I had high hopes for Fire Force, having the same creator as Soul Eater. Soul Eater had some of the best characters around, altho silly overall, I remember staying up way past bedtime when I was 12 to watch it when it came up on TV. Every character felt so alive and unique, in a silly way, but Fire Force fails to deliver the same quality of characters, they chose cliche, overused achetypes of characters and modified them a little bit to appeal to the public, and boy did they fail. They also opted for a very serious plot, death by fire, the main character having his beloved family slaughtered and blamed for the crime, his goal is to find the killer and prove his innocence, not a unique plot, but still, a mature plot and when you combine it with childish characters, they just don't go well together.
The animation is pretty good, I enjoyed the fight scenes a lot, but besides that, it was a pain to sit through, had to drop it after 10 episodes, sorry. Hopefully Atsushi Ōkubo will come to his senses.
