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Aniplus Asia to Air Fire Force Anime's 2nd Season

Aniplus Asia announced on Sunday that it will air the second season of the anime of Atsushi Ohkubo's Fire Force (En En no Shōbōtai) manga in Southeast Asia as it airs in Japan. Aniplus Asia is streaming an English-subtitled trailer.

The anime will premiere in July.

Miyuri Shimabukuro joins the anime's cast as the new character Kasugatani Inka (seen below), 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.

Tatsumi Minakawa (Fire Force episode 12 director) is directing the anime (replacing Yuki Yase from the previous season) and is also supervising the scripts. Yumenosuke Tokuda joins returning staff members Hideyuki Morioka and Yoshio Kosakai as chief animation director (Morioka is also returning as character designer). Neito Hirohara joins Hiroyuki Ohkaji and Tsutomu Matsuura as main animator. Kazunori Miyazato joins returning staff member Yoshito Takamine as art director. Shin'ya Takano replaces Daisuke Kusaka as CGI director.

The rest of the staff are returning from the previous anime, including Kazuhiro Miwa as chief animator, Naoko Satou as color designer, director of photography Yousuke Motoki, Ryō Ōhashi for VFX, editor Kiyoshi Hirose, sound director Jin Aketagawa, and composer Kenichiro Suehiro.

The second season will have a returning cast.

The first season premiered in July 2019, and the 24th and final episode of the first season aired on December 27. Aniplus Asia initially planned to simulcast the first season, but the simulcast did not go ahead as planned. The company instead began airing the show on May 1, and the airing is ongoing.

Kodansha Comics is publishing the manga in English, and it describes the story:

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" (and destroying his shoes in the process). 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?

Ohkubo (Soul Eater) launched the series in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in September 2015. Ohkubo hinted earlier this month that the manga was in its final stage, and is also planning for the manga to be his "last manga." Kodansha published the manga's 23rd compiled book volume on May 15. Kodansha Comics released the 18th volume in English on March 24.

Source: Aniplus Asia's Facebook page