A new PV trailer has been revealed at this year’s IGN Fan Fest for the upcoming Fire Force Season 3 Part 1, which begins airing in Japan on April 4, 2025. The third season will premiere as a split-cour series, with the second part debuting in January 2026.
The latest trailer previews the third season’s opening theme song “High Flame” by rock band QUEEN BEE. It also includes a short message from Shinra Kusakabe voice actor Gakuto Kajiwara.
Some production staff changes were 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 handling the animation production for the series once again.
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 working as character designer for season three, with Naoko Sato as color designer.
The anime 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.
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.
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. A total of 34 tankobon volumes were released. Kodansha USA releases the series in English for North America.
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.
