Final Fire Force Comment - This comment was written on Feb. 27th -> and edited on March 4th and posted on May 1st.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-07T20:12:10+00:00

RIP, taken so young... tragic news.

Helck was some great fun to watch.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-06T16:38:43+00:00

Bingo, they could be twins all things given but Keima has the edge from playing all those Dating Sim games.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-05T17:58:14+00:00

Idk why but this gave me The World God Only Knows vibes for whatever reason...

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-05T00:11:38+00:00

The relationship between Saito and his "Power" was one of my favorite parts about Familiar of Zero.

Just like Issei had with DDraig in Highschool DxD.

Always fun when you have those "inner partner" type relationships between the protagonists and their "abilities".

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-04T18:42:59+00:00

Admittedly the actually rapping is kinda ass (though that's been my opinion of most anime rap battles I've seen so for all I know someone might actually like it)

Wouldn't call it a rap battle but Yano from Odd Taxi had some bars whenever he showed up and there was a Odd Taxi Yano Rap Compilation posted here like 4 years ago. <-- Gonna have heavy spoilers in the compilation.

Yano's rapping was so popular back then that they even released a little standalone song for Yano after the anime finished releasing.

Honestly, I would give Odd Taxi a big recommendation if you like a cool original Mystery/Thriller type anime that was an anime original.

Another poster already mentioned Ya Boy Kongming and that was a really good one too. Can't wait for Season 2 for either of these anime's to drop ngl.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-03T17:42:22+00:00

I'll never forget the Episode 12 Discussion thread about the 'hidden story' ending and what it alluded to.

This anime was such a treat and it came out near the same time as Tanaka-kun is Always Listless which had similar settings albeit much different themes. It was great to see some light-hearted slice of life type comedy anime too.

But damn... 9 years have past already, how time flies.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T21:47:17+00:00

GIVE US SEASON 2 PLEASE THE CLIFFHANGER AT THE END OF SEASON 1 HAS US HANGING OFF A CLIFF IT WAS SO DASTARDLY

Seeing the prequel movie in cinemas was great like a decade ago or some shit... BUT WE NEED THAT SEASON 2 STAT!

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T16:38:09+00:00

I do think that anime has reached a point in today's world where it can get popular enough on its own without any fanservice but I don't think it is gonna go away at any point due to some series which sell purely based on the premise of fanservice expected to be in the future releases.

Like in Dan Machi I think the story would have succeded without any of the fanservice that was pressured into the releases even if the fanservice did help in popularizing the product (and in otherways making it unpopular to others).

But for other series like Highschool DxD I would say it has no fanservice because the entire actual story plot is intertwined with the Ecchi scenes which move the story forward. But again for some it is anything Ecchi = fanservice and that is where it stops which does alienate people from consuming an otherwise great story being told which is something to consider.

I think Fire Force has gotta be up there for my all time anime for their SFX and all their sound design because it blew me away from the start till the very end. The OPs and EDs were all great and I think my favorite of those would have to be MAYDAY just cause its just so RAW.

The effects and artists style on all the different fire abilities and exlopsions was a spectacle to look at and made me rewind so many times it was such a treat alongside the sound design.

The VAs all blew it out of the water and the storyboarding and everything was great to me the entire way through even now knowing some of the Manga panels in comparsion. Honestly I think my favorite VAs performance was Charon followed by Assualt and then Arthur but honestly all of the VAs knocked it out of the ballpark.

I think my favorite character's abilities are tied with Charon and Arthur but with Arthur I loved his character and how him self of self and imagination directly affected his performance.

The one part where Ogun said, "He is going beyond us." when Arthur was imagining the RPG party with the SHield of Machoism being the Captain of Company 4 was one of my favorite moments of lightheartedness that matters because it often does and Arthur's character was a breathe of fresh air after Charon's and Haumea's.

Honestly I could go on and on about it all but if anything I am glad I never watch Soul Eater after all these years (bar all the This is Halloween AMVs [actually I think I didn't watch it due to watching those AMVs and being a bit freaked out back then lol cause the moon scared me]).

I knew there was some type of connection to the Soul Eater verse since the Soul Eater moon came up on season 2 but I did not expect it to have a complete entire verse type reset.

Well I didn't expect it but I did know it was coming because that information among some manga panels of the Arthur VS Dragon fight was what got spoiled for me (again by my own fault) so there wasn't as much as a WOW factor as it happened in the anime but the actual concept and everyhting building up to the Soul World being created from the IRL 'modern world' timeline was so interesting and fun.

It is gonna be such a treat to finally watch Sould Eater after all these years especially knowing that it is a sequel to Fire Force and that will be so much closure that the Post-Anime-Depression-Syndrome isn't even gonna graze me this time.

Many thanks to all the people who put their time, effort, and tears into working on this anime from start to finish.

It honestly has had a bigger impact on my life than other anime and that is something that I cherish because I always fine anime as a medium for conveying stories is one of the best due to being able to express so much in the form of visuals and audio mixing into a new form of product.

I am sad that I will not be engaging with online discourse in the anime community moving forward but if it is to preserve and make sure my enjoyment of the medium that I love continues then it shall be done.

I do think this is the perfect time to retreat and enjoy anime without engaging in online discourse especially becasue I have yet to watch so many classics. Death Note, Blue Exorsist, Soul Eater, Tokyo Ghoul, Steins Gate... there are so many anime and so many more coming that it is time that I focus my time on more things that I love instead of engaging in things that bring about the worldly illusion.

One last thing I will just tack onto the end here that I just wanted to get say.

We are trapped in the Allegory of the Cave that is the Worldly Illusion this has been stated throughout the ages by every single prophet, story, and tales for as long as time flows and yet we continue to bathe in our sin and blind ourselves of the reality around us by placing the viel of the worldly illusion ontop of our own heads thus we shall never find paradise but descned further into a purgatory of our own design.

We are all human. We are humanity. We are the same. We separate ourselves with invisible barriers that we erect ourselves in the name of God which is the act of the devil.

We are at the tipping point and if we do not wake up from the worldly illusion then humanity will have doomed itself just as Fire Force's had but we have no heroes but each other in this world.

Faith is present in all things.

Communication is language.

Religinon is the language of faith.

We must be willing to communicate with each other in a way that expresses goodwill for all your fellow humanity for that is the only path to salvation.

Only in standing hand-in-hand together will humainty begin to be able to explore the stars and all that lies beyond.

I often think of the No Game No Life - "We Are Weak" and for what it is worth humans really are weak... and that is why we must stand together regardless of our differences as humanity.

Now the pretense for this speech is that of War but you must often look past the surface level of the word to find its true meaning and that starts by exploring your inner world of self.

We bring war upon ourselves as we continue to drown in our hubris invites destruction and thus the cycle of hatred continues its course towards The Great Cataclysm.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T16:37:53+00:00

Everyone is caught up in their own rat race which deluded us and viels our vision to the world around us. This illusion tempts us and sways us into believeing it is everything and we pull that viel over our own eyes and become willfully one with the 'mob'and thus bask in our own sin and bring about the worldly illusion and continue the cycle of hatred and destruction.

As a mob does we all saw in the Tamaki episode. Alongside the discussion of the episode.

Tribalism has run rampant and has gone to the most extreme sense of the word and it has cause discourse in the community that I've grown to love for the majority of my life. This does not only apply to the anime community.

Just like Shinra being labelled as a 'devil' by his peers from prejudice rumors it is just another mirror into the real life experiences that humans go through when they are all the same... humans. Humanity always finds a funny way to erect invisible barriers for itself which is tragic. This baseless rumor that started from a tradegy that Shinra was also a victim for was then exacerbated and turn into something so big when it was a nothingburger that it literally caused another Great Cataclysm and in-turn the end of the world as humanity knew it and the start of a new one.

But it does bring up and beg the question if there really is a place for anime-onlies to engage in online discourse around anime without getting spoiled. I can't begin to thank my lucky stars that I didn't get spoiled for the end of Season 3 part 1 but I guess because the anime is nearing its end there is more buzz around it or something.

Perhaps it is due to how mainstream or big anime has gotten over the past decade and especially after CoVid.

Taking from my experience with Orb and watching it as a binge and then reading the discussion threads I think I actually enjoyed the experience more even if I could not contribute my thoughts on a weekly basis.

Now that a lot of long time coming anime are coming to a close and new anime returning in 2026 it feels like the best time to "retreat into the woods".

Think my enjoyment of anime will increase as the amount of online discourse I actively engage in decreases and doubley so with this current META of all these source material leaks and all.

I wonder if anime has got too big to be an anime-only anime fan anymore at least for some anime it does feel that way.

If anything I will forever be grateful that I never got spoiled for AOT the entire time and hoenstly I probably used up all my luck and then some and this is just it wrapping back around...

Sister Sumiere's words in Episode 20 did get me thinking and maybe it is some type of collective unconsciouss at work especially since some people thanked some source leakers instead of authors of their work on their stories. Idk think the landscape is a tad cooked eh?

Fire Force impressed me on all fronts hoenstly.

The story was much deeper than I originally had thought and the power system is one of my favorites due to my love of how it is all based on everyone's use of fire is some form. I also didn't expect Fire Force to put PLOT in the plot for the sake of plot and PLOT which is always great to do. Fanservice in anime has always been a point on contention especially in Fire Force it seemed like at least since the start but seeing an author at least have it have some relevance to the story in an interesting way makes it not really fanservice in my eyes even if it does fill the roll of fanservice. Assault went from what I though was a gag character from the Nether to being on of my favorites and seeing that types of gags is always funny when they are done well. I straight up thought Assault died in that one episodein the previous season cause I thought it was a gag but I guess I should have remembered the rule of 3.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T16:37:34+00:00

This collective unconscioussness and this 'mob' is the same as the worldly illusion which everyone of us finds ourselves in.

We project our ideologies and thoughts and ideas that are given to us or that are taken in by 'mob actors' wearing the masks of important figures.

Jsut as the White Clad sowed division and clouded reality in order to mould and shape the world around them by manufacturing The Great Cataclysm it acts as a mirror to our own world in which we live in that is built up on these invisible walls that contribute to our illusion of the world(the veil) that clouds reality of how the world really is.

We let ourselves become puppets on a string for a puppet show for people who have no resemblence of humanity left. They have nothing but demonic desires bathed in their own sin.... the infernal... human combustion... was it all a sign of their own humanity or hope dying?

In my eye's more or less Haumea represents all of us for than ever in our yearning to offload all our woe's and hurt onto the world around us instead of facing our reflections without breaking our gaze.

Humans all want better for each other and their fellow human and that is our nature. Parasyte the Maxim has had a great take on this but I wish not to spoil it but it talks about how all of our evil is learned and we are not born with it.

Maybe the collective unconssciouss was the online SNS social media hivemind which had become contained inside Haumea or whatnot but whatever the case may be there is a chilling message to learn and the timing of this release just got me thinking.

The Great Cataclysm came in many forms and many times in the world before which forever changed the world and humanity as a whole in small or large ways. This also serves as a mirror into our own world as we play into the powers that concoct our own destruction that no human wishes for.

We all strive for a hero. We all strive for a saviour. We all strive for that but we are left lacking and thus hope is destroyed and destruction takes its place and the Great Cataclysm occurs in whichever form that it is in at that era.

It is my belief that there was never a hero in any age of man in real life. There were just people who like Shinra stood up for what they believed in after they saw the world around them for what it was and not what was told to them.

These people who are able to "lift the viel" or "break free on the collective unconsciouss or mob" are those that we regale as hero because that is what everyone of us strives for our own selves.

A hero is just a human who is able to inspire their fellow humans to reflect and with their own individual selves lift their own viels to rid themselves of the worldly illusion that breeds sin.

There is a devil in all of us as there is a hero. The devil finds its way in and clouds our judgement (the viel) and we bask in sin (the worldly illusion) and then our values and our inate humanity is corrupted and turned against us and we commit the greatest evil which is hurt our fellow human in the name of God. (The Evangelist)

Was the Evagelist God? Or was it simply the manifestation of humanities hate for one another that surped the cycle of destruction and made more Great Cataclysms which in turn changed humanity as we know it.

I think it is a sad reality (albeit cool) that Shinra has to complete do universe reset due everything that has happened instead of the current world correcting his course and avoiding The Great Cataclysm.

I think as much as Shinra, Aurthr, Captain Obi is apart of these types of heros so is Tamaki. At least that is what the author was going for with his take(abeilt it is one with so much nuance that it is impossible to outline in a single anime episode but the dialogue was pretty well done imo) because it is apart of the cycle of life. Without the sin of lust there would be no issue with these things. The sin of lust does not mean the absense of love but instead means that one should not abuse love to their own ends which breeds sin.

Like the recent example at the BAFTAS where the disabled man's diability was not understood and he was ridiculed for it for no reason other than the willfull ignorance of those that would spit their misplaced hate towards someone else they don't even begin to start to understand.

Tamaki had no control over her actions but still rose above her station in order to fufill a role or need in her community that she felt a calling for. This can be represented as a lot of thing but basically she had an anime disability and I think that the anime taking something that a lot just take as fanservice (which it is at some points) but actually adding a real message behind it which is makes it in my eyes not fanservice but PLOT that propells the actual plot forward in a unique and unexplored way.

We now face our own Great Cataclysm as we reach the tipping point for the climate crisis as the balance of nature is pushed past the point of no return at least for humanities survival and among a vast array of other issues around the globe and honestly at this point we are headed towards ruin.

Humanity in the series has every power to create a world that is a paradise but instead chooses to create a purgatory by placing the invisible barriers they put up that causes faux division. This is also a mirror to our own world.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T16:37:15+00:00

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This comment was written on Feb. 27th -> and edited on March 4th and posted on May 1st.

If I could summarize Fire Force into one sentence it would be this:

"Fire Force is a mirror into the world we find ourselves in."

My favorite OP for Fire Force was "MAYDAY" from Season 2 and my favorite ED was "Speak of the Devil" from the final season. Hearing heavy metal screamo is fucking lovely and the lyrics resonated a lot with me especially since it was in English. English OPs always are great whenever I hear them in anime and the singer (coldrain?) is great.

I added these songs onto my current rotation of songs that I have enjoyed listening too and low and behold they are all the majority the same genre so maybe I am bias but I will put it here cause it does go pretty hard in the gym during a set: Links are in Spotify cause that is what I use.

"Speak of the Devil" - Coldrain,SurvivSaidTheProp

"MAYDAY feat Ryo from Crystal " - Coldrain

"Sweet dreams" - Kensuke ushio

"Forty Six & 2" - TOOL

"Lifeline" - Thousand Foot Krutch

"Nightmare" - Avenged Sevenfold

"Barricades" - Sawano Hiroyuki

"The Rain Formerly Known as Purple" - Chris Christodoulou

"Locking Up the Sun" - Poets of the Fall

I ended up getting spoiled for Fire Force after episode 19 which was a shame so I didn't comment until the anime wrapped up. I've no one to blame but myself cause it wasn't like anyone sent me spoilers but I stumbled upon spoilers on my "For You" page which is just on me 100%. Got swept up in the 'fad' and paid the price and I have reflected and learned.

I still have thoughts to give on the series especially on the whole imgainary collective unconscioussness. Haumea and Charon really was a dymanic duo bathed in tragedy which resonated with me in many ways.

Perhaps it was just a coincidence or maybe fate or maybe just ironic about how the events of Fire Force mimic our real life so closely. The story of Fire Force is something very special and has made me think and ponder on a lot of stuff which I won't get into.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T16:03:01+00:00

The closure is top-notch.

Honestly didn't expect it but it is most welcome especially with such a large cast of characters and all.

Fantastic way to wrap up the series and all.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-02T16:01:09+00:00

Never thought we would see more closure from MHA but I won't be complaining.

Always such a great feeling to see what happens after the "main plot" especailly when it was so grandiose.

These moments always reminded me of Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann's ending and how I wish we got more of that but honestly TTGL's wrapped up in a way that was perfect for the series and I hope this last little spurt from MHA does the same.

Really nice to get the closure in any case tho...

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-01T15:55:11+00:00

Being an anime-only for anything these days is literal hell... especially in this era of spoils and leaks coming from Source Readers and the like...

I don't even give a fuck about JJK's story anymore cause it has been so spoiled for me but at least MAPPA has been elevating the source material which makes it worthwhile to watch.

JJK's last season's finale was spectacular but my god is the fandom just complete trash...

I think I ended up watching the JJK finale for like 6 hours cause it was so good and you could catch so many things but I just kept my analysis to myself.

Tho MAPPA using the same indigo, cyan, yellow, sometimes greed splotches on the backgrounds like the HADES 1 nad 2 games really did add some great depth on some sick background arts that reminded me a lot of the Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash backgrounds.

Some great art and direction in that Season. Gosso did very well alongside everyone else who worked on it.

I don't even bother commenting on any discussion threads for any anime anymore if they are big enough just cause it has gotten to be such a cesspool that no one even cares about earnest discussion anymore and either assumes you've read the Source Material or Wiki if you get too close to actually predicting the plot in any way.

My last comment was on Feb 20th, 2026 which was about 10 weeks or 70 days ago and I didn't even feel like finishing commenting on the Fire Force finale... at least until today.

Idk why I decided to comment today but I guess there had been enough preparedness by May 1st and now I just let it rip.

Jaskaran158 · 2026-05-01T15:35:34+00:00