Mirage of Blaze

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.

Cast for Mirage of Blaze...

Toshihiko Seki
Takaya Ohgi
Sakiko Tamagawa
Ayako Kadowaki
Rokuro Naya
Ujimasa Hojo
Taiki Matsuno
Yuzuru Narita
Show Hayami
Yoshiaki Tachibana
Ai Orikasa
Yui Takedo
Akiko Yajima
Saori Marino
Fumihiko Tachiki
Kojuurou Katakura
Hideyuki Tanaka
Ujiteru Hojo
Hiroshi Kamiya
Kojirou Date
Katsunosuke Hori
Genan Hojyo
Kazuya Nakai
Sinya Asaoka
Kenyu Horiuchi
Danjo Kousaka
Misa Watanabe
Maiko Asaoka
Mitsuru Miyamoto
Kotaro Fuuma
Ryotaro Okiayu
Nobunaga Oda
Tomokazu Seki
Ranmaru Mori
Tomokazu Seki
Satoshi Hatayama
Tomoku Miura
Miya Ohgi
Yasunori Matsumoto
Shuhei Chiaki
Yukitoshi Hori
Masamune Date
Yukitoshi Hori
Shingen Takeda