"Stigma of the Wind") is a Japanese light novel series written by Takahiro Yamato and illustrated by Hanamaru Nanto.

However, due to his inability to use "Enjutsu" (炎術, Blaze Technique), the power to control flames, within his family he was considered to be useless.

Soon after his return, several Kannagi family members are killed by someone using Fūjutsu and Kazuma is presumed to have committed the murders in revenge for his banishment.

Kazuma is revealed to be a Contractor, a rare individual who has entered into a contract with the "Kaze no Seirei-Ō" (風の霊魂王, Wind Spirit King).

Voiced by: Dai Matsumoto (Japanese); Christopher Sabat (English) Kaze no Stigma began as a light novel series, written by Takahiro Yamato and illustrated by Hanamaru Nanto, serialized in the Japanese seinen light novel magazine Dragon Magazine, published by Fujimi Shobō, a subsidiary of Kadokawa Shoten.

The author of the light novels, Takahiro Yamato, died on July 20, 2009, leaving the series incomplete.

[2] The anime's opening theme is "Blast of Wind" performed by Saori Kiuji, lyrics by Chiaki Ishikawa and Mitsuko Komuro, composed by Kazumi Mitome and Akino Arai.

In the anime, Kazuma is usually depicted as only injuring or incapacitating his opponents, while their actual deaths are usually the result of their own schemes backfiring on them.