The anime adaptation of the Fire Force manga had its second season for summer 2020 and a third season is in the works as we learned earlier this spring. The popular series is now getting some new overseas attention as the French dub for both seasons has been added in full on Crunchyroll. Naturally, it’s limited in availability so we can’t check it out personally but they’ve gone live on the service.
The French dub was produced by Time-Line Factory for Funimation and was distributed by Mediatoon there. The dub was directed by Melanie Anne with a cast that includes Grégory Laisné as Shinra Kusakabe, Alan Aubert as Rekka Hoshimiya, Anna Lauzeray-Gishi as Iris, Arnaud Laurent as Arthur Boyle, Benoît Fort as Karim Fulham, Bérangère Rochet as Princesse Hibana, Cédric Lemaire as Yū, Charles Mendiant as Joker, and Christophe Seugnet as Konro Sagamiya.
Yuki Yase directed it and based on the scripts overseen by Yamato Haishima while Hideyuki Morioka handled the character designs. David Production is handling the animation for it.
On the casting side, Gakuto Kajiwara is on board as the lead with Gakuto Kajiwara as Shinra Kusakabe, Yūsuke Kobayashi as Arthur Boyle, M.A.O as Iris, Saeko Kamijō as Maki Oze, Kenichi Suzumura as Takehisa Hinawa, Kazuya Nakai as Akitaru Ōbi, Daisuke Sakaguchi as Victor Licht, Aoi Yūki as Kotatsu Tamaki, Kazuyuki Okitsu as Karim Fulham, Katsuyuki Konishi as Takeru Noto, Lynn as Princess Hibana, Kengo Kawanishi as Toru Kishiri, Tomoaki Maeno as Konro Sagamiya, and Kenjiro Tsuda as Joker.
Created by Atsuko Ohkubo, the series began in 2015 in Weekly Shonen Magazine and has thirty-three volumes out with it wrapping up in February 2022. Ohkubo gained a lot of fame for his work on the Soul Eater franchise. Kodansha Comics releases the manga in North America.
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Plot Concept: Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment’s notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out. The team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous “devil’s footprints” (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?
