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While Fire Force has its fair share of dark and intense moments, what with the populace facing the looming threat of Spontaneous Human Combustion, it's offset with plenty of hilarity that will make you combust with laughter.
Season 1
- Episode 1
- When Maki is goofing around and trying to talk about love with Iris, Iris tries to stop her by rapidly tapping at Maki while Maki continues on about her obsession for love. This ends up making Hinawa mad and both of them immediately stop afterwards.
- Shinra meets his Company's captain and his own boss when the guy is hanging upside down. Takehisa tells him to stop it but this only leads to Akitaru leaning increasingly close to Shinra to trigger his tension-induced devil grin. After which he laughs it off and even calls it a "cute" personality quirk; something that Shinra is briefly surprised about.
- Episode 2
- Maki casually demonstrating her fire powers when she creates a fireball creature named Sputter. Then Hinawa walks by, kills it by pouring his coffee on it and reprimands Maki for playing with fire.
- The simple fact that Maki's super Sputter is named Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo, of all things!
- When Arthur shows disrespect to Hinawa, Shinra and Maki are eagerly anticipating him to be disciplined and even go behind the caution tape set around Maki's picnic blanket (while Iris just prays for him.) They're all shocked and disappointed when Hinawa just leaves it alone.
- Maki walking in on Arthur calling her an ogress, followed by her throttling him and Shinra.Shinra: Me too!?
- In the anime, he's just saved by her walking in startling Shinra and causing him to fall on his head before she has a chance to hear him.
- Episode 3
- Shinra loudly declaring himself ready for the rookie fire soldier games. Right next to him is Tamaki doing the same thing right next time. He's understandably distracted by the fact that she has nothing on top except for a bra and a Fire Soldier coat.
- When trying to talk to Captain Burns, Tamaki interrupts and questions him. Shinra was trying to reach out to the captain with his hand, but because of Tamaki's Lucky Lecher Lure, he ends up accidentally groping Tamaki's breast instead. He manages to dodge a slap from her, only for her to fall forwards and he catches her from her fall, except now he accidentally gropes her bottom and this brings Tamaki to shame about her bad luck while Shinra is just blushing all over his face.
- How bad is Tamaki's luck? Well, in both of the above instances, Shinra somehow gropes Tamaki underneath her clothes.
- The Mascots of Fire Defense Agency, Wone Wone Nyine. Two dogs and a dog-faced old man named Mamoru. The last one used to be a cat, but the higher-ups complained about the mascots all being animals.
- Maki honestly thinks Mamoru is cute. The anime adds in Shinra directly pointing at him as if to ask "are you serious?" while she nods. Twice after he takes a second look at the mascot.
- Tamaki falling ass first on Arthur's face. Unlike Tamaki, he's visibly nonchalant about it.
- Joker opting to kill Shinra, complete with Nightmare Face. Shinra is understandably terrified, but Joker mistakes his typical reactionary Slasher Smile as a Grin of Audacity and changes his mind.
- After the Rookie games site blew up, Arthur and Tamaki are free-falling out of the sky. Burns manages to snatch Tamaki, and nonchalantly apologizes to Arthur for having to leave him. Arthur takes it in stride.Arthur: What about me?
Burns: Sorry, it's not like I'm actually flying.
Arthur: ...I see. God save me.
- Episode 4
- Arthur absolutely sucks at office duty.
- He oh-so happily accepts a helping a dog out of a tree with Shinra when Maki offers to handle the rest of the paperwork.
- Said dog is actually Mamoru. Not an actual dog, not even the other two dog mascots, but the dog-faced old man mascot. He got "hoorayed" up the tree by college students.
- When an infernal emergency, Hinawa demands to know where Shinra and Arthur are. Out of fear, Maki neglected to tell him that she took over office duty for the two while they respond to the "dog" emergency and he takes it as them playing hooky.Hinawa: (Over a microphone) Shinra! Arthur! I know you're in the area! Wander out without permission, will you!? When we get back, you're getting disciplined until you can't move any more!
Shinra and Arthur: Huh!?
Maki: (To herself) I'm sorry, both of you! I'm sorry! I couldn't tell him I sent you. I'll do anything. Ramen is on me. Forgive me! - Arthur leaps onto and rides Shinra to the Infernal. You can just tell that Shinra wants to drop him from high altitude.Arthur: Hiyo Silver!
- When Maki punches Toru for badmouthing the team, instead of calling her out for hitting a higher up, Hinawa gives her a thumbs up in agreement.
- Episode 5
- Arthur is in the middle of getting curb stomped by a pyromaniac infernal. He 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, switches to his right and cuts the Infernal in half in one stroke. Yes, he was losing the whole time because he literally didn't realize he was using the wrong hand.
- Episode 6
- The Stinger At the very end of the episode after the credits, we cut to a rather somber conversation between Obi and his former chief as he is about to call Hinawa to bring him in for the fight against Company 5, and we are treated to a Lock-and-Load Montage complete with him spitting sake onto his gear, only to learn that the battle was already done and that he missed all of it.
- Episode 9
- Tamaki's Lucky Lecher Lure strikes again right in the middle of Shinra and Rekka's fight. This time, Shinra lands face first into her breasts and somehow walks off with her skirt without realizing it, fire reduces her clothes to scraps that barely hide her modesty, and Shinra later crashes into her again and accidently plants a kiss on her cheek!
- How Hot-Blooded is Rekka? He tells Shinra to "Come at me, bro!"
- Arthur's sense of direction apparently rivals Zoro's, if that were possible. While chasing Rekka, he got lost to the point Company 8 had to file a missing persons case! When we next see him, he's apparently in a sandstorm of some desert. He unceremoniously comes back at the start of the next episode.
- Shinra abruptly notices Tamaki's presence in Company Eight's office.Shinra: What are you doing here, Cat Girl?
Tamaki: Meow. - After learning that Tamaki will be staying with them while on suspension, Shinra abruptly remembers his promise to Juggernaut and asks for her phone number. Cue the stunned reactions from the rest of the 8th while Tamaki hastily refuses, before quickly changing her tune and agreeing while glancing aside and nervously tapping her forefingers together.
- Episode 10
- Among the notes left by Hibana at the start of the episode is one saying "Give Shinra a raise!".
- Akitaru's growing frustration at Hibana charming his subordinates (lunch for Shinra and fire flowers for Iris and Maki) is definitely worth chuckles. Even Hinawa ignores that she's playing with fire in the office.
- Arthur is about to die from going through the towers of paperwork handed out to him, much to Shinra's bemusement.
- Tamaki follows Maki to the kitchen to cook for the others, only to seconds later return while calling for Shinra, but thanks to "Lucky Lecher", appears in nothing but an Naked Apron. Maki is utterly flabbergasted about this sudden chain of events herself moments later.Maki: You were wearing coveralls just a second ago!
- Episode 13
- Hinata and "Hikage" are fighting each other, one accusing the other of being an imposter. The others think that it's all just a delusion, but Arthur doesn't see it that way and knees "Hikage" right in the face. As if that wasn't enough, he throws "her" against the wall, knocking "her" out. The others are clearly not amused and start to hit Arthur, thinking that it's another one of his delusions. When he states that he did it because "Hikage" is an old man in disguise, the others are livid and start beating him up, with Shinra kicking him in the balls, Maki punching him, Obi holding him down, and Hinawa in the back with his guns at the ready. The best part about this? Arthur was right.
- Episode 15
- When Arthur touched a butt-ugly yellow squirrel puppet, it suddenly went flying while making fart noises, propelled by an internal water reservoir that looked as if it was pissing.
- Iris then pressed a random button out of morbid curiosity that made a hedgehog robot fire its pins, pinning Vulkan to a wall (through "luck", only his clothing was hit, but immobilized him all the same). She then proceeded to press another button, firing the giant elephant's skull hanging from the building into the sky like a rocket.
- Episode 16
- In order for Arthur to use his abilities when the White-Clads approach Vulcan's home, the latter has to fashion him with "knightly" armor. By knightly, we mean a blue sheet draped over him that makes him look like a knight.
- Oh, and his horse? A donkey head fastened to his legs, with the head in a rather... interesting area. We're not making this up
. - Even better? It works, and Arthur's abilities actually intensify stronger than usual.
- Despite everything though, even Arthur's delusions have their limits. When he sees just how ridiculous he looks via mirage, he thinks the white-clad sent some dorky loser to fight him. And then gets his own ass handed to him.
- Oh, and his horse? A donkey head fastened to his legs, with the head in a rather... interesting area. We're not making this up
- When rescuing Shinra from a White-Clad trap, Hibana shows a yandere side by wondering if she should take him home with her while he's bound and helpless. She releases him anyway but muses "I'm regretting my decision already" as he flies away.
- Shinra's narration on Arthur's battle wound is a perfect summation of their relationship. He says "Arthur's wounds weren't as bad as they looked" in this somber tone but then, after a beat, he adds "but there's always next time."
- In order for Arthur to use his abilities when the White-Clads approach Vulcan's home, the latter has to fashion him with "knightly" armor. By knightly, we mean a blue sheet draped over him that makes him look like a knight.
- Episode 19
- While infiltrating the Nether, Iris and Tamaki are separated from the rest of the group and set upon by an imposter pretending to be Tamaki. Iris, somehow, is incapable of telling them apart despite the Paper-Thin Disguise: The imposter - who is a man with a very deep voice - doesn't even bother to disguise his voice. Even when Tamaki activates her fire powers, and the imposter complains that she's trying to fool Iris by doing something he can't do, Iris is still incapable of distinguishing them. Only when Tamaki's Lucky Lecher Lure activates does Iris realize who the real one is, much to Tamaki's annoyance.
- After Assault is hyped as extremely dangerous and capable of taking out the entirety of Firehouse 8 by himself, he completely falls to pieces after being exposed to Tamaki’s Lucky Lecher Lure. This opens him up so Iris, The Team Normal nun without any fighting capabilities whatsoever, can sneak up on him with Glowing Eyes of Doom and clock him an iron pipe, complete with a Látom. He’s then beaten severely by Tamaki and Iris (who is muttering Látom with every blow), to the point that the aftermath is completely blurred out. The two girls then fist pump victoriously as Iris mutters a final Látom.
- Episode 20
- Iris and Tamaki are wandering the dark Nether and encounter what appears to be a fearsome fire demon. They clutch each and scream at the sight of it. This is the result:
- When Vulcan reunites with Lisa, she tries really hard to act like a villainous white-clad but Vulcan is having none of it.Lisa: You look ridiculous, Vulcan.
Vulcan: You look good no matter what you wear.
Lisa: [Luminescent Blush] Why are you here underground, with the Fire Force you hate so much?
Vulcan: That's obvious, Lisa. I came to see you.
- Episode 21
- During a dead serious battle with Giovanni, Obi fakes a Heroic Sacrifice and then tears part of an underground train track off the ground. Then shortly thereafter, he promptly plants it in the ground, uses it as an impromptu ladder, and fucking elbow drops Giovanni in the span of three seconds. Crosses over with Awesome.
Season 2
- Episode 1:
- Shinra and the girls go shopping and decide to pick out an outfit for Hinawa. Owing to his utter indifference for fashion, he willingly puts on the bunny outfit and cap that says "nudist bitch" that they get for him.
- After Obi chews him out for it, Hinawa tried to cover for them by claiming that he picked it out for himself. Obi sees right through it, of course.
- Shinra has an inner monologue about how Company 8 are True Companions that would never turn on eachother...and the girls immediately lay all the blame on Shinra.
- Later in the episode, when Obi and Hinawa inform Shinra that Company 8 will be participating in the Fire Force's annual nude calendar photo shoot and toss him a calendar from a previous year, he begins looking through it to see what they're up against. Cue a shot of Giovanni looking like a body-builder wearing a plague mask.
- Shinra rather excitedly looks for Company 5's entry, to see if Hibana was a part of the shoot. He's genuinely pissed off when he find out the photo shoot is only comprised of the men from each company. The not-amused face of Sister Iris adds to the hilarity.
- Then cue the next scene where Hibana is freaking out over the idea of other people getting to see Shinra in the nude, rather than just herself.
- Shinra wonders how they managed to get Benimaru to participate, only to find a picture of him in a bathhouse seemingly unaware of the camera. The first thing he wonders after seeing the picture is if it was taken without asking.
- The reveal that it was Konro that took the picture of Benimaru in the bathhouse. His reason? He doesn't want Company 7 to be outdone by the "empire dirtbags" in anything, including the nude calendar.
- Konro treating the nude calendar as Serious Business, nearly convincing Benimaru to take the photo because the people are waiting for the big bold man who can win over everyone; claiming that he is the only one that can do it. It seems that Benimaru is about to take the bait... before snapping right back to his usual grumpiness and fighting Konro over the camera.
- The simple fact that despite the oddities present in the other pictures (a plague doctor photoshopped onto a bodybuilder, Hibana's 'gravel patrol' on top of each other and a completely unaware Benimaru) Company 8 still managed to come last.
- Shinra and the girls go shopping and decide to pick out an outfit for Hinawa. Owing to his utter indifference for fashion, he willingly puts on the bunny outfit and cap that says "nudist bitch" that they get for him.
- Episode 2:
- Captain Hague of Company 4 acting as if he enjoys the pain of fire attacks and Arthur both using him as a shield, and imagining Hague as such!
- Episode 4: Tamaki's "Lucky Lecher Curse" strikes again when she arrives in a nun's habit to deliver the sister's prayer. Unfortunately, her veil is caught on a branch and causes her to lose every piece of clothing except the veil and her underwear. The kicker is Vulcan acknowledging her veil-and-bikini combo as a highly niche kink before pondering if being sent to heaven by such a sister would actually be pretty nice, followed by Hinawa stating there's no way that could happen. It even causes Vulcan and Hinawa to get overwhelmed by a horde of Infernals because she's too busy falling over herself to get herself dressed and give the prayer, and after Karim arrives to save them, the four of them get ready to take the Infernals on while Tamaki is still undressed. And later, the simple act of of standing up from a crouch makes her bikini top get undone and slip off. She's inexplicably dressed again at the start of the next episode, at least.
- Karim remarks on Tamaki's lure in his usual way: "Even when you change you don't change".
- Episode 7: While on a mission to the Chinese Peninsula, the crew, minus a gas-mask-wearing Licht, is exposed to a gas from the wasteland's underground, which acts as a stimulant and makes everyone go loopy. Pan is blowing his whistle while slumped over the wheel, Tamaki is pretending to call her mother about how she won't be coming back that night, Ogun breaks into a dance, Shinra and Juggernaut are blowing up "hostile rocks" with the latter's pyrokinesis while pretending to be a soldier and cannon respectively, and Arthur is sitting calmly and freed from his delusions.Licht: (exasperated) I told them to wear gas masks.
Everyone else: YEEAAAH!
Shinra: HELL YEAH!
Everyone else: HOOOH YEEAAAH!
Licht: I mean, I did tell them. - Episode 8: Pan and Licht's disbelief when Arthur recognizes the random jumbles of numbers around them as pi.
- Episode 9:
- Arthur's delusions become even funnier when he explains how he recognized the random jumbles of numbers around them as pi. It is a coded version telling the saga of "Sir Comference", which he recites a bit of to explain how to translate. Then he asks Lict and Pan if "Pi" is the steed or companion of Sir Comference. (this might be only in the English dub).
- Juggernaut is run through by Tempe's hand to take a hit for Tamaki, and everyone believes he's been mortally wounded due to the gaping hole in his chest... except he's completely fine and his multiple layers of clothes prevented his actual body from being identified and hit. Moments later, he gets mauled by Infernalized dogs and apparently has his limbs torn off... but he once again proves to be perfectly alright, with Shinra remarking he's practically unkillable.
- Episode 13: When Vulcan claims to have created a new device in the kitchen, Shinra mistakes Lisa for the invention and starts poking at her. Then at the end of the scene, Iris appears and also mistakes Lisa for the new invention and, like Shinra, goes directly for Lisa's boobs to poke when looking her over.
- Episode 16:
- The three-way battle between Haijima, the White-Clad and Company 8 for Nataku, where they treat Nataku like a basketball, Calling for a rebound when Shinra loses him and Captain Obi, Kurono and Charon all leap to catch him, and Charon tossing him back and forth between his hands.
- Vulcan gets Arthur to insert his plasma sword into a slot at the top of the Matchbox Truck's roof, by invoking the sword in the stone legend. Initially this works well, until Arthur starts wondering why the "stone" has a driver's seat.
- Kurono getting called on his phone by his company boss who calls him names, which Kurono can only stand there and calmly take it.
- Ritsu attempts to get Inca to retreat from the battlefield after Haumea messes with Nataku's brain, only to be interrupted mid-sentence by Inca matter-of-factly informing her that she will die if she stays where she's standing.Ritsu: I believe it would be for the best if you-Inca: Uh, you're gonna die if you stay there.Ritsu: What, really?
- Episode 18: The first half is a relatively serious part about the Holy Sol faith, after some of the truth comes out. The second half focuses on Assault training to get stronger... to defeat Tamaki. And by training, we mean engaging in all sorts of perverted acts so he can avoid passing out from a nosebleed each time her Lucky Lecher Lure activates. And all of his efforts still fail.
- For starters, he watches and reads stacks upon stacks of porn until his eyes cry blood. His rematch with Tamaki ends when she slips and gives him an up-close look at her panties when he charges in.
- Assault then visits a hostess club due to thinking he needed to practice with a real person instead of just videos and books, and sits behind a bawling man who looks a lot like Death Scythe, who is even named Scythe and lamenting how cold his daughter Makaki is to him. His next rematch fails when Tamaki loses every piece of her clothing except for her socks and gloves and she tearfully begs him not to look.
- Once again resuming his training believing he needed to work around her innocence and bashfulness, he heads out into a storm to watch women reacting to getting their skirts flipped by the wind. Assault then charges in for another rematch. The dramatic music score and setting crank up the Mundane Made Awesome of this 'rivalry'.
- The dramatic wind causes Tamaki's skirt to flutter, and her panties to drift in and out of sight. This makes Assault think "peekabo", which is a perfect Comically Serious moment for him.
- The entire Training Arc becomes a "Shaggy Dog" Story for Assault, because he realizes that no matter how much training he does, it will never be enough, because it is not sex appeal itself that defeats but his budding attraction to Tamaki herself.
- And even though his "training" till now is just being a perv, his physical abilities are inexplicably enhanced to the point he can block Arrow's arrow with a single finger at a moment's notice.
- While all this is happening, Tamaki builds up a reputation as The Dreaded among the Knights due to them seeing the sheer amount of effort Assault is putting into surpassing her, while being totally oblivious about the actual reason he keeps losing.
- Episode 19: General Danrou Oze, a large, serious and imposing man, still smothers his adult daughter Maki with baby talk. Takigi tease them over this only to start using baby talk with his girlfriend over the phone.
- Episode 20: When Company 8 is split up to work with Company 2 on a joint mission to the Nether, Shinra had given Arthur's squad a Company 8 Arthur Boyle Care and Feeding Manual with details on how to keep him under control. His peeved commanding officer relents and goes along with it.
- Tamaki is assigned to Juggernaut's squad, much to his joy. To his disappointment, all his layers prevent him from feeling her cling to his arm. And then her Lucky Lecher Lure activates against his scatter-brained senpai, who keeps forgetting the last few seconds and is completely baffled by Tamaki getting more and more undressed, with Juggernaut chastising him the whole time.
- There's something darkly hilarious about several Company 2 crewmen's lives flashing to their loved ones before being killed by Ritsu's zombies. Special mention goes to one crewman who, rather than having a sweetheart or pregnant wife to go back to, instead wanted to wear a new pair of sneakers after the mission, and then getting saved by Captain Honda. He begins remarking that his lackluster flashback must have been the reason he didn't die, only to get stabbed in the back and killed by his reanimated crewmate anyway.
- Licht and a Company 2 crewman are pinned behind a table by a zombie crewman shooting at them. The crewman gets up to return fire and apparently gets shot, but then returns to cover. Licht stares at him before assuming he was okay, only for his bloodied head to suddenly turn 180 degrees to face him, before making an irked remark that of course that had to happen and running away.
- Juggernaut's multiple layers come in handy again when his senpai seemingly perforates him with gunfire.
- Episode 22: During the fight between Arthur and Shinra against Dr. Giovanni, Shinra uses his superspeed to virtually vanish leaving Dr. Giovanni to wonder where Shinra went. Cue Arthur, sitting at a desk that came out of nowhere, to comment "I'm still here".
- Arthur's "Non Self Nirvana" move, while allowing Arthur to finally hit Dr. Giovanni with a damaging blow, just left Shinra thinking that its just Arthur being stupid, and that it had no connection with his knight theme.
