5 Reasons Why You Need to Watch Fire Force Before It All Ends

Fire Force is now working through the final half of the anime’s final season, and you really need to see what’s going on before it all ends and you miss out on it completely. Fire Force kicked off the final season of the anime last year, but ended on a cliffhanger teasing that a new Great Cataclysm was at hand. When the final season returned for its final wave of episodes earlier this Winter, the end of the world had begun and Shinra Kusakabe and the Special Fire Force Company 8 members are doing everything they can to stop it.

As Fire Force readies for the end, each episode has been making some massive changes to its world that are wilder than the last. Not only is each episode taking things to a massive new degree, but it’s apparently adapting a massive chunk of chapters from Atsushi Okubo’s original manga at a very fast rate than fans ever expected. But that’s all resulted in an explosive final season that anime fans really need to check out before it’s all over.

5). It’s Falling Apart

One of the coolest elements of Fire Force‘s final season is that because the Great Cataclysm has kicked off, the end of the world has begun. But unlike any other apocalypse, the one here is a lot more metaphysical than you’d think. After teasing that Fire Force‘s world was originally like ours before the first Great Cataclysm, it’s now been revealed that reality itself is now warping underneath Shinra and the others’ feet.

The world has begun to change as people perceive it differently, and it’s even had some shout outs to Okubo’s previous work, Soul Eater, with these changes. It’s falling apart at the seams, and the chaos has been exciting.

4). It’s Introducing Very Big Ideas

Along with its warping of reality changing the world around it, Fire Force has started to introduce some very big ideas messing with the story itself. This new Great Cataclysm is also changing how the characters interact with their world. It’s starting to get very metaphysical as, for example, it was recently revealed that these flames are actually fueled by despair. The only way to fight it all is to give people hope, and let them imagine the world will continue and not actually be destroyed.

It’s also led to changing how certain abilities work as characters face off against their own Dopplegangers and gain new kinds of abilities thanks to how much reality and perception is warping. It’s all factoring into how it will end, and it’s super exciting to see how it’s going to make it happen.

3). It’s Going Wild Visually

As a result of reality warping and changing, Fire Force is letting loose visually too. The anime was always a wild one with unique designs for its characters and their respective abilities, but this final wave of episodes has literally taken it to the next level. Not only are characters hyped up to a new degree thanks to the new visual flair for each of their fights, but they are getting stronger as a result of their imagination.

As perception for the fighters change for themselves and those around them, they are starting to look different too as it all comes to an end. This team is really going all out to sell the fact that this anime’s world is totally falling apart.

2). It Finally Explains Tamaki’s Fan Service

The latest episode in particular is a great example of this as Tamaki’s Lucky Lecher lure has been at the center of the series’ biggest debates. The fact that she’s forcibly stripped in each of her encounters is one reason why fans dipped out of Fire Force early on, but now it’s been turned into a heroic power. Her ability stems from this reality warping nature of everything as she forces others around her to let loose their own desires and wants as well.

She embodies freedom, and it’s revealed that her erotic nature is brought on by others’ perception of her. Others strip her down in their minds because they want to be as free, and this actually gets people out of the despair destroying the world. It allows for a new kind of freer thought outside of the mob mentality, and it’s the kind of message that really only hits well because so much of the rest of the series fell into chaos. It’s a perfect mess barely holding itself together.

1). Characters Are Getting Big Moments and Fights

But most importantly, the final episodes thus far have managed to have big moments for each of the characters with key fights all coming to their respective ends. There has been a worry from fans of Fire Force‘s manga that the anime has been quickly adapting the series and has been skipping over many details to get to its grand finale, but if you’re not experienced with the manga you would never really notice anyway.

The pace of the final season has been moving at a fast clip, but it’s never felt like it’s lost itself to keep going. In fact, because everything is falling apart and reality is completely warping, anytime there might be something confusing it can all be explained by the fact that the world is ending. It’s just hitting all the right notes, and anime fans need to make sure to see what’s going on with Fire Force before it all ends.

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