I wonder who Moonlite mask is. He seems pretty strong, should join the Fire Force
Budget... I missed you.
Great use of 3D environment and lighting, it's much better than what I'd pictured from the manga. I do hope the idea of Shinra fighting a "wall" is left behind with this fight. It makes sense in context, but it made fight choreography to reliant on Shinra. Still a few off frames and the sound design felt a bit muted, but those are just small nitpicks. Amazing episode!


2025 and people are still talking about budget smh
It makes sense, the budget is the same for the whole season, but since most of the best scenes you see in anime are done with freelance work, the studio has to pay more to outside animators to make a good sequence, so it's fair to mention the budget since more money was used to deliver this episode.
Really, only a few projects get the previlage of being assigned the best animators of the studio, resulting in the anime being consistent and have great animation, without needing free-lance work, but I'm pretty sure that's not what's happening with this season, Fire Force peaked on season two, and it seems the best animators of the studio have better things to animate now.
Aaaaand, mentioning the budget of an anime has been used freely for years without any literal intention, it's just a way of saying that something is better.
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Yup! It was great to see a well-animated episode, it took me back to season two for a moment, they are struggling with something, maybe time, maybe animators, since it's noticeable that they are focusing their workload on heavier scenes, but that also means that the show will probably get crazy beginning with this episode. And yeah, I would like to see anyone here make a fight against a wall have better choreography, will we just have Shinra dance and throw himself against Burns just for the sake of wasting work and time? Be glad we at least got Shinra spinning, because if I were the director, this fight would be cut short to give space for better sequences, Burns ain't even that popular (In the anime at least).
overall great episode, visual were great even if the animation sometimes looked a bit off and it had some of my favorite moments from the manga. HOWEVER. i think the sound design this episode was pretty bad, especially during the burns fight. it made the blows feel like they had no impact whatsoever so the fight just felt so off. considering that fire force is known for its amazing sound effects i find this absolutely tragic
It might not have been perfect, but damn the Shinra vs. Burns fight was what Assault Meli vs. The One Escanor should've been. Also, am I the only one that would love to see a versus battle between Burns and Escanor, I mean their power sets are hella similar and Burns Stage V is basically a rip-off of The One, shred me to pieces if you want, I'll die on that hill.
vs.
You can't tell me this fight wouldn't go hard!
The sound design didn't hit like the previous seasons why was it......subdued?
Anyway still I'll take this, best episode of this season so far, great pacing finally something happened after 6 episodes. Animation for Shinra vs Burns was good, maybe not the best but eh.
Twists at the end were cool too, Benimaru ftw
I ain't gonna lie that was pretty awful. If this is what Fire Force S3 is gonna churn out for the finale of the series what a damn bummer. I mean it's never been consistent 100% quality animation, but they always turned out straight fire for the big fights. What a let down, crazy that Iris seems to be implied as the new Adolla Link. Wonder what's gonna come of that. But man, I really hope that if Burns wasn't the main fight of this part of S3 Pt.1, that the actual main fight gets more love than this. This was just bad.
I KNEWWW I WASNT REACHING
watching the ending i noticed dead characters were looking back and not forward (hague, hajiki)
i mean here, burns was facing forward, joker backwards, making me think oh its SO over for joker
but episode 6:

burns faces backwards before being replaced with joker facing forward alone
Such a subtle difference i dont think anyone noticed lol :p