My first exposure to this series was back in ye olde days when I saw the anime version of it. While I enjoyed the anime considerably it was clear that it only covered a small portion of an otherwise much larger story. At the time I searched for a manga translation but to no avail. Cut to several years later and in my search for complete manga I was drawn to the tempting sight of "31 Volumes - Complete". I must say I was certainly more than satisfied with what I found. At its heart Flame of Recca is a tournament style story, similar to YuYu Hakusho (which is awesome, but watch the anime), etc. Some people aren’t fans of tournament style shonen manga/anime, those people are clearly sick in the brain. I find few things as mindlessly entertaining as watching or reading about groups of people with strange and improbable powers beating the shit out of other groups of people with strange and improbable powers. If you’re not a fan of the genre then you should most certainly avoid Flame of Recca. But if you do enjoy such things then Flame of Recca has much to recommend it. The majority of the characters have fairly unique power-sets and abilities nearly all of which stem from the same power source so you have a nice spread of individual's with a shared origin to lend a nice cohesiveness to the whole thing.

The main storyline is also enjoyable and engaging and while it might not break much new ground it is executed extremely well. Really that’s the key draw of this series, its a very "typical" shonen action/adventure story executed very well. The quality of the artwork is really amazing, particularly the large spreads. It totally eclipses the quality of its anime adaptation. So yeah, Flame of Recca, read it.