History Literature / MirageOfBlaze

%%* {{Bishonen}}: Kagetora, Naoe.

%%* {{Keigo}}: Kagetora-sama indeed.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: Kagetora and Naoe are this trope.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Kagetora, [[spoiler: though by the end of the OVA, it's not ambiguous anymore as he has finally accepted Naoe as a potentional lover]].
* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Naoe to Kagetora.
* AsiaRuneChant: whenever the Possesors exorcize spirits or summon creatures or guardians.

* BadassBiker / BikerBabe: Haruie
* BattleButler: Naoe.
* {{Bishonen}}: Kagetora, Naoe.

* BodyguardCrush: Naoe [[spoiler:has been madly in love with Kagetora for over four hundred years]].

* CherryBlossoms: [[spoiler:Incarnation of Takaya's corpse.]]
* TheChessmaster: Naoe, [[spoiler: who manipulated both Kagetora's family and the Feudal Underworld to save Kagetora]].

* CreepyCrossdresser
* DrivenToSuicide: Kagetora [[spoiler:when forced to commit seppuku]].

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: In order to stop Yami Sengoku, Kagetora is forced to use the last of his soul life. Not only does this kill Kagetora/Takaya, but this ''prevents him from ever reincarnating again''. He lives long enough to ''finally'' confess his love to Naoe before he dies in the latter's arms. Naoe put in his own breast the Takaya's broken nearly soul. Takaya's soul seemed pounded but freezes in him. He decided to stay alive repeat the possession until the limit of his own soul in order to prove the eternal love to Takaya.]]
* TheFourGods

* HardDrinkingPartyGirl: Haruie

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Uesugi Kagetora, Naoe Nobutsuna, Haruie Kakizaki, Yasuda Nagahide, UsefulNotes/UesugiKenshin, Houjou Ujiyasu, Houjou Ujimasa, Houjou Ujiteru, UsefulNotes/TakedaShingen, UsefulNotes/DateMasamune, Date Kojirou

* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Naoe is willing to do ''anything'' for Kagetora, and has proved it repeatedly.

* {{Immortality}}: The Possessors

* [[spoiler: IntimatePsychotherapy: When Naoe and Kagetora ''finally'' consummate their relationship in volume 20, it's in the aftermath of Kagetora being horribly betrayed, receiving a death curse on his eye, and a suicide attempt. The sex allows Kagetora to see the toll Naoe's love has had on his own body--from a hideous scar on his chest from having protected Kagetora, to seeing scars of Naoe's ''own'' suicide attempts over his love for Kagetora.]]
* JidaiGeki: The many flashbacks of the Possessors' past lives.
* {{Keigo}}: Kagetora-sama indeed.

* LoveMakesYouCrazy / LoveMakesYouEvil: Naoe
* ManlyTears: Naoe and Kagetora during Naoe's breakdown.

* MurderTheHypotenuse: When Naoe [[spoiler:forces Kagetora to possess the body of his lover]].

* NearRapeExperience: Naoe and Kagetora.

* PowerGlows
* ProtectiveCharm
* RapeAsBackstory: Kagetora
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Houjou Ujiteru [[spoiler:turning on Ujimasa and allowing himself to be exorcised by Kagetora to save him]].
* ReincarnationRomance: Naoe and Kagetora, and also Haruie [[spoiler: who is looking for his long-lost lover, thought it's not technically reincarnation as they escape the cycle of rebirth by by possessing bodies]].
* SarcasticDevotee: Naoe who mocks Kagetora's weakness, Haruie, and Nagahide who's borderline insubordinate.
* SayMyName
* ScaryShinyGlasses: Chiaki
* SexyMentor: Naoe, in the beginning, subverted [[spoiler:when he angrily tells Kagetora he is ''not'' a mentor nor a [[BattleButler convenient protector]]]].
* SingleTargetSexuality: Naoe has only ever loved Kagetora.
* SmokingIsCool / SmokingIsGlamorous: Naoe, especially in the OVA.
* SnowMeansLove: The end of the OVA.
* SparklingStreamOfTears
* StraightGay: Naoe and Takaya.

* TroubledButCute: Takaya.
* TrueCompanions
* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: More so for Kagetora than Naoe.

* YaoiGenre

'''''Mirage of Blaze''''' is a light novel series written by Mizuna Kuwabara. It was adapted into a thirteen episode anime season in 2002. A three part OVA titled Rebels of the River Edge was released in 2004. The translation of the light novels can be found [[http://www.asphodelshaven.com/translations/novel here]]

* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Naoe shot dead and Takaya going mad. Takaya kidnapping and kidnapping again. Nagahide's bodily death. Takaya removed from Uesugi clan. Naoe going over to Oda. Takaya's soul reaching near the limit.]] CreepyCrossdresser

* {{Cliffhanger}}: [[spoiler:Naoe shot dead and Takaya going mad. Takaya kidnapping and kidnapping again. Nagahide's bodily death. Takaya removed from Uesugi clan. Naoe going over to Oda. Takaya's soul reaching near the limit.]] A lot of fans were DYING SO MANY TIMES.
* CreepyCrossdresser

* BattleButler: Naoe
* {{Bishonen}}: Kagetora, Naoe
* BlackAndGreyMorality: The spirits the protagonists are fighting against have entirely selfish aims at conquering the modern world, but as the series goes on, we find our main characters have some major skeletons in their closet as well.

* BoysLove

* CliffHanger: [[spoiler:Naoe shot died and Takaya go to mad. Takaya kidnapping and kidnapping again. Nagahide's body death. Takaya removed from Uesugi clan. Naoe goes over to Oda. Takaya's soul reached near to limit.]] A lot of fans were DYING SO MANY TIMES.

* IfICantHaveYou: Naoe [[spoiler:was prepared to kill Kagetora and himself so that Kagetora will "never belong to anyone else"]].

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Naoe [[spoiler:after [[NearRapeExperience nearly raping]] Kagetora, but then again, who wouldn't crack after four hundred years of [[AllTakeAndNoGive mental]] [[UnresolvedSexualTension torture]].]]

* OurSoulsAreDifferent: The Possessors [[spoiler: who are able to break the reincarnation cycle by possessing human bodies. Of course this is a [[MoralEventHorizon really bad thing to do]], but they [[IDidWhatIHadToDo do what they have to]].]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Houjou Ujiteru [[spoiler:turning on Ujimasa and allowing himself to be exorcized by Kagetora to save him]].

* TheChessmaster: Naoe, [[spoiler: who manipulated both Kagetora's family and the Feudal Underworld to save Kagetora]].
* TheFourGods
* TomatoInTheMirror: Kagetora [[spoiler: who is not the [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent ordinary high school student]] he thought he was but in reality an ancient warlord of the Warring States era who's posssed the body of a boy, ousting his soul in the process.]]

* UnresolvedSexualTension: [[spoiler:Four hundred years of it too, no wonder Naoe has reached his breaking point. Still he initially manages to mask his feelings for Kagetora perfectly, but when Kagetora dreams of his lover's death, Naoe realizes he will soon remember everything and drops the act. Naoe eventually snaps and forces himself on Kagetora, the event triggering Kagetora's memory of how he was raped while a hostage. It serves as a wake-up call for Naoe, who goes into [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone shock mode]] when he realizes [[NearRapeExperience what he almost did.]]]]
* VillainousCrossdresser
* WhatBeautifulEyes: Naoe comments on the brilliance of Kagetora's eyes

* Cliffhanger: [[spoiler:Naoe died been shot and Takaya go to mad. Ayako kidnapping. Takaya kidnapping and kidnapping again. Nagahide's body death. Naoe goes over to Oda.]] A lot of readers were DYING SO MANY TIMES.

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: In order to stop Yami Sengoku, Kagetora is forced to use the last of his soul life. Not only does this kill Kagetora/Takaya, but this ''prevents him from ever reincarnating again''. He lives long enough to ''finally'' confess his love to Naoe before he dies in the latter's arms. Naoe put in his own breast the his broken nearly soul. He decided to stay alive repeat the possession until the limit of his soul in order to prove the eternal love to Takaya.]]

* Cliffhanger: [[spoiler:Incarnation of Takaya's corpse.]] ughhhhhhhhhhh!!!

* ScaryShinyGlasses: Nagahide

* StraightGay: Naoe

* TroubledButCute: Kagetora

* CherryBlossoms

* [[spoiler: DownerEnding: In order to stop Yami Sengoku, Kagetora is forced to use the last of his soul life. Not only does this kill Kagetora/Takaya, but this ''prevents him from ever reincarnating again''. He lives long enough to ''finally'' confess his love to Naoe before he dies in the latter's arms.]]

With Kagetora as their leader, the Possessors have been fighting the Feudal Underworld, an army of vengeful spirits of samurai who fell during the Warring States era. Some of these spirits are also able to possess bodies and do so in order to restart the wars, this time to end them in their favor. Takaya has [[LaserGuidedAmnesia no memory of this]] however and and refuess to believe he is Kagetora. As he begins to remember however, he becomes [[TomatoIntheMirror increasingly distraught]] and begins to draw on Naoe for support, but Naoe is neither the [[SexyMentor mentor]] nor the [[BattleButler convenient protector]] Takaya thinks he is.

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Uesugi Kagetora, Naoe Nobutsuna, Haruie Kakizaki, Yasuda Nagahide, Uesugi Kenshin, Houjou Ujiyasu, Houjou Ujimasa, Houjou Ujiteru, Takeda Shingen, Date Masamune, Date Kojirou

* BlackAndGreyMorality

** Only some inversions [[spoiler: Kagetora/Takaya attempts suicide in volume 20 when the mental and emotional tolls of everything he'd dealt with reaches a breaking point. Also, Naoe had attempted suicide in the past but he'd kept this hidden from Kagetora.]]

* DriventoSuicide: Kagetora [[spoiler:when forced to commit seppuku]].

* EyesOfGold / HellishPupils: Kagetora

* BottleFairy: Haruie