Kagerō

Kagerō (かげろう or カゲロウ), also spelled Kagerou, is the Japanese word for "heat haze" (陽炎) or "mayfly" (蜉蝣 or 蜻蛉), and may refer to:

Video games

• The Japanese Kagero video game series (影牢) translated as shadow dungeon, also knowns as the Deception series outside of Japan and Korea.
  • Kagero: Deception II, a video game in the Deception series
  • Kagero II: Dark Illusion, its sequel, released in English as Trapt

Ships

• Kagerō-class destroyer, a class of vessels in the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Japanese destroyer Kagerō, two destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy

Films

• Heat Wave Island, a 1969 film directed by Kaneto Shindo
• Kagero-za, a 1981 film by Seijun Suzuki
• Kagero, a 1991 film directed by Hideo Gosha

Songs

• "Kagerō", 1972 song by Japanese singer-songwriter Sachiko Kanenobu from the album Misora
• "Kagerō", 2004 single by Japanese rock band Fujifabric
• "Kagerou" (Buck-Tick song), 2006 single by Japanese band Buck-Tick
• "Kagerō" (Scandal song), 2008 single by Japanese band Scandal
• "Kagerou", a song by Babymetal from the album Metal Galaxy

Fictional characters

• Kagerou (Basilisk), a fictional character from Basilisk: The Kouga Ninja Scrolls
• Kagero, a fictional character from Ninja Scroll
• Kagero Imaizumi, a fictional character from Double Dealing Character
• Kageromaru, a fictional character from InuYasha
• Kagerō Shokiin, a fictional character from Inu x Boku SS
• Kagero, a fictional character from the video game Fire Emblem Fates
• Kagero, a fictional character from Brave Police J-Decker
• Kagero Donne, a fictional character from Scarlet Nexus
• Kagero, a fictional character from Kamen Rider Revice

Others

• Kagerou (band), a Japanese rock band

• Kagerou, a novel by Hiro Mizushima

• Kagerou, an organization in the manga Usogui

See also

• Kagerō Nikki
• Kagerou Project, a multi-media project based on a Vocaloid song series