Fire Force Season 3 is officially announced, and it has a release date, a teaser trailer, and a key visual, along with the release schedule. The third season is being split into two parts, with the first half of the anime airing in April 2025, while the second half will air in January 2026!
Season 3 of Fire Force anime will be the final season, concluding the story. Studio David Production will also be back to animate the final season!
Originally published as a fantasy manga in 2015, Atsushi Ohkubo’s Fire Force didn’t garner much attention for at least two years after its debut. However, the series started getting popular in late 2017, which resulted in Studio David Production picking it up for an anime adaptation.
The anime’s first season, which aired from July to December 2019, achieved record ratings. David Production Studio immediately renewed Fire Force for season 2, which premiered from July to December 2020.
For 2 years, we didn’t hear a word about the third season, but in May 2022, David Production confirmed that the series was renewed for a third and final season!
It took another two years before we had more information about the upcoming season, like the release dates and teaser trailer, which were announced at Anime Expo 2024!
Fire Force Season 3 Teaser Trailer:
How Many Episodes Are There in Fire Force Season 3?
As the 3rd Season is a split-cour season, it will have close to 24 episodes, with 12 or so episodes airing per cour! Both Seasons 1 and 2 ran for 24 episodes each, so it’s likely that Season 3 will have the same number of episodes.
However, it is possible that Fire Force Season 3 will have more than 24 episodes because there is more manga material to adapt than in the previous seasons.
Fire Force’s anime adaptation has strictly followed the original manga—Season 1 adapted the first 90 chapters, i.e., manga volumes 1 to 11 (some portions), while Season 2 adapted up to chapter 174, i.e., manga volumes 11 to 20.
As the manga series has 34 volumes, the 3rd Season of Fire Force anime will be adapting 14 volumes in total. So, we might be getting more anime episodes!
What is Fire Force Anime About?
Atsushi Ohkubo, the creator of Soul Eater, wrote and drew the Fire Force manga series. It was published in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from September 2015 to February 2022.
The story begins in the 198th Solar Year when certain human individuals spontaneously combust, turning into living Infernos, aka the “Infernals.” A special task force—the Fire Force—is set up to fight off these Infernals and their extreme variants, called “Demon Infernals.”
To combat the growing threat of the infernals, humans are blessed with the ability of pyrokinesis, which is extremely useful against them.
One such third-generation pyrokinetic youth, Shinra Kusakabe, joins Special Fire Force Company 8 as he was accused of killing his mother and a younger brother named Sho through fire. However, Shinra soon learns that Company 8 investigates companies 1 to 7 for corruption cases.
Things twist further as he finds that a doomsday cult, “the White Clad,” is planning on recreating the Great Cataclysm that set the entire world ablaze, killing most life on Planet Earth.
Here’s the official synopsis of the series:
“The city of Tokyo is plagued by a deadly phenomenon: spontaneous human combustion! Luckily, a special team is there to quench the inferno: The Fire Force! The fire soldiers at Special Fire Cathedral 8 are about to get a unique addition. Enter Shinra, a boy who possesses the power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous “devil’s footprints” (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can Shinra and his colleagues discover the source of this strange epidemic before the city burns to ashes?”
Conclusion
There you have it! Get ready for the final season, as the first half of the anime will be released in April 2025, while the second half will be released in January 2026!
If you have watched both the previous seasons of Fire Force anime, now’s the time to rewatch them and get up to date with the story. And if you have read the manga, you know you are in for a treat because Fire Force Season 3 will be crazy good!