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Fire Force has always been three things:
An endless inventive battle shonen that constantly innovated on the variations of pyrokinesis available to its characters resulting in some of the most visually intriguing fights ever conceived. A stunning study into the complicated relationship between government, organized religion, personal loyalties, and the pursuit of truth of the mystery of spontaneous human combustion that has been at the core of its story since the beginning. Plagued by some of the most egregious fanservice, largely because an individual character literally has a preternatural ability that predisposes them to be in compromising situations which actively bogs down the series to the point where it gets the same weight as the previous two points.
And this has not changed with the final entry of Fire Force, although, at least with the reintroduction to the world, it does err more on the side of focusing on the incredible combat sequences and resolving the central myth arc. However, there is also still fanservice, although notably less, but this is of course by one episode in the final go around so who knows what will happen later. Still, if you need a refresher since it has been approximately five years since the second season and six or since the first: Fire Force focuses on the journey of third generation pyrokinetic (meaning he can generate fire himself, specifically by igniting his feet), Shinra Kusakabe, who after being ostracized as child for apparently kil…
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Mikkel Snyder
Mikkel Snyder is a technical writer by day and pop culture curator and critic all other times.
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