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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 9998)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.593 (Good−), std. dev.: 2.095, rank: #5677 (of 10155)
Weighted mean: 6.439 (Decent+), rank: #6139 (of 10155) (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 $10.95)
    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 $14.99)
    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:
Koichiro Kameyama (ED)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 1-10)  (eps 11-13) 
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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