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Fire Force TV Anime Casts Taiten Kusunoki as Leonard Burns
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The official website for the television anime of Atsushi Ohkubo's Fire Force (En En no Shōbōtai) manga announced on Tuesday that Taiten Kusunoki will play Leonard Burns, the captain of the elite Company 1. He is a third generation pyrokinetic with a secret power in the patch over his right eye.
The anime stars:
Gakuto Kajiwara (Black Clover's Asta) as the protagonist Shinra Kusakabe
Yūsuke Kobayashi as Arthur Boyle, a new recruit in Shinra's company. Arthur has not gotten along with Shinra ever since their time together in training school, and he calls himself the "Knight King."
M.A.O as Iris, a nun assigned to Shinra's company to pray and offer requiems.
Saeko Kamijō as Maki Oze, her first regular role in a television anime. First Class Fire Soldier Maki Oze is a second generation pyrokinetic and a military veteran skilled at close combat. She may look cool and aloof but she is a romantic at heart.
Kenichi Suzumura as Takehisa Hinawa, the lieutenant of Shinra's company. Hinawa is a second generation pyrokinetic and a steely, serious military veteran. He can manipulate flames, mainly by controlling the explosive power of firearms. His strict training is feared by rookies. He established the company with Ōbi.
Kazuya Nakai as Akitaru Ōbi, the captain of Shinra's company. A former regular firefighter, he uses his well-trained body as a weapon despite his lack of special powers. He looks after his company members like a big brother. He is obsessed with weight training.
Kenjirō Tsuda as Joker, an enigmatic man who knows Shinra's past. He mysteriously appears and confronts Shinra's company.
Daisuke Sakaguchi as Victor Licht, a genius researcher at Haijima Industries. His field is the applied science of combustion, studying human combustion in particular. He is apparently linked to Joker, and his motives are shrouded in mystery.
Aoi Yūki as Kotatsu Tamaki, a rookie Second Class Fire Soldier assigned to Company 1. She has a "Lucky Lecher Lure" condition that puts her in unfortunately obscene situations.
Kodansha Comics publishes the manga in English, and it describes the story:
Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting team: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out. The team is about to get a very unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous "devil's footprints" (and destroying his shoes in the process). Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?
Yuki Yase (Mekaku City Actors, Hidamari Sketch × Honeycomb) is directing the anime at david production (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Cells at Work!). Yamato Haishima is in charge of the series scripts, and Hideyuki Morioka (Kizumonogatari, Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei) is designing the characters.
Funimation will stream the television anime on its FunimationNow streaming service this year.
Ohkubo (Soul Eater) launched the series in Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine in September 2015. Kodansha published the manga's 15th volume on November 16. Kodansha Comics shipped the 13th volume in English on December 25.
Sources: Fire Force anime's website, Comic Natalie
