History Manga / FlameOfRecca

''Flame of Recca'' (''Rekka no Honoo'') is a manga penned by Nobuyuki Anzai, which originally ran in ''[[Magazine/ShonenSunday Weekly Shonen Sunday]]'' from 1995 to 2002. While a lot criticized it as a FollowTheLeader style manga to ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', it nevertheless attained some sort of strong [[CultClassic cult following]], and they indeed came to their own identity. It received an anime adaptation in 1997 that has a very mixed reception due to only spanning to the first two arcs (Kurei Mansion arc and Ura Butou Satsujin arc) and had a GeckoEnding instead of fillers in fear of overtaking the manga. Still a very solid manga series.

Recca and friends appear in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game, VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen. And previously, there was a Gameboy Advance game with the same title, a traditional fighting game, and a Playstation 2 game titled ''Flame of Recca: Final Burning'', a cutscene-based fighting game. Both of them chronicled the final SODOM arc, and ''Final Burning'' had a distinction of competently animating the final battle scene, some even saying better than the original anime.

* AbortedArc: The immortality the series' BigBad so desperately seeks is possessed by Recca's mother, Kagerou, rather than Yanagi through her healing powers. Kurei notices this at one point, but he never winds up divulging this information to his boss and the plot point serves as nothing more than a justification as to why Kagerou is still alive. Although Yanagi's healing is an innate ability, while Kagerou's immortality is instead a curse.
* ActionGirl: [[CuteBruiser Fuuko]], every Uruha female fighter (save for perhaps [[spoiler: Kirito]]).

* AdaptationalJerkass: In the anime, Kurei's birth mother Reina is turned into a vindictive, jealous bitch who hates Kagerou, subtly manipulating Kurei to eventually give Recca the scar. Originally, she's just a normal FriendlyRival with Kagerou (shown in the prelude of the final arc, which isn't animated), doesn't really care if she's just consort, and doesn't really blame Kagerou for her family's misfortune. Kurei just came up with the idea to kill Recca on his own because he's also at his own limits to escape their misery. And finally, [[MamaBear she still risks her life to ensure Kurei's safety during Oda Nobunaga's massacre against the Hokage.]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Due to his limited screentime, in most adaptations (anime and ''Final Burning'') Ouka comes off as a typical stoic serious dad (though at least matching with his personality as [[spoiler:Resshin]]), while in the manga, he's a BumblingDad who still knows when to get serious.
* AdaptationalWimp: Kind of downplayed in the anime: Team Kuu were still formidable fighters, but in the manga, with the exception of Saichou's Madogu Shikigami, none of the team members use any Madogu whatsoever, [[BadassNormal everything they do can be traced to mere training.]] In the anime, however, those abilities, from rubber band body and going berserk after three strikes on the head, came from Madogu.
* AloofBigBrother: Kurei, if murderous fits the definition of aloof.

* BadassNormal: Domon initially, and even after getting his own set of Madogu, still fits the trope to an extent.
* BattleButler: Raiha, Neon, Jishou, most loyal of Kurei's followers, act kind of like this.
* BittersweetEnding: In the manga, [[spoiler: Kurei]] decides to go back in time forever. Guess who follows him? [[spoiler: Kaoru]]. Leaving the rest of the Team Hokage behind, for the sake of [[spoiler: Kurei]].
* BlessedWithSuck: One of the final twists in the manga version: [[spoiler:Kurei was the rightful heir as the Hokage leader because his flames have an animal aspect, The Phoenix. But we know how his life turned out to be, so...]]
* BloodKnight: Setsuna, who doesn't care about anything other than killing and has threatened to kill Recca if he were too weak on more than one occasion.
* BloodyMurder: When desperate, Tokiya can use his own blood to power his sword. And Hiruko has a Blood-manipulating Madogu.
* BrokenPedestal: [[spoiler:Meguri Kyouza, Tokiya's sensei, thought to be the killer of his sister... but it doesn't seem to be that way actually.]]
* BrutalBrawl: When Recca finally faces Kurei in the [[FinalBattle final battle]], they briefly fought using their fire power. After they found it useless then [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech telling off each other]], they decide to engage into an ordinary but vicious bloody fist fight that results [[DoubleKnockout knocking themselves out]].