History YMMV / FlameOfRecca

* JerkassWoobie: As a child, Kurei was cursed without knowing the reason and was almost intended to be killed along with his mother, Reina, by the respected elders[[note]]until Kagehoshi's intervention who suggested them to be exiled instead[[/note]]. When transported into the future, he is adopted by a ruthless monster, Kouran Mori. Growing up, he went through a hellish training to be a heartless killing machine and witnessed his love interest, Kurenai, killed in a gruesome death. Even his half-younger brother, Recca, can't help but slightly sympathizes him before Tokiya reminds Recca that Kurei has ever harmed Yanagi.
* MagnificentBastard: Kurei Mori, TheDragon to Kouran Mori is the string puller behind the events of the first 50+ chapters. Kidnapping Recca's "princess", Yanagi, Kurei baits Recca to his castle. Defeating Recca and the heroes' Team Hokage, Kurei forces them to participate in the lethal combat arena, Ura Butou Satsujin, where the wealthy gamble on the fights—including Kurei's adoptive father, the aforementioned Kouran. After witnessing the abilities of Team Hokage, Kurei prepares powerful fighters to challenge them and even uses the heroes to take down the traitorous Genjuro, along with his minions. Having removed all other opposition, Kurei challenges Recca to one-on-one combat and after being defeated, honors his promise not to attack Recca or his friends. Helping the heroes kill Kouran after he betrays Kurei, Kurei proved himself to plan one step ahead of everyone else and always remained a NobleDemon at heart, despite his brutal tendencies.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Together with ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'', ''Flame of Recca'' is still adored and well remembered by many Filipino 90's kids because it was one of the few animes watched on local television which is before the rise of cable TV and internet.

** [[BigBad Kōran Mori]] is a hideous millionaire who believes [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney he can do whatever he likes thanks to his wealth]], and desires invincibility and immortality in order to enjoy his wealth forever. To this end, Kōran [[AbusiveParents abuses]] his adopted son, Kurei, having killed Kurei's lover Kurenai, and blackmails him into service with a bomb inside Kōran's own wife--Kurei's loving adoptive mother. Kōran runs brutal underground fighting rings that routinely result in horrible deaths, and manipulates fighters into TrainingFromHell where their loved ones die, while he employs multiple psychotic murderers and uses them to kill innocents. After Kurei loses the tournament, Kōran reveals he created an OppositeSexClone named Renge, after dozens of failed attempts led to tormented clones being either killed, or emotionally abused by Kōran for being "failures", and attempts to detonate the bomb in his own wife, gleefully declaring he will destroy whatever Kurei loves. After achieving immortality, Kōran becomes a HumanoidAbomination whose desires for food and sex have "merged," which he satisfies by [[SerialRapist raping]] and [[ImAHumanitarian eating]] innocent women by the dozen. Along with continuing to abuse Renge both sexually and emotionally, Kōran ends up devouring her to steal her soul and power, even as she begs for his mercy. In the end, Kōran Mori is a wholly irredeemable beast of a man who lives for nothing save his own whims and pleasure.

* MoralEventHorizon: While in-verse he crosses it, when he gloats on [[spoiler: Hisui's death]] on a crying Fuuko after admitting he staged [[spoiler: Hisui's murder of her lover]]. Out-verse, he crosses it when he kills Kurei's lover and his adopted daughter, Kurenai, just to anger him.

* SignatureScene: Several over the course of the anime.
** Kukai's [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown thrashing of Recca]], especially the anime version of the fight, once he goes Oni mode.

* JerkassWoobie: As a child, Kurei was cursed without knowing the reason and was almost intended to be killed along with his mother, Reina, by the elders[[note]]until Kagehoshi's intervention who suggested them to be exiled instead[[/note]]. When transported into the future, he is adopted by a ruthless monster, Kouran Mori. Growing up, he went through a hellish training to be a heartless killing machine and witnessed his love interest, Kurenai, killed in a gruesome death. Even his half-younger brother, Recca, can't help but slightly sympathizes him before Tokiya reminds Recca that Kurei ever harmed Yanagi.

* JerkassWoobie: As a child, Kurei was cursed without knowing the reason and was almost intended to be killed along with his mother, Reina, by the elders[[note]]until Kagehoshi's intervention who suggested them to be exiled instead[[/note]]. When transported into the future, he is adopted by a ruthless monster, Kouran Mori. Growing up, he went through a hellish training to be a heartless killing machine and witnessed his love interest, Kurenai, killed in a gruesome death. Even his half-younger brother, Recca, can't help but slightly sympathizes him before Kagami reminds Recca that he ever harmed Yanagi.

* JerkassWoobie: As a child, Kurei was cursed and was almost intended to be killed along with his mother, Reina, by the elders without knowing the reason[[note]]until Kagehoshi's intervention who suggested them to be exiled instead[[/note]]. When transported into the future, he is adopted by a ruthless monster, Kouran Mori. Growing up, he went through a hellish training to be a heartless killing machine and witnessed his love interest, Kurenai, killed in a gruesome death. Even his half-younger brother, Recca, can't help but slightly sympathizes him before Kagami reminds Recca that he ever harmed Yanagi.

* JerkassWoobie: As a child, he was cursed by the elders without knowing the reason. When transported into the future, he is adopted by a ruthless monster, Kouran Mori. Growing up, he went through a hellish training to be a heartless killing machine and lost his love interest, Kurenai. Even his half-younger brother, Recca, can't help but slightly sympathize him before Kagami reminds Recca that he ever harmed Yanagi.

** Kukai's [[TheBerserker Oni state]], the normally calm and friendly Kukai turns into a raged berserker that proceeds to give Recca an [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown utterly one-sided thrashing]], which is taken [[UpToEleven to worse extremes in the anime]].