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En'en no Shōbōtai (Blazing Fire Brigade), widely renowned as Fire Force, is one of Atsushi Ohkubo’s greatest masterpieces. The popularity of manga has been imminent worldwide, and sales skyrocketed after the anime adaptation by David Production. As of May 2022, the manga had over 20 million copies in circulation worldwide.
Despite the story's slow pacing, David Production garnered a lot of praise for its amazing adaptation, where the studio adding its signature vibrant colors and fluid movements, made the action sequences feel more dynamic and intense. As season 3 is around the corner, fans who are impatient about what comes next are eager to learn the status of the manga.
Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force manga ended its run on February 22, 2022
Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force ended its run with the 304th chapter of volume 34 on February 22, 2022. The manga started serialization on September 23, 2015 in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine. On May 17, 2022, Kodansha collected the chapters of the manga into 34 tankobon volumes.
Due to its immense popularity, the manga series was voted 13th in the Honya Club online bookstore's "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2017" poll. Fire Force also created a milestone by ranking 84th out of 100 mangas on TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll. The biggest achievement Ohkubo was ever lauded with was Fire Force being nominated in the shonen category at the 45th Kodansha Awards 2021.
The first two seasons adapted 20 volumes of the original manga series, comprising 174 chapters. The upcoming season will be picking up from chapter 175, “In the Center of Faith,” of volume 21, kicking off the Ōbi's Rescue arc.
Here’s the list of all the remaining arcs in chronological order that will be adapted in the upcoming installments of Fire Force:
- Ōbi's Rescue arc
- Return to St. Raffles arc
- Arthur's Adventure arc
- Stone Pillars arc
- Asakusa Showdown arc
- Kusakabe History arc
- Final Pillar arc
- Battle of Amaterasu arc
- Great Cataclysm arc
- Epilogue arc
About the plot, anime adaptation, and more:
Kodansha USA published the series in English on November 8, 2016 and here’s how it describes the story:
Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out.
It continues:
The team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous "devil's footprints" (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?
David Production announced the anime adaptation was in the works on November 14, 2018. Yuki Yase directed the series, with Gakuto Haijima penning the scripts and Hideyuki Morioka on the character designs.
In the second season, Yuki Yase was replaced by Tatsuma Minamikawa as the director. Both seasons ran for 24 episodes. The third season has also been confirmed, but the release date is yet to be revealed.
