Everything You Need to Know About ‘Fire Force’, A Recap of the Series So Far

An Anime Where They Fight Fire With Even More Fire “Causes of death are many and varied. Old age, suicide, illness… But the cause of death that scares the most people in this day and age…” Human Combustion If you’ve been wondering what other Summer 2019 anime you should be watching other than Demon Slayer, may I kindly direct your attention to the Atsushi Ōkubo’s (Soul Eater) latest creation: Fire Force. Fire Force, known as En’en no Shōbōtai in Japan, is set sometime in the future where the most horrific cause of death is Spontaneous Human Combustion. But it’s just a matter of catching fire and exploding. Nah, in this world, a demon can possess you and ignite your body turning you into an Infernal and the only people capable of stopping this threat are an ensemble of military personnel, scientists, and church officials some of which are also pyrokinetics with various fire based abilities they used to fight fire… and also other fire fighters. See, no one is quite sure of the cause behind this Human Combustion but there are a number of people who are convinced that this isn’t a natural occurring phenomena. It is thought that someone(s) must be creating these Infernals for their own nefarious purposes. “My dream might be to make a stable living but I’ll moan over the lack of stimulation.” You’d be forgiven if you thought Fire Force was just a series of fights between fire demons and pyrokinetics, given that is how the first episode is entirely set up. However, it quickly …

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