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Mirage of Blaze (TV)

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Alternative title:
Honō no Mirage (Japanese)
Мираж огня (Russian)
Призрачное пламя (Russian)
炎の蜃気楼[ミラージュ] (Japanese)
Genres: supernatural
Themes: yaoi
Copyright notice: ©2002 MIZUNA KUWABARA / SHUEISHA Inc., Aniplex Inc.
Plot Summary: Takaya Ohgi is just a typical high school guy who wants nothing more than to protect his best friend and live a normal life. Enter Nobutsuna Naoe, an older man who informs Takaya that he is in fact the reincarnation of Lord Kagetora. Naoe, himself a possessor, awakens Takaya's abilities to exorcise evil spirits and fight the Fuedal Underworld. While most possessors their former lives before being reincarnated, Takaya does not. Naoe is thankful for this, considering his ionate and abusive past with his Lord Kagetora. As Takaya improves his abilities , he also begins to what Naoe did because of his love for him. Meanwhile the dark forces of the Hojo and Fuma clans begin their attack as the Fuedal Underworld descends upon the living world.
Ratings: 487 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 25 votes (sub:15, dub:8, edit.dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Excellent: 55 votes (sub:38, dub:14, edit.dub:2, others:1
1 Hungarian subtitled
)
 Very good: 96 votes (sub:57, dub:34, ?:2, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Good: 108 votes (sub:60, dub:45, ?:2, raw:1)
 Decent: 88 votes (sub:54, dub:31, raw:1, edit.dub:1, ?:1)
 So-so: 44 votes (sub:27, dub:17)
 Not really good: 25 votes (sub:13, dub:9, ?:2, raw:1)
 Weak: 22 votes (dub:12, sub:10)
 Bad: 12 votes (dub:6, sub:5, ?:1)
 Awful: 4 votes (dub:3, sub:1)
 Worst ever: 8 votes (sub:4, dub:4)
Seen in part or in whole by 1152 s, rank: #1072 (of 9996)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.593 (Good−), std. dev.: 2.095, rank: #5678 (of 10154)
Weighted mean: 6.439 (Decent+), rank: #6138 (of 10154) (seen all: 6.67 / seen some: 5.59 / won't finish: 4.54)
Bayesian estimate: 6.466 (Decent+), rank: #5559 (of 7635)
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2002-01-07 to 2002-04-08
2006-07-02 to 2006-07-14 (USA, Encore WAM - The Block)
Opening Theme:
"Blaze 2002" by Kathy Shower
Ending Theme:
"Harukanaru Zanshō~ Sengoku Zan'ei Yori~" (遥かなる残照 ～「戦国残影」より～) by Koichiro Kameyama
Official website:
アニメーション 炎の蜃気楼 (Japanese)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Mirage of Blaze - The Summoning (DVD 1) 2003-06-24 (from $7.76)
    Mirage of Blaze - The Summoning + Artbox (DVD 1) 2003-06-24 (from $19.99)
    Mirage of Blaze - Ancient Rivals (DVD 2) 2003-08-26 (from $5.49)
    Mirage of Blaze - Darkness Decends (DVD 3) 2003-10-28 (from $15.56)
    Mirage of Blaze - Tragic Love (DVD 4) 2003-12-16 (from $13.97)
    Mirage of Blaze - Box Set (DVD 1-4) 2004-11-30 (from $23.64)
    Mirage of Blaze - Complete Collection (DVD 1-4) 2006-03-28 (from $19.99)
    World of Mirage of Blaze (DVD 1-5) 2008-05-20 (from $19.99)

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Susumu Kudo
Series Composition: Hiroko Tokita
Script:
Hiroko Tokita (5 episodes
eps 1, 5, 7, 10, 13
)
Yuki Enatsu (eps 4, 9, 11)
Storyboard:
Yukina Hiiro (ep 10)
Episode Director:
Hiroshi Kimura (5 episodes
eps 1, 4, 7, 10, 13
)
Yoshimasa Hiraike (ep 6)
Music: Koichiro Kameyama
Original Manga: Shoko Hamada
Character Design: Itsuko Takeda
Art Director: Masazumi Matsumiya
Chief Animation Director: Yorihisa Uchida (eps 6-13)
Animation Director:
Yuta Kawai (ep 12)
Original Novel: Mizuna Kuwabara
Mechanical design: Takahiro Yamada
Sound Director: Yōta Tsuruoka
Director of Photography: Hiroaki Yanagisawa
Executive producer: Ryūzō Shirakawa (SME Visual Works)
Producer: Yumiko Masujima (SME Visual Works)

Animation producer: Katsuya Shirai (Studio Matrix)
Art Setting: Tomoyuki Aoki
Assistant Art Director: Takuji Jizōmoto
Background Art:
Tsuyoshi Fukumoto (STUDIO LOFT; eps 1-13)
Color Check:
Junko Okazaki (5 episodes
eps 2, 6-7, 12-13
)
Naoto Tanaka (5 episodes
eps 1, 8, 10-11, 13
)
Satoko Otsuka (7 episodes
eps 4, 6-8, 11-13
)
Color design: Chie Tanimoto
Color setting:
Yoshitaka Katō (eps 3, 9)
Digital TP:
Satoko Otsuka (ep 1)
Editing:
Takeshi Seyama
Engineering Assistant: Fumiaki Tanaka
In-Between Animation: Masayo Koike (11 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-8, 10-13
)
In-Between Check:
Shuuji Miyazaki (11 episodes
eps 1-2, 4-8, 10-13
)
Soo Il Yun (ep 2)
Key Animation:
Yun Hee Kwon (ep 2)
Mechanical animation Director: Takahiro Yamada (eps 12-13)
Music Director: Takashi Kodama
Photography:
Kentarō Takahashi (Studio Matrix; 10 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-13
)
Ryoma Sakamoto (Studio Matrix; 10 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-13
)
Syunichi Kakiuchi (Studio Matrix; 10 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-13
)
Yuuka Hagiwara (Studio Twinkle; ep 7)
Planning: Soichiro Sano (SME Visual Works)
Production Advancement:
Yoshiyasu Uchinomura (eps 1, 7, 13)
Production Desk: Yoshihiro Egawa
Production manager: Tsutomu Fujio
Production producer: Masao Maruyama (Madhouse)
Program Manager:
Kimika Hiromatsu
Program Publicity:
Yuko Nagasaki
Publicity:
Tomonori Ochikoshi (eps 11-13)
Recording engineer: Shōji Hata
Series Formation: Hiroko Tokita
Setting Production: Keiko Kose
Sound Effects: Eiko Morikawa
Sound Production Manager: Yoshimi Sugiyama
Supervision: Toshio Hirata
Theme Song Arrangement: Koichiro Kameyama (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
Sam Project (OP)
Theme Song Lyrics: Tracy Rose (OP)
Theme Song Performance: Kathy Shower (OP)
Video Editing: Ryoji Kishi (Tokyo Laboratory)
Show Hayami as Nobutsuna Naoe
Toshihiko Seki as Takaya Ohgi

Taiki Matsuno as Yuzuru Narita

Ai Orikasa as Yuiko Takeda
Akiko Yajima as Saori Morino
Chiaki Takahashi as Wakamono (ep 6)
Dai Matsumoto as Yasuhide Tohyama (eps 1-13)
Fumihiko Tachiki as Kojuurou Katakura
Hideyuki Tanaka as Ujiteru Hojo
Hiroki Tōchi as Rairen Shimozuma
Hiroshi Kamiya as Kojirou Date
Hiroshi Naka as Nue
Hozumi Gōda as Murashige Araki
Katsunosuke Hori as Genan Hojyo
Kazuaki Itō as Kinue
Kazuya Nakai as Sinya Asaoka
Kenyū Horiuchi as Danjo Kousaka
Masanori Ikeda as Narrator
Matsuo Matsuo as Doctor (ep 1)
Miho Yoshida as Minako
Miki Tsuchiya as Woman (ep 7)
Misa Watanabe as Maiko Asaoka
Mitsuru Miyamoto as Kotaro Fuuma
Rokurō Naya as Ujimasa Hojo
Ryōtarō Okiayu as Nobunaga Oda
Sakiko Tamagawa as Ayako Kadowaki
Satoko Kitō as Yuzuru's mother (ep 1)
Shigenori Sōya as Kasuke
Tomokazu Seki as
Ranmaru Mori
Satoshi Hatayama
Tomoko Miura as Miya Ohgi
Tomoko Mura as Miya Ohgi
Toshiyuki Morikawa as Rairyu Shimozuma
Yasunori Matsumoto as Shuhei Chiaki
Yoshiyuki Kaneko as Kenshin Uesugi
Yukitoshi Hori as
Masamune Date
Shingen Takeda

Akemi Adachi (ep 4)
Eisuke Asakure (ep 2)
Fumio Yoshioka (ep 1)
Hisanori Koyatsu (ep 3)
Isao Yamagishi (ep 1)
Jirō Saitō (ep 3)
Kaori Matoi (ep 4)
Masanobu Kariya (eps 1, 3)
Mayumi Yamaguchi (ep 1)
Nobuyuki Tanaka (eps 1, 3-4)
Noriaki Sugiyama (ep 2)
Noriko Shitaya (ep 4)
Ryūzō Hasuike (ep 3)
Tadasuke Oomizu (ep 2)
Takayuki Fujimoto (ep 2)
Japanese companies
Animation: SME Visual Works
Animation Direction: DR DIGITAL (ep 11)
Animation Production: Madhouse
Animation : Studio Matrix
Backgrounds: Studio Loft
Broadcaster: Kids Station
Color Check: CCR (eps 3, 9)
Digital TP:
HeeWon Entertainment (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 7-8, 10, 12-13
)
JEM (4 episodes
eps 1, 5, 10, 13
)
Studio Kuma (ep 7)
Editing: Seyama Editing Room
In-Between Animation:
HeeWon Entertainment (8 episodes
eps 1-2, 4, 7-8, 10, 12-13
)
JEM (4 episodes
eps 1, 5, 10, 13
)
Studio Kuma (ep 7)
Key Animation:
DR DIGITAL (3 episodes
eps 11 solo uncredited, 12-13
)
HeeWon Entertainment (4 episodes
eps 4, 8 solo, 10, 12
)
Studio Mu (eps 4, 10)
Music Production: Regat Music
Music/Sound Production: SME Visual Works
Original Titles: Maki Production
Photography:
Studio Matrix (10 episodes
eps 1-3, 5-6, 8, 10-13
)
Viola Co. (eps 4-5, 9)
Planning Cooperation: Shueisha Cobalt Editorial Department
Production:
Sony
Production Cooperation: I Move (ep 3)
Recording Studio: Studio Gong
Sound Production: Rakuonsha
Video Editing: Tokyo Laboratory
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Lex Lang
Script: Lex Lang
Translation: Mayumi Kobayashi
Executive producer: John Sirabella
Producer:
Kaeko Sakamoto

Assistant producer: Mami Okada
Dialogue Editing: Rick Tetzlaff
Dialogue Replacement Engineer:
Rick Tetzlaff
Editing: Khalid Mills
Graphic Design: Alissyn Brock
Post-Production Assistant: Tetsuya Fujita
Production manager: Scott Marchfeld
Production Supervision: Sean Molyneaux
Re-Recording Mixing: Rick Tetzlaff
Sound Supervision: Patrick Rodman
Spotting: Stephanie Sheh
Translation Manager: Anna Yamamoto
Edward Villa as Takaya Ohgi
James Lyon as Nobutsuna Naoe

John Riggins as Yuzuru

Dave Mallow as Ujimasa Hojyo
David Orosco as
Nobunaga Oda (ep 11)
Punk (ep 8)
Yasuhide Tohyama
Jane Alan as Yuiko
Jennifer Jean as
Miya Ohgi
Student (ep 5)
Jim Taggert as
Kojiro Date (eps 5-7)
Shinya Asaoko (ep 8)
Student (ep 5)
John Smallberries as
Kenshin Uesugi
Priest
Johnny Yong Bosch as Kotaro Fuuma
Julie Ann Taylor as
Ayako
Student (ep 5)
Swiming Girl (ep 7)
Kim Strauss as Masamune Date
Kurt Strauss as Ujiteru Hojyo
Lex Lang as
Attendant
Chiaki
Danjo Kousaka
Mia Bradly as Maiko Asaoka
Michael Forest as Kojyuro Katakura (eps 8-13)
Michael McConnohie as
Doctor (ep 1)
Kinue
Michelle Ruff as Minako
Olivia O'Connor as Saori
Peter Doyle as Kojiro Date
Sparky Thornton as
Boat Pilot (ep 11)
Genan Hojyo
Kasuke
Kojyurou Katakura
Mori's Aide (ep 5)
Student (ep 5)
Steve Cannon as
Hatayama
Ranmaru Mori
Steve Kramer as
Nue
Shingen Takeda
Teacher (ep 5)
English companies
Broadcaster:
Encore WAM
Casting: Love-Chan Casting
Distributor: AnimeWorks
Internet Streaming:
YouTube
Licensed by: Media Blasters
Recording Studio: Bang Zoom! Entertainment
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Distributor: Shin Vision
Italian cast
(none)

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