Fire Force is AoT meets FMA(B), but everything's on fire.
I started the series incredibly excited by the premise and the promises the show made. I'm in season 2 episode 14 now, and I've lost interest.
The animations are amazing, dare I say it. The fight scenes are action-packed. Music is mostly rock and hard rock, if that's what you're into. The art is definitive. The steampunk Tokyo Empire and the characters are easily recognisable.
But the plot... Oh, the plot. It feels too much like AoT and FMA(B).
Here's Fire Force's story: a boy who lost his mother (but not younger brother) looking for a certain something accidentally stumbles upon a much greater conspiracy.
Sound familiar?
The Infernals would be flaming Titans. They're even created by humans, apparently. The Evangelist, who's like Father, is trying to achieve her ungodly mission by employing her faithful servants to find the Eight Pillars (Eight people with Adolla Bursts, I.e pure flames) to be "sacrifices".
Does that word ring a bell?
People receive an Adolla Burst if they see Hell itself. In FMA(B), they have to see the Truth, or God.
The writer uses expeditions as an excuse to send characters to important plot points. The first two arcs (the tournament and the Hibana-Iris story) didn't have expeditions and they were my favourite arcs. But that's all.
We have an expedition to the 1st Company. An expedition to the Nether. To China. To Haijima Industries.
Expedition. Fight bad guys. Learn a secret. That's it.
Some characters are bland. Tamaki's entire existence is for her clothes to be blown off and her body exposed. Inca, a supposedly independent girl, agrees to serve the Evangelist. New bad guys just keep coming with no reason, motivation or backstories of their own.
The whole story strucutre is repetitive and monotonous.
And finally the fight scenes. Animations aside, characters come in and out of battles for no reason. Scenes change too infrequently.
One example is when they're faced with about eight Infernal dogs but only fight three. The others just disappeared.
The broken fight scenes and irritating plot ruined it for me. I was expecting the show to end from like thirty episodes but the bad guys keep running away.
I've given up on this show. This anime truly disappointed me.