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'''''Mirage of Blaze''''' is a light novel series written by Mizuna Kuwabara. 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 [http://www.asphodelshaven.com/translations/novel here]
Ougi Takaya is a seventeen year old [[Ordinary High School Student|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 [[Battle Butler|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 [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|no memory of this]] however and and refuess to believe he is Kagetora. As he begins to remember however, he becomes [[Tomato in
One of the main themes that make Mirage of Blaze stand out is the [[Love Makes You Crazy|complicated]] [[Bodyguard Crush|relationship]] of Kagetora and Naoe.
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* [[All Take and No Give]]: Kagetora and Naoe are this trope.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Kagetora, {{spoiler|though by the end of the OVA, it's not ambiguous anymore as he has finally accepted Naoe as a potentional lover}}.
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* [[Parental Abandonment]]: Kagetora {{spoiler|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"}}.
* [[Power Glows]]
* [[Protective Charm]]
* [[Rape
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: Houjou Ujiteru {{spoiler|turning on Ujimasa and allowing himself to be exorcized by Kagetora to save him}}.
* [[Reincarnation Romance]]: Naoe and Kagetora, and also Haruie {{spoiler|who is looking for his long-lost lover, thought it's not technically reincarnation as they escape the cycle of rebirth by by possessing bodies}}.
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* [[Snow Means Love]]: The end of the OVA.
* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]]
* [[
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Naoe, {{spoiler|who manipulated both Kagetora's family and the Feudal Underworld to save Kagetora}}.
* [[The Four Gods]]
* [[Tomato in
* [[Troubled but Cute]]: Kagetora
* [[True Companions]]
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