Shakugan no Shana - Movie

Shakugan no Shana - Movie

     Shakugan no Shana is a comedic, supernatural, fantasy type of anime. The story is based around two characters, Sakai Yuuji, a high school student who never thought anything could happen to him, and a girl that calls herself a "Flame Haze" who hunts "Guze no Tomogara", creatures from another world which eat people's existences. These eaten existences are turned into a "Torch", temporary replacements which last until the blue flame inside of them disappears. After the flame is gone, the Torch's existence is erased, no one will remember he/she, and not a trace will remain of them.

    In the Shakugan no Shana movie, Sakai Yuuji is living a normal life with his friends and family until suddenly he is engulfed in an unknown energy. This energy was called a "Fuzetsu" a time/space rift which freezes everything except for those who are able unaffected by it. Yuuji is approached by two creatures who begin to devour those around him. Fortunately the creatures did not realize that Yuuji was unaffected by the Fuzetsu until he made himself noticeable. They then called Yuuji a "Mystes", a person born with mysterious powers called a "Hogou". The creatures begin to assault Yuuji until a flame haired - red eyed girl destroys one of the creature's arms. The girl and the creatures begin to fight until the main source of the creatures runs away. The girl then replaces all the eaten existences with torches and uses a few of them to repair all the damage to buildings and surroundings. The Fuzetsu is dispersed and everything is back to normal except for the torches.




    Yuuji begins to follow this girl and finds out that he himself is a torch and not a normal human. He then tries to save one of his friends who's existence was eaten during the fight. But when his friend disappeared he realizes that it was pointless and it is not their fault that they disappear. Yuuji approaches the girl who calls herself a "Flame Haze" and asks her her name. She replies that she has no name and to be distinguished from other Flame Hazes she is called by her sword, "Flame Haze of Nietono no Shana" then Yuuji begins to call her Shana. Yuuji starts the next day with going to school and then Shana appears in his class inside his friend's seat. She described herself as barging in on an existence so in other words she took over the existence of that person. After a while in school a Fuzetsu is created and the person behind the attack on Yuuji appears, he called himself Frigane. He said to Yuuji that he would appear again so that Yuuji would not get involved because he was a Mystes with unique power.



    Later on, another Flame Haze appears and begins to devour torches at random to call out Frigane. Frigane appears and a brawl begins to happen with Shana and the new Flame Haze against Frigane. The fight ends up in a total disaster and Yuuji is taken away. Frigane said that they would fight again the next night on the tallest point of the city.



    That night, Frigane told Yuuji that he had an anti-flame haze weapon called "Trigger Happy", because Flame Haze's use the power of kings, Trigger Happy forces out the power of those kings and because the amount of energy created by the king is so intense the container or the Flame Haze will explode. Then soon after that, Shana and the other flame haze appear, and another fight happens. Frigane shows the real reason why he is making so many torches and that is to devour the entire city's existence. Shana soon after gets shot by the Trigger Happy and when she is thought to be dead, the summon "Flame of Heaven", the king which Shana holds within her appears and destroys Frigane. The reason why Shana did not explode is because she had enough capacity to allow the king to manifest and still have extra space to hold her existence.




    Finally, in the end Yuuji is shown lying on the ground about to disappear because the glow of his torch was so weak. Shana tells him that there's nothing she can do. Yuuji then asks his last request and as he is about to disappear, the midnight clock tower is shown. Yuuji then appears to be normal and Shana says that the "Hougu" power inside of him is the power to recover existence used that day at midnight.

Rating: 7/10



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