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Fire Force has always been three things:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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 killing his mother and brother, joins Special Fire Force Company 8, unique amongst Japan Fire Force in that they are looking to discover the root cause of humans spontaneously becoming Infernals (think fire monsters) while also investigating the other seven companies for potential corruption.

This quickly escalated into conflicts with a Doomsday cult, various entanglements with other crews, discovery of special powers, uncovering the history of the Great Cataclysm that started all of the current events, the exploration of a region called the Nether, various political scheming, and several training arcs, which all culminate in season 3 where all of the conflicts and revelations come down to a head blazingly fast.

The first episode of season 3 is very much an accelerated recap of the series at large. While it doesn’t cover everything that happened in the last forty-eight episodes in great deal, it does provide enough foundation to reacclimate you with the characters, the main plot points, and set the stage for the rest of the action that will inevitably follow.

It is everything I love about Fire Force. The blazing cinematics, the quirky characters, the momentous build-up of all of the core mysteries finally racing towards definitive conclusions. And it is a minimal amount of what I dislike about Fire Force, Tamki’s Lucky Lecher Lure Syndrome.

I have always been partial to Atsushi Ohkubo’s work, as Soul Eater is one of my favorite series, and any qualms I have with Fire Force are easily balanced out by how cool it is when it’s doing its thing. The action is gorgeous, the voice acting is great, the story is engaging and knowing that this is one of the fortunate times where we get to see the entire manga in animated form, I can’t help but be excited for the final chapter of this series.

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