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Mirage of Blaze: The Complete Collection, Vol. 1-4 | 
| Actor: Mirage Of Blaze
Studio: Anime Works
List Price: $39.95
Buy New: $24.69
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 29399
Format: Animated, Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), English (Dubbed)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 325 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 2.4
MPN: AWDVD0617
UPC: 631595061772
EAN: 0631595061772
ASIN: B000CEV3SM
Theatrical Release Date: 2002
Release Date: March 28, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
High school students Takaya Oogi and Yuzuru Narita are best friends who share an extraordinary bond: they both act as conduits for the psychic powers of long ago. Takaya the more street savvy of the pair is always on the lookout for Yuzuru but even he can't single-handedly stop the war they have inherited from Japan s chaotic Warring States Period. With rival clansmen out to destroy the two friends they must band together to escape the clutches of the long-dead warlord Shingen Takeda. This complete collection contains 13 episodes from Volumes 1-4.System Requirements:Running Time 325 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM Rating: NR UPC: 631595061772 Manufacturer No: AWDVD0617
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
Fun with quality. March 23, 2008
Michael (Sao Paulo, Brasil.)
How can an anime be much better than most of expensive productions in the film industry?
I really wanted them (creators, studio staff etc) to release more episodes.
Romance and adventure spanning four centuries. November 19, 2007
Michiru (New Mexico)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Four hundred years ago in Japan, warring clans battled each other for control of the island. Unwilling to let death stop their fight, the warriors of each clan began to reincarnate themselves, leading to an ongoing war that today shows no signs of abating.
17 year old Takaya is the reincarnated leader of the Uesugi clan--but he can't remember it. When strange people begin showing up and telling him that he is, in fact, Lord Kagetora, he refuses to believe it until dangerous circumstances force him to confront his past.
As the episodes unfold and more people begin to target his life, Takaya tries to remember just what horrible trauma in his past made him forget everything. Just what has it to do with the handsome and powerful Naoe, and Naoe's obvious sexual obsession with him? What did Naoe do to him...and what did he do to Naoe?
The Mirage of Blaze anime is a 13 episode condensed version of nine novels. For the most part the animators do a great job translating the book to the TV screen; they get all the important events from the books and do it with dramatic flair. However, be warned that as there's so much material to cover and so many characters to introduce that you have to really pay attention to figure out what's going on and to keep all the characters, places and clans straight.
The focus of the series is the rather twisted (and fascinating) relationship between Naoe and Takaya, and the retrieval of Takaya's past memories. Because there are forty books in the written series, it was obviously difficult for the writers to bring the series to and end, but I think they did an admirable job. Though open-ended, there was a sense of closure that made made the last episode satisfying.
The Japanese acting was wonderful. The voices were perfect, and both emotionally intense scenes and action scenes came across beautifully. The English voices are less fitting in my personal opinion, but all of the actors did well and made Mirage of Blaze an unusually good dub.
Unless homosexuality bothers you (and it would have to bother you a lot, because except for two almost-kisses the Naoe/Takaya relationship is almost all innuendo), this series is recommended for fans of romance, history and supernatural action alike.
I love this anime! October 8, 2007
Lacey M. Matteo (USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Mirage of Blaze has an involving story line and exciting character interactions, characters you could just fall in love with and characters that inspire sympathy.
 Good but not great. April 17, 2007
D. Kyles (Alabama, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Yoai(boy-boy love)...if you dont like it then dont watch this anime. There is not a lot but enough. This series was good, the animation very well done and the characters were pretty well developed. However, the story was very very slow moving. It seemed like hardly anything ever happened. And the romantic conflict between the 2 main characters never came to a close...nothing got resolved. And if your like me, you will love the hair. I am a sucker for great hair in an anime...so much that ill hardly watch one that doesnt have awesome hair somewhere. Hope this helped.
A masterpiece of beautiful sensibility and character development January 31, 2007
L. R. Pierce (Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just finished viewing this anime series and was totally blown away by the masterful character development, complex relationships, and emotional intensity of the very attractive characters. It has a compelling and complex plot that held my interest so well that I was quickly hooked and anxious to see what would transpire in each of the next episodes (there are 3 episodes on each of the 4 CDs). The music and graphics are also top rate. After viewing this series, I went out and bought Japanese language instructional CDs and will now review the series in the original Japanese with English subtitles to help me start learning Japanese. The English dubbed version on the DVD is also quite good. I also highly recommend the sequel DVD, "Mirage of Blaze - the River Edge," and am passionately hoping that the wonderful production team that put this series together will delight us with additional volumes.
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