A short new promotional video has been released for Fire Force Season 3, which confirmed the return of a second cour in January 2026. The first cour of the third season premiered in Japan on April 4, 2025 and aired for 12 episodes, with the final episode broadcasting in the country on June 21, 2025.
Some production staff changes were made for the anime’s 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) is the new sub-character designer.
Yoshihiro Yoshioka and Mariko Kubo joined Yumenosuke Tokuda as chief animation directors, while Yumi Horikoshi (86 Eighty Six co-background art director) served 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 in charge of 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 working as character designer for season three, with Naoko Sato as color designer.
Two 24-episode seasons were previously released. 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 for streaming in North America and in several countries outside of Japan. It describes the main synopsis of the first season 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.
Sources: Fire Force Official Japanese Twitter (via AIR News)
