This is literally Promare

BurntOkita said:
Like, the synopsis is basically the same, hell even the OP is called Inferno- literally the same name as the song Sawano made for Promare. What fuckery is this?

deg said:
its morally bad that Trigger stole the basic plot of Fire Force no doubt but im sure there will be enough difference overall as the story progresses

HaarWyvern said:


Hum I can' think about trigger stole a plot of a pretty bad manga like Fire Force.. It's weird.

Luna_Estlin said:
well Fire Force Creator did accuse Atsushi Ohkubo of stealing his work, https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2019-06-13/fire-force-creator-atsushi-ohkubo-alludes-to-his-work-being-stolen/.147773

alpha_shadow said:

Release dates
Fire Force - Late 2015
Promare - 2019

Gee I wonder, since the manga is so bad according to you, why did the people at Trigger think it was worth copying it shamelessly. I get that Trigger have been creatively bankrupt for the last few years, but blatantly copying Fire Force is a shameful display. There was nothing else like Fire Force out there in the manga/anime market until Trigger decided to steal the concept, because Fire Force is brilliant. The mangaka Atsushi Ohkubo even commented on his work being stolen.

Fire Force manga creator Atsushi Ohkubo left a comment in the 28th issue of Kodansha's Weekly Shōnen Magazine 2019, stating: "I'm going to stop talking about the contents of my manga before they get serialized, even to people I know. I don't know where my work could be stolen from."


Atsushi Ohkubo is the Fire Force creator. You got your names mixed up.

BurntOkita said:



Just found that Promare had been in production since the end of KlK, so 2013/2014. Who is copying who?

BurntOkita said:



Just found that Promare had been in production since the end of KlK, so 2013/2014. Who is copying who?

Old_School_Akira said:
No. It’s a stolen idea. Trigger needs to be sued.

BurntOkita said:
Like, the synopsis is basically the same, hell even the OP is called Inferno- literally the same name as the song Sawano made for Promare. What fuckery is this?
This seems heavily like the Overwatch/Battleborn situation.

HaarWyvern said:


Hum I can' think about trigger stole a plot of a pretty bad manga like Fire Force.. It's weird.

Gythia said:
People saying that Promare was in development in 2013-2014 is dumb. Promare's existence was announced in July 2, 2017 at AX and they only told us about the developments later, which means Atsushi Ohkubo couldn't have known about it.

Not only that, a mamgaka doesn't start going into writing a story blind (unless your name is Hiro Mashima), so he must've planned this out before then (most likely after Soul Eater NOT, as someone else mentioned)

Kougeru said:
that would be like suing someone for making an isekai anime. unless the actual main plot is exactly the same

Fahim654 said:
bad manga? yeah right 🙄

HaarWyvern said:


I find it very bad, and in my 200 friends on MAL (I know all of them) my best note is 7/10
I've many 2 or 3. When I discuss about it I've never seen anyone say something good about it.

7,4 on myanimelist for a mainstream shonen it's pretty average too.
Characters, story and development were cliché.. I'm sorry there is nothing good about it for me, or only the style of Ohkubo.

Zimmy64 said:
People do know that people can independently develop the same idea, right? Both Leibniz and Newton independently developed calculus. I'm willing to believe it's a weird coincidence rather than impose bad motives on individuals. Either that or both Promare and Fire Force ripped off the 1998 Sega Saturn Game Burning Rangers.

Fahim654 said:
look it may not be an amazing shounen like One Piece, Dr. Stone, Promised Neverland etc. but i've never seen anything about this series being very bad. like you i also have friends and some of them are popular japanese otakus who praised this series for it's sense of humor and great fighting directions and i've never heard anyone said it's very bad or bad in general. and cliche is something you can see in every shounen nowadays. like my hero, black clover etc etc. even one piece has some cliche moments and developments.so it doesn't matter anymore. btw you're talking about mal score? i didn't know people this days take mal scores seriously. you want to know why it's so low on the score? cuz it has some over the top ecchi scenes and for that reason only i've seen many people (retards) lowering their scores in mal (it's nothing new though). well i don't know how much you really read and what made you think that this series is very bad, but it's your own taste and i respect that. but.... talking about mal score and mal friends!? pfft sorry but i can't take you seriously anymore.

HaarWyvern said:


It's you who talk to me without explanations "yeah right" and you say that you can't take me seriously ? Wtf bro'.
And you quote Dr Stone but it was pretty annoying too. (I'm not specially fan of OP&Neverland but I admit their quality, One Piece has lots of fault tho).
Dr Stone have a pretty good setting but that's all, annoying character and the story go anywhere.
For Fire Force it's even worse for me. Setting, characters, story, staging all was average or bad. Dialogs too.
I can also say "I can't take you seriously" if you say something that "there is cliche everywhere".
First I talk about "bad" cliche and then It's not because "everyone do it" that it was good.
When I say cliche it was obviously about bad use of them.

But I can also admit something, I've juste watch the first episode like ten minutes ago and I found it a lot better than the manga..
So i prefer Dr Stone in manga but I've found Fire Force better (by far) than Stone on anime.


For ecchi I don't think it's something like that, people don't change a note for a little bit of ecchi. Lots of, ok, not for some random boobs shot on volume 1, 4 and 9 of a manga.
I do not like ecchi tho, but if the manga still good (Tenjou Tenge) i could like it. The problem is when the manga exist for the ecchi and not for the plot ! (80% of the ecchi :( )
Otherwise there is no problem with ecchi.. when it's not placed with stupidity.

Fahim654 said:
looks like i triggered you real hard. well cool your head and have a good day sir/mam :v

HaarWyvern said:


I'm not triggered, I thought you were here to discuss about it, but apparently not. I really thought you were intelligent, this answer is pretty disappointing.

fancyjasper said:
After Trigger's recent anime announcement i wonder if they really are just copying. You could pass it off the first time as being a coincidence, but now their new show looks like a Beastars rip off. Trigger making two anime in a row that heavily resemble two other series is more than just a coincidence imo.

xWhitastic said:
Alright listen, I don't know if it was a stealing situation or a coincidence but let me just say that I watched Promare at AX and it's nothing like Fire Force (I've only seen the first two episodes of the anime). Yes I agree, the concept of humans spontaneously combusting and what not is practically equivalent, but the way the shows diverge from that concept is massive. I guess you could say they're like two different Isekai shows. We know there's millions of Isekai shows but each is different, here you could say they're two Firefighter shows but different. I might just be making excuses for Promare here but I just want to say that I enjoyed Promare 10,000,000 times more than I'm enjoying Fire Force right now. So even if they might have stolen the idea the execution of the concept was way better in Promare (IMO), however if Studio Trigger actually did steal the idea I wouldn't know how to feel about this cuz I like Promare way more than Fire Force...