Characters / Fire Force: Special Fire Force Company 8

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Special Fire Force (Company 8) | White-Clad (Knights of the Ashen Flame)

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In General

• Almighty Janitor: Company 8 is understaffed and looked down on by the rest of the organization. They also drive the entire plot forward. Shinra, Arthur, and Tamaki are all recruits fresh from the academy but still fight opponents with years more experience than they have and win.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: They're generally considered to be the quirkiest Company within the Special Fire Force, but they're all pretty damn competent at their job when it comes down to it. When they get serious, they show that they're all at the top of their fields and more than make up for their small numbers.
• Cool Car: They use an armored fire truck to get around. They call it a "Matchbox". It is stated that it was based on a German tank. It becomes a Weaponized Car after Vulcan joins the team and works his magic. The tank inspiration becomes even more important.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: After Burns is proclaimed dead by the Empire, Shinra is subjected to a Frame-Up and called Burns' killer, and Company 8 is excommunicated from the Empire and branded criminals. Made even worse when Shinra kills Raffles I, causing the entire public of Tokyo to denounce him as "Devil."
• Internal Affairs: Company 8 was founded to investigate the other parts of the Fire Force to ensure they are on the level.
• The Main Characters Do Everything: Pretty much every revelation about human combustion comes from Company 8's adventures. This is partly justified as the other companies are hiding key information from everyone else or have reasons to not get involved.
• Mildly Military: They aren't technically soldiers, but the Fire Force usually is expected to act with a degree of military discipline. Something that barely exists at all with the day-to-day shenanigans the crew usually gets up to.
• Oddly Small Organization: Lampshaded. The Company began with only four members and it took two years for anyone else to join. In comparison, Companies 1 through 7 have dozens of members each. Captain Ōbi is overjoyed when they get enough members to fill a fire engine. This comes back to bite them in cases of larger scale disasters as, unlike the other Companies, they simply don't have the manpower necessary to resolve the situation. If not for calling in reinforcements from allied Companies they would have died multiple times.
• Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Said word-for-word by Ōbi. The Company consists of a musclebound Captain who has an abnormal amount of strength (that he says is just from training), a Lieutenant whose serious demeanor doesn't quite match up with his terrible fashion sense, the so-called "Devil" who calls himself a hero, a powerhouse whose power is directly proportional to his "knightly" delusions, a former military officer obsessed with girly things, and a Company 1 transfer who has a bunch of "Lucky Lecher Lure" moments. Their support staff includes a genuine Nice Girl nun who's blunt, a shady scientist who's the Black Sheep of the group, an punkish-yet-talented engineer that lives for rock music and creating (as well as destroying) inventions, and another engineer just along for the ride. These are your protagonists people and they wear their quirkiness with unabashed amount of pride.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Regulations and diplomacy go right out the window when they get in the way of the unit saving civilians or each other.
• True Companions: They're prone to constant humorous spats, but are probably the most closely bonded unit in the entire force.

Captain

Captain Akitaru Ōbi

Captain Akitaru Ōbi

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (Japanese), Jeremy Inman (English), Alfredo Gabriel Basurto (Latin American Spanish)

A former firefighter and the founding Captain of Company 8. Ōbi lacks superpower, but he makes up for it in muscle and charisma. He is determined to amass a Company capable of uncovering the truth behind the Infernals and Save the World.

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• Badass Normal: No powers but lots of strength. He often grapples with Infernals and empowered humans with great success despite his disadvantage.
• Big Brother Mentor: He acts this way towards Shinra and Arthur. This briefly causes some competition between him and Hibana for the boys' attention.
• The Big Guy: He's the tallest, broadest and (physically) strongest member of Company 8.
• Boisterous Bruiser: He's a loud and hammy type of guy.
• Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: He's overall a friendlier and lighter touch authority than his second, Hinawa, and instructs the company in big picture things like the importance of assuring civilians (don't let them see your weapons) and the investigation of other companies.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: How did he get so strong? Heavy weight training every day. He's even introduced doing upside-down sit-ups. It's implied after the world is remade, he got even stronger thanks to his powerful soul and can now tear apart landscapes with his bare hands.
• Cool Mask: It's a cage-like design that completely hides his face.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: He often takes a beating as part of a strategy, either to distract his opponent or to get within punching range.
• Does Not Like Guns: Even when it is simplified down to pushing a button and completely non-lethal against a non-human opponent, Ōbi has no idea how to fire a shot and is terrified of doing it.
• Guile Hero: Ōbi will play politics to justify his Company's investigations and misdirect his foes during combat to ensure victory. He also admitted that he was planning to exploit Hibana's relationship with Iris if he needed to.
• Heroic Build: Big time from all that training. He's so diesel, that by flexing in bodybuilding poses, his muscles are hard enough to be impenetrable to the bite of infernal bugs. General Armstrong would be proud.
• Hope Bringer: He's this for the entire team, even for the heroic wannabe Shinra.He ends up being this for all of Tokyo during the Great Cataclysm and his death is what is needed by the White Clad to trigger the Cataclysm and Shinra's caving into despair.
• Hunk: Square-jawed and handsome? Check. Built like a a tank? Check. Low voice courtesy of Kazuya Nakai? Check.
• Improbable Weapon User: He once used train tracks as both a weapon and a ladder.
• Last-Name Basis: Out of sheer respect of his status and rank, most people call him "Captain Ōbi".
• The Leader: The captain of Company 8 who issues orders to Shinra and the other fire soldiers under his command.
• Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: His most commonly used weapon is a large shield he uses for defense, charges, bashing, and when really pushed, throws.
• Made of Iron: Despite being a perfectly normal human, he's survived having ceilings collapsed on top of him as well as attacks from Infernals and pyrokinetics alike.
• Nerves of Steel: He was a firefighter. It comes with the territory. With no immunity to fire and a world full of crazy powerful people and monsters with fire powers, he still rushes into battle.
• Not So Above It All: He may be the respected Captain of the 8th, but even he has his moments of ridiculousness.
  • Case in point, he allowed Vulcan install a bullhead on the cross of the base because it was supposed to allow Vulcan to work at his best while also making the base look cool.
  • For the Fire Force's calendar, he devises the arm-muscle-flexing pose they will use and he calls it "turning a python into a cobra, and then you bust out its twin". Shinra doesn't know what to say to this, while Iris and Maki erupt into giggles.
• Pile Bunker: He carries a Core Annihilating Pile Bunker in his arsenal to punch through the cores of Infernals.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: He is, without a doubt, the physically strongest of his company. In a unit filled with powerful, well-trained pyrokinetics, he was the only one who could fight evenly with an enraged fellow captain Shinmon Benimaru and earn his respect when all of his subordinates were defeated in seconds.
• Scars Are Forever: Even after he's revived and the world is remade, he still retains the scar and stitches on his neck from when his Doppelganger slit his throat.
• Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Ōbi is the model firefighter. But this has historically gotten him into trouble as he used to defy orders to prioritize saving lives. It's not so much of a problem now that he is the one giving orders and his superiors trust him to get results.
• Smarter Than You Look: Despite being treated like an imbecile, Ōbi uses established policies and his connections within the fire department to investigate other Fire Force Companies.
• Supporting Leader: Shinra is The Hero, but Ōbi gives him his marching orders and gives him the guidance he needs.
• Universally Beloved Leader: Company 8 have their problems and disagreements, but they all respect their captain Akitaru. It is even said that his charisma is the thing that binds the Company together. Even other captains and criminals like Joker seem to respect him for his attitude.
• Walking Armory: He says he carries upwards of 60 kg of gear into every battle, far more than any of his subordinates do, to compensate for his lack of powers. That load increases once Vulcan joins and makes new gadgets for him.
• What Measure Is A Nonhuman: Believes the Infernals need to be treated with dignity as they were once innocent people now doomed to suffer. He also holds the entire company to this standard and wishes to protect the grieving victims from any additional hardship.
• Worthy Opponent: Benimaru seemed to think so during their street fight. For contrast, he thought all of Ōbi's subordinates were too weak for his attention but he was willing to go all out against Ōbi himself.
• Wrestler in All of Us: He tries elbow dropping villains at one point.

Lieutenant

Takehisa Hinawa

Lieutenant Takehisa Hinawa

Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Christopher Wehkamp (English), Noé Velázquez (Latin American Spanish)

The stone-faced second-in-command of Company 8 and former military officer. Lieutenant Hinawa uses firearms in battle alongside his Second Generation powers to blow his opponents away.

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• Badass Boast:
  • Delivers a subtle one when he fights Kishiri:
  Hinawa: From the sparks generated on impact, I tweak each bullet again. *The bullets ricochet off the walls and hit Kishiri.
  • Delivers one before striking Arrow head-on:
  Hinawa: The reason you didn't kill me is because your first shot didn't hit my left shoulder, which bears the 8th's emblem.
• Bizarre and Improbable Ballistics: Hinawa will shoot you. It doesn't matter how you hide or how you take cover, his abilities allow him to curve bullets and increase their explosive force.
• Blind Without Them: He really needs his glasses.
• Captain Smooth and Sergeant Rough: If you are his subordinate, and you're not paying attention during briefings, then he will shoot you with a real gun to enforce company discipline (his powers mitigate the damage from "lethal" to "painful but harmless"). This is in contrast to the personable Captain Ōbi.
• Cold Sniper: The most ruthless person in Company 8 is absolutely frigid when he's shooting at distance targets.
• Combat Pragmatist: He's merciless in battle, having no compunctions about filling an opponent with lead as soon as he sees them.
• The Comically Serious: His attitude of total intensity can be funny when it comes to things like grilling.
• Counter-Attack: His most terrifying attacks steal the heat and explosive force of his opponent's attacks to increase the force on his own attacks. Without doing this, his attacks are compared to a tank shell. By doing this, Hinawa is a living Electromagnetic Cannon.
• Cruel to Be Kind: Hinawa's philosophy. When he saw that Maki was a hard-working, honest and kind soul, he disapproved of her place within the military because he knew she would eventually crack under pressure and all her efforts would be wasted. This is why he offered her a place in Company 8, where her moral character would be preserved.
• The Cynic: He doesn't think too highly of Shinra's motivations at first and he's often the voice of cold reason in the Company.
• Death Glare: He rarely blinks and his subordinates are terrified of him.
• The Dreaded: Aside from Obi, everyone in Company 8 is terrified of earning his wrath.
• Dual Wielding: Does this out in the field quite a bit.
• Experienced Protagonist: He was a former military officer and definitely proves it in fire fights.
• Explosive Overclocking: He can magnify the explosive force of a rifle to the extent that it compares to a tank's turret. This utterly ruins the rifle's barrel, so he slots in replacements right there in the field.
• Face of a Thug: His expression is always uncomfortably intense, to the point of being someone who looks ready to snap at any moment. While he can be fairly gruff, it's clear from his actions and words that he's a very compassionate person and this is just his default expression.
• Fights Like a Normal: He is a pyrokinetic, but unlike the rest of his squad's more flashy displays of power, he uses his powers to augment his marksmanship skills with regular guns and more mundane martial arts rather than throw fire directly.
• Freudian Excuse: In spite of his cynical outer shell, he is a firm believer in the Fire Force's job to help the common citizen when their loved ones turn into raging fire monsters. This is based on his own past experience, his best friend in the army going Infernal and he hesitated to put him down after previously dismissing his beliefs. He even uses his deceased friend's baptized gun to do his job because he believed that if anyone would want to be put down, they would want it to be done with a blessed weapon.
• Grin of Audacity: Pulls an epic one in his fight against Arrow.
• Guns Akimbo: Often holds two guns if he doesn't have a shotgun.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted. He's the long-range expert while he leaves close-combat to the others.
• Hollywood Atheist: He starts out as this, being a hyper-rationalist who doesn't believe in God and has little respect for religious rituals. It's after he finds he can shoot his friend Tojo after they have a discussion about the peace of mind baptized weapons provides does he warm up a little, even using Tojo's baptized gun after joining the Fire Force.
• Jack of All Trades: Hinawa is not only a skilled fighter, commander and researcher; he also maintained the Matchbox until Vulcan joined the team. He's so good that Vulcan thought there wasn't anything else he could do, until he started radically modifying everything and developing new technology.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He'll kneecap Shinra in the middle of the office to make a point, but will also ask him if he's worried about something. His whole relationship with Maki is an example of this: Hinawa is extremely hard on her but he does have absolute faith in her abilities.
• Knight in Sour Armour: Hinawa is a pretty bitter sounding person but he'll fight for truth and justice till his dying breath.
• Knight Templar: He is dead serious about his duty to extinguish flames. Even Maki's adorable and harmless familiars are doused as soon as he sees them, to her dismay.
• Last-Name Basis: Out of either respect for rank or intimidation, everyone in the Company calls him by his last name.
• Let's Get Dangerous!: When faced with impossible odds, Hinawa kicks it up a notch and brings out more powerful artillery.
• Married to the Job: He's not interested in getting into relationships. His job is so dangerous that he could die at any moment and anyone could potentially turn Infernal, so he prefers to avoid attachments.
• No Kill like Overkill: If pushed hard enough, the man fires gunshots with the power of a tank shell to make certain that he takes down his target.
• Not Afraid to Die: He is a soldier in a world where anyone can die at any time via combustion. Hinawa doesn't care if he is killed in the line of duty. It's his concern for his allies that pulls him through.
• Number Two: He is Ōbi's lieutenant.
• Only Sane Man: Along with Shinra, he's one of the most well-adjusted members of the Company and regularly calls out the others for being ridiculous. The only things that really make him quirky are his terrible fashion sense and utter seriousness to everything.
• Pet the Dog: Reminds Shinra that he can always come to him if he needs help.
• Pinball Projectile: He can bounce bullets off of surfaces with ease, and he can create several ricochets by manipulating sparks from bullets' impact with objects. The result can be terrifying.
• Pride Before a Fall: Being unable to Mercy Kill his friend in the military before he completely turned Infernal took him down a notch.
• Real Men Wear Pink: In addition to all of his other skills, Hinawa is the best chef in Company 8.
• Serious Business: Everything, from cooking to modeling, demands Hinawa's utmost attention.
• Set Swords to "Stun": As he can freely control the strength of gunpowder explosions, he can limit potency of his gunshots to the point where the bullets only leave bruises against opponents he doesn't want to risk killing. He's been known to use handguns to enforce discipline in the recruits with this method.
• Shotguns Are Just Better: He uses one during a long-range battle. His ballistic means that he can increase the range. This is taken up to eleven when he uses extended barrels to make it even more lethal.
• Simple, yet Awesome: He uses his Second-Generation ability "Bullet Speed Control" to alter the force of ignition in his gun. While not as flashy as other pyrokinetic abilities, he is able to alter the force of common handgun bullets however he likes, making it harmless enough to shoot his men for disciplinary purposes without injuring them or powerful enough to take down a tank. He can even change the direction a bullet flies in, making it impossible to dodge them.
• The Stoic: He rarely emotes and prefers it that way, outright saying that he finds emotions exhausting. The rare occasions that get him fired up show him even more terrifying than normal.
• Troll: When Takigi, Maki's older brother, questions him during the Nether mission on if they had Maki take up a support role in the Fire Force, Hinawa, likely getting sick of his Jerkass behavior, bluntly tells him that they put her at the frontlines as a meat shield.
• Walking Armory: While nowhere near as packed as Obi, Hinawa carries a ludicrous amount of firearms and ammo for one person. He even has a sniper rifle with multiple replaceable barrels just so he can use his most powerful shots repeatedly after they inevitably destroy the current barrel.
• Weak, but Skilled: By second generation standards, his control over flames is relatively weak. However, he is unparalleled in sheer precision. Enough to control ballistics in mid flight and increase or decrease the potency of bullets shot from a rapid fire weapon individually as needed. When necessary he can show his methods aren't always as weak as they seem.
• Would Hit a Girl: He'd shoot them too, and in a heartbeat. An enemy is an enemy.

Fire Soldiers

Shinra Kusakabe

Shinra Kusakabe

Voiced by: Gakuto Kajiwara (Japanese), Maaya Sakamoto (Japanese; as a child), Derick Snow (English), Luis Leonardo Suárez (Latin American Spanish)

The protagonist of the series and new recruit to Company 8. After his family died in a fire 12 years ago, Shinra joined the Special Fire Force Company 8 to become a hero, saving people from spontaneous human combustion while also aiming to uncover the truth behind his family's death. His Third Generation power allows him to create powerful flames from his feet in a number of ways.

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• Anti-Anti-Christ: Shinra is confronted with the idea he is meant to bring about the End of the World as We Know It with his flames. After the shock wears off, he declares his intentions to protect people and fight against anything that endangers the world.
• The Anti-Nihilist: Shinra lost everything that ever mattered to him, but the experience made him realize how important it is to protect people. Believing that all life is worth saving and that everybody means something to somebody. This creates tension with Inca, who refuses Shinra's help and willfully endangers herself.
• Awesome by Analysis: Shinra has a knack for deducing enemy strategies, weaknesses, and abilities with only a short observation. If he's given enough time to think in battle, he can figure out a plan to defeat enemies outside his normal weight class.
• Babies Ever After: Has a child after the time skip but it's not made clear who the mother is. It's heavily implied that the mother may be Iris since they were dating at the end of the series but whether they married is another matter. It may even be Inca, though whether it's a Dating Catwoman scenario or he was merely a donor is left ambiguous. But most likely the latter since Inca claims to only want Shinra's genes for her child and doesn't actually love him.
• Berserk Button: Since his mother and younger brother purportedly died in a fire, any jokes or flippant remarks about burning others, especially children, piss him off severe, as e.g. Company 5 found out.
• Beware the Nice Ones: A deranged serial-killer-turned-Infernal pushes Shinra too far. As such, Shinra tears his arm off and terrifies him into begging for his life.
• Beyond the Impossible: Shinra defies all natural laws and briefly moves faster than light without dying. A literal Divine Intervention allows him to do this, but it also means he can't do this freely. Licht almost has a mental breakdown trying to figure out how he does this at all, much less without killing himself in the process, and ultimately concludes that the power of Adolla Bursts makes the impossible possible.
• Big Brother Instinct: All the way back to when Sho was a baby, Shinra looked after him. In fact, Shinra's first act as a "hero" was removing a sheet that had fallen on the baby Sho, blinding him and backing him cry from fear. In the main narrative, Shinra is determined to find his younger brother. This makes their fight awkward for Shinra, because he is too reluctant to fight his brother, even if he could land a hit. Ultimately, he ends the fight in his favor via a Care-Bear Stare to the afromentioned first heroic act.
• Big Damn Heroes: Makes a habit of this. If somebody is about to die, there's a 50% chance Shinra will literally fly into the scene and break their attacker's jaw.
• Can't Kill You, Still Need You: Being one of the Pillars the White Clad need to complete their conquest means that they can't risk his death. Charon bluntly states that he'll "protect" Shinra just long enough to take him alive for their plans during their fight over Inca. His necessity is the only reason he survived some of his earlier battles with the group, such as his fights with Sho who deliberately avoided using his sword's blade for most of the battle.
• Cassandra Truth: As a child, Shinra gets blown off by everyone else when he tries to tell them of the demon's existence in his home. His grinning after his family's death doesn't help matters either.
• Character Development: Shinra is always grinning out of fear and panic when the series starts because of his nervous tic. After gaining more experience over time, he's become sterner and more controlled in a crisis, making his grins either genuine or more rare.
• The Chosen One: He has an Adolla Burst, but is firmly on the side of the heroes, making him one of the few with innately higher power than most. Then it turns out both he and Sho were virgin births, aligning with an old Sol legend of the world's hero being born in a similar circumstance. It's even specifically why Shinra's mother gave him his name. Among many of their plans, the White Clad specifically made him a Hero with Bad Publicity to seemingly nip this legend in the bud.
• Conspiracy Theorist: After his mother and brother were killed in a mysterious fire, Shinra is convinced that whatever caused this was less "natural". He spends the next 12 years trying to piece together the truth about the tragedy. Unsurprisingly, he's frustrated that Captain Burns is indeed covering up about what happened.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Prequel in this case, and to the protagonists meisters of Soul Eater. He's the lead protagonist like Maka Albern and has Black☆Star's issues of being demonized by others. His resemblance to Death the Kid is justified as he created Lord Death, who created Kid in his image.
• Cosmic Plaything: It turns out that having an Adolla Burst not only makes him a sought-after target of the villains, but ties him to a literal hell dimension of human perception, which ends up being a catalyst for misery in his life.
• Covert Pervert: A mild example. Shinra does find many of the woman around him attractive and was very interested in seeing Hibana pose nude, but he's not at all happy about seeing or imagining Iris in a state of undress. He feels that her being a nun makes such thoughts really inappropriate.
• Dance Battler: Shinra uses a breakdancing and Capoeira based fighting style combined with his flames during battle.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Shinra's entire family was killed in a fire by some type of demon and when he tried to tell everyone else about it, they blew him off. Eventually, Shinra was raised by Haijima in a glorified laboratory for the next eight years. It's pretty amazing he's so well-adjusted.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Shinra is regarded as a devil and is constantly linked to them through color pages and chapter titles. He's also unflinchingly noble and fights to protect everyone he meets.
• Deadly Upgrade: Shinra's maximum speed puts such a stress on his body that it risks turning him into charcoal and killing him. The process also involves disintegrating and reforming, so there is a chance he will simply vaporize if he makes a mistake.
• Deity of Human Origin: Creates the world of Soul Eater, retconning Death as its creator deity, by performing Soul Resonance with his mother and brother as Adolla is a world of perception and they were able to fuse into one body while inside it. Shinra even makes Death himself as a means of negating despair before letting go of his new powers, as well as his pyrokinesis along with the other pyrokinetics. But he doesn't come away empty-handed since in their place, he attains Soul Eater's trademark Soul Wavelength abilities.
• Demonic Possession: Shinra's body and mind are briefly taken over by the influence of the First Pillar, turning him into a mindlessly violent berserker. It takes a severe beating and Heroic Resolve for him to break free. It's revealed that it happened again after he traveled back in time with Inca through a Adolla Link, except this time it was his doppelgänger from Adolla that took over for three months.
• Determinator: Even after 12 years, he still hasn't given up on finding the truth about what happened to his family.
• Diving Kick: Shinra likes to use flying or diving kicks as his signature move. As stated in his first fight against Joker:
  Shinra: "Heroes always do flying kicks!"
• The Empath: Shinra is sympathetic to other people to an almost supernatural extreme. Over time, he gains the ability to detect strong emotions, including Killing Intent, through the Adolla. He eventually weaponizes this by using this power to drag his brother into a vision of the past, forcing them to experience and share each others emotions and their history. They stop the battle.
• Extremity Extremist: Downplayed. Shinra fights mostly using his feet, but also uses his speed to strengthen his punches if needed.
• Face of a Thug: Due to his trauma, he often slips into a rictus Slasher Smile simply due to stress. Because of this, many assume that he is mocking them or enjoying others' suffering.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the initial three main pyrokinetic fighters of Company 8, he's the Thief. His fighting style is based on speed and mobility and he uses the least traditional attack methods. Unlike most Thieves, he's got the most destructive power of the squad and is the least likely to use underhanded attacks.
• Flying Firepower: Shinra is able to perform fire-boosted jumps, hover or fly using his powers. Arthur once used him as a steed for this reason.
• Girl on Girl Is Hot: Possibly why Shinra became aroused when Hibana was talking about female bonding while naked (her with Iris and Maki).
• Giver of Lame Names: When Shinra names something like an ability, it'll sound terrible. People often just offer him something else. His Hellfire attack is the only exception so far.
• Greater-Scope Paragon: Shinra is revealed to be this to the Soul Eater storyline as a whole, as he was the one who recreated the world that the story would take place in centuries later and even created Lord Death to negate despair. Lord Death created Death the Kid in Shinra's image, and Shinra's tale is still remembered fondly even in the distant future.
• Grin of Audacity: When he's not grinning out of fear, it's one of these, often when his plan is incredibly dangerous.
• Hellish Pupils: Downplayed. Shinra has red pupils that give him a demonic glint in his eyes. Nobody really comments on this. Curiously, flashbacks to his childhood show him with normal eyes until his family died, which is when he encountered a demon-level Infernal.
• He's Back!: He is temporally put out of action for a lengthy span of time, only to return smashing up bad guys left and right before using his flames to spell out 'HERO' in the sky.
  • He would later return from Adolla by racing across Tokyo and wordlessly start kicking the falling Moon hard enough to counter Faerie's attempt to crush the entire nation with a Colony Drop before pushing it back into a safe orbit.
• The Hero: He's desperately trying to live up to the role of "hero" by saving people.
• Hero with Bad Publicity: Mostly anyone that just knows him at a surface level calls him a devil because of his nervous tic of a Slasher Smile, to the point that it's one of his biggest pet peeves. Gradually he tries to fight this perception and does become more of a hero in some people's views, but we find out that the White Clad have been intentionally cultivating this and humanity's perception to demonize him to make sure that humanity would lose all hope. This ultimately culminates in almost all of humanity thinking Shinra is a devil when he has to kill a fake recreation of Raffles I, which is basically akin to shooting a revived Jesus Christ in the face on public broadcast, and causes him, Sho and Iris to disappear altogether into Adolla.
• Heroic BSoD: About the only thing that gets him down for anything longer than a couple minutes is if it involves his family, as shown by his broken expression as a child when he learned his mother and brother died. Naturally, when Sho slips through his fingers in the Nether due to Haumea and he learns his mother was the Demon Infernal that seemingly ruined his life, he doesn't take it well.
• Hot-Blooded: He's very passionate about his goal of being hero. Also that devilish grin on his face in the heat of battle can be a source of his fiery motivation.
• Kicking My Own Butt: He knees himself in the face to regain his focus and prove his ideals.
• The Leader: If the Captain or Lieutenant isn't around, Shinra will often be trusted with leading whatever mission his team is sent on.
• Lightning Bruiser: After some special training, Shinra becomes capable of propelling himself forward at amazing speed. Increasing his speed means increasing the damage of his attacks. Moving at lightspeed means he can crush a Demon Infernal in less than a second.
• MacGuffin Girl: Boy in this case, but Shinra has the Adolla Brust and it makes him incredibly valuable to various and often villainous groups.
• Magical Gesture: Benimaru teaches him mudra that amplify and/or better control his flames.
• Maybe Ever After: Shinra is confirmed to have a child after the timeskip but its not made clear who the mother is. It's heavily implied to be Iris since they were dating in the final chapter BEFORE the timeskip but whether they married remains to be seen. Also, whether Inca got her wish of producing a child with Shinra is also left in the air.
• Messianic Archetype: It's revealed that he was a virgin birth, and his mother gave him his name after her doctor told her about an ancient legend where a child born from a virgin would become the world's savior, just like Jesus. His mother's name is even revealed to be Mari, just like the Virgin Mary. Sho realizes that due to the collective unconcious of Adolla overlapping with the real world, the concept of such such a savior and hero must have been projected into him. He's later revealed to be the embodiment of hope itself, and holds back the Cataclysm by being the hope that goes against humanity's perception of the end.
• Mystical Pregnancy: Neither he or his little brother have a father and are revealed to have been virgin births.
• Nice Guy: Shinra does his best to help everyone he meets. Even people who have set him on fire get his unflinching kindness if he thinks they are worth it. The only person in his daily life who doesn't consider him a friend is Arthur, and that's because they are rivals instead.
• Oblivious to Love: Played for Laughs but every time Hibana and him end up alone together, Shinra will focus their important business above whatever she's blushing and muttering about. If she ever directly confront him with her feelings, he just short-circuits or ignores it. Maki and Tamaki both find this incredibly baffling considering Shinra is very good at reading people in literally any other case.
• Official Couple: With Iris in the epilogue, claiming that they are now dating, to Inca. Whether he married Iris has yet to be confirmed.
• Oh, Crap!: He freaks out when he encounters an Infernal with horns because it reminded him of the thing that killed his mother.
• Only Sane Man: You know Company 8 are a bunch of oddballs when a guy everybody calls a devil is usually the most well-adjusted member.
• Prefers Going Barefoot: Shinra's powers burn through his shoes whenever he uses them, so he generally prefers to either go barefoot or wear easily removable flip-flops if it's not a formal event. The fire-based nature of his powers and inherent durability of third generation pyrokinetics handles any issues with going barefooted in cold conditions.
• Running Gag:
  • He often calls himself by an overly descriptive superhero title that is only relevant to the situation he's in. They all have to end with "Man". He explains his reasoning for doing this to Viktor upon his asking and concludes by saying "That's why I'm Says-Man-A-Lot Man!"
  • Other people calling him a demon or devil is another.
• Sibling Yin-Yang: He has black hair and wants to be a hero that fights Infernals, while his brother had white hair and is leading a cult that is creating them. Except Sho is not really leading the White Clad, since Haumea hijacks his mind when she thinks it necessary.
• Slasher Smile: His most defining visual trait. If he's scared or nervous, Shinra will grin like a devil.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: When asked if he and Tamaki would make a good couple, Shinra flat out says that ain't happening. She's not his type. This doesn't stop the fanbase from shipping them anyway, since no matter what he says, they do have good chemistry together.
• Spectacular Spinning: He tends to spin in battle to help him build up momentum and keep attacking.
• Sympathy for the Devil: Shinra feels bad about having to kill Infernals. He also feels bad for Hibana after hearing her sob story, but this makes her angrier.
• Tattooed Crook: One of the venomous rumours about him at school was that he was covered in tattoos and tattooed his legs to symbolise the murder of his mother. This is all nonsense. Until Shinra's Adolla self highjacked his body and convinced Vulcan to give him those markings. Shinra is stuck with them and sees them as a case of Embarrassing Tattoo.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Shinra becomes dramatically more violent and cruel after the Stone Pillar Crisis. Disobeying orders, starting fights with everyone and anyone who looks at him funny. Turns out he was being controlled by his own doppelgänger, and has to put the pieces back together.
• Time Master: According to Licht's theories while watching them fight, Shinra can,in a similar vein to his younger brother, also alter time's flow to appear inhumanly fast after he forms a connection to the Evangelist through his Adolla Link with Sho to receive their Divine Intervention. But compared to Sho, who has access to Time Stands Still by stealing the heat of the universe's expansion, Shinra is able to go back in time upon actually surpassing the speed of light and subsequently breaking up into subatomic particles, which lets him reform.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Neither he or Arthur will admit it, but underneath all their insults and yelling there is genuine respect.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Because the Fire Force is full of corruption and arrogance, Shinra often invokes this. Company 7 actually appreciates his vocalness because it shows he has a spine.
• When He Smiles: At the end of his first mission, realizing he has taken his first step towards his dream of becoming a real hero, Shinra gives his first genuine smile in years.
• Would Hit a Girl: When confronted by Hibana, Shinra has no problem pummeling her until she came to her senses. He also fights a woman from the cult without comment. He even tried to kick Inca in the face.

Arthur Boyle

Arthur Boyle

Voiced by: Yūsuke Kobayashi (Japanese), Eric Vale (English), Manuel Campuzano (Latin American Spanish)

A fresh recruit to Company 8 with delusions of grandeur. The self-appointed Knight King, Arthur uses his powers to make a blade out of plasma called Excalibur that can cut through almost anything. He was also Shinra's rival in high school and they can't stand each other.

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• Abusive Parents: Arthur had the neglectful variety of these, especially on the mother end. In Chapter 97, Arhur's parents were revealed to be restaurant owners whose restaurant went up in flames and poisoned a customer, putting them in great financial debt. To escape their debts, they skipped out on Arthur when they ran out of food, leaving him alone to go live in the Nether and putting the delusion of him being a knight-king in his head ever since. Upon reappearing in Chapter 204, Arthur's mother revealed she had followed her husband into the Nether out of loyalty due his prophetic visions of the Evangelist and the world's corruption. While Arthur's father had well if not delusional intentions for protecting his son, his mother never believed these visions and simply followed because she loved her husband more than her only son, and had no problem conceiving three more children in the Nether while guiltlessly abandoning her first child, essentially revealing she never cared about him at all.
• Achievements in Ignorance: A part of his abilities. His power to do outrageous things ties to his inability to admit they're nearly impossible for normal people. He memorized pi to one million decimal places to ensure that his Round Table would be a flawless circle.
  • While training with Benimaru to unlock their Superfire state, compared to Shinra who unlocked it by genuinely feeling the fear of death, Arthur achieved the same state by imagining his video game's save file getting deleted.
  • During his fight with Dragon, this comes into play once the stage of their fight starts evolving beyond the very world itself, resulting in the force of their attacks eventually launching the two of them to the moon. Since the world is being merged with Adolla, the thoughts and perceptions of humanity are being made manifest, meaning that Arthur's delusional self-image and perception of the world around him literally warp reality to bring his vision into being, allowing him to manifest powers and abilities beyond what he can normally do simply because he believes it's possible 'that' much. This allows him to pull off stunts like breathing and speaking in the vacuum of space simply by equipping the Star Ring Vulcan gave him, and manifest a Badass Cape made out of stars for added protection against Dragon's attacks.
• An Arm and a Leg: Towards the tail end of his fight against Dragon, Arthur is forced to block a point-blank Breath Weapon with his left arm to protect his only remaining eye, in the aftermath, being left with a charred stub where his hand used to be, still crackling with electricity from deflecting the high-powered plasma blast.
• Badass Cape: During his battle with Dragon, Arthur's knightly self-image grows to the point where his pyrokinesis manifests a shining mantle of plasma on his back. During their rematch in space, it forms again and looks like the cosmos itself.
• Batman Can Breathe in Space: Lampshaded, Averted, then Justified. When Arthur and Dragon's fight eventually results in the two of them being propelled to the moon, Arthur initially keeps fighting like nothing's wrong, before the lack of oxygen gets to him and he collapses, unable to breathe. In despair at his Worthy Opponent being unable to give him the fight he desires, Dragon turns away to leave Arthur to suffocate to death... only for Arthur to equip the Star Ring, allowing him to breathe again in the oxygen-less environment and continue the fight. Needless to say, the only reason that this works is that the world is currently being merged with the Adolla, resulting in a world where the perceptions of humanity are literally made manifest. Neither Arthur nor Dragon are fully aware of the scientific reasons why they shouldn't be able to survive in space, and Arthur's perception of the fight as being akin to a real-like RPG means that he literally does gain powers and new abilities based on his items and equipment.
• Book Dumb: He hated every lesson taught in a classroom and looks like he's dying when faced with paperwork.
• But What About the Astronauts?: Arthur survives the second Cataclysm because his fight with Dragon took them to outer space before Earth was engulfed in flames.
• Calling Your Attacks: One of the things Arthur had to be taught by Benimaru during their training session was to quit doing this (and talking in general) so he can take advantage of the element of surprise.
• Catchphrase: He'll give a cocky 'Heh' every once in a while. Shinra is convinced Arthur does it when he's confused and just wants to look aloof and cool.
• Cloudcuckoolander: It's literally the source of his power to the point of Power Born of Madness. The more he can fall into his delusions of knighthood, the more powerful Arthur becomes and the stronger his attacks become. Likewise, being brought back down to reality makes him much weaker. This is displayed in full during the White-Clad's attack on Vulcan's workshop, where he's able to go toe-to-toe with two powerful White Clad Knights by himself just by having a more sword-like hilt for his Laser Blade, a cape, and a donkey head strapped to his groin to act like a steed, followed by him getting trounced after realizing how silly and "un-knightly" he really looks.
• Commonality Connection: While the neither of them can stand each other at all, one of the only things Arthur genuinely respects Shinra for is his oath to become a hero and protect his family, since he himself swore to become a knight to his own family.
• Continuity Nod: In Soul Eater, Excalibur mentioned his first wielder was King Arthur of Athurian Legend. It turns out the Arthur he was referring to was Arthur himself who brought Excalibur to life during the Great Cataclysm with his own will.
• Cool Sword: The hilt of his sword consists of a piece of flame-resistant wood fashioned into a crucifix, with a Laser Blade coming out the top. When it's destroyed in his fight with Dragon, Vulcan manages to create a new hilt using the payload fairing of a spacecraft that Arthur's parents give them while looking inside the Nether for new material. Arthur then proceeds to christen the blade as Excalibur, and it allows him to draw on greater levels of power in his rematch with Dragon, both through the higher heat it can channel as well as Arthur subconsciously manipulating the power of Adolla through his delusions, in effect making him wield unbelievable power because he believes in his Cool Sword that much.
  • In chapter 292, it's gradually revealed Excalibur is original form of the character Excalibur from Soul Eater. When Shinra succumbs to Unstoppable Rage against the Evangelist, allowing her to cover the Earth in Adolla's black flames, Arthur, still adrift in Space above somehow restores his missing body parts, recovers his blade hilt and uses it to unleash a Sword Beam from space that smacks some sense into Shinra in the depths of the Adolla realm, punctuated by his screaming "You Fool!!!" at the top of his lungs. Once Shinra restores his resolve to overcome the Evangelist and her nihilistic outlook, Arthur starts talking to his blade hilt, which responds back with 'Fool', with Arthur commenting that weapons bound to strong feelings would gain a soul from the experience. Notably, Excalibur's hilt bares a resemblance to Excalibur's face from a side-on profile at this point. As Shinra reboots the world, the adolla reacts to Arthur's thoughts and complete's Excalibur transformation into the immortal.
• Contrasting Sequel Main Character: Prequel in this case, and to Black☆Star and Excalibur from Soul Eater. He's the team's idiot big guy swordsman Like Black☆Star, but considers himself a king rather than a master assassin. He alsi possesses many of the annoying quirks that Excalibur possesses, justified in being the one who created the living weapon.
• Crippling Overspecialization: He doesn't really have any techniques to follow a strike that connects but doesn't cut, leaving him at a massive disadvantage.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: To Vulcan's shock, the kid whose common sense and knightly delusions are inversely proportional can definitely back up the latter. In his own words, "Holy crap! That idiot's a powerhouse!"
• Curb-Stomp Battle: If it's something he can cut, Arthur can normally defeat it with a swing of his sword. This means he destroys the standard Infernals very quickly, possibly faster than the rest of the main cast.
• Determinator: To levels that surpass Shinra's. His absolute mental dedication to his knightly persona means he won't quit regardless of how dim things become and this trait makes him fearless in the face of dangerous threats such as Dragon of the White Clad.
• Deuteragonist: Of Fire Force, being the most important character in Company 8 after Shinra and his rival.when Shinra becomes sealed away by the White Clad's plans to remove the Hope Bringer during the cataclysm, it's ultimately Arthur who becomes the one that takes the steps needed to start turning the tide against their machinations, killing Giovani, who ultimately kick-started the end of the world, and then Dragon, who by that point was the greatest obstacle to the heroes stopping the cataclysm just with his mere existence, his personal despair being so great that it was practically single-handily fuelling the world's destruction through Adolla, and his immense power being so overwhelming that everybody thought he was practically unbeatable. Arthur actually succeeding visibly unsettles several high-ranking members of the White Clad, who never even considered that he'd be as big an obstacle to their plans as Shinra, and whilst he's unable to do more due to his injuries, him pushing back the world's destruction like that frees Shinra to finish the job in his stead.
• Die or Fly: Benimaru trains Arthur and Shinra to use their survival instincts to tap into eh full extent of their firepower. Arthur equates the feeling of death to a save file being wiped.
  • Arthur takes the Press of Death concept even further by creating Steeled For Death; a mindset where he accepts he's going to die and devoting every shred of his power to one last strike instead of finding a way to live.
• Dumbass Has a Point: Arthur might be a fool, but he's a Fearless Fool. He won't stop searching for answers when faced with overwhelming foes or advice from smarter characters. This makes him invaluable when more mature or intelligent people are too worried to continue.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: Even after having the entire lower half of his body disintegrated by Dragon during their final fight, Arthur unleashes a Violet Flash that slices Dragon - and the entire Earth from the Moon - in half, single-handedly turning the tide against the Cataclysm by taking down its greatest source of despair.
• Enlightenment Superpowers: His dimwitted status grants him greater senses by being able to tune into the world around him by emptying his thoughts through meditation, which once granted him the power to bypass Giovanni's Combat Clairvoyance by attacking without thinking at all. Once the world starts merging with Adolla, his ability to perceive the world differently compared to others and pull off impossible stunts thanks to that results in him being able to manipulate Adolla to his advantage against Dragon, forming a Badass Cape made out of stars for added power and protection against him, mirroring the latter's ability to form Black Draconic Armour from Adolla, to which his Worthy Opponent shows satisfaction at Arthur's success in matching his power.
• Eye Scream: Towards the end of Arthur's fight against Dragon, he manages to slice off Dragon's left hand, only for the latter to respond by using the Blade Below the Shoulder formed from his Draconic Armour to slice Arthur across the face in the same motion, scarring him diagonally through his right eye.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the initial main pyrokinetic fighters in Company 8, he's the Fighter. He only uses his powers to make a traditional melee weapon and fights mostly with self-taught skills, but his raw power makes him a force to be reckoned with. Unlike most Fighters, he's perfectly fine with sneak attacks if necessary.
• Flaming Sword: This is what Excalibur is, at the most technical level. The flames are just heated to the point of becoming plasma and focused into a dense blade.
• Half the Man He Used to Be: At the climax of his rematch with Dragon, he sustains a Wave-Motion Gun that completely vaporizes his body from the chest down.
• Hidden Depths: He's memorized pi to one million places. He's also really good at welding.
• Hyper-Awareness: Arthur has tremendous reflexes and attempts counter any attack. Because he does this instinctively, it's very easy to bait his response and exploit his openings. Overcoming this flaw is the thrust of his training with Company 7.
• I Know Mortal Kombat: Arthur's understanding of knights, quests and strategy comes from video games. It works much better than you'd expect.
• I See Them, Too: He's able to detect a presence inside Shinra during his possession by the First Pillar at Company 4's headquarters, so he might be able to see spirits of the Adolla. He's currently the only one without a direct connection to the Adolla with that ability.
• Idiot Hero: Arthur is probably one of the dumbest in existence. He begins a fight with an enhanced Infernal and thinks something is "off" when he starts losing, causing his opponent to laugh and criticize him for making excuses. Arthur then suddenly realizes he's fighting with his left hand. This isn't him holding back or getting caught in an illusion, he literally didn't realize he was using the wrong hand. He switches to his right hand and promptly annihilates his foe with a single strike. Later, he actually has to remind himself that the "hand he uses chopsticks with" is the correct hand to hold Excalibur.
• Insistent Terminology: Arthur will stop himself if he begins to think in a way that puts another part of his public persona above his knightly duties.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Arthur is confident in himself as a Third Generation pyrokinetic, so much that he appears arrogant and cocky all the time, notably for his habit of refusing to use honorific speech regardless of who he is talking to. Arthur has a habit of repeatedly saying "Hmph" in response to people, coming across as stubborn or dismissive. Due to his attitude and casual demeanor, Arthur tends to make bad impressions on people. Despite this, he has a strong sense of justice and has faith in Shinra's heroism and strength.
• Knight in Shining Armor: He heavily leans into Arthurian Legend for his knight motif. This ranges from calling his sword "Excalibur", calling himself a "knight king", Company's 8 HQ a "castle" and Iris as the castle's princess. Maki is dubbed an "ogre" after she kicks his butt in sparing. Of course, it is a knight's duty to fight monsters (typically whatever birds or small lizards happen to be nearby, which he mistakes for griffins and dragons) and protect the populace.
• The Lancer: He directly contrasts Shinra in terms of personality and appearance, but they always get paired up and he will follow Shinra's directions.
• Laser Blade: His pyrokinetic abilities let him project a plasma blade from Excalibur or other objects that can cut through almost anything.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Believing it to be part of the test of the Rookie Tournament, he lunges to attack Joker, who was an intruder, instead of reporting to the brigade despite Shinra's warnings and protests.
• Malaproper: When Arthur tries to say something noble and knightly, there's a high chance he'll mess it up and say the wrong thing or stumble over his words. Or try to correct himself even after getting it right. The most extreme example is when he just gives up and says "heh".
• Man Hug: Gives one to Vulcan when he's at his lowest point, swearing that he'll save Yu, slay Dragon and save Shinra with the power Vulcan has given him.
• Man of Kryptonite: He's this to Haumea of the White-Clad. Normally, she can can neutralize any human opponent by using her electrical powers to control their minds. Arthur is only one immune to this effect thanks to his plasma's charge disrupting hers. He's usually dispatched to counter her whenever anyone becomes aware of her presence in a situation.
• Naming Your Attacks: Arthur makes a habit of using "knight" in the majority of his attack names, likely because it's hard to be creative when you are using a simple punch or kick.
• Not Distracted by the Sexy: Arthur shows no interest in girls and reacts to Tamaki's bad luck with annoyance more than anything.
• Not So Similar: He and Shinra might have a lot in common, but they are also completely different. It's why they can't stand each other, yet also function well together. It's implied Arthur relates to Shinra's denial over killing his family and claims of heroism despite everyone judging him. Because Arthur is also denying the fate of his parents and claims to be a knight despite being mocked for it. The difference is that Shinra is telling the truth while Arthur is playing make-believe.
• Only I Can Kill Him: Because of his plasma abilities, he's the only person in Company 8 who can counter Haumea's electricity powers. He is often sent to deal with her because of this. This same becomes true of Dragon, to an even greater extent, not only because of the Knight vs Dragon mythos that helps fuel Arthur's delusions during his battles with him, pushing his powers to greater heights in the process, but also because Arthur is the only person on the planet who genuinely believes Dragon can be beaten, without any doubt or hesitation. when the world starts merging with Adolla, this utter belief and certainty allows Arthur to start manipulating the very fabric of the world, able to unleash attacks that hurt the otherwise Invincible Villain because he utterly believes that Dragon will be hurt and beaten by his hand. In other words, Arthur is too dumb or delusional to visualize himself losing against Dragon, and it's this precise trait that allows him to face him on equal ground.
• The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: He openly says this about Shinra, but it's almost meant as a term of endearment.
• Peaceful in Death: Content with finally slaying Dragon and believing he had become the Knight King, and after shouting for Shinra to quit playing the Devil, his final moments are to marvel at how bright the sun is and how he's leaving things to Shinra - who he refers to as a hero - before drifting off towards the sun with Excalibur's hilt left floating behind.
• Tranquil Fury: Arthur is the one to finally kill Giovanni for good, dismissing the doctor's speeches and achievements as meaningless. Given how dopey and relaxed Arthur is, it speaks volumes about how furious he was. He didn't even fumble the speech.
• Parental Abandonment: Arthur's parents left on an important adventure when he was young. In reality, they abandoned him after their financial debts became unmanageable. Arthur is just deluding himself, but it's implied he does actually understand why they disappeared on some level. Or so we are led to believe until they reappear in the Nether and he completely believes ever lie they're telling him.
• Red Baron: The self proclaimed Knight King. He is also referred to by a narrator as the Violet Flash during his final battle with Dragon.
• Shout-Out:
  • He's named after King Arthur, and his sword is named after Arthur's famous sword Excalibur. He frequently makes reference to things from Arthurian legend.
  • Blonde hero in an orange jumpsuit who wields a blue Laser Blade. Sure he's not related to Luke Skywalker from Star Wars?
  • His catchphrase "Hi-yo, Silver!" came from The Lone Ranger, a different kind of "knight".
• Spanner in the Works: In chapter 292, Haruma/the Evangelist believes they have won, successfully causing the cataclysm through forcing Shinra into Unstoppable Rage by having Captain Obi's doppelgänger give him a Slashed Throat, and covering the Earth in Adolla's black flames. However, right as they're about to goad Shinra into finishing the job by killing her in his anger as well, Arthur intervenes, unleashing a Sword Beam from Excalibur from space that somehow reaches Shinra to smack him to his senses. Having somehow regenerated or restored his missing body parts, Arthur reminds Shinra of his vow to be a hero instead of a devil to him, and that he alone cannot be allowed to succumb to despair or anger, even if everybody else in the world does, re-invigorating Shinra's will to overcome the Evangelist. Notably, The evangelist claimed that they three alone were the last remaining people on the planet, but since Arthur wasn't on the planet, they ended up overlooking his presence.
• Stock Shōnen Rival: Played with. Arthur and Shinra are always bickering and treat each other like enemies, but Arthur's typical rival stoicism is just the result of him being simple-minded.
• Sword Beam: Arthur can unleash a crescent-shaped blast of blue flame from his sword, but only uses this move rarely.
• Too Dumb to Fool: He quickly notices deception and can see things others can't because of his knightly delusions.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Arthur would never admit it, but he does respect Shinra's heroic vision.
• Warrior Therapist: He plays this role briefly. In the Company 4 arc, he beat Shinra until he snapped out of the mind control he was put under.
• Would Hit a Girl: Arthur's chivalry doesn't stop him from fighting women when he has to. Given that Maki completely floored him early in the series, it's safe to say it's a smart choice.
• Would Hurt a Child: When Hinata and "Hikage" are fighting with each other, he knees "Hikage" in the face and slams "her" into the wall under the (actually correct) pretense that "Hikage" was an imposter and is proven right only a few seconds later.
• Wrong Genre Savvy: He'll occasionally think he's the hero of a Chivalric Romance or act like a game character subject to a Class and Level System.
• Your Mind Makes It Real: His fighting prowess is directly correlated to how much he feels like a knight. The deeper he is in his delusions, the more potent his sword will be and vice versa. This has been exploited by both allies and enemies. Taken to its logical extreme during the Cataclysm, where the merging of the real world with Adolla literally causes his delusions to manifest in reality, granting him the ability to deal damage to Dragon and even breathe in space when their battle results in them getting propelled to the moon.

Maki Oze

Maki Oze

Voiced by: Saeko Kamijo (Japanese), Sarah Roach (English), Andrea Orozco (Latin American Spanish)

A first-class Soldier of Company 8 and former member of the Tokyo military. On the surface, she's a completely ideal co-worker and officer, but dig a little deeper and she's actually more silly than you'd expect. Regardless of her personality, Maki is a capable fighter with powerful Second Generation fire manipulation and deadly hand-to-hand combat skills.

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• Action Girl: Maki can and will break people. Shinra and Arthur learned that the hard way during their first sparring match.
• Amazonian Beauty: Maki has a muscular physique, a product of her military background. This causes her to be a bit self-conscious about her body, not helped some characters likening her to a gorilla. However, even the much thinner Hibana compliments her on her beautiful and well-trained body.
• Animal Motifs: Her muscular physique and big amount of strength evokes some similarities to a gorilla, to her chagrin, as she hates to be called one (a gorilla cyclops to be more exact). It goes to a point that sometimes her face deforms into the one of a gorilla in comedic moments.
• Anti-Magic: Control over fire includes that of third-generation prokinetics. She demonstrates in a spar with Shinra that she can extinguish the flames he ignites from his feet. She can also turn Excalibur's blade or Arrow's flame arrow into more of her familiars.
• Attack Reflector: She can use her second-generation abilities to throw attacks back to her foes.
• Authority in Name Only: She’s officially promoted to Platoon Leader of Company 8 after the second battle in the Nether, but as Company 8 has no platoons and she already outranked everyone besides the Captain and Lieutenant by seniority, the title is effectively meaningless. She doesn't really mind and happily jokes about how little the new rank changes.
• Badass Adorable: She's a very cute woman who was trained in the military and is a witch with fire powers.
• Berserk Button: Calling her a "gorilla cyclops" makes her furious. The problem is that she interprets all insults as somebody calling her a "gorilla cyclops".
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Because of her military background,she has a monstrous amount of strength, as seen when she picks up a broken piece of debris for the men of Company 7 without much help. She's second only to the Captain in raw physical strength and durability.
• Cool Big Sis: She tries to take this role with the younger members of Company 8. It's less successful than it could be as she's not much older than them and only slightly more mature, so she is just as likely to try to guide them with advice as she is to join in on their antics or start some of her own.
• Cute Bruiser: Flail the cultist's men saw a cute girl when they attacked her. If they survived the Curb-Stomp Battle Maki delivered to them, then they can attest to the bruiser.
• Cute Witch: Self-consciousness aside, Maki is very attractive. The witch part is mostly in appearance, and fire familiars.
• Cuteness Proximity: She adores anything that's remotely adorable, whether it's her familiars or the mascot Mamoru.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: She spends a chapter beating down a whole group of Ash Knights with ease before moving on like nothing happened.
• Daddy's Girl: She's the apple of her father's eye. She left the military to join the Fire Force, which caused some strain on their relationship, but they've mostly gotten over it.
• Demon Head: After Shinra and Arthur offend her by calling her "ogress", she imagined them calling her "gorilla cyclops" and made a savage face like a gorilla before taking on Shinra again.
• Dude Magnet: Her looks get her some attention from the male soldiers during her brief return to the military.
• Experienced Protagonist: A former military officer, she definitely shows it off in the field.
• Familiar: Sputter and Flare (Pusu Pusu and Mera Mera in fan translations) are little orbs of fire Maki makes whenever she can.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: Of the three initial main pyrokinetic fighters of Company 8, she's the mage. Her powers most resemble traditional magic and are far more versatile than most of he teammates', especially once she gets her Tekkyo units. As if to drive it home, her uniform gives her a pointed witch hat. Unlike most examples of this, Maki is very much not squishy, being the best unarmed fighter in the squad.
• Lady of War: Maki is proper and dignified, even in combat. 90% of the time...
• Let's Get Dangerous!: She's a Love Freak obsessed with being more feminine, but she's also a trained Fire Soldier and is not afraid of showing it off if the situation means business.
• Love Freak: She adores the idea of love. She isn't interested in getting into a relationship herself, but she is positively giddy over the idea that Shinra might be the one for Iris. She doesn't seem to notice that Iris is a devoted nun.
• Magic Knight: She's amazingly talented at both fire control and melee combat.
• Mid-Season Upgrade: She gains owl-themed iron weapons called Tekkyo Units that use Sputter and Flare to attack and defend.
• Ms. Fanservice: She's a very attractive woman and the camera loves zooming in on her assets, be it her ample chest or her muscles. One of her very first scenes is a Shower Scene showing her Toplessness from the Back that displays her athletic figure.
• Muscle Angst: Downplayed, but she was jealous of Iris and Hibana's "flexible and girly bodies" (in her words) compared to her more built body when the three showered together in Chapter 21. That being said, she happily took Hibana's compliment on her muscular body in the same chapter.
• No Guy Wants an Amazon: Parodied. Maki laments that her muscles and strength make her unpopular with boys in a scene where male soldiers in her unit are drooling over her in the background.
• No Listening Skills: Explicitly for insults. Every insult she gets is filtered into "gorilla cyclops," in her head, which sets off her Berserk Button. The one who said the insult usually barely has enough time to complain about not actually saying that before she beats them down.
• Obliviously Beautiful: Maki's anxiety over her muscles made her unaware of the male soldiers practically drooling over her during her time in the military.
• Playing with Fire: She is the only person in Company 8 who can control fire like a traditional pyromancer. She also casually plays with fire around the office, which gets her in trouble with the Lieutenant.
• Reluctant Warrior: Despite being a powerhouse, Maki doesn't want to hurt people. She joined Company 8 to help people, so she's not really a fan of having to beat other officers into the dirt. She, however, doesn't have a problem beating the crap of those who put innocent people in danger, as Flail and his men learn the hard way. This is specifically why Hinawa recruited her to Company 8: he knew she would be forced to stain her ideals as a soldier and wanted to give her a place to apply her talents that wouldn't clash with her morality.
• Shared Family Quirks: Every member of the Oze family can do a full 180 personality-wise.
• Shout-Out: During her sparring match against Shinra and Arthur in episode 2, the giant fireball she summons is named Bobobo Bo Bobobo.
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: When Shinra rescues Iris at the start of the series, she is quick to call it a Meet Cute Rescue Romance and even points out how sweeping her off her feet princess-style is like a fairy tale. She seriously asks Iris, a nun, if this means Shinra is her One True Love. Iris' response? Thinking that Maki's mind is full of "sparkles and rainbows".
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She's very muscular and a powerful Fire Force officer who regularly wears pants instead of skirts, but deeply enjoys cute things, is a Love Freak, and would like to be more girly.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She absolutely cannot stand ghosts.

Tamaki Kotatsu

Tamaki Kotatsu

Voiced by: Aoi Yūki (Japanese), Jad Saxton (English), Valentina Souza (Latin American Spanish)

One of the latest recruits to Company 1 and their resident Cute Clumsy Girl. Tamaki is a young woman with cat-themed powers. Despite her somewhat boastful attitude, Tamaki is a kind-hearted person who wants to protect others.

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• Accidental Pervert: Tamaki is a rare female version. She's lucky if she can take five steps without tripping or snagging her clothing, and ending up half naked (or more). As such, she'll generally crash into someone (usually male) breasts, butt, or crotch first. She'll then complain about that person.
• Ambiguously Bi: She had a crush on Rekka, is implied to have developed feelings for Shinra in addition to displaying Tsundere traits towards him,and eventually goes out with Takeru (aka Juggernaut). However, in one instance she claims that she and Iris would make a better couple than Shinra and Iris. This could be taken as either a hint of bisexuality or simply in jest on Tamaki's part. Although, given that she's only shown attraction towards males throughout the series, the latter case is the most likely.
• Animal Battle Aura: She eventually learns to shape her flames into a cat-shaped armor after training with Company 7.
• Bakeneko and Nekomata: Her ability, "Nekomata", is named after the two-tailed cat youkai of Japanese legend. It also gives her cat ears and two cat tails made of flame that make her resemble a nekomata.
• Broken Pedestal: To Rekka, whom she admired and crushed on, once she learns Rekka's really both a White Clad agent and sociopathic Serial Killer responsible for turning many innocent people — including children — into Infernals. Her attempts to oppose him only net her a No-Holds-Barred Beatdown from Rekka, and she would have been killed had Shinra not flown in and saved her.
• Butt-Monkey: Life isn't fair to Tamaki. Her near-supernatural clumsiness results in a "Lucky Lecher Lure", which means she is either stumbling out of her clothes or landing into compromising situations with men. This is the result of not embracing her established role in Life via sex appeal.
• Cat Girl: Her abilities give her cat ears and twin tails of flame. She also has narrow pupils that glow. It gives her a very cat-like gaze. As she taps more into her power, her fire essentially creates cat armor.
• Cerebus Retcon: Tamaki's "Lucky Lecher Lure" is a Running Gag but A Day in the Limelight shows that it's a major factor in her issues with self-confidence and poor self-esteem. Its emergence during her middle-school days caused her to be bullied and subjected to constant Slut-Shaming when a classmate thought Tamaki was flirting with her boyfriend and using the "Lure" as a convoluted excuse. It's also shown that for a while, she actively avoided hanging out with her fellow Fire Soldiers out of fear that her "Lure" would trouble them.
• Classical Anti-Hero: She's extremely clumsy and unlucky, and easily can be afraid because of her lack of experience. But she's a really good and kind-hearted girl, and in spite of her fears and bad luck, she's brave, noble and heroic.
• Clothing Damage: Tamaki has had her clothes torn in a few fights, especially her tights, which get torn and ripped.
• Commonality Connection: While her Tsundere behavior towards Shinra and her Lucky Lecher Lure bother him, both find common ground in how they were shunned by others in the past, with Shinra being ostracized for his reputation as a "Devil" and Tamaki being bullied for her Lure.
• Cowardly Lion: Her lack of experience means she is often afraid of powerful opponents and dangerous situations. Despite this, she still fights to protect others.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: She is known to be exceptionally clumsy, which she blames her "Lucky Lecher Lure" for, resulting in her stumbling into embarrassing or humiliating situations, for which she often blames others.
• Declaration of Protection:
  • Even though she is terrified, Tamaki stands her ground against a master assassin to defend Iris. She ultimately fumbles into another embarrassing situation and works with Iris to beat him down in his embarrassment. It wasn't the graceful or noble showcase she was hoping for, but Iris clearly appreciates her effort.
  • She does this again with Juggernaut after he passes out from blood loss protecting her from Orochi during their mission to the Nether. She swears to drag him back to the surface even in the face of a horde of Ritsu's zombies.
• Defiant to the End: It doesn't matter what she is put through, Tamaki will still put up a fight.
• Does Not Like Men: Downplayed. She actually gets along with most of the men she works with, but due to her "issue" Tamaki likes to keep her distance from males.
• Energy Ball: Her Nekomata Fireball attack consists of burning something to create a ball of fire in her hands before charging into her opponent with it, not unlike a Rasengan. She can also increase its power and size with a capsule from Vulcan that causes a thermite reaction in it.
• Forgot Flanders Could Do That:
  • She has to remind Shinra that she is a Fire Soldier just like him and not his "dumb damsel". She then demonstrates her ability against Assault:
    Tamaki: I was given this uniform for a reason!
  • She later successfully manages to Hold the Line against both a horde of Ritsu's zombies and two White-Clads to protect a heavily wounded Juggernaut during their mission to the Nether until backup arrived, even after sustaining bad injuries herself in their battle against Orochi.
• Girlish Pigtails: She styles her hair into two very long twin tails. According to her, she did that because they remind her of the ears of a cat, animals she loves.
• Grew a Spine: Following the second mission to the Nether and during her training with Company 7, she's able to reconcile with percieved flaws, shake off her low self-esteem, and become more confident and stronger as a result. To the point of in her fight against Assault's Doppelganger, she embraces her role as the Symbol of Life or Ms. Fanservice and even told off the people to stop Slut-Shaming her when there is a high-stakes battle going on.
• Hero-Worshipper: She looks up to the Lieutenants of Company 1 and respects her captain immensely for the boundless confidence and powerful image. This blows up in her face when it's revealed Rekka is a serial killer and he almost beats her to death after revealing his initial plans to make her the Fall Guy.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: Following the second mission to the Nether where she had to be rescued after barely managing to protect a grievously injured Juggernaut until help arrived, it's revealed that in spite of her crewmen in the Special Fire Force truly believing her to be a valuable ally, Tamaki's opinion of herself is incredibly poor due to a multitude of factors. Her Lucky Lecher Lure caused her to be bullied and to avoid others out of fear it would bother them, she lacked any real motive for undergoing sister training and joining the Fire Force beyond just wanting to do what everyone else did, and she sees herself as The Load due to being rescued and getting carried by others on multiple occasions. It takes her reflecting on all of these hang-ups and remembering Shinra's prior urging to respect herself more to snap herself out of this and cement her resolve to be a Damsel out of Distress.
• Ignored Enamored Underling: It's heavily implied that she's in love with Rekka but he clearly sees her as a little sister and has no idea. This doesn't stop her from trying to take him down the second she learns he is evil.
• Laser-Guided Karma: She got suspended and transferred to Company 8 in the aftermath of the incident of Rekka due to unwittingly helping him with his killings, but it was very likely for her protection that she was transferred specifically there and she herself holds herself accountable.
• Last-Name Basis: Often calls Shinra by his surname, which is odd in-universe as most people are on First-Name Basis with everyone in their lives.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: The anime's promotional character art proudly showed off her Company 8 insignia before airing, giving away that she would join the group.
• Man of Kryptonite: To Assault. Despite being one of the Knights' strongest members and reputed to be capable of taking on Company 8 and winning just by himself, or even taking down a Demon Infernal on his own, her Lucky Lecher Lure unfailingly turns him into a wreck and causes him to lose all of their battles. Even after he undergoes Training from Hell to specifically prevent himself from getting aroused by her, she still affects him anyway since he likes her. This also applies to Assault's Doppelganger once Tamaki embraces her role as the Symbol of Life.
• Mistaken for Badass: While Tamaki is a competent fighter and not necessarily weak, she doesn't have the skill, experience, or raw power that her fellow Company 8 Third-Generation pyrokinetics Shinra and Arthur have, and usually gets outperformed by them in combat against other pyrokinetics. However, her victory over Assault, who is considered incredibly strong by his fellow White Clads members, has made them believe she's some unstoppable force of nature of incredible power, to the point Dragon himself doesn't believe someone like her could be defeated, especially after Assault decides to train more and more to "overcome her power" anytime he challenges her and loses. Of course, the White Clads seems unaware of the circumstances behind Assault's defeat in the Nether, nor that Iris also took part in "the fight". No longer the case with the real Assault's help, she is able to defeat his Doppelganger.
• Ms. Fanservice: Tamaki is known to get into exceptionally fanservicey situations due to her clumsiness, a problem she termed "Lucky Lecher Lure". This is part of the revelation that she is the Symbol of Life, via sex appeal and lewdness. In order to defeat Assault's Doppelganger, she embraces her role after having enough of people slut-shaming her and Assault supporting her.
• Naked Apron: Tamaki is something of a disaster in the kitchen. She at one point puts an apron over her jumpsuit and (bafflingly) ends up losing every shred of clothing except for the apron.
• Nice Girl: Though she can be a little loud, Tamaki is a very nice person at heart. She's friendly, kind-hearted and protective, especially towards her company members and children.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After seeing Rekka's true character, she tries to stop him from infernalizing the children by slapping him, then by using her fire powers to signal for help. This only gets Rekka angry and she is shortly brutalized, with Rekka kicking and stomping on her until she's reduced to weakly pleading for help as he prepares to burn her alive for her defiance. Understandably, after Shinra saves her and asks if she's alright, her response is to burst into tears and shake her head.
• Nuns Are Mikos: Despite all her issues and misfortune, Tamaki is a fully qualified nun. Religious qualifications seem to be a requirement for Company 1 members. She latter embraces this role fully during a major crisis and the journey to China.
• Plucky Girl: Even if her admired superior betrays her, beats her up and then burns off most of her clothing, she can still pull herself together enough to do her duty as a Fire Soldier and protect nearby civilians.
• Pride: She grows out of it, but she was originally extremely prideful in her company's superiority and her own strength.
• Reassigned to Antarctica: How she came to join Company 8. She was suspended from the prestigious Company 1 due to her unknowing assistance with Rekka's scheming and was taken in by the much less respected Company 8 in the meantime. It wasn't until after her suspension period ended that she realized she fit in enough there to make a permanent transfer. This was by request of Captain Burns who wanted Tamaki sent to the only Company he could trust to not be compromised by the White-Clad.
• Red Herring: She is made to seem like she is part of the serial killer plot, but she is the Fall Guy for the killer.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: She doesn't like her body being exposed as a result of her "Lucky Lecher Lure" and usually has a Naked Freak-Out whenever it happens. She has to wear a bikini under a cut-off uniform (necessary, as a result of the way her powers work) and has a habit of accidentally tripping chest/crotch/boobs first into people and then accusing them of sexual harassment. In what's probably the ultimate example of this, she somehow loses all her clothes by tripping which proves that she's the real deal in place of a body doubling cultist to Iris. However, she doesn't seem to have a problem wearing a bikini top and a open uniform jacket or her trousers with large gaps in the sides. Her reluctance clashes with her established role as the Symbol of Life.
• Running Gag: Her Lucky Lecher Lure. The secondary joke is that the men she works with just stop caring after a while.
• Running on All Fours: She tends to run on all fours when her Nekomata ability is active, which is probably meant to further enforce her cat motif.
• Ship Tease:
  • Mostly with Shinra, who she at first disliked but has gotten closer to. It's to the point where she even screams his name when she's in trouble.
  • She and Juggernaut have gotten closer as time has passed. It's unclear if Tamaki sees him in a romantic way, but he's pretty obvious about it. After Juggernaut confessed in wanting to go out with her on a date, she eventually accepts his proposal following fake Assault's defeat. In the final chapter, after nearly every character is restored back to life, Tamaki and Juggernaut are seen happily strolling together down a street.
  • Even though they're enemies, Assault realizes that all his training to not be affected by her Lucky Lecher Lure is useless because he likes her. This leads to him returning to fight his Doppelganger in support of what Tamaki represents and out of his love for her.
• The Sixth Ranger: At the end of her introduction arc, she transfers to Company 8 on a temporary basis, thus becoming the new first new member after Shinra (and Arthur). Later on, she chooses to stay permanently.
• Stripperiffic: Justified. Tamaki's flame tails come from her body, so she needs to have gaps in her trousers to use them effectively and avoid Clothing Damage. For one reason or another, a later arc has her use her powers while wearing both a long jacket and tights without burning them at all.
• Super-Toughness: She has incredibly high fire resistance, so much so that Licht thinks she can survive fire blasts that could kill Shinra and even survive the heat of an underground explosion that could level the central city of the Empire.
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • Her Lucky Lecher Lure doesn't activate at the end of Vulcan's introduction arc, even after Ōbi tempts fate by mentioning that it hasn't. Thus, she is spared further embarrassment and doesn't make a bad first impression on the new guy.
  • During the journey to the Chinese Peninsula, her Lucky Lecher Lure is not activated at any point, giving her some break after the Fifth Pillar arc, where she tripped over and lost all her nun clothes (except for her veil) when she was trying to help Vulcan and Hinawa to put to rest the Infernals created by Haumea.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The punk-ish tomboy to Iris' more modest and gentle girly-girl personality.
• Took a Level in Badass: She starts out as the weakest of Company 8's fighters, barely able to hold her own in battle and needing to be saved more often than not. She quickly becomes aware of this and, after the second mission to the Nether, seeks help to rectify it. After training with Company 7 and overcoming the insecurities that had suppressed her powers, she became strong enough to fight on the front lines. She isn't quite on the level of Shinra and Arthur, but with her agility and heat resistance, she is still able to distinguish herself in serious fights.
• Unwitting Pawn: Her admiration towards Rekka blinded her to his true intentions and she unintentionally helped him carry out his killings.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Shinra had urged her to respect herself more following her transfer to Company 8 after her low self-esteem is revealed. Benimaru also compliments her following her victory against Hinata and Hikage while training with them and developing her pyrokinesis and self-confidence, saying she had somehow stopped suppressing power that she'd already had and was now better equipped to handle real problems after getting serious in what was meant to just be a game of tag with the twins.

Mechanical, Chemical and Support Members

Sister Iris

Sister Iris

Voiced by: M·A·O (Japanese), Alexis Tipton (English), Erika Langarica (Latin American Spanish)

A sister originating from The Holy Sol Temple and a member of the Special Fire Force Company 8. She is in charge of praying for the souls of the Infernals the Fire Force exorcises.

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• Anti Anti Christ: She is eventually marked as the Eight and final Pillar necessary to start the end of the world. This only makes her more determined to continue helping her allies oppose the Evangelist and her plans than before.
• Babies Ever After: It's heavily implied that she had a child with Shinra, given that they became a couple in the final chapter. Whether they married after the time skip remains ambiguous, as she's not seen later.
• Bad Liar: She clearly doesn't have much experience in deception because Shinra can see right through her.
• Barrier Warrior: After being selected as the Eight Pillar, she gains the power to create barriers of fire and uses them to protect her allies.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While Iris is a total sweetheart and a very kind soul, she can be brutal given the chance (mostly Played for Laughs). The best example of this is during the battle with Assault, where she sneaks behind him and mercilessly beats him with an iron pipe until he falls unconscious.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: Is very attractive, and Ohkubo thinks her chest size is so important that her small blurb in the character pages at the start of every volume stresses how huge her breasts are.
• Catchphrase: She says the Sol Temple's sacred word "látom" more often than anyone else, and in secular situations as well as sacred ones.
• Chaste Hero: Being a nun and all, she's not interested in romance or sex. Subverted later when she becomes Shinra's girlfriend. And maybe married him.
• Combat Pragmatist: Shockingly for a good natured nun, she's more than willing to get her hands dirty if necessary. She'll beat an assassin senseless with a pipe if he lets his guard down.
• A Day in the Limelight: She gets a mini-arc devoted to her Crisis of Faith when she and Shinra visiting a Church.
• Dark and Troubled Past: As a child, Iris witnessed the deaths of their fellow nuns when the convent she was raised in burned down. She then had Hibana, the only other survivor and closest thing she had to family left, leave her and grow increasingly cold and eventually hateful of her several years later. The trauma and loneliness still weigh on her despite her usual cheerful facade.
• Everyone's Baby Sister: Company 8 is highly protective of her and very concerned about her happiness. Anyone bringing harm to her earns the rage of the entire crew.
• The Face: After an "exorcism", Iris is the one to inform the public that souls have been laid to rest.
• Foil: To Hibana. They survived the same tragedy. While Hibana is completely broken by it and driven to cynicism, Iris is still able to believe in goodness.
• Good Shepherd: She's a nun from the Holy Sol Temple. It's her job to pray for the souls of Infernals so they can rest in peace.
• Gratuitous Japanese: Latin American Spanish dub only: For some unexplained reason, besides the fact the series takes place in Japan, she use Japanese honorifics in her speech. For making the things even more bizarre, she is the only character in the Latin Spanish dub who does this, and more ironically, Iris isn't even of Japanese origin to begin with, while the rest of the Japanese cast in that dub doesn't use honorifics at all.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: She's blonde and is the gentlest person of the Company.
• The Heart: Defined by her unshakable kindness to others.
• Honorary Princess: Arthur considered her a princess as soon as he met her, and she is the "younger sister" of Princess Hibana, so it works well enough for his delusion.
• Identical Stranger: She bares a striking resemblance to a woman who appears in Shinra's dreams. Hitohashira Me's Slasher Smile is the big difference between the two. In Chapter 200, there's a reason for that: she's the doppelgänger of Amaterasu.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Again, they highlight her kindness.
• Innocently Insensitive: Iris sometimes has remarks that cut people to the bone, such as comforting Maki by telling her she is wonderful and beautiful 90% of the time but that the other 10% is a problem. It's not clear if this is snark or if Iris genuinely doesn't notice the insensitivity.
• Made of Good: She was created from the public's perception of Amaterasu as a sustaining, nurturing force. She is effectively a living embodiment of selfless benevolence.
• Maybe Ever After: Shinra is confirmed to have a child after the timeskip but its not made clear who the mother is. It's heavily implied to be her since they were dating in the final chapter BEFORE the timeskip but whether they married remains to be seen.
• The Medic: Iris has some knowledge of first aid, to the point she can treat a gunshot wound.
• Morality Pet: She's one to Princess Hibana after her Heel–Face Turn. As her "little sister", Iris is one of very few people Hibana is unconditionally considerate and protective of and able to get her to tone down her worst impulses.
• Nice Girl: Iris is a very kind and caring person.
• Nuns Are Mikos: The setting has a religion surrounding a Fire God of Creation, the Holy Sol Temple invokes clear cut Catholic Church aesthetics in its character and location designs, but Iris can be seen performing purification rites such as washing one's body in meditation and prayers straight out of Shinto beliefs.
• Official Couple: With Hibana having recused herself from the race since she claims she's just a fangirl and Tamaki dating Juggernaut, Iris ends up "winning" by default when its confirmed that she's dating Shinra in the final chapter. It's implied that she marries Shinra by the epilogue and has a child with him. How much Inca intrudes on their relationship is never explained.
• Only One Name: As an orphan without a family, Iris doesn't have a surname.
• The Reveal:
  • In Chapter 200, it's revealed she's the Eighth and Final Pillar along with being the doppelgänger of Amaterasu.
  • In Chapter 219, it's revealed to Shinra she's developed pyrokinetic abilities.
• Shameful Strip: She ends up getting her clothes burned off by Hibana for daring to wear a nun habit in front of her. Despite this, Hibana gives Iris a jacket to cover up with.
• Shipper on Deck: Iris reveals herself to be this for Shinra x Tamaki and Obi x Hibana. She ends up dating Shinra herself.
• Stepford Smiler: She puts on a clearly strained smile during her Crisis of Faith so the rest of the 8th wouldn't worry about her, but Shinra notices rather quickly.
• Team Pet: Hibana accuses her and all religious specialists in the Fire Force of being nothing more than adorable mascots; "window dressing" to make the act of killing Inferals look noble.
• Token Heroic Orc: Up to and after the revelation of Adolla dopplegängers, most of them have been negative, horrible, or just plain demonic because that's what people think of such individuals. Iris, on the other hand, is the sweetest person around because she is a manifestation of nothing but positive perceptions of Amaterasu's role in keeping humanity alive, making her the extraordinarily rare dopplegänger that breaks conventions. She is also the first dopplegänger to be born with its own human body instead of possessing one or appearing as an Infernal trying to kill the original.
• What Does This Button Do?: She can't resist pushing the buttons scattered around an eccentric genius' home. She even taps on some of Licht's more bizarre research items in his lab.

Viktor Licht (Walking Spoiler)

Viktor Licht / The Chemist

Voiced by: Daisuke Sakaguchi (Japanese), Ian Sinclair (English), Bruno Coronel (Latin American Spanish)

Originally a scientist for Haijima Industries and an expert of incendiary research, Licht joins Company 8 to get into the action. While strange, weird and difficult to like, Licht is invaluable due to his wide range of knowledge, calm observations, and investigation skills.

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• Ambiguously Evil: He supports a wanted man and helps in his crimes, but jokes about being an ally of justice regularly.
• Becoming the Mask: He eventually comes to bond with the rest of Company 8 in a way that surprises even him.
• Black Sheep: The only member of Company 8 who was forced onto the team by an outside group.
• Big Damn Heroes: Saves the day during his introductory arc.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Licht is creepy, eccentric and utterly brilliant.
• Deadpan Snarker: He has his moments, like reminding everyone he is the uninvited guest of Company 8. His Character Profile is both extremely pedantic and incredibly vague as if he is trying to annoy whoever is reading it while also telling them nothing.
• Deuteragonist: The amount of internal monologue he has had since his introduction rivals Shinra's.
• Dramatic Irony: While the readers/viewers are painfully aware that Licht is Joker's accomplice "The Chemist", Company 8 is only suspicious of him due to being transferred by Haijima, and is completely in the dark about his partnership with Joker. They instead think he's just The Mole for Haijima.
• Empty Eyes: In a series notable for bizarre pupils, Licht is notable for having no pupils whatsoever, making his dark green eyes seem more unsettling.
• Evil Genius: A master of chemistry and explosives, so much so he was made the head of Incendiary Research for a major corporation.
• For Great Justice: He tells Joker that's all he wants with his typical grin.
• For Science!: The possibility that Shinra could cause a black hole that would swallow the entire Tokyo Empire has him giddy because he would have a front row seat to watch something so interesting take place! By his own admission, overwhelming curiosity drives him.
• Foreshadowing: He rigs up a secret passage so Joker can get in and out of the Rookie Tournament. The building was constructed by Hajima Industries, so it's natural a high-ranking employee would be able to find weaknesses in the design.
• Geek Physique: He definitely looks like the kind of guy who spends all day hunched over a microscope. Licht's thin, near waifish figure contrasts that of his male 8th Company colleagues (and Maki) who are all highly toned at the very least, running the gambit from some form of hunk all the way to Heroic Build in the case of Captain Ōbi.
• Information Wants to Be Free: He really wants to uncover the truth and is more reckless than most.
• Irony: He hides more secrets than should be possible, but believes truth and transparency are vital to the world.
• Labcoat of Science and Medicine: He wears a lab coat over casual clothes. He also claims that he wears it underneath his Fire Force uniform.
• Manipulative Bastard: He and Joker get along very well to achieve whatever their goal is. Sometimes with careful planning, other times by just going wild and making quick and risky decisions.
• Make It Look Like an Accident: He runs this risk. When Licht's employers realize he will stop following orders soon, they plan on having him killed. Literally the first thing Licht does after this is becoming a turncoat.
• The Mole: Almost everyone is worried that Licht is a spy working for Haijima. He is, but has no loyalty to the corporation. He even openly lies to them if he has to. His true loyalty is to Joker, who he is feeding information to.
• Mr. Exposition: As a scientific genius with a wide variety of knowledge, Licht often has to explain the nature of things. This is often expositing the current and historical state of the world.
• Mysterious Backer: While Joker is running around becoming a publicly recognized criminal, Licht stays quiet and out of sight before eventually joining Company 8. The pair use this to their advantage to work him into places Joker could never go. Because nobody knows Joker is anything more than a random arsonist, they can't even begin to suspect he has a secret accomplice feeding him information.
• Non-Action Guy: Licht can't fight and he lacks much muscle. When the time comes though, he sides with Shinra by decking a guy and helping him escape from Kurono to save a child. Because even Licht has some pride.
• Not in This for Your Revolution: Clarifies that he's on whatever side will reveal the truth. That said, he's got some standards, and he hints that he's Becoming the Mask from his time spent with the 8th.
• Not That Kind of Doctor:
  • Licht is a genius researcher and theorist in many ways, but he is not an engineer.
  • He's not a medic. He can apply basic medicine in the field but he's not a surgeon.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He's still regarded as a genius, but Licht still knows a lot more than he lets on.
• Obviously Evil: Again, everyone thinks Licht is up to no good. They just don't know why or what. This is thrown into question because he's always helpful. When he tells Company 8 he's meant to be a mole for Haijima, only Iris is shocked. They are a little more shocked by his standing order being to spy on Shinra.
• Oh, Crap!: When watching the battle between Shinra and Shō, he already has trouble keeping up with it all as the fight reaches Super-Speed levels. Then he notices the steam rising off of the enemy, and realizes that Shō is using super heated thermal expansion on the reality around them to accelerate his own time compared to everyone else, even comparing it to the heat expansion of a universe. Licht consequently starts freaking out big time and urging Shinra to get the hell out of there.
• Only Friend: Despite Joker believing he has nothing, Licht respects his efforts and refuses to let him take all the risks. He places himself in grave danger just to help his partner.
• Running Gag: Nobody trusts him. All of Company 8's allies mention this in private or tell it to Licht's face, normally by threatening him.
• Slasher Smile: Puts Shinra to shame in this area. It comes across as incredibly snake-like given how thin it is.
• Spell My Name With An S: "Victor" in the fan translation, "Viktor" in the official translation.
• The Strategist: When confronted by a giant crisis, Licht is the one to mastermind a solution using all the powers available to him.
• Unreliable Expositor: He doesn't know everything and doesn't share everything he does know. Thankfully, the audience get at least some type of understanding of things through his inner monologue while the cast remains in the dark.
• Villain Protagonist: While he is part of Company 8 and even gets inner monologues, he still willingly supports Joker behind the scenes.
• Villains Out Shopping: He and Joker are shown bantering about menial things on occasion. Like traveling abroad.
• Walking Spoiler: Any of the details about him are hidden for quite a while and become extremely important later in the series.
• Your Days Are Numbered: When this becomes a problem, Licht doesn't let it bother him and focuses on doing as much good as he can.

Vulcan Joseph

Vulcan Joseph

Voiced by: Taku Yashiro (Japanese), Jason Liebrecht (English), Carlo Vázquez (Latin American Spanish)

A genius engineer with unparalleled skill. Vulcan's family has major historical importance to the Tokyo Empire as well as a sorted past with the Fire Force and Haijima. He makes up for his lack of powers with his sheer genius. While everyone else is hoping to fix the Infernal crisis, Vulcan is a Friend to All Living Things with dreams of finding ways of fixing the damage done to the world so animals of all types can live safely.

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• Always Someone Better: You might be smart. You might be an inventor of national fame. Vulcan is always better than you.
• Badass Normal: He'll fend for himself against Infernals and pyrotechnics if he has to.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Will take something apart like he's playing the drums, put it back together and try to smash it to pieces to see if it's unbreakable. Couple his extreme methods with a bizarre sense of design and Vulcan will make something that looks absurd but thousands of times more useful than anything else.
• Collapsible Helmet: His penguin-inspired helmet is coming out of his firefighter uniform. It is also equipped with propellers allowing him to make ramming attacks.
• Cool Mask: It's basically a goat skull with goggle lenses.
• Enemy Mine: He originally has no plan to stay with the Fire Force, but stayed because it was either working together or die horribly. He quickly ended up bonding with the rest of Company 8, but is still wary of the rest of the organization.
  • He enters much more hostile partnership with Haijima Industries later. He still deeply hates them for their crimes against humanity and his ancestors specifically, but is willing to use their resources in hopes of eventually creating an energy source that would render Amaterasu unnecessary.
• Establishing Character Moment: Introduced with a machine designed solely to throw his trash at people bothering him with job offers and letting Shinra's group know he does not care what they think about him. He even gives them insults they can use against him if they want.
• Face of a Thug: He looks pretty damn intimidating and punk-ish at first glance. It doesn't take long for his cuter qualities to overshadow his previously intimidating image. He loves animals, loves to play the drums, and has a smile like the sun.
• Family of Choice: After his father and grandfather died, Vulcan set up a new family with friends he protected.
• Friend to All Living Things: He loves animals and his goal is to make robot versions of all the animals that went extinct or create a power source capable of preserving all life. Even when reduced to abject poverty, he still feeds the birds and stray cats around his workshop.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Everyone wants his support because his inventions are so advanced. His scientific knowledge seems to be about a hundred years ahead of everyone else.
• Genre Savvy: Vulcan begins exploiting Arthur's utter lunacy by playing into his fantasy. Recognising they need Arthur to be at his absolute strongest and playing into genre drops of fantasy and game logic to trick the boy into making a break through. This does count on Arthur being both stupid enough to fall for Vulcan's lies and Vulcan being able to keep up with Arthur's runaway imagination. The latter is much harder than the former.
• Hot Men at Work: He's an engineer and lives in a junkyard. As if to fully capitalize on that loaded premise, he's introduced shirtless, jacked, and tattooed and tinkering with his inventions inbetween playing the drums.
• Hunk: Vulcan is an attractive, muscular young man with a sculpted body accented with tattoos. It doesn't hurt that he's often shirtless, showing off his abs and chest nor that he has a very handsome face.
• Insufferable Genius:
  • He is obsessed with testing the strength and durability of his inventions. Meaning that he will smash a perfectly good device by throwing it across the room to make something stronger.
  • He basically vandalizes everything in Company 8's base to fit his rock-and-roll animal-loving style.
• In the Blood: He comes from a long line of hyper-talented inventors.
• It May Help You on Your Quest: He gives Arthur a ring, a (mostly) normal ring and tells him to put it on when all hope is lost. Vulcan has absolutely no idea what or if this will do because it shouldn't be capable of anything. But he figures that Arthur will find a use for it.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is a massive pain to deal with, but Vulcan is a good guy underneath it all.
• Manly Tears: Vulcan is able to keep it together during a crisis but after Giovanni steals Yu's body and the cataclysm begins partly due to his own failure all it takes is some gentle prompting before he starts letting out.
• Meaningful Name: He is named after the Roman god of the Forge, and is every bit as skilled as that implies.
• Missing Mom: We know what happened to his father and his grandfather but not his mother or grandmother.
• Odd Friendship: Becomes Arthur's closest friend and confidant, baring Shinra. They don't have anything in common but Vulcan admires Arthur's unbreakable drive and Arthur respects Vulcan's creativity, insight and level-head.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: Is placed under amazing pressure to swallow his pride and join Hajima. He doesn't bend.
• The Promise: Vulcan promised to his grandfather he would never help the Fire Force after what they did to his family. By the end of his introduction, he has to break this oath to protect his new family.
• Science Hero: More of a fighter than Licht as he is able to handle a combat situation through quick thinking and the occasional gadget.
• Single-Target Sexuality: He never expresses any interest in any woman besides Lisa.
• Teen Genius: Amazingly intelligent before he's fully grown, and it's implied his only education is from his (just as brilliant if not more) talented father and grandfather.
• True Companions: Vulcan believes that nothing can break the bonds between people who love each other and will fight to prove it.
• Would Not Hit a Girl: He wouldn't throw a drink can at Iris' head unlike how he "greeted" Shinra and Arthur. That's his standard of politeness.

Lisa Isaribi (Walking Spoiler)

Lisa Isaribi

Voiced by: Ayaka Asai (Japanese), Elizabeth Maxwell (English), Betzabé Jara (Latin American Spanish)

An orphaned girl who lived in Vulcan's workshop, she is revealed to ultimately be a Knight of the Ashen Flames sent to spy on Vulcan and find the key to Amaterasu. After outing herself, Vulcan refuses to believe she was truly evil and vows to save her. With help from Ōbi, he succeeds, and with an Important Hair Cut, Lisa leaves the Knights of the Ashen Flames and joins Company 8 as one of its engineers.

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• Anti-Villain: Her brief time as a villain made it clear she wasn't truly evil, but rather a Broken Bird desperate to Never Be Hurt Again and being mentally abused by Giovanni. Once Vulcan manages to get through to her and Giovanni abandons her, she leaves this position and becomes a full-fledged hero.
• Becoming the Mask: She was only sent to infiltrate Vulcan's workshop so as find the key to Amaterasu, but she developed a legitimate bond with Vulcan and Yu in the process. While she did ultimately betray them when Giovanni ordered her too, it was clear she only did so out of her devotion to Giovanni, and once Vulcan made clear he wouldn't abandon her and Giovanni tossed her aside, she gladly returned to them and joined up with Company 8.
• Broken Bird: She was brought up and abused by Doctor Giovanni from a young age to mold her into a tool for the White-Clad. Even after being discarded by the Doctor and joining Company 8, the trauma he inflicted on her is so deep that just thinking about him can give her a panic attack.
• Combat Tentacles: Both as "Feeler" and as a member of Company 8, Lisa uses her Third Generation abilities to generate tentacles. These tentacles possess magnetic properties, and when manifested from her waist give her the appearance of an octopus.
• Heel–Face Turn: After Vulcan makes clear he won't abandon her and Giovanni tosses her aside, she joins Company 8 as an engineer working alongside Vulcan, finding them to be her Family of Choice.
• Important Hair Cut: She spots a shorter style after Giovanni tosses her aside and she joins Company 8.
• The Mole: She was ordered by the Knights, more specifically Giovanni, to infiltrate Vulcan's workshop in hopes of finding the key to Amaterasu.
• Running Gag: Shinra confusing her for some type of robot.
• Team Mom: For Vulcan's new family.
• Traumatic Haircut: When Giovanni takes her hostage, he binds her neck with a wire that he heats up, threatening to burn through her neck. Her lower hairline is also caught by the super heated wiring, causing it to be sheered off.
• Walking Spoiler: It's hard to talk about her without revealing she was initially The Mole.
• Will Not Be a Victim: She wrapped herself in flames and her cult's beliefs out of fear of dying like her parents. It took Vulcan fighting to save her to finally break free from this mindset.

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