Review of Fire Force

Brief overview: Not worth watching, unless you like fighting anime This review will be based on seasons 1 and 2 as both seasons are pretty much the same at the time of 31/08/2024 Introduction Set in a world where at all times there will be cases where a normal human being will be infected with a flame virus that causes them to turn into monsters. A military force that mainly consists of fire force users is established to eliminate the threat of the monsters. Characters 3/10 So the character here is more like what the fuck because look, ok you have this priest girl that basically does nothing, but prayto the enemy for forgiveness. The problem is, what does the praying benefit do in the midst of the battle? It literally does nothing, and she is there for nothing. The character is also so fucking cliche to the point that it is frustrating and there is also so much dumb fan service that just pops out of nowhere. This cat girl for example, whenever she does something, she will always be accidentally stripped naked by her surroundings area because her clothes just somehow fall off. The villains are also badly represented at first; the villains look like a well-established and organized group that trusts each other and believes in each other. However, when fights break out between the fire force and the villains there are so many times when the villains are fighting both the enemy and amongst themselves for no reason. And, somehow, 1 villain also intentionally injured its own allies in the midst of a fight just to show how cool they are, which later on the fire force basically does more or less the same thing and the characters keep making big fusses about small things such as a muscle deflection of a ant bite which is so stupid.
SO LONG WORDS SHORT: The characters don't make much sense most of the time

Story 4/10
The story of Fire Force is not interesting because most of the time the story is about the fights which have no build-up or interesting points to lead towards that. Throughout seasons 1 and 2 the series is stuck in a time loop where there is little progress made or achieved. It's all about the Fire squadron doing small task missions to eliminate a group of infected or training amongst themselves most of the time. It's strange that they introduced his deceased brother Sho in the first episode then straight after the first episode one of the villains pointed out that his brother is alive. This is not a spoiler because there is no fucking build-up to that point when the brotherly narrative is only like 2 seconds briefly shown. There are also so many unnecessary points in the story such as the factions and religion because they don't serve any meaningful purpose to the story. For example, the fire force is inspired by firefighters, but they look more or less the same as firefighters, not a special military force. What's worse is that most of their uniform don't represent a clear regiment on what they are. The Latom religion is basically Christianity and is weird that they want to segregate both those things into different meanings because its basically a copy and paste. What's worse is that religion in this anime doesn't have a clear reason for being there. I give you a good example of a religion in AOT of Ymir Fritz. All the people of Eldia worship her because they believe she is a god and she is an important aspect of the narrative on how Titan is born, but religion in this anime doesn't serve or add up to the story which is not a good inspiration. To keep it short the story adds so many inspired elements like Christianity and firefighter that don't serve any meaning in the story which makes the narrative very boring. The only narrative that is interesting is Joker story. He is such a cool character and everything about him is so mysterious which has brought so much build-up and attention for the audience. And others are just plain boring. However, if your into more of a fighting type of narrative than this series does bring quite a lot of good fight scenes but for story focus its not that interesting

Animation 9/10
The animation is the only greatest aspect of this anime. The animators put a lot of time and effort to make this animation into the top tier anime. It is at the movie quality level and it shows that a lot of effort has been put into it with so many dynamics around it and colorful paintings.

TLDR
Most of the time the story focuses primarily on the fights than the story. For some anime like Demon Slayer its fine because they do give us likable characters with a very intriguing background story. However, the characters in Fire force are questionable at best and most of the background stories of them are not very fascinating. The one thing they did right was the animation. It is a movie-quality animation and you can see a lot of effort has been put into it. However, this doesn't exempt from the poorly told story that hugely degraded the anime.