Flame of Recca
Japanese manga series / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Flame of Recca (Japanese: 烈火の炎, Hepburn: Rekka no Honō) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Nobuyuki Anzai. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from March 1995 to January 2002, with its chapters collected in 33 tankōbon volumes.
Flame of Recca | |
烈火の炎 (Rekka no Honō) | |
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Genre | |
Manga | |
Written by | Nobuyuki Anzai |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Imprint | Shōnen Sunday Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | March 22, 1995 – January 30, 2002 |
Volumes | 33 (List of volumes) |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
Written by | Hiroshi Hashimoto |
Music by | Yusuke Honma |
Studio | Pierrot |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Fuji TV |
English network | |
Original run | July 19, 1997 – July 10, 1998 |
Episodes | 42 (List of episodes) |
Game | |
Flame of Recca: The Game | |
Developer | Konami |
Publisher | Konami |
Genre | Fighting |
Platform | Game Boy Advance |
Released | December 20, 2001 |
Game | |
Flame of Recca: Final Burning | |
Developer | Konami |
Publisher | Konami |
Genre | Action, fighting |
Platform | PlayStation 2 |
Released | June 10, 2004 |
The series was adapted into a 42-episode anime television series by Pierrot, broadcast on Fuji TV from July 1997 to July 1998. The series has also spawned two video games and other merchandise. Both the anime and manga were licensed for North American distribution in English by Viz Media. The anime has since been picked up by Discotek Media who re-released the series on DVD in 2015.
The Flame of Recca manga has had over 25 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series.