The manga series written and illustrated by Atsushi Ohkubo, Enen no Shouboutai (also known as Fire Force), was reported to have exceeded 7.5 million copies in circulation.
Ohkubo has published the manga in Kodansha publisher Weekly Shonen Magazine since September 2015. The publisher published the twenty-third compilation volume on May 15 and will publish the twenty-fourth on July 17. The play inspired a 24-episode anime adaptation produced by David Production Studios, released in July 2019. A second season is slated to premiere on July 3 and will have a total of 24 episodes.
Synopsis of Fire Force
Terror has paralyzed the inhabitants of Tokyo after a phenomenon known as "spontaneous combustion" began to turn its inhabitants into a kind of fiery demons called infernal. Despite this, some people are able to handle the flames and maintain their human form, thus giving them special abilities that divide them into first, second, and third generation pyrokinetics.
Within this chaos, our protagonist Shinra Kusakabe, a third-generation pyrokinetic, joins the Eighth Company of the Fire Force Special Unit, which seeks to discover the truth behind the phenomenon of human combustion.
