Dive feet-first into the world of devil-fighting firefighters with this 3-in-1 omnibus edition of the hit manga from the creator of Soul Eater ! Blaze past the anime, 600 large-sized pages at a time.
Includes Vol. 7-9 of the Fire Force manga.
Company 8 has been slowly working to expand their team, but they’re still missing an engineer! They set out to recruit an exceptionally talented machinist named Vulcan, but they may have their work cut out for them when the recruitment effort goes sideways and fighting breaks out. In an unexpected twist, Shinra comes face to face with his long-lost brother, but the family reunion isn’t a happy one—Shō has a hidden agenda to fulfil that will test Shinra’s heroic resolve. Meanwhile, the rest of Company 8 will each face their own trials.
Atsushi Ōkubo ( 大久保篤), also romanized as Atsushi Ohkubo, is a Japanese manga author and fantasy artist known for his work on the manga series Soul Eater, which has been adapted into an anime. Okubo worked as an assistant under Rando Ayamine, on the manga series Get Backers. He also created artwork for various cards for the Lord of Vermillion game.
Atsushi Ōkubo was not a model student and was more attracted to drawing than to learning. At the age of 20, after finishing studies at a manga school where he met Rando Ayamine, the author of Get Backers, he became Rando Ayamine's assistant for two years. Finally, he won a competition at Square Enix's Gangan magazine with his first manga series B.Ichi and it was published for four volumes. After the end of his last manga, he created Soul Eater, still for Square Enix's Gangan magazine, which brought him worldwide success.
A solid couple of volumes - introduced to Vulcan and then the team heads down into the Nether to confront the Evangelist’s people. Always some fun cool fire powers on display here!
Overall this was a solid entry. Below is a breakdown by volume:
Volume 7: Vulcan is a great character. But this is such an annoying volume. I was hoping it would be better than the Anime but the only thing going good here is there is less pain reading instead of listening to Arthur going on and on. I don't get the whole Sister Iris causing such chaos when they first arrive at the forge. I mean after so many chapter there should be character development, but it feels like all the characters are back to Vol 1 chapter 1 personality (like this chapter was meant to happen earlier) all rude and illmanarard. It is just a side quest to fetch a new character and should have been a chapter or two and not a full volume. Oh well.
Volume 8: There is a lot packed into this volume. There is the end of the fight at Vulcan's forge, the betrayal. Sho appears and he is not a nice person. Then there is a massive info dump and some training. By the time Station 8 moves against the forces loyal to the Evangelist in the neithers it all starts to feel like a filler issue (despite all that happens). The action is interesting but this is just a warm up for volume 9.
Volume 9: This was essentially one long fight featuring groups of Station 8 soldiers. It was good. There was some excellent character development and exposition. It was just short of five stars. Hard to say more without spoilers. The confrontation with Sho has begun.
first things first: rip to everyone’s feed because i will now be reading them volume for volume instead of the three in one. anyway, should i get a tattoo of the panel with shinra and his mom in devil form be honest 👉🏻👈🏻
Fav side character- Hibana Fav use of power- Arthur Boyle Least fav character- Viktor Licht Fav character- Vulcan Fav relationship- Shinra & Arthur Fav volume- 7
Volume 7 (4 stars) Fav part was when some of the crew visited Vulcan's place in hopes of recruiting him and randomly Sister Iris just pushes whatever buttons she finds around the place, and random stuff starts happening lolol
Volume 8 (3 stars) I feel like the glimpse of Sho at the start was not needed at all.
Volume 9 (4 stars) Interested to see the continuation of the fight at the end.