Kaze no stigma

Kaze no Stigma is quite a fun and endearing anime despite the description of the manga as being significantly darker. Seeing Kazuma and Ayano grow closer as the series progresses is a lot of fun especially considering how exasperating and hot headed Ayano can be! Its also interesting to watch how Kazuma's brother Ren grows to be a kindler, gentler version of his older brother.

Plot wise there are few wasted moments with plenty of action of the magical variety from end to end. One matter that the anime could have explored in another episode or two was what happened between Kazuma and Tsui Le, as it is you only get a few flashbacks of the events that drove Kazuma to become a contractor/wind magic user.

The intro song "Blast of Wind" is really beautiful and there are two or three ending songs that are nice as well.

Overall, I recommend the series.

The anime is a "classic" but consider it's 13+\- year old it holds up pretty well. The animation is "period", tropes are well worn, and the characters are all classic archetypes, despite all of that (or maybe because) it fits together well was an enjoyable watch with its age in mind.

Pros:

• Brooding Outcast cliche works.
• Classic character archetypes are well handled.
• Not all reunions are happy.

Cons:

• Mixed animation styles to highlight emotions, personal preference but to cartoony (ironic I know).
• Moderate cheese factor.
• Predictable to fault.

All in all it's an average anime, likely very good at its debut but overshadowed by better entries at time goes on.

Before I started watching it, I had a bad feeling that this anime will turn out to be a booring one, that's bcz I saw a few reviews which suggested that I'd be an average series. But to tell you the truth, my perception completely changed after I completed 3-4 episodes. Everything about the anime is good, the main character Kazume is a solid badass. He kinda reminds me of Light Yagami from 'Death Note', smart, composed, calm, quick, powerful and handsome as well. He is kind of an anti hero. You'll find him pretty cool. Speaking about the story, it may not be the best one out there but I'd rather say it's pretty interesting. The more you watch, the better it gets and that's how it's gonna be. The soundtrack is good as well. The only thing that I personally think would've been better was the animation style, it's not bad but I reckon it'd been better if style was more the fighting type which the anime is based of. Overall, I'd suggest you to give it a go if you're looking for a good action anime with a rather intriguing plot and a badass main character.

Though it's quite old if you're watching in 2020. It was quite good not best. But it was good enough to make me yearn for another season. But bad luck the died long ago. So,there is no chance if getting season 2. It's good even if not the best.

I'm not gonna lie I was pretty convinced I wouldn't like this show when it started considering that I found the main heroine really annoying and well....hot headed. However, though it took a while she started to grow on me and so did her relationship with the main hero. In fact her quick tempered nature even developed into a sort of charm about her and highlighted how Kazume bettered her as a person and a future leader. This show is highly enjoyable and my biggest problem is that they didn't have another season. The series is definitely worth giving a chance and I doubt you will be disappointed.