Fire Force season 3

Fire Force
Season 3
Key visual for the season
No. of episodes	12
Release
Original network	MBS, TBS, CBC
Original release	April 5, 2025 (2025-04-05) – present
Season chronology

The third and final season of the Fire Force anime television series is based on Atsushi Ohkubo's manga series of the same name. The season is produced by David Production and directed by Tatsuma Minamikawa, with Sei Tsuguta replacing Minamikawa on series composition. In July 2024 at Anime Expo, it was announced that the third season would also be its final and air in two split cours (kūru), with the first cours having aired from April 5 to June 21, 2025, and the second cours scheduled for January 2026. The season is broadcasting on the Animeism programming block on MBS, TBS, CBC, and other networks.

The opening theme song for the first cours is "High Flame" (強火, Tsuyobi) performed by Queen Bee, while the ending theme song is "Urusiren" (ウルサイレン) performed by Umeda Cypher.

Episodes

See also: List of Fire Force episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original release date
Part 1
49	1	"Indomitable Resolve" Transliteration: "Futaiten" (Japanese: 不退転)	Tatsuma Minamikawa	Sei Tsuguta	Tatsuma Minamikawa	April 5, 2025 (2025-04-05)
Raffles III calls Captain Burns to the Curia in the Special Fire Grand Cathedral and informs him that the empire will unite with the White Clad. Burns is horrified when Haumea explains that the White-Clad's aim is to turn the watery planet into a sun engulfed in flames, but after seeing the Evangelist, he surprisingly falls to his knees and accepts her proposal. Back at Company 8, Lieutenant Takehisa Hinawa suspects that the White-Clad are after Shinra and his Adolla Burst. He volunteers to go alone to rescue the Captain but the rest of Company 8 volunteer to join him, all realizing that this means going against the Tokyo Empire.
50	2	"Prisoner" Transliteration: "Toraware no Mi" (Japanese: 囚われの身)	Eiichi Kuboyama	Sei Tsuguta	Eiichi Kuboyama	April 12, 2025 (2025-04-12)
Captain Obi is arrested by the Imperial Army and Company 8 are declared outlaws. Shinra has a vision via an Adolla Link in which Captain Burns reveals that Obi will be implanted with a 'Mushi' (蟲, bug), an insect that originates from Adolla which can cause spontaneous combustion in humans. Viktor Licht takes Company 8 to meet Joker, an experienced outlaw who will teach them to "walk in the darkness" and leads them to his underground hideout. Joker reveals that Obi is being held in the high security Fuchu Penitentiary and takes Shinra with him to rescue their Captain. Meanwhile in Fuchu, White-Clad member Gold prepares to expose Obi to an Adolla bug.
51	3	"Incarnation of Flame" Transliteration: "Honō no Keshin" (Japanese: 炎の化身)	Daisuke Chiba	Sei Tsuguta	Jiro Fujimoto	April 19, 2025 (2025-04-19)
Shinra and Joker break into Fuchu Penitentiary but are confronted by Captain Burns. They attempt a frontal attack but are beaten back by Burns' Voltage Nova blast. Meanwhile, Company 8 breach the wall of the prison, only to be stopped by a White-Clad member named Gold. Maki offers to engage her while the others search for Obi, but they are beaten back and forced to regroup.
52	4	"Golden Secret" Transliteration: "Ōgon no Himitsu" (Japanese: 黄金の秘密)	Fumihiro Ueno	Sei Tsuguta	Shinji Itadaki	April 26, 2025 (2025-04-26)
Tamaki, aided by Maki, Lisa, and Vulcan, fights against Gold and ultimately defeats her using a plan concocted by Licht. Another of the White-Clad’s Destroyers, Stream, attacks, but Arthur arrives and defeats him with a single blow. Meanwhile, as Burns squares off with Shinra, a White-Clad member attaches an Adolla Bug to Captain Obi.
53	5	"Chance Meeting with an Arch-Enemy" Transliteration: "Shūteki Kaikō" (Japanese: 宿敵邂逅)	Mori Minne	Sei Tsuguta	Kōji Iwai	May 3, 2025 (2025-05-03)
Captain Obi is able to prevent the Bug from piercing his skin by flexing his abs, having built up his muscles during his time in prison. Arthur is challenged by the leader of the White-Clad's Destroyers, Dragon. Despite Dragon's name and appearance feeding Arthur's fantasies of knighthood and thus empowering his plasma blade Excalibur, Dragon barely takes any damage from Arthur's attacks and his counterattack leaves Arthur defeated and Excalibur's hilt shattered. Captain Burns and Shinra continue their fight, with Burns's Voltage Nova ability growing stronger as the fight wears on.
54	6	"Beyond Prayer's End" Transliteration: "Inori no Hate" (Japanese: 祈りの果て)	Tatsuma Minamikawa	Sei Tsuguta	Tatsuma Minamikawa	May 10, 2025 (2025-05-10)
Interspersed with flashbacks of Captain Burns's life, Shinra finally manages to defeat Burns, but Burns is suddenly impaled and killed by a Demon Infernal. Dragon unleashes a massive attack at Company 8, too powerful for even Maki to block. Sister Iris seemingly dissipates the blast through prayer, though she does not realize it. Company 8 are then confronted by the remaining White-Clad, but a masked figure calling himself "Moonlight Mask" arrives to save them.
55	7	"Sleeping Truth" Transliteration: "Nemuru Shinjitsu" (Japanese: 眠る真実)	Yuki Iwasaki	Sei Tsuguta	Naoki Kotani	May 17, 2025 (2025-05-17)
Company 7 Captain Benimaru Shinmon, disguised as "Moonlight Mask", holds the White-Clad at bay and helps Company 8 escape to Asakusa. The Tokyo Empire officially blames Shinra for Burns's murder and brands Company 8 as traitors. Meanwhile, Company 5 Captain Hibana, hoping to solve the mystery of Doppelgängers, investigates the ruins of St. Raffles Convent where she and Sister Iris were raised as orphans. Aided by Lieutenants Huo Yan Li and Karim Flam of Company 1, she discovers a hidden room beneath the altar. Finding nothing but books about plants and bugs, the trio are interrupted by Sister Sumire, who ran the convent prior to its destruction.
56	8	"Holy Mother of Darkness" Transliteration: "Yami no Seibo" (Japanese: 闇の聖母)	Eiichi Kuboyama	Sei Tsuguta	Eiichi Kuboyama	May 24, 2025 (2025-05-24)
		"The Knight King's Great Adventure" Transliteration: "Kishi-Ō no Daibōken" (Japanese: 騎士王の大冒険)
Sister Sumire confirms Hibana's suspicions that the sisters were researching doppelgängers, mixing Adolla bugs into the children’s food in the hope of producing Spontaneous Human Combustion (SHC). She is preparing for a second Great Cataclysm and when she reveals that she is the seventh pillar, able to vibrate her body as if shivering and combining with an Adolla burst to produce destructive tremors, Hibana and her friends escape. Meanwhile as Arthur recovers, Vulcan tells him that the orichalcum in his sword is fake and offers to find him some of the genuine legendary metal which will increase his power. Vulcan plants a series of clues for Arthur to follow, but Arthur misreads the last one and mistakenly deduces that orichalcum is in the Nether.
57	9	"Holy Sword, Resurrected" Transliteration: "Seiken Saitan" (Japanese: 聖剣再誕)	Fumihiro Ueno	Sei Tsuguta	Tetsuji Nakamura	May 31, 2025 (2025-05-31)
Searching for orichalcum, Arthur leads Vulcan, Lisa and Yu into the Nether, the subterranean part of the city. They encounters Arthur's parents who abandoned him years earlier and have been living there ever since, hiding from the creditors of their failed restaurant and pretending to be resistance fighters. Coincidentally Arthur's father has come up with the same theory as Hibana regarding the Evangelist and doppelgängers. Among the pile of junk the parents collected, Vulcan finds a nose cone from a space rocket made from a temperature resistant alloy which he forges into a new sword for Arthur. Meanwhile, Shinmon encourages Shinra to awaken his third eye, but he falls asleep and meets his brother Sho in the Adolla zone.
58	10	"Advent" Transliteration: "Shutsugen" (Japanese: 出現)	Yuri Uema	Sei Tsuguta	Shinji Itadaki	June 7, 2025 (2025-06-07)
Sho reflects on his encounter with Shinra through an Adolla link and decides to find his brother while he reluctantly lets his protector, Arrow, follow him. Hibana presents her report on the Great Cataclysm and Spontaneous Human Combustion while Captain Obi reports on support he has gather from the other Fire Force companies. They are interrupted by the appearance of Scop, the mole Shinra befriended on the Asian mainland (Episode 31). Scop traveled to Tokyo to tell Shinra that the Lady in Black told him that the Great Cataclysm was imminent and that the first one failed because pi had not been calculated. Meanwhile, the Evangelists begin to celebrate a mass for the coming of the Great Cataclysm and Sumire causes a giant stone column to emerge from Tokyo Bay.
59	11	"The Great Kaiju Battlefront" Transliteration: "Daikaijū Sensen" (Japanese: 大怪獣戦線)	Mitsuki Kitamura	Sei Tsuguta	Jiro Fujimoto	June 14, 2025 (2025-06-14)
Following the appearance of the giant pillar, a titanic black metallic robot-like juggernaut appears and walks through the bay towards Tokyo. The army arrives at the shore and fires a barrage of artillery and rockets at the titan but have virtually no effect. Meanwhile, Section chief Oguro of the elite members of Hajima arrives with the half-infrernal Kurono. Juggernaut, Takeru Noto of the 2nd Company, fires a mighty blast at the titan just as Shinra flies in stop it but he is hit and rendered unconscious. Oguro sends Kurono into the water to save Shinra while Scop tells Juggernaut to stop firing at the pillar which is acting as a plug on an undersea volcano. Oguro sends Kurono to attack the black metallic titan and he begins to cut it to shreds.
60	12	"The Madness of the Distant Past" Transliteration: "Inishie no Kyōki" (Japanese: 古の狂気)	Daisuke Chiba	Sei Tsuguta	Kazuki Akane	June 21, 2025 (2025-06-21)
While Kurono proceeds to destroy the black metallic titan, Fairie appears and takes the unconscious Shinra into the sky. He is attacked by Sho who is carried forward by stepping on arrows fired by his protector, Arrow. Sho is unable to cut Fairie with his sword because he uses an Adolla Burst to interfere with the laws of gravity, however Sho manages to grab Shinra as Fairie disappears. In a flashback to the Great Cataclysm, the Infernal Yona meets and kills Raffles Smith, the leader of the Caravan comprising survivors of the Cataclysm. Yona duplicates Raffles' human appearance to forge a new religion, Holy Sol, and rebuild society with the remains of Amaterasu and to prepare for a Second Great Cataclysm. Back in the present, the massive Pillar absorbs the Kaiju's remains and turns black then Faerie lands atop it and uses it to cause an Alolla Burst. At that moment, Shinra experiences an Adolla Link with Inca who encourages him to use his super speed to travel back to the world before the first Cataclysm where he sees the Tokyo of the 20th Century in grainy black and white images which utterly confuse him. He awakens back in the present three months later, strapped to a bed and after five pillars have appeared.
Part 2
61	13	"Unaware" Transliteration: "Mujikaku" (Japanese: 無自覚)	TBD	TBD	TBA	January 2026 (2026-01)

Home media release

Japanese

DMM.com (Japan – Region 2/A)

Vol.		Episodes	Release date	Ref.
	1	1–12	August 8, 2025

External links

• Official third season anime website (in Japanese)
• Fire Force season 3 at IMDb
• Fire Force season 3 (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia