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[@hirochi0362]

the amazing animation combined with the insane sound effects by Yasumasa Koyama, was some of the most fun i had watching something.

[@animenerd5million]

The opening of fire force is goated.

[@juiceboxinc.2745]

Deadass one of my favorite ops in anime. It’s gas.

[@cringemorecringe4549]

The endings are great too

[@kungfumoosegaming7269]

​@@cringemorecringe4549 ending one is so good

[@Saki_S70]

@@animenerd5million IT'S PEAK. 😼

[@Ohoshin]

the sound effects goes hard af

[@hirochi0362]

Yasumasa Koyama is goated when it comes to making sound effects.

[@BossAwesomeSauce]

the sound effects make ME hard af hoooly

[@申月営無営月無営有申]

They also did Undead Unluck. David productions is PEAK

[@WakaDior]

While I do thoroughly enjoy Fire force i feel like its reputation as an anime and manga is kind of skewed. People try to water it down to an average shonen full of tasteless fanservice but in my opinion I find the show to be pretty top tier. The character writing isn’t talked about enough. The parallels, dynamics and actual bonds between the main characters and even some of the main antagonists are severely under appreciated. Like for example people try to water down Shinra to the generic hero MC, yet they don’t talk about each individual mission effects his character. Shinra has a mysterious past that gets uncovered slowly as the story and plot actually progresses and I think it’s pretty well done.

[@madisonsmith1936]

He was bullied for starting a fire and his mother became an inferno and his brother was lost, this all was revealed in the first 5 episodes what do you mean? The writing is subpar at best, the characters fit into annoying archetypes, and while the overall plot is interesting, i find where the story takes and expands on the plot to be petty boring, overall i found myself coming back to fire force because of one singular thing, the animation and fight scenes which in my opinion were executed to perfection.

[@WakaDior]

@ He wasn’t bullied, he was literally ridiculed his whole life and ostracized from society because everyone thought a murderer was walking among them. His mother being an infernal wasn’t revealed until the end of the season which was around 70 chapters into the manga and the nature of his mothers infernal wasn’t revealed until over 250 chapters in. His brother being alive wasn’t supposed to be mysterious. He got name dropped in episode three and he showed up in the flesh in episode 14. It was all set up for Sho’s character in of itself and we this in the “Kusakabe History arc” which was around 230 chapters in. So how is this sub par? Each of the main cast have multiple character arcs and fully fleshed out backstories and personalities. These are the “annoying archetypes”? The story itself being boring is an interesting take and I would like to hear you out more on that. I also agree that the fight scenes are amazing though

[@madisonsmith1936]

@@WakaDior But like, we as an audience were able to read between the lines, the inciting incident literally has his mother screaming while the house is burning, we hear her cries we can are able to tell that it was his mother who was an inferno, we're not dumb. And okay i'll admit i was a little wrong about cho but come the fuck on, that's not long enough for an exciting mystery, also we as an audience are able to also tell that his brother his alive, also for something to be "Mysterious." is has to have an aura of unexplainability which leads the audience to come to their own conclusions as they piece the puzzle together, there's levels to that and with cho's entire character there's no mystery. Maki is still maki at the end of the story no growth, tatsumaki is still the same, so is iris which don't even get me started on her, yes i agree the show does have good characters i'll admit, but the bad outweigh the good in my opinion tbh.

[@madisonsmith1936]

Also mystery is also about concealment, there's a way you present the mystery that makes your audience hooked and engaged. And fire force's mystery just feels very shallow to me. I was easily able to foretell future events which left the story to being predictable and having a bad taste in my mouth. A good example of mysterious would be idk, erased but not before the ending. and death note. Constantly unpredictable stories, not being able to tell what the characters would do next or where the plot could go next, that's what makes it a thrill, that's why they're called thrillers and mystery.

[@WakaDior]

@@madisonsmith1936 Yeah that’s called foreshadowing. There’s even more foreshadowing that the demon infernal was Mari when Shinra linked when he was in the netherworld and the infernal grabbed his face like a mother would. The mystery about their characters is about their origins and where they came from. All three of them are products of Adolla. Mari being the doppleganger of the evangelist, Shinra essentially being Jesus and Sho being the angel that protects him. Like I said, Sho being alive was never supposed to be mysterious, keep up with what I’m saying. Sho is literally stated to be alive in episode three and he literally appears in the flesh in episode 14. What’s mysterious about Sho is not only his origins but what he was going to do now that he knows he has a family in the outside world. Aura of unexplainability? Are we being serious? The church we don’t find out about until deep past 100 chapters? The origin of the infernals? Dopplegangers? Adolla? All of these are mysterious and don’t get explained in their entirety until later in the manga as the plot comes together. Saying Iris, Tamaki and Maki don’t change throughout the story is just straight up wrong. We’re just gonna ignore Iris questioning her morality as a nun after finding out the true intentions of the church? Her internal struggle after finding out she’s the doppleganger of Amaterasu, which lead her to blame her self for the death of her sisters at the convent? Her finding new resolve as she awakens her adolla burst? Maki struggling with her femininity? Her dreams getting stolen from her because of her family twice? Her getting her ideology and resolve tested by her father and hinawa? Tamaki’s parallels to Shinra of being ostracized? Her trying her best to balance being a nun and a soldier? Her constantly failing and even thoughts of suicide? What she stands for thematically and ideologically by the end of the manga? You’re just straight up wrong on all of these claims I’m sorry.

[@TryHardSlippers]

2019 was the best year for action animation in recent memory.

[@TopShonenRanks]

This show was a blast but I’m a little worried about season 3. From season 1 to 2 we lost Yasuyuki Kai (and he also wasn’t seen on Undead Unluck), but now Yuki Sato is an in house name at Pierrot Films and Riki Matsuura only showed up on Undead Unluck to direct an OP as opposed to any work on the actual show. I feel like he could also be working on the CSM movie instead of Fire Force. Yuuki Yamashita also wasn’t seen on UU and Hirohara was only seen on 1 episode of UU and lately seen a lot on DB Daima. Daima seems to be getting wrapped up production wise tho, so hopefully Miwa, Ookaji, and Hirohara will be able to deliver for season 3 and hopefully they can attract more guest animators, but with all the projects in parallel production, I feel like that will be tough

[@antont4974]

That's a blast from the past

[@Jazzimus]

i remember not being the biggest fan of fire force when I was watching it while it was airing. and then I randomly decided to re-watch it in 2022 (read the manga as well) and now it has to be one of my favourite battle shonen. i just love the overall energy it exudes, can't put it in words

[@nightlydata2181]

I'm glad shaft seems to slowly be gettin back on its feet wit some classic mono & madoka but it's also been fun seein & pointin out random instances of their "alumni"(?) workin on other projects in diff studios to help spread around the visual flair shinbou & his team started wit shows like Call of the Night & Fire Force. I'm excited for the sequel seasons for both of these

[@Agastya_Tyagi]

you are criminally underrated

[@MakComposite]

Damn, no Ryo Ohashi name drop praise. I feel like it’s very hard to talk about Season 2 without mentioning his output as the VFX lead and Compositor on the scenes he was mainly put in charge.

[@ProbablyPretentious]

The season two section was actually a lot longer in the original script, but I decided to cut out a lot of stuff (you can probably notice that the section feels scuffed), I had a bit about that one comp heavy scene from EP 13, but the more I wrote about a topic, the more stuff I wanted to add, so for my own sake, I decided to keep things animation centric lol.

[@MakComposite]

@@ProbablyPretentious damn, thats unfortunate. I wouldve loved to hear your thoughts on it since production videos on fire force are practically nonexistent (as you said) lol

[@DidAgain]

Finally video on fire force!!!! 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻🧏🏼🦅

[@harake7669]

Fire Force appreciation on my feed?! We love to see it this anime and manga are so fucking incredible season 3 is gonna break the internet if it keeps up the quality of the first 2 seasons

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

Fire Force looked awesome throughout its 48 eps and sakuga filled still people don't talk about it

[@ill_luck]

I just really hope the final season can have similar quality to the first 2 and give the finale to this series the absolute justice it deserves

[@ChisatoNishikigi-ff4zn]

Unnamed memory is underated ❤

[@nikoladrca5324]

I hope that Arthur's big fight in Season 3 will be PHENOMENALLY animated! 😊

[@SaitamaZZ]

Fire Force mass filtered the tourists with fanservice and I'm so glad about that!

[@User_95168]

whenever i see a discussion about this show on social media, it's always about that girl who loses her clothes.

[@flashdr1ve]

people will never shut up about tamaki even though she’s not taking up that much screentime. she’s got her own arc addressing their concerns yet they refuse to read and think fire force is just the tamaki fanservice show

[@AlluckyTV]

I was shocked when I watched episode 1 of fire force. The walk through the hallway of the firehouse was 100% shaft.

[@kansen-san]

fire force is my fave anime and manga and i am so hyped for season 3

[@antont4974]

Need to watch this, good thing there are 2 seasons!

[@RAM3NSAMA]

thank you!!! i thought i was the only one

[@rajdeep959]

Oh yeah ! Fire force mentioned

[@ryoko5026]

once again, thank you Shaft!

[@hollowify_tensa_zangetsu]

Undead unluck was still amazing

[@Arizashi]

Fr they cooked with UU but pacing was a bit iffy

[@specter21_96]

They really made something special when they did Fire Force. Its in that same upper echelon with JJK and DS. I cant wait for S3

[@ragnarok1310]

I think i disagree about the alienation. A lot of shorts and tik toks are just talking about how crazy the animation is and always use the same clip of Benimaru because they love the sound effects in the show. The direction probably felt odd but not enough to full make people feel alienated. But all of the clips people post is all season 1, the benimaru scene, the sound effects, the rage bait when using Tamaki' fanservice on social media, it's all from s1. When season 2 dropped it was still lockdown and before JJK was hyped to the max before the anime dropped so i think people just moved on quickly before the discussions could happen like they did post JJK and other future projects after its run.

[@vaidikchauhan4382]

Two things abt fire force I love is that dark skinned captain and tamaki fan service. Aside from it the animation of fire force is so good and I love the story+mc of the anime.

[@berryronin6882]

Huh. Something seems off

[@Saki_S70]

@@berryronin6882😂

[@MySkinIsntMine]

@@berryronin6882 ?

[@Luffy-su1ho]

The ONE person who actually likes the Tamaki fan service moments. You, my friend, are a diamond in the rough

[@desuchanz4956]

no wonder why somewhat it's giving me nisekoi vibes

[@Stratus-d7e]

remember this is a shonen of course its gonna have some fan service cuz its for the younger audience of which are hormonal teenagers and its an anime. If you're going to blame someone blame the author of fairy tail for challenging Ohkubo to make a fs character for shits n giggles

[@zeroxenoverse9251]

When was that ever said for Ohkubo? Plus Blair exist in Soul Eater and the FT author isn't really to blame cause that has always been there since the 80s(OG Dragon Ball for example with Bulma) and like what you said, Jp has horny teen boys.

[@ChisatoNishikigi-ff4zn]

Fire force 🔥 is underated 😢

[@berryronin6882]

Ik you’ve already glazed dandadan enough but can you talk about how goated the op is

[@To-To]

UU has a special coming out in December or January, which will likely announce a S2. I find it unlikely that Yase will return for S3, but I'm coping for it. Great video, though, I learned a lot! It has unfortunately reminded me that, given how anime works, it's not looking good for S3 tho :( I'm hoping for S1 peaks, but it's more likely that we'll get S2 but slightly worse, which is a shame but it's better than what happened to Jobless/Mushoku.

[@retroman355]

I don't think undead unluck had the same feel as fire force animation wise. It fell in quality near the end to me. Started off great though

[@loiscampos4553]

It was like 4 or so episodes of great Sakuga, and then fell off and never recover, and except for a few cuts here and there it was mostly weird 3DCG(CGI), ugly effects and composition, some weird camera movements with sync problems, and a bunch of off-models, even if its atmosphere is very Fire Force-like, it's wasn't nowhere near to its level.

[@retroman355]

@loiscampos4553 yeah I remember the autumn episodes had like a looping leaf j.peg effect over it. It was awful

[@oni123]

the composition for the fire uma was painful to look at

[@taylokiro4835]

i love fire force and am looking forward to season 3 but my biggest pet peeve is the breakneck pacing. scenes barely get time to breathe and an arc barely ever lasts long. i‘m not a manga reader so it could get better but imo the series could be more enjoyable with a tiny little less adrenaline. adrenaline nonetheless so don‘t misunderstand.

[@serious.humor_a0z]

Dragon Ball: Daima animation 😢

[@Animatedcollision]

Pretty good

[@ALIKIN12345]

🔥🔥 video

[@loiscampos4553]

PP: And Fire Force S3 was... Me: What? FF S3??? PP: I mean Undead Unluck... Me: Ahhhhh yeah FF Seaso... i mean Undead Unluck. But seriously, Fire Force is one of those examples where you can have very good productions values, Good character designs, Awesome animation, Well choreographed fights, Awesome sound department, Good direction(but i think doesn't fit very well in a Nekketsu anime), and yet fail to get the same amount of reception of similar animes(like SNK, MHA, JJK, DS), so "carried by animation(and other things)" isn't a given.

[@Manemanmeh]

nothing about the video but im learning englis since 10 months and I can understand how the bro speak, any advice? I want to understand all the accents

[@229shivamtripathi7]

Space dandy has much better animation is comparison to all the modern shonen anime but it's very underrated.

[@TheSideGuy]

Where is the Look Back animation analysis 🔫

[@chapri_from_chapra5443]

IDK why but S01 episodes had some abrupt cuts

[@jzwadlo]

Ill put this in a seperate comment but does anyone think that the show was ALL about Fire and only Fire pretty much, one of the reasons it never made it big? 🤔 Like if they would have somehow weaved in some other elements or forces, would that potentially have made a difference because people were just sick of looking at Fire after a while? Personally I love FF so that doesn't apply to me but idk, thoughts fellow FF Fans? :)

[@kelvinboateng1939]

I originally thought the show was about firemen 😅😅. I was blown away by the first episode, It looked and felt different In a good way. ❤❤

[@jzwadlo]

@@kelvinboateng1939 I could see why you would see that to be fair! Cos me too as someone that doesn't read Manga 😄

[@Aishindesu]

What about Undead Unluck

[@nvm0o]

Can you please talk about blood blockade battle front

[@JohnWick-ut1tj]

UU pacing got very sluggish towards the end

[@oyamampendu9467]

??? Unrelated

[@hashimalz]

I watched it for the production hoping the story will pull me in and the story has a lot to offer i would say, however, other than the fan service i didn’t find the characters appealing to me and i was annoyed most of the time by their behavior and actions.

[@Basukinath-p9z]

Hey probably pretentious, love your vids. They are very entertaining and well-researched. By any chance, have you watched Breaking Bad? It's so fucking fire. I have not watched any anime for about 6 MONTHS since I got into movies, TV series, and OTT. So, thinking about resuming my journey through anime...

[@bombatomica1002]

Rn starting bcs Breaking bad was so peak on god I recommend you whiplash, one of the best movies i ever watched

[@erwinsmith6226]

@@bombatomica1002bcs and bb are two of the best shows ever produced, in any medium

[@Granth-7]

​@@bombatomica1002Brooooio...You are in for a TREAT!! Better Call Saul is a visual masterpiece and one thing which I would like to say is just don't watch this show with the mentality you had for watching BREAKING BAD. BCS is subtle and more character driven and for the most part it will not have... life at the line like stake situations but it's story is in my opinion better than BB. Watch this show with more focus on characters and try understand even the little things and you WILL LIKE IT MORE THAN BB.

[@NeverNot_]

underrated gem of an anime season 3 will change minds

[@mysmallnoman]

Well if we didn't have snowflakes constantly complaining about " too much fanservice " the anime would have been more popular

[@Kaybee29523]

honestly all the peeps i know who watched it including myself had one problem. that cat girl who always gets naked everytime shes on screen. it was funny at first but it quickly became an annoyance. its a shame coz everyone i knew loved the series but her presence soured their taste

[@otsu3011]

I hope you talk about Look back animation 👀

[@zenitsusimp5029]

The only thing i didn't like about Fire Force was it's excessive fan service. Other than that, it was a blast watching the show

[@lordryquazen]

Can you cover slime isekai s3 and why it is better than Bluelock s2. I believe you have not watched slime isekai💀

[@phoenixero8161]

This show was extremely beautiful. I think the reason why it doesn't get brought up often in discourse is simply that the show is... Kind of boring, ngl. People complain that Demon Slayer has a simple story for example, but it's at least executed well and remains entertaining enough throughout. Fire Force on the other hand feels like it offers nothing other than its visuals sadly. There's a good reason why whenever brings up this anime it's to complain about fanservice. That's ironically one of the few memorable things about it.

[@WakaDior]

Well I respect your opinion but I respectfully disagree. There’s hardly anything boring about the show at all, maybe you weren’t paying attention? From the masterclass action sequences to the actual plot of the show I think it’s pretty amazing. The character dynamics and parallels are also one of the strongest parts of the show but it doesn’t shove alot of the information down your throat like in one piece for example it gives little instances of the character writing and expects you to pick up on it. For example in season one when Shinra fought hibana people try to water down the scene to MC saving the damsel in distress while getting a side character on his side but nobody actually acknowledges that Iris was never a damsel who was kidnapped. She willingly went there and her interaction with hibana was deep and well thought out. The reason Shinra won wasn’t because of mc plot armor or just to keep plot moving forward but because he connected to Hibana through his words. They essentially share the same trauma of losing everything to a fire which we find out later were both made artificially and this changes Hibana’s perspective which allows her to find new motivation and resolve. Saying fire force offers nothing than it’s visuals (no offense genuinely) I feel like is a reading comprehension issue. Maybe you weren’t paying as much attention because of low expectations or tasteless fanservice? I recommend rewatching the show.

[@cringemorecringe4549]

Personally i though it was very entertaining, i loved the worldbuilding in s2 and cant wait for s3

[@SapphicSnake]

If only It was even half as good as Ohkubo's previous work The Visuals are amazing and definetely a massive upgrade but literally everything else about soul eater was so much better, atleast in my opinion Thought I'd even argue that Soul Eater was a tiny bit better than Fire force visually too but that's probably the nostalgia speaking I need to rewatch both

[@SapphicSnake]

Obviously the queer likes Soul eater I'm not even surprised

[@alexisdogbo7958]

I like both equally tbh. Soul eater definitely has a better story and characters, but Fire Force just looks so fucking good, and I love the power system! The story and characters also are good, even if not as strong as Soul Eater. Plus the sound design is just unreal. I love them both for different reasons

[@foxandeagle6790]

On the animation side, yes FF nails it. But the fan service is kind of annoying. Compared to other shonen, it just does it too much and it feels too forced. Not saying I don't like fan service but FF uses it to the point where it becomes super annoying and cringey.

[@alexisdogbo7958]

It’s a real shame, I love the anime otherwise but the fanservice holds it back from being loved so much. I’ll still watch it tho

[@treyrobertson7187]

What an original take

[@Saucenoat]

​@@treyrobertson7187 i mean, yeah, it isnt the most orignal take but its not really wrong is it?

[@kuramabeef]

Funny you say that. Considering they made all that to make fun of the concept of fan service

[@rrbcraftergames3361]

@@kuramabeefby…still being blatant fan service tho.

[@burntpotato7116]

Why do you speak like a robot bro

[@Mefrius]

I rarely remember Fire Force because, for me, it was so boring that i didn't even cared about animation. I can be angry or laugh at demon slayer story or be impressed by it's visuals. I remember Fire Force only when i scroll works of animators or want to look at great fire sakuga

[@NoName-vp5en]

Same for me story and villains are weakest point of ff

[@User_95168]

@@NoName-vp5en u trippin

[@WakaDior]

How was it boring? Gorgeous actions scenes with a thrilling mystery plot was too much for you?

[@gibbsduhem1066]

​@WakaDior the execution was lackluster, and coupled with the needless fan service, the show was a snooze fest

[@WakaDior]

@@gibbsduhem1066 How?

[@MahiMahi-yu5jo]

The animation was amazing and that was what brought me in. But the fan service scenes (you know the ones) and the utterly annoying side characters what made me drop it... I'm still teetering on if I should give this show another chance and subject myself to those annoying caharcters. It's a shame that Shinra had to be wtitten into a world full of uninspired characters. He was the only one I liked.

[@Fantasyheartsfr]

Which characters for example?

[@FirmlyGrasp_IT]

People forget about FF because the content of the series is fairly mediocre

[@strife49]

fire force pacing is so garbage

[@qua_lap]

The show looks awful most of the time. There is zero movement and very boring shots for 80% of the time. Really surprised you say it looks phenomenal

[@kungfumoosegaming7269]

Fan service ruined this show man