Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange (Megumi no Daigo Kyūkoku no Orenji) is a Rescue manga written and illustrated by Masahito Soda, which began serialization in Kodansha's Monthly Shōnen Magazine in 2020. It's a sequel to Soda's previous manga series Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M, with the exception of having a different Daigo involved in the Tokyo Fire Department (TFD), though Asahina Daigo makes a cameo appearance. On February 6, 2024, it was announced that the manga would be on hiatus.
An anime adaptation produced by Brains Base and directed by Masahiko Murata began airing on September 30, 2023 on Fuji TV and Nippon TV. Crunchyroll streams it worldwide except in Southeast Asia, where Medialink is in charge of streaming the series there.
Three new recruits, Toake Daigo, Shun Onoda and Yuki Nakamura, are being trained by the TFD for prospective spots in the Special Rescue Unit (SRU). The SRU are specialist search and rescue personnel deployed by the TFD when a disaster takes place. As they settle in their role in the TFD, the trio's skills are tested to the limits to serve and protect the public.
Firefighter Daigo: Rescuer in Orange contains the following tropes:
- Continuity Nod: Asahina Daigo shows up in Toake's hospital room after he got harassed by other elementary school kids with Water Torture due to his father being involved in a bunch of criminal charges that led to the fire at Hotel New Snysis. Asahina also persuaded Toake to join the TFD.
- Deadly Training Area: The TFD recruits are placed in a simulated building under fire where they have to navigate the fire/smoke to rescue trapped people inside (done via mannequins). They need to get exposed on what it is like to be in a situation where a fire is taking place.
- Emergency Services:
- The manga follows a different group of characters who are firefighters with the TFD, including a different Daigo.
- In some instances, TFD ambulances are seen on standby to evacuate casualties to the nearest hospital.
- Handshake Substitute: Shun and Daigo share a fistbump after they finish their final test (and are assigned full-time to the Fuwa Fire Station) to affirm that they're colleagues who went through it.
- Heroic Fire Rescue: While the manga shows the TFD putting themselves in harm's way to rescue people in fires, Daigo is implied to be the lone firefighter who puts himself in danger more than once. Shun doesn't like this attitude since he can get hurt or killed in a situation that can easily be avoided.
- Le Parkour: Daigo's seen practicing for the nationwide event involving fire departments from across Japan by exercising on the roof of a building where he hopped between two brick structures, followed by a wall jump.
- Mythology Gag: In "Special Order Dispatch", Yuki works in SAR operations under Fire Company M. In "A Small Person in Need of Rescue", Toyomu mentions that Amakusa's forming a specialist SAR unit known as Fire Company M by covertly acquiring funds for it as a last ditch unit in a megadisaster event.
- By "The Heroes Assemble", Fire Company M was officially established with Daigo Asahina leading it.
- Photo Memento: The TFD recruits who didn't wash out of their final test celebrate by taking photos with one another.
- Rescue: Like the previous manga, Rescuer in Orange centers on another Daigo (alongside Shun and Yuki) in the TFD to rescue civilians caught in fires as part of the SRU and bring them to safe areas.
- Training from Hell: TFD recruits are given lots of exercises ranging from pull ups and leg splits on the walls to being trained in simulated fires in buildings where their actions are treated as if they're involved in a fire and civilians need to be rescued ASAP. Shun lampshades that some of the exercises they did do help them carry civilians who are too weak or exhausted to walk on their own.
