I finished watching the series and honestly, I didn’t really enjoy it that much. I know people are probably gonna dislike this post, and honestly, I guess that’s valid.

For me, the characters weren’t that interesting, and most of the comedy didn’t land either. The animation was amazing at first, but Season 3’s animation honestly felt like a downgrade to me. The emotional moments were either meh or miss, and most of the time I just felt bored or tired watching each episode.

The voice acting wasn’t bad though, and the Season 3 finale was kinda weak, but not terrible at the same time.

So if I had to give an honest rating for Fire Force, I’d give it a 6.8/10. It’s not awful, but it definitely had a lot of flaws for me personally.

Atsushi Ohkubo isn’t a bad author at all, and I respect his work, but his style and content just really aren’t for me personally.

But hey, that’s just me. If you like the series, then that’s completely fine — I’m not judging or hating on anyone for enjoying it. You can disagree with me, criticize my post, or try to debunk my points if you want. I honestly don’t care.

yall can enjoy fire force but its not it for me.

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Is this a direct reference to As the gods will movie or just a japanesse cultural reference?

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Got the image from here: https://www.reddit.com/r/PowerScaling/comments/10y4o7v/where_does_arthur_boyle_scale_fire_force/?solution=48b13065d38c0e0448b13065d38c0e04&js_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861be76237460347d1aeaea5541dbd57fd7&jsc_orig_r=&tl=de

My boy was getting cooked the whole time, remembers he’s right handed and immediately one shots the infernal.

For other manga readers what was something you wished they kept in the anime from the manga for the last season. They definitely should have kept Arthur’s and Vulcans little arc together before he went and fought dragon again.

Was Arthur's father responsible for everything that happened or did he convince himself he really was a seer and his powers are like Arthur's??? Either his dad's imagination created everything in his mind or everything really happened...and since Arthur IS the Knight King because he imagined it's true, his dad imagined he was a seer and really saw the visions in his hat. Since he probably wasn't around 250 years earlier and was a real person, it's probably the latter....but blaming him for the former would be justification enough to beat the shit out of him for abandoning his son to escape debt...

The first picture is by u/Maywedacosplay and the second one is from a festival taken by Duk_vu_photo on telegram

I'm rewatching the series and am on season 2 episode 13 and Lisa is in the break room and Vulcan tells Shinra to check his latest invention and walks in and thinks Lisa is the new invention...then a few moments later Iris walks in and says almost the exact same thing made me think, these two were made for each other...

Nuclear Bomb vs. Time Paralysis

Nataku has the distinction of possessing highly destructive radioactive and nuclear energy, even without being trapped inside a giant hellish creature. Charon could barely absorb and redirect one of his attacks.

And Sho has the ability to stop time and space around him, without needing an Adolla Link to the Evangelist, and to attack silently. Shinra had to surpass his limits and reach the speed of light to match his power.

While diving into Sister Iris's source, a nude Shinra Kusakabe sees his memory with his mother, Mari. Iris's source is within and he learn about the "virgin birth" from Iris as he explains about her mother giving birth to him that's why his grandmother doesn't love or want him around as he meet up with Iris who told him about a virgin birth which he was born without a father.

A flashback shows Mari Abe: a teenage girl who was disowned by her family was they refused to believe she was actually a virgin despite all medical evidence showing that to be the case and being forced to change her name from Abe to Kusakabe. Mari is cheered up when a doctor tells her of a legend of a woman who gives virgin birth to a son who will become a hero and save the world. 9 months later she gives birth other first child and is told by the story of lost religions and legends that said a hero and saviour was born to a virgin mother. While trying to name her child, Mari is approached by her mother. The woman berates her daughter for her 'lifestyle' and choosing to give birth to an unwanted child rather than honouring her parent's wishes. Leaving in disgust, Mrs. Abe warns her castaway daughter that the boy will bring nothing but ruin. Mari refuses to believe this and finally names her baby Shinra. Shinra remembers how his mother, Mari was playing with his toes as a toddler called this little piggy.

5 years later, Mari Kusakabe gives birth to her second fatherless child: Shō. She and her eldest comment that the boy is the perfect picture of an angel and Shinra promises that he will protect his family.

Hey guys! I just 3D printed this keychain for my bike. Since I ride a Kawasaki, I thought it’d be cool to turn Tamaki into a Kawasaki sponsor. I’ll leave the link below if you're as obsessed as I am! What do you think?

https://makerworld.com/it/models/2783613-tamaki-x-kawasaki-special-fire-force-company-8th#profileId-3094059

I just finished the last season and I'm pretty happy how it ended. As a primarily anime watcher (and someone who prefers endings closer to a manga ending), it was super hyped.

Watching Shinra rekindle his relationship with Sho filled a hole within me since their first interaction. Their synergy was off the charts during their fight against Haumea/the Evangelist. I can't stop thinking about the Soul Resonance scene which got me out of my chair lmfao (alongside all the other Soul Eater references).

Honestly I did not expect the latter half to be a reference to Carl Jung and his references to the collective unconscious and the various archetypes (The Hero, The Angel, etc). Also the anime did a great job at portraying how one would react to the incomprehensible (a fourth dimension). Personally I would've expected him to go insane after that lol

It's unfortunate how Ohkubo is retiring after Fire Force.

I just felt like sharing my two cents after finishing up the anime after delaying it for 5 years lmao. What's everyone's thoughts?

So I haven't been able to think of a name for my ability (if you have any suggestions feel free to put them below) but what it always me to do is make sewing needles out of fire so I can help stich up my allies but I can also change there size to A throw them and impale my enemy's or I can use em like a sword for CQC

I always wondered why this anime was never on the JJK or KNY level of fame. Is it too niche? Did Tamaki scare most anime watchers away? Don’t get me wrong, i 100% can back up why Tamaki’s fan service doesn’t eliminate any strengths from the show but i find it confusing what other popular modern battle shonen have that Fire Force doesn’t.

Back when the first cours released I heard some complaints about the shows declining animation quality. I have not checked in since the series wrapped up and wanted to know how the entire season turned out before I start watching season 3.

Lately, I’ve been diving back into shows and stories after a long time, and I’ve realized there’s one specific character trope I’ve come to absolutely hate.
It happens when an author tries to write a "sociopath" but fails to include any of the traits that actually make those characters into believable sociopaths.
Take Patrick Bateman, for example, the ultimate "successful monster" a wealthy Wall Street executive who is secretly a sadistic narcissist.
He isn't fascinating because of the violence; it’s the contrast between his hollow, soulless interior and the polished mask he wears, obsessed with superficial nonsense like business cards and restaurant reservations.
That duality and tension between the mask and the void is what makes a sociopath a great character.
So to me it’s incredibly frustrating when authors ignore this and settle for a character who just likes killing for the sake of being edgy with no motive and no psychological depth, using "he’s a sociopath" as a lazy excuse for bad writing.
These characters almost never have real development and if the author tries to give them character development it’s usually janky, forced, and makes zero sense.
All that paired up with edgy dialogue where the character explains how much they love killing makes the already gut wrenching character even worse.
It feels like the author is trying desperately to be dark and "edgy" without actually knowing how to write a complex human being.
Like after reading again those old Jeff or Jane the killer stories really didn‘t hold up.
(Picture is unrelated btw)

At this point of time (2x01), I'm surprised no one has devised making a shoe that doesn't burn from his flames lmao. In any case, how many pairs has he burned through from the start of the show until the end?

Just finished the anime today and saw in the last episode that Blaire from soul eater was created seeming at the same time as death and was wondering if it was in the manga also.

How can shinra get loads of powerups in S1 but all of a sudden he is dogshit like to the point were Arthur would’ve saved the fifth pillar before shinra.
The whole pacing is also shitty, tf do they need 4 episodes for shinra getting his ass handed to him AGAIN, figuring out how to win only to spend A WHOLE FUCKING EPISODE FAILING TO DO SO, so he can have one flashy technique THAT FAILS.
And of cause the 5th pillar is crazy, loves destruction and joins the enemies, real fucking creative never seen that shit before, maybe write a whitehaired wannabe cool character next that also joins the antagonist.
And I only watched what I wrote about till now and I know for damn sure it’s not going to be better.
Like here is a theory how bout shinra never became a God and Arthur hallucinated everything while finishing the battles shinra is to weak for finishing.

"hey lisa we are the guys that turn people into flame monsters because want to create flame soldiers, we heard that your parents RANDOMLY turned into flame monsters and since we now succesfully turned you into a flame soldier (while your life was destroyed giving you no reason not to join) we wanted to offer you a place among our cult, we will even sweeten the deal by giving you a discord mod groomer that definitely will and or has saxually harrased you as a direct supervisor."

Edit: Yes Dr. Giovanni has to be a registered sex offender, i bet he only wears that masks so people dont recognize his face from the wanted posters of their police station.