Anime Profile: Shana of the Burning Eyes

Sakai Yuji' normal days that were thought to last forever suddenly ended by the encounter with a girl with red hair and red eyes. He named her Shana.

Not long after he had entered the high school, Sakai Yuji's normal days finished. He saw a strange view on his way home; people were frozen in the fire, and a monster that looked liked a large doll assaulted them. When he was about to be killed, a girl in a black cloth holding a large sword appeared, and cut the monster in half. Although Yuji pulled though the crisis, the girl informed him of a hopeless fact.

"You don't 'exist' anymore"

She called herself Flame Haze who hunted "Kuze no Tomogara", intruders from another world. She explained him that he was a "torch", a substitute of Yuji whose "existence" had already been eaten. She also told him that he was a special torch, "Mystis", which had a precious item in it. When he looked at his chest, he saw a faint flame as she said.

In this way, his eternal fight with the girl began.

Shana, also called flame-haired burning-eyed hunter, is the main character and a flame haze, that hunts for "Rinne" and the "Denizens of the Crimson Realm". She met a boy named Yuji Sakai who she sees as a torch only. A torch is a replacement entity for a human. Yuji is also a Mystes, a kind of torch who's special. He or she who posses it contains a treasure tool called Hougo. It allows Yuji to not vanish like the other torch. Shana protects Yuji from the Denizens who tried to get the Hougo inside him to disrupt the whole world. Yuji trains to be strong and able to fight with her. In every fight they win because of cooperation. About their love life, Shana has a crush on Yuji but Yuji has a crush on Kazumi. Also Kazumi has a crush on Yuji and tells Shana about it and tells her she will not let her love be loss for Yuji.