The popular battle shonen anime, Fire Force (also known as Enen no Shouboutai) is coming back this summer with its second season. The official website to Fire Force recently shared a new promotional trailer alongside a visual which confirms its release date. Fire Force Season 2 is officially confirmed to premiere in July 2020. Have a look at newly released trailer and visual:
The above trailer previews the opening theme song “Spark- Again” performed by Aimer. It also features new characters such as Kasugatani Inka who will be voiced by Miyuri Shimabukuro. She is a thrill-seeker who hates boredom. Together with her companions, she arrives to loot places where spontaneous combustion occurs. Her powers awaken after a certain incident.
The new season will starts with adapting “VS. Special Fire Force Company 4 arc” from the manga which follows Shinra as he meets the Battalion Commander of the Special Fire Force Company 4 Soichiro Arg to ask him about the Adolla Link. However Shinra has to fight against Arthur while he is being controlled by a mysterious entity.
Tatsumi Minakawa wil direct the second season at David Productions replacing Yuki Yase as series director. The rest of the staff and cast remains same.
About Fire Force
For those who don’t know, Fire Force is a Japanese manga written and drawn by Atsushi Okubo in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine since September 2015. 23 compiled volumes are in circulation as of May 2020.
The manga inspired a 24-episode TV anime by David Production which premiered in July 2019. The second season is coming out in July.
Kodansha USA who is publishing the series in English describes it as:
Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment’s notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out.
The team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous “devil’s footprints. Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?