Fire Force

Not to be confused with Fireforce, a counterinsurgency tactic.

Fire Force
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Shinra Kusakabe
炎炎ノ消防隊
(En'en no Shōbōtai)
Genre
Manga
Written byAtsushi Ohkubo
Published byKodansha
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Magazine Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runSeptember 23, 2015 – February 22, 2022
Volumes34 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
Produced by
  • Chiho Tochikura
  • Hiroshi Kamei
  • Du Yi
  • Rina Shinoda (1–14)
  • Chris Han (1–14)
  • Maya Fujino (15–48)
  • Emiko Iijima (15–48)
Written by
  • Yamato Haijima (S1)
  • Tatsuma Minamikawa (S2)
Music byKenichiro Suehiro
StudioDavid Production
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkJNN (MBS) (Super Animeism)
English network
Original run July 6, 2019 – present
Episodes48 (List of episodes)
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Fire Force (Japanese: 炎炎ノ消防隊, Hepburn: En'en no Shōbōtai, lit. "Blazing Fire Brigade") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Ohkubo. It was serialized in Kodansha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Magazine from September 2015 to February 2022, with its chapters collected in 34 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga has been licensed for English language release by Kodansha USA.

It follows a youth with pyrokinetic abilities who joins a special force developed to counter pyrokinetic monsters threatening Tokyo, which is the sole remaining city in a world ravaged by a global fire. The series is connected to Ohkubo's manga series Soul Eater.

An anime television series adaptation produced by David Production aired from July to December 2019 on the MBS's Super Animeism block. A second season aired from July to December 2020. A third and final season will be split in two cours, with the first one set to premiere in April 2025 and the second one in January 2026. The anime television series has been licensed by Crunchyroll (formerly Funimation).

By May 2022, the Fire Force manga had over 20 million copies in circulation.

  1. ^ Chapman, Paul (April 22, 2019). "Main Cast Gears Up for Action in New "Fire Force" TV Anime Key Visual". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on April 22, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  2. ^ Chapman, Paul (June 15, 2019). "Funimation Heats Up Their Summer 2019 Season with Fire Force & More". Crunchyroll. Archived from the original on June 16, 2019. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  3. ^ 人気のサイエンス・ファンタジー！ TVアニメ『炎炎ノ消防隊 弐ノ章』. C-station (in Japanese). Kodansha. June 25, 2020. Archived from the original on May 17, 2022. Retrieved May 18, 2022.
  4. ^ Hilaire, Damien (November 14, 2018). "Fire Force : Le nouveau manga de l'auteur de Soul Eater adapté en anime". IGN (in French). Archived from the original on May 12, 2022. Retrieved May 12, 2022. Kusakabe et ses camarades évoluent dans un setting rétro-futuriste qu'on pourrait vulgairement qualifier de science-fantasy.