roxiethebikedog Review of Fire Force

Fire Force (2019– )

Beautiful animation, interesting concept, and way, way too much fanservice

[4/10 · 21 June 2020]

I love the animation and the concept of this show. The character designs and uniforms are awesome, the animation is fluid and gorgeous, and the fight scenes are made interesting by the inclusion of a whole lot of fire. I really like the idea of a society that worships the sun god Sol and has pyrokinetics as well as the problem of the spontaneous combustion epidemic, but I have a hard time getting past both the absolute edginess that they seem to include at random and the constant phenomenon of the female characters having their clothes strategically torn or burned off to be as revealing as possible while still passing censorship. Plus the constant male characters accidentally winding up with their faces shoved into breasts or lifting skirts or walking in on naked women... It makes it feel more like a hentai with extra steps than a truly well thought out anime, and many of the female characters seem to have little personality to make them stand out compared to their male contemporaries. I do not want an intense fight scene to be interrupted multiple times in -one- episode so that the only woman in the scene can have her clothes torn off and have the male character faceplant into her breasts repeatedly. They also made a big show of having one of the male characters kick her for a prolonged period of time, and the top-down over-animated view of her crying really unsettled me because of the angles and the way it seemed to recall some of the less than savory hentai I've stumbled across. I want to know what happens but I'm having a hard time stomaching the constant sexualization of the women in this show.