Episode 6: Fearful Fire Sorcerer – Kurei!! Kurei Mansion Arc Chapters adapted: Volume 3, Chapters 20 and 21 Last time we left Flame of Recca, our heroes were left beaten and embarrassed in the rain in the anime, and Recca and his group were ambushed in the manga as volume 2 wrapped up. With a cliffhanger like that you might wonder just what would happen next after everything fell to pieces and our hero is left unconscious in the…
Episode 5: The Shadow Ninja Clan – The Mystery of the Hokage!! Kurei Mansion Arc Chapters adapted: Volume 2, Chapters 18 and 19 Welcome back to the fun, friends! Let’s continue on seeing how the adaption of Flame of Recca compares to the original! After messing up a character’s introduction so badly he almost seems like a different person, episode 5 appears to get things back on track again. Once again this episode starts off rather promising. We start…
Episode 4: Labyrinth of Mirrors – The Flame of Death!! Chapters adapted: Volume 2, Chapters 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17 Last time we left off in Flame of Recca, our hero, Recca, was nearly sliced into pieces in the middle of the park by an angry teenager but was saved because his girlfriend who was able to hear his voice from across town. It was quite the mess of an episode. It also ended in mid-scene, so we…
Episode 3: The Water Swordsman – The Fang of Revenge!! Chapters adapted: Volume 1, Chapters 8 and 9; Volume 2, Chapters 11 and 12 Chapters skipped: Volume 2, Chapter 10 Here we are back in the fray again! When we last left off in Flame of Recca, episode 2 clumsily adapted 5 chapters of manga material while removing much of the fun and left us on a cliffhanger. After a poorly paced second episode we jump straight back into…
Episode 2: Wind and Fire – A Dangerous Seduction!! Chapters adapted: Volume 1, Chapters 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 Before we begin, you might notice Domon’s face is different in the early chapters of the manga to the anime. This isn’t really a change to note since the anime version is how Domon eventually looks in the manga. Anzai solidified his character design pretty quickly after these early chapters. The anime did not change anything there unlike how…
Episode 1: The Princess & the Ninja Chapters adapted: Volume 1, Chapters 1 and 2 As we start our comparison of Flame of Recca you must keep in mind that this is an action show adapted from an action manga. Your mileage might vary with some of these changes, but since quite a bit is changed from the original (sometimes for seemingly no reason) I feel it is important to note the differences even when miniscule. If you can’t…
Comic books and animation go hand in hand a lot of the time. While live action tends to have trouble handling a lot of the more imaginative and out there aspects of tales from the visual print medium, animation is always able to keep up. From superheroes, to outlandish comedy, space opera, the medium of animation has no problem giving the stories the visual realization they deserve. But there are exceptions. Sometimes the result is immaculate, the animated version easily…