Two new additional cast members and an ending theme song have been revealed for the upcoming first part of Fire Force Season 3. The anime’s first cour will begin airing in Japan on April 4, 2025, with the second part airing in January 2026.
The two new cast members include Yoko Hikasa as Gold and Masaki Aizawa as Dragon.
In addition, Japanese hip-hop group Umeda Cypher are performing the third season’s main ending theme song “Urusiren.” Meanwhile, the opening theme is “High Flame” by QUEEN BEE.
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 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 in charge of 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.
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 licensed the anime series for North America and streamed in several countries outside of Asia as it aired. It describes the main synopsis 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 Anime Twitter, Official Anime Website
