The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Atsushi Ohkubo's Fire Force (En En no Shōbōtai) manga has announced that Rumi Okubo will join the anime's cast as Ritsu, a White-Clad maid and guardian of Inca Kasugatani.
KANA-BOON will be performing the new opening theme song titled, "Torch of Liberty," and PELICAN FANCLUB will be performing the new ending theme song titled, "Desire."
You can watch Season 2 on Funimation and Crunchyroll.
New cast members in Season 2 include:
The staff for season 2 includes:
Original: Atsushi Ohkubo (serialized in Kodansha "Weekly Shonen Magazine")
Director/Series Composition: Tatsumi Minamikawa
Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Hideyuki Morioka
Chief Animation Director: Yoshio Kosakai and Yumenosuke Tokuda
Key Animator: Kazuhiro Miwa
Main Animator: Hiroyuki Ohkaji, Tsutomu Matsuura, Neito Hirohara
Color Designer: Naoko Satou
Art director: Yoshito Takamine, Kazunori Miyazato
Director of Photography: Yousuke Motoki
CGI Director: Shin'ya Takano
VFX: Ryō Ōhashi
Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Composer: Kenichiro Suehiro
Crunchyroll streamed the first season and describes the story as:
Tokyo is burning, and citizens are mysteriously suffering from spontaneous human combustion all throughout the city! Responsible for snuffing out this inferno is the Fire Force, and Shinra is ready to join their fight. Now, as part of Company 8, he’ll use his devil’s footprints to help keep the city from turning to ash! But his past and a burning secret behind the scenes could set everything ablaze.
KANA-BOON will be performing the new opening theme song titled, "Torch of Liberty," and PELICAN FANCLUB will be performing the new ending theme song titled, "Desire."
You can watch Season 2 on Funimation and Crunchyroll.
SECOND COUR OFFICIAL TRAILER:
LATEST KEY VISUAL:
- Miyuri Shimabukuro joins the cast as new character Kasugatani Inka.
- Makoto Furukawa joins the cast as Ogun Montgomery, Shinra and Arthur's Academy friend from Company 4.
- Daisuke Ono joins the cast as Pan Ko Paat is the Captain of Company 4 who was also Shinra and Arthur's instructor in their Academy days. He's known for his use of a whistle.
- Kentaro Ito joins the cast as the mole Scop, a former inhabitant of Oasis.
- Sho Hayami joins the cast as the crow Yata, a former inhabitant of Oasis and Scop's friend.
- Takahiro Sakurai joins the cast as Yuichirō Kurono, a head researcher of pyrokinesis at Hajima Industries. A Third Generation Pyrokinetic nicknamed "Death." He's fond of bullying the weak.
The staff for season 2 includes:
Original: Atsushi Ohkubo (serialized in Kodansha "Weekly Shonen Magazine")
Director/Series Composition: Tatsumi Minamikawa
Character Design/Chief Animation Director: Hideyuki Morioka
Chief Animation Director: Yoshio Kosakai and Yumenosuke Tokuda
Key Animator: Kazuhiro Miwa
Main Animator: Hiroyuki Ohkaji, Tsutomu Matsuura, Neito Hirohara
Color Designer: Naoko Satou
Art director: Yoshito Takamine, Kazunori Miyazato
Director of Photography: Yousuke Motoki
CGI Director: Shin'ya Takano
VFX: Ryō Ōhashi
Editor: Kiyoshi Hirose
Sound Director: Jin Aketagawa
Composer: Kenichiro Suehiro
FIRST/SECOND/THIRD KEY VISUALS:
Crunchyroll streamed the first season and describes the story as:
Tokyo is burning, and citizens are mysteriously suffering from spontaneous human combustion all throughout the city! Responsible for snuffing out this inferno is the Fire Force, and Shinra is ready to join their fight. Now, as part of Company 8, he’ll use his devil’s footprints to help keep the city from turning to ash! But his past and a burning secret behind the scenes could set everything ablaze.