Our first Saturday of the year will bridge past and future in more than a way! Keep reading and you'll find out why is that...
Inferno (インフェルノ) Fire Force| Version |  |  |  |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All | x3 (105) | x5 (177) | x5 (292) | x8 (491) |
Taiko PS4
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???Known in Japan as En'en no Shobotai (炎炎ノ消防隊, lit. 'Blazing Firefighting Corps'), this is a shonen manga from Soul Eater writer Atsushi Okubo (大久保篤) whose Anime series' first opening theme is about to become a Taiko-playable song in the PS4 game's next DC lot. It's a song that is going to be playable in the future... belonging to a series whose story is set in the past!
This Kodansha-serialized manga (since September 2015) has its setting rooted as the continuation of the human population who survived the 'Great Disaster', a calamity who engulfed the planet into scorching flames and made most of it inhabitable. Centuries after the incident, the Tokyo Empire has founded the Fire Force brigades, special units being tasked to contain spontaneous human combusting episodes which would lead to the birth of the so-called "Infernals", fire-crazed entities whose only aim is to spread blazing chaos under their reach. As years go by, human-combusion accidents might lead to individuals who mantain their humanity while acquiring flame-related abilities, which is the case for the series' main hero: Shinra Kusakabe, a young pyrokinetic user who joins the Fire Force in the year 198, fighting Infernal attacks as well as learning more about a mysterious doomsday cult who plots to reenact the Great Disaster to the world, once again.
As of December 2019, the Manga run counts enough chapters to fill out 21 tankobons, with the mangaka stating the personal will to end its story "maybe around the 30th one, but not after the 50th one". By the hands of the David Production Inc. studio, the story was brought to the silverscreen as an Anime from July 5th, 2019, with a 2nd season slated to be aired in 2020. With the USA branch of Kodansha and Funimation respectively licensing the mand and the Anime's English localization, En'en no Shokobai came to be officially known as Fire Force outside of Japan.
While there's an equally-titled Japanese song called Inferno by 9mm Parabellum Bullet, this Inferno song was instead created by Japanese rock band Mrs. GREEN APPLE, originally released as the unit's thrid single 13 days after the Fire Squad Anime's premiere, peaking 6th (downloaded songs) and 20th (streamed songs) at Billboard Japan' charts.
An upbeat base tempo with several handswitch-affine cluster/single note sections make for an average romp in the 8-star Oni Anime ballpark. Be sure not to let the speed get the best out of your hit speed, though!
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Today's clash between past and future has its roots in our Song of the Week management once again, as we realized we've released a duplicate song feature yet again... *sigh*
The feature in question is from last year, October 12th, and it has already updated with a replacement piece (link). Once again, my apologies for the slip-up. :-s
