Trivia / Fire Force

• Acclaimed Flop: Despite having spectacular visuals, its first Blu-ray only sold little more than 100 copies in its first week. It still did well enough to get a second season, though.
• Acting for Two: Maaya Sakamoto also voices Shinra during his childhood in addition of voicing Sho.
• Actor-Shared Background: Captain Ōbi's English voice actor, Jeremy Inman, is a former firefighter and paramedic.
• Cross-Dressing Voices:
  • In the Japanese version, Sho Kusakabe is voiced by Maaya Sakamoto. This is averted in the English dub due to Sho being voiced by Justin Briner.
  • Yu, a young boy and Vulcan's apprentice, is voiced by Kristen McGuire in the English dub and he was given an almost child-like voice. It's averted in the Japanese version where he's voiced by Shoya Chiba.
• Distanced from Current Events: Due to the series premise about firefighting, the anime's broadcast of Episode 3 was halted after the arson attack at Kyoto Animation's Studio 1 building. It only lasted a week, but starting with Episode 4, the color for the fire was changed. It still counted as this when Episode 3 did have a pretty big building on fire that the heroes needed to escape.
• Dueling Shows: With the similarly themed film Promare, that opened just before the Summer 2019 season started.
• International Coproduction: Similar to Dimension W, the anime features Funimation as part of the production committee along with Chinese streaming site bilibili.
• No Export for You:
  • Averted in a certain form in Latin America. Traditionally, every anime that is licensed by Funimation is automatically region-blocked for Spanish and Portuguese-speaking countries in Latin America. However, and as a way to wash their hands, Funimation gave the broadcasting rights to a local distributor, Sato Company, which announced it in some events dedicated to TV channels and OTT providers as a catalog title, weeks before being broadcasted in Japan. Some anime news websites found it, and the company finally revealed on a interview for a Brazilian anime website, along with Fruits Basket, another Funimation title. However, as Sato Company doesn't have any business relations with simulcast companies like Crunchyroll, preferring to do business with OTT platforms, the series didn't see its light until after the first part was broadcast in Japan on platforms such as Netflix or Amazon Prime Video (streaming platforms which Sato Company already has business links) as a dumpcast. The anime was finally released in Latin America on December 7, 2019, with the first 12 episodes published.
  • Also averted in Finland, as the series is available in Wakanim, a company Funimation has ties with. Points extra that weeks after the announcement, Sony Pictures announced that Funimation, Wakanim and Madman Entertainment will be merged into a single joint venture.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Like it was seen in other roles he has performed in his career, Yoshitsugu Matsuoka voices an unhinged, manipulative coward like Yona instead of voicing a character more in the lines of his usual heroic roles.
  • Rie Kugimiya is better known for playing Tsundere characters with a with a heart of gold. Here, she's cast as Haumea, who is not like that at all.
  • Ritsu is not usually the type of character Rumi Ōkubo gets cast for, being a calm, villanous character with blue hair instead of a pink haired sweet girl. For an added point of irony, Ritsu takes care of an actual pink haired girl, though far from the kind ones Ookubo normally voices.
• Promoted Fanboy: In her interview in the official website of the anime, Rumi Ōkubo admitted she was a reader of the manga before being cast as Ritsu for Season 2 of the anime, also expressing her happiness of getting a role in the series.
• Prop Recycling: The streets are often filled with classic European CGI cars (particularly Italian ones) rather unfitting for the Japanese setting, likely due to David Production reusing assets made for the animated adaptation of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind (a possible watsonian explenation would've been European refugees reaching the shores of Japan).
• Role Reprise: Both Tōru Ōkawa and Emiri Katou reprise their roles as Spirit and Blair (respectively) from Soul Eater in their small cameo in the 18th episode of the second season.
• Screwed by the Network: Toonami's airing of the series went smoothly in Season 1, but for Season 2's premiere, its original projected premiere date was delayed with no announcement. When Season 2 was finally set to aired, Toonami gave it zero promotion until the night of its premiere. To make the matter more confusing, Season 1 was airing in reruns weeks before to hype up Season 2's premiere, which possibly confused fans into thinking the new episodes were reruns.
• Star-Making Role: For Saeko Kamijo and Sarah Roach as Maki. The latter mentioned on Twitter that this was her first voice acting role as a leading character.