Unlike Soul Eater however the anime Fire Force will be
produced by David Production, an animation studio known for anime such as
BEN-TO, The Book of Bantorra and the Jojo animated series among others. Oh and
minor also spoilers on this one as well.
In a not so specified future exist the Fire Force, a group of
Fire Fighting Soldier who fight Infernals. Nobody knows how the Infernals come
to be aside from they are former humans that turn into fire creatures often
hell bent on killing and destruction. Here Shinra Kusakabe joins Special Fire
Force Company 8 to help stop these Infernals but soon finds a lot more than
what he bargained for.
The great part about Fire Force as a story is that despite
starting off as your typical shonen series it stirs away from the typical monster
of the week cliche and concentrates moving the plot along. It chooses to dive
into the character and the mystery surrounding the Infernals itself rather than
jumping from one Infernal monster fight to another making the story tight and
fast paced.
The animation is done well, specially the fight scenes. You
can easily tell what was going on despite how fast pace a lot of the fights
could get. Sure the animation quality drops on certain scenes and some scenes
could probably cut out that didn't add much to the plot or story as a whole but
overall the action scenes hold the show enough to make each episode as
entertaining as it is. It not perfect but it sure as heck a lot better than
most of the shonen series out there now.
The character development in Fire Force is nicely done as you
learn about each characters strength and weaknesses as all of the main
character has their time to shine as the story progresses. Some of the minor
characters have short battle scenes but these short scenes is enough to make
each of them memorable. Like how for example they show Maki incredible
athleticism, strength without her being too OP and annoying.
The music is decent enough although not as memorable as I
have hoped it to be. Still the visuals during that accompany the music whether
it be the opening or when there's a big fight is good enough to balance
everything making for an exciting sound and visual spectacle. if I was to
compare I'd say the music is something you would expect on an action shooter game.
As much I'd love to praise this anime, Fire Force isn't
perfect. There are some scenes that appears a bit rushed and at times
feels out of place that it makes the flow of the story detached. "Remember
that big fight we had yesterday where some of us nearly died? We are going to
act like it didn't happen and just mention just to get some sort of continuity
going." The character seem to be going into one big fight after another in a
span of just a day. I know they are all tough but it just seem unrealistic in
terms of story pacing.
Also all the characters look the same with the same fireman
inspired outfit. Sure it's a unit uniform but would it kill the series to make
the characters a bit more different? Most of them are all covered up with minor
character design differences. And the one that actual looked different is a fire
neko girl Tamaki with a bikini that looks like a rip off of Black Rock Shooter.
Why? Fan service of course. And one of Tamaki trait is accidentally landing
into perverted situations because...clumsy?
Then there's even a scene where the girls bond together in a
shower. Then they have this nun looking like girl Iris take a shower for reason
while she goes into some flashback scene. I get the flashback idea but to do it
while she's taking a bath definitely more fan service than story. Seriously I
like fan service as much as the other guy but they could have at least done it
in a more sensible way. But I guess this flaw is minor compared to how good the
series is.
Overall Fire Force is a really entertaining anime. Sure it
has pacing issues and a lot more fan service than what is probably necessary
for shows of this caliber but pass all that it is a solid series with good character
and plot development to make nearly any shounen fan happy. If you are a fan of
Soul Eater, shounen anime and love a good
action anime with a somewhat deep story and don't mind the extra fan service
then this is definitely a series you should watch.
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