Kaze no Stigma

Kazuma Yagami is a user of "Fuujutsu," the ability to control the wind. He returns to his old home, the noble Kannagi household, after being banished four years ago for his inability to control fire and his subsequent defeat in a duel at the hands of his younger cousin, Ayano Kannagi.

Returning after such a brutal exile already gives rise to many conflicts, but to make matters worse, several Kannagi family members have recently been murdered with Fuujutsu. This leads the Kannagi family, including the hot-headed Ayano, to suspect Kazuma as the culprit. Now, Kazuma must not only clear his name, but also aid the family he shares a mutual hatred with, in order to discover the true identity of the killer.

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Yagami, Kazuma

Main

Ono, Daisuke
Japanese

Kannagi, Ayano

Main

Fujimura, Ayumi
Japanese

Kannagi, Ren

Main

Morinaga, Rika
Japanese

McDonald, Katherine

Supporting

Takahashi, Chiaki
Japanese

Tachibana, Kirika

Supporting

Ohara, Sayaka
Japanese

Tsuwabuki, Ayumi

Supporting

Sakai, Kanako
Japanese

Ling, Cui

Supporting

Makino, Yui
Japanese

Kannagi, Juugo

Supporting

Terasoma, Masaki
Japanese

Tiana

Supporting

Shindou, Kei
Japanese

Kannagi, Genma

Supporting

Koyama, Rikiya
Japanese

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Cook, Justin

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Takechi, Tsuneo

Producer

Shibata, Tomonori

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Sakata, Junichi

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Opening Theme

"blast of wind" by Saori Kiuji

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Ending Theme

	1: "Hitorikiri no Sora" by Saori Kiuji (eps 1-2, 4-5, 7, 10-11, 19-23)
	2: "Matataki no Kiwoku" by Ayumi Fujimura, Yuka Inokuchi and Shizuka Itou (eps 3, 6, 8-9, 13-18, 24)
	3: "Tsuki Hana no Inori" by Sakai Kanako (eps 12)

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Sep 25, 2007

Bondius

Recommended

Kaze no Stigma is a fun anime if you're interested into this genre. Battles, magic, comedy, kick-ass moments, KnS has it all.

Story
The story is fair, not really impressive since for me it was predictable towards the end. The "main" plot starts later in the series as the first 3/4 is filled with random missions and somewhat fillers like hotspring episodes and so on. Even though the lack of main plot overall disappointed me, I found the story overall satisfying.

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The characters are very nicely drawn, you can clearly see this is a 2007 anime. Effects are good, from flames to wind and other unleashed powers; plus ...

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Apr 24, 2014

NipaahNyaa

Mixed Feelings

A friend highly recommended Kaze no Stigma to me one day, so I finally got around to watching it. While it was entertaining, I was disappointed with the anime as a whole. It didn't match up to the high recommendation I had received. However, I do appreciate the fun, entertaining aspect.
Story: It was interesting, but not well done. Many things were highly predictable, but I do love the concept of element magic-users and whatnot.
Art: Fair art; some things did not flow well, and just in general, the art is simple. Not necessarily a bad thing, but I didn't enjoy all the fight scenes due ...

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Nov 3, 2010

Sandrock04

Not Recommended

Kaze no Stigma I believe had a lot of potential. It started off interesting, not entirely compelling but interesting. Then it went downhill faster than I could write this review. There was also another thing that bothered me, which was the way they handled deaths. When someone not particularly important died, the main characters just shoved it past their shoulders and act like nothing happened. Human life doesn't seem to hold much importance here(particularly to the heroine). Then again what was I expecting? It wasn't entirely an disappointment, I didn't expect much from it but I didn't expect it to be this bad.

Story: 3/10
It ... doesn't exist. There was a few tidbits of potential at the story but I have to say it just dragged on to different story lines that ended predictably.

Characters: 2/10
Kazuma to me was the only likable person there. If I looked past the fan service and pretty art, he was the only one remotely interesting. Everyone else seemed like filler characters.

Ayano to me, was extremely annoying. Whenever something went wrong, it was automatically Kazuma's fault. Especially at the first episode when she disobeyed orders and followed Kazuma which had two people killed. She is irrisponsible, short tempered and incredibly flawed. I did not find a single redeeming factor about her character. And really, screaming Kazuma at pretty much every single episode was not an attractive trait what so ever.

Ren is someone I wanted to like, and I admired his peaceful personality in contrast to Ayano's. But he ended up somewhat annoying with his seriously childish antics, and the only time I appreciated him was when he was being useful.

Sound: 5/10
Average, the OP and ED were truly nothing special. I could forget them and not miss them one bit. That said they weren't that bad, could be a lot better but if it had been any worse, I might have started crying.

Art: 6/10
Probably the highlight of it all, and even then it's not that entirely impressive as it lacks personality. Shiny art is shiny, but shininess doesn't mean it's amazing. Like a higher quality of a mediocre show. While the characters are pretty, the backgrounds are really unmemorable. The action scenes are visually pleasing but not very engaging.

Enjoyment: 3/10
I really did not enjoy it very much. It lacked so much that even if I didn't take it seriously, it was still rather bad to me. The execution of the story was terrible.

Overall: 3/10
I would not recommend it. That said I'm sure a lot of people would enjoy this type of anime. It has magic, romance and all the shoujo elements that tweens would like. It just wasn't my cup of tea. I couldn't take it seriously and even the funny parts weren't all that funny, I found myself smiling at best but most of the time I was just waiting for the episode to end.

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