©Atsushi Ohkubo, KODANSHA/”FIRE FORCE Season 3″ Production Committee A new promotional video has recently been unveiled for Fire Force Season 3, confirming the arrival of a second cour in January 2026. The initial cour of the third season debuted in Japan on April 4, 2025, and ran for 12 episodes, concluding in the country on June 21, 2025.
Changes in the production staff have occurred for the anime’s third installment. Sei Tsuguta (Undead Unluck, Sk8 the Infinity Extra Part co-scriptwriter) is supervising and writing the script, while Mika Yamamoto (Tiger & Bunny: The Rising co-character designer) steps in as the new sub-character designer.
Yoshihiro Yoshioka and Mariko Kubo have joined Yumenosuke Tokuda as chief animation directors, whereas Yumi Horikoshi (86 Eighty Six co-background art director) has taken on the role of art director, and Koji Kodera (RWBY Ice Queendom modeling set-up, Urusei Yatsura remake 3DCGI animator) has been appointed as the new CG director. Ryo Ohashi is now recognized as VFX supervisor (previously listed under “VFX”), and Natsuki Takei (Season 1 assistant compositing director, Season 2 co-assistant compositing director) serves as the compositing director of photography. Animation production is handled by David Production.
Yuki Yase (Mekakucity Actors) directed the first season, while Tatsuma Minamikawa (Wave, Listen to Me!) directed the second season and will return to direct the third. Yamato Haijima wrote the screenplay for the first season, while Minamikawa took charge in the second. Hideyuki Morikawa is working as character designer for season three, with Naoko Sato as color designer.
Two previous 24-episode seasons were released. The first season aired from July 6, 2019, to December 28, 2019. The second season aired from July 4, 2020, to December 12, 2020.
Fire Force is adapted from Atsushi Ohkubo’s manga of the same name, which was serialized in Kodansha’s Weekly Shonen Magazine from September 23, 2015, to February 22, 2022, with a total of 34 tankobon volumes published. Kodansha USA releases the series in English for North America.
Fire Force Official Japanese Twitter (via AIR News)
