A new key visual and PV trailer have been revealed for the upcoming third season of Fire Force. The trailer received a world premiere during SP Expo in São Paulo, Brazil at CCXP 2024. The first part of the third season will begin broadcasting in Japan in April 2025, while the second part will debut in January 2026.
A few production staff changes were also announced for the third season. Sei Tsuguta (Undead Unluck, Sk8 the Infinity Extra Part co-scriptwriter) is supervising and writing the anime’s screenplay, and Mika Yamamoto (Tiger & Bunny: The Rising co-character designer) as the new sub-character designer. Yoshihiro Yoshioka and Mariko Kubo join Yumenosuke Tokuda as chief animation directors, while Yumi Horikoshi (86 Eighty Six co-background art director) is serving as the new art director and Koji Kodera (RWBY Ice Queendom modeling set-up, Urusei Yatsura remake 3DCGI animator) as the new CG director. Ryo Ohashi is now credited as VFX supervisor (after just being credited under “VFX”) and Natsuki Takei (Season 1 assistant compositing director, Season 2 co-assistant compositing director) is the compositing director of photography. David Production is once again handling the animation production.
Yuki Yase (Mekakucity Actors) directed the first season while Tatsuma Minamikawa (Wave, Listen to Me!) directed the second season and is returning to direct the third. Yamato Haijima wrote the screenplay for the first season and Minamikawa handled them for the second season. Hideyuki Morikawa is the character designer for season three, with Naoko Sato as color designer.
The series has inspired two 24-episode seasons. The first season aired from July 6, 2019 to December 28, 2019. The second season aired from July 4, 2020 to December 12, 2020. Crunchyroll licensed the anime series for North America and streamed it worldwide as it aired.
Fire Force is based on Atsushi Ohkubo’s manga of the same name, which ran in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from September 23, 2015 to February 22, 2022. 34 tankobon volumes were released in total. Kodansha USA releases the series in English for North America.
The anime’s third season will stream on Crunchyroll in the following territories: North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and CIS.
Crunchyroll describes the main synopsis of Fire Force as:
Tokyo is burning, and citizens are mysteriously suffering from spontaneous human combustion all throughout the city! Responsible for snuffing out this inferno is the Fire Force, and Shinra is ready to join their fight.
Now, as part of Company 8, he’ll use his devil’s footprints to help keep the city from turning to ash! But his past and a burning secret behind the scenes could set everything ablaze.
Source: Fire Force Official English Twitter, press release
