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Mirage of Blaze is a light novel series written by Mizuna Kuwabara and illustrated by Kazuma Toujou (from volumes 1 to 11) and Shouko Hamada (volumes 12 to 42), which was published from 1990 to 2007 for 42 volumes. It was adapted into a thirteen episode anime season in 2002. A three part OVA titled Rebels of the River Edge was released in 2004. The translation of the light novels can be found hereOugi Takaya is a seventeen year old high school student whose life changes drastically when he is attacked by a man with supernatural powers, a confrontation which awakens the same abilities in him. The man identifies himself as Naoe Nobutsuna and claims Takaya is Lord Kagetora, adopted son of Uesugi Kenshin whom he has sworn to serve. He reveals that the source of their powers stems from the fact that they are Possessors, souls who have been possessing human bodies for over four hundred years.With Kagetora as their leader, the Possessors have been fighting the Feudal Underworld, an army of vengeful spirits of samurai who fell during the Warring States era. Some of these spirits are also able to possess bodies and do so in order to restart the wars, this time to end them in their favor. Takaya has no memory of this however and and refuses to believe he is Kagetora. As he begins to remember however, he becomes increasingly distraught and begins to draw on Naoe for support, but Naoe is neither the mentor nor the convenient protector Takaya thinks he is.One of the main themes that make Mirage of Blaze stand out is the complicated relationship of Kagetora and Naoe.
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May–December Romance
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May–December Romance: Kagetora and Naoe, subverted as Naoe's body is eleven years older than Takaya's, but their souls are both hundreds of years old.
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Hufflepuff House
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Hufflepuff House: The Oda clan. They play a fairly significant role in the backstory of the series are implied to an extremely powerful faction, with Kagetora having died in a previous battle against them, and in the Rebels of the Rivers Edge OVA, it's stated that numerous other clans formed a coalition against them, but we never actually anybody from the Oda clan in the series. Likewise, the coalition against Oda doesn't get much focus.
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Parental Abandonment
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Parental Abandonment: Kagetora who got sent off as a hostage by his father during the Warring States era, and in the present his father abandons him again, preparing to sacrifice his soul for the "greater good".
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Gender Bender
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Gender Bender Haruie is a male Possessor who's using a woman's body. Also Kagetora who was forced to possess the body of his lover, effectively turning into a woman.
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Tomato in the Mirror
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Tomato in the Mirror: Kagetora who is not the Ordinary High-School Student he thought he was but in reality an ancient warlord of the Warring States era who's possessed the body of a boy, ousting his soul in the process.
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Awful Truth
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Awful Truth: Naoe is basically sitting on a ticking time bomb, he knows when Kagetora remembers that they'll fall back in their old pattern of hate and love.
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Break the Cutie
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Break the Cutie: Kagetora's adoptive father sent him off as a hostage of the Hojo, he was raped and then forced to commit seppuku to escape dishonor when the castle fell.
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Downer Ending
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Downer Ending: In order to stop Yami Sengoku, Kagetora is forced to use the last of his soul life. Not only does this kill Kagetora/Takaya, but this prevents him from ever reincarnating again. He lives long enough to finally confess his love to Naoe before he dies in the latter's arms. Naoe put in his own breast the Takaya's broken nearly soul. Takaya's soul seemed pounded but freezes in him. He decided to stay alive repeat the possession until the limit of his own soul in order to prove the eternal love to Takaya.
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Unresolved Sexual Tension
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Unresolved Sexual Tension: Four hundred years of it too, no wonder Naoe has reached his breaking point. Still he initially manages to mask his feelings for Kagetora perfectly, but when Kagetora dreams of his lover's death, Naoe realizes he will soon remember everything and drops the act. Naoe eventually snaps and forces himself on Kagetora, the event triggering Kagetora's memory of how he was raped while a hostage. It serves as a wake-up call for Naoe, who goes into shock mode when he realizes what he almost did.
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Our Ghosts Are Different
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Our Ghosts Are Different: Aside from vengeful spirits, there also exist guardian spirits who are bound to a single place.
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If I Can't Have You…
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If I Can't Have You…: Naoe is prepared to kill Kagetora and himself so that Kagetora will "never belong to anyone else".
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Driven to Suicide
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Driven to Suicide:
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Black-and-Gray Morality
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Black-and-Gray Morality: The spirits the protagonists are fighting against have entirely selfish aims at conquering the modern world, but as the series goes on, we find our main characters have some major skeletons in their closet as well.
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I Am Who?
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I Am Who?: Kagetora is the leader and the strongest of the Possesors.
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My God, What Have I Done?
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My God, What Have I Done?: Naoe after nearly raping Kagetora, but then again, who wouldn't crack after four hundred years of mental torture.
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What Beautiful Eyes!
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What Beautiful Eyes!: Naoe comments on the brilliance of Kagetora's eyes.
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Intimate Psychotherapy
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Intimate Psychotherapy: When Naoe and Kagetora finally consummate their relationship in volume 20, it's in the aftermath of Kagetora being horribly betrayed, receiving a death curse on his eye, and a suicide attempt. The sex allows Kagetora to see the toll Naoe's love has had on his own body—from a hideous scar on his chest from having protected Kagetora, to seeing scars of Naoe's own suicide attempts over his love for Kagetora.
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Cliffhanger
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Cliffhanger: Naoe shot dead and Takaya going mad. Takaya kidnapping and kidnapping again. Nagahide's bodily death. Takaya removed from Uesugi clan. Naoe going over to Oda. Takaya's soul reaching near the limit.
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Intimate Healing
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Intimate Healing: Naoe right before ending the spell that was keeping Kagetora's soulless body alive, used what looked like a farewell kiss to pass Kagetora another Protective Charm, effectively saving him.
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Our Souls Are Different
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Our Souls Are Different: The Possessors who are able to break the reincarnation cycle by possessing human bodies. Of course this is a really bad thing to do, but they do what they have to.
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Laser-Guided Amnesia
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Laser-Guided Amnesia: Kagetora, unable to handle the pain of his lover's death and Naoe's part in it, choses to forget everything.
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