the last arc of the anime.
* LoveTriangle: Ren with his two best friends (a [[EvenTheGuysWantHim guy]] and a girl) is a [[TriangRelations Type 3]], while Kazuma with Ayano and Katherine is a [[TriangRelations Type 4]] (in the anime only; Katherine doesn't exist in the light novels).
* MageSpecies: Mages come in [[ElementalRockPaperScissors four varieties]], each of which is inheritable. The Kannagi clan began as a fire clan when its head made a contract with the Fire Lord, gaining the Enraiha sword and ensuring that his children would be fire mages, too. Specialties also exist within each element, such as focusing on curses, barriers, summoning, or just fighting power.
* ManipulativeBastard: Kazuma, particularly with regards to Ayano. After watching the anime, one might get the impression that he deliberately put Ayano into desperate situations so that she could develop her powers.
* MaskPower: Averted: Kazuma runs into a masked, theatrical bad guy, recognizes him as a former minion to a guy he defeated in his {{backstory}}, makes fun of his costume, and gets ready to kick his ass.
* {{Masquerade}}: Magic, demons, and whatnot are kept secret from the general public. Stretches disbelief in the modern setting, considering the demons the mages are hired to exterminate and the occasional reckless mage. A giant flaming statue commanded by an heiress with the high ground fighting a demon down a city street--not to mention the occasional collapsing hotel--can ''not'' be that easy to cover up.
** In all fairness, Catherine's recklessness when it comes to public uses of her powers is actually noted by the Special Investigations Unit (who know about magic), and the police go to great pains to cover up public uses of magic, releasing doctored footage of building collapses and cordoning areas off in order to prevent public witnesses when there are huge magical battles about to go down, with the forewarning of the Kannagi family. That said, it'd be kinda difficult to explain the Pandemonium arc away as explosions and a lightshow.
* MaybeEverAfter: How the romance arc of the anime concludes.
* MightMakesRight: The Kannagi have this philosophy. Kazuma even tells them that because they ignore right and wrong, the Kannagi subsequently have no right to complain foul when someone bigger and stronger pushes them around.
* MindProbe: Used by Kazuma's evil side. Makes Kazuma's eyes glow stronger and the victim convulse.
* MistakenForMurderer: Kazuma is lured back to Japan at the beginning of a series to set this up. Given that he is an extraordinarily powerful wind mage with a very good reason to hate the Kannagi clan (the feeling's mutual), most of the clan naturally turns against him when family members start being murdered once he returns.
* MissingMom: It appears that Kazuma Ren and Ayano where only raised by their fathers. To be fair, Kazuma and Ren's mother does show up...for all of 30 seconds in a flashback.
* MoralityPet: Kazuma's brother, Ren. Kazuma tends not to be very interested in saving the day until Ren gets into trouble, as he tends to do from time to time.
* NobleDemon: Kazuma plays the part of a mercenary, is not above extorting gold out of pixies (who share his wind-alignment), enjoys pushing Ayano's buttons, and is content to sit in the background while others run around... but in the end, he's a pretty nice guy.
%%* NoRomanticResolution: Due to Takahiro Yamato's death.
* NotADate: It's not a date, it's a mission... that just happens to be at an amusement park with no demons in sight. Powerful fire mages with flaming swords need bodyguards too, really. Ayano's father engineers these convenient missions in the hopes of pairing her and Kazuma off; Kazuma isn't fooled but goes along anyway for the money and amusement of trolling Ayano.
%%* {{Ojou}}: Katherine
%%* OnlyInItForTheMoney: Kazuma. "It's the fundamentals of business," after all.
* ParentalAbandonment: Kazuma's dad disinherited him after he lost the succession "[[CurbStompBattle duel]]" against Ayano. His mom refused to give him any sympathy either, both denying that he was their son. Kazuma immediately sends his dad to the hospital after their reunion. It's a subversion, though. His father disowning Kazuma was to protect Kazuma and allow him to truly grow: had Kazuma remained a Kannagi, he would have been bound to become a sub-par fire mage. Considering how the family is structured, this would have put him in a very poor position. By being disowned, Kazuma was then free to find the branch of magic that best suited him: allowing him to become a master ''wind'' mage. In several scenes where Kazuma's father voices his private thoughts, it's clear he's rather proud of his prodigal son.
* PetTheDog: Kazuma visiting his father at the hospital after beating him in battle, and telling him to take care of himself; practically magnaminous behavior considering he was disowned by the old man.
* PlayingWithFire: The whole Kannagi family (except Kazuma) use fire magic due to the fact that the first Kannagi made a contract with the spirit king of fire .
* RazorWind: Favored attack of overpowered wind mages everywhere! Slice and dice everything from demons to hotels in seconds!
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Kazuma has this for most of the series, but [[spoiler:the situation gets especially dire after his first visit to Pandemonium]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: Misao, whose desire for revenge against Kazuma for his role in her brother's death goes so far as to kill hundreds of people without a second thought in order to gain enough power to kill him. [[TheAtoner She gets better]]
* SecondLove: Ayano to Kazuma.
* ShipperOnDeck: Juugo
* ShootTheDog: Kazuma, more so in the novels of course. In the first, when he gets surrounded by [[spoiler:the few members of the wind clan who remained loyal to the Kannagi family and were subsequently mind-controlled and given crude weapons]], Kazuma simply slices off all their heads in order to terrify the others and avoid even more bloodshed. In the last anime arc, [[spoiler:he shreds the humans who were irreversibly turned into youma]].
* StartingANewLife: Kazuma, after being banished following his failure in the successor tournament to one day lead the [[TheClan Kannagi Clan]], decides to leave Japan all together, cut all ties to his family, and settle in China under his new legal name of Kazuma Yagami. However, [[ILetGwenStacyDie things did not improve for him in the long run]]...
* StockSoundEffects: Plentiful. Starts in the first minutes of the first episode and continues all the way through.
* SummonMagic: Certain magicians summon Spirit Beasts to fight on their behalf. The cost, however, is that most Beast Users suffer when their beasts are injured.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Subverted: Although he seems crazy powerful, Ayano notes that he is actually ''weaker'' than he was before, and therefore isn't so far above her in power that it's pointless to be scared of him. Judging by the lack of technique or his more powerful abilities, she's almost certainly correct.
* SympathyForTheDevil: Happens with nearly every human antagonist in the anime.
* TakeAThirdOption: Kazuma and Ren believe in this (as opposed to the Tsuwubakis who believe they must perform sacrifices), leading the latter to challenge the representation of ''Mt. Fuji''.
* {{Tareme Eyes}}: Ren
* TheTease: Kazuma
* TechnicolorFire:
** Genma and Ayano have been seen using blue and red flames, respectively. True to real life, Genma's blue flame is considered the most powerful fire in the clan.
** Juugo, Ayano's father, has purple flame which is said more powerful than Genma's blue flame. The only reason why Genma is considered now as the strongest practitioner in the Kannagi is because Juugo has an accident which crippled him.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Kazuma gives a verbal beat down to the Kannagi when he explains why the Fuuga turned on them. For 300 years the Kannagi treated the Fuuga and their wind magic like second class citizens, when in reality wind magic has properties that are very useful in support to fire magic. He also proceeds to tell them the Kannagi beat down on the Fuuga because they were weaker. And so the Kannagi have no place to complain once a strong Fuuga did the same to them.
* TheThingThatGoesDoink: The Kannagi family have one.
* ThoseTwoGuys
** Yukari and Nanase. [[spoiler:Although Nanase plays a larger part later on in the anime. As does Yukari, to a lesser extent]].
** Also "That one guy and one girl," in the form of Ren's admirers.
* TooLongDidntDub: The English dub is marketed as ''Kaze no Stigma'', despite the fact that it's perfectly easy to translate as "Stigma of the Wind."
* TrainingFromHell: Kazuma pushed himself to the brink of death on an almost weekly basis after [[spoiler:Rin's death.]]
* TransformationIsAFreeAction: Averted, on more than one occasion Kazuma needs Ayano to keep the opponent busy while he charges up the contractor abilities.
* {{Troll}}: One of Kazuma's most defining characteristics.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ayano. She doesn't fool anyone though: her friends have fun watching her antics.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Ayano does not realize what she wants, she calls Kazuma a jerk, but tries to hold his hand at an amusement park, blushes all the time and flies into a towering rage if Kazuma makes a move on her or if she sees him with another woman.
* VerbalTic: Katherine: "...desu wa."
* WreathedInFlames: Most fire magic users do this at some point.
* YouTasteDelicious: While Kazuma was pouring some fine wine, some of it splashed onto Ayano's face. The powerful wind mage decides not to let it go to waste and licks it off his partner's face.
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