Written and illustrated by the manga on the official Twitter account Atsushi Ohkubo, Enen not a shouboutai ((Firepower) the cover of the twenty-eighth compilation volume of the work was published. The headline of this volume confirmed that the literary franchise has more than 15 million copies in circulation.

On the other hand, Ohkubo publishes the manga in the magazine Weekly Shonen Magazine from the publisher Kodansha since September 2015. The publisher released the twenty-seventh compilation volume on February 17th and will publish the twenty-eighth in Japan on April 28th.

The piece inspired a twenty-four episode anime adaptation produced by the studios. David productionA second season of twenty-four episodes aired in the summer of 2020, particularly since July 3 in Japan.

Synopsis of Firepower

Terror paralyzed Tokyo’s residents after a phenomenon known as “spontaneous combustion” turned its residents into a type of flaming demon known as infernal beasts. Even so, some people are able to deal with flames and maintain their human form, which gives them special skills, which they divide into first, second and third generation pyrokinetics.

In this chaos, our protagonist Shinra Kusakabe, a third generation pyrokineticist, joins the eighth company of the Fire Force Special Unit, which is trying to discover the truth behind the phenomenon of human combustion.

Source: Official Twitter account

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