Fire Force Characters

A third-generation pyrokinetic who ignites his feet, using the flames to fly and to land kicks strong enough to destroy an Infernal's core. Twelve years before the story a fire took his mother and his baby brother; because he grins without meaning to when he is nervous, people blamed him and called him a devil, and he became known as Devil's Footprints. He joins Company 8 to become a hero and to find out what really happened that night, and he turns out to carry the Adolla Burst as the Fourth Pillar.

Shinra's rival from the training academy and his fellow rookie in Company 8, a third generation who heats his flames into plasma and forms a blade from a sword hilt he calls Excalibur. He believes he is a knight king, and the more completely he believes it, the stronger he becomes. His parents left him as a child after their small restaurant burned down, and he is hopeless at anything that needs careful thought, but his instincts in a fight are excellent. In the final season he takes on Dragon, the leader of the White-Clad's assassins.

The captain and founder of Company 8. A former firefighter with the Fire Defense Agency, he has no ignition ability and makes up for it with constant training, heavy equipment and a readiness to grapple with Infernals himself. He started the company with Takehisa Hinawa after watching another company choose which Infernals to deal with by how many points they were worth. He treats putting an Infernal to rest as taking a life, and expects his team to respect the families left behind.

Company 8's lieutenant, a stern former soldier who rarely changes expression and terrifies the rookies. A second generation, he works his flames through firearms, controlling the power, speed and path of every bullet he fires. In the army he watched his friend Tojo turn into an Infernal, and he still carries Tojo's gun. He brought Maki, who had served under him, into the company.

A second generation, formerly of the Tokyo Army and the daughter of General Oze. She cannot create fire but can control it at long range, putting out, absorbing or turning aside other people's flames, and she makes small fire sprites that power the Iron Owl weapons Vulcan built for her. Kind and a hopeless romantic, she loses her temper if anyone suggests she is unfeminine.

Company 8's Sister, a nun of the Holy Sol Temple who prays for each Infernal as it is put to rest and acts as the company's medic. She and Hibana were the only sisters to survive the fire at St. Raffles Convent, where they grew up. Gentle and devout, she has no ignition ability at the start of the story. Late in the series she learns that she is the Eighth Pillar and the doppelganger of Amaterasu, the First Pillar.

A Fire Soldier who covers herself in pink flames shaped like a cat's ears and twin tails, an ability she calls Nekomata. She served in Company 1 under Rekka Hoshimiya, whom she admired, until he used her to help him create Infernals; Shinra rescued her, and after a suspension she was moved to Company 8. Clumsy and quick to anger, she worries that she is weaker than her colleagues and works hard to catch up, unlocking a faster form of her power while training with Company 7's twins.

The captain of Company 7, which grew out of Asakusa's own firefighters and answers to neither the Emperor nor the Holy Sol Temple. He is both a second and a third generation, able to create flames and to control them, and is widely seen as the strongest Fire Soldier of all; Asakusa's townspeople adore him even though his fights flatten their houses. Short-tempered and offhand, he distrusts Company 8 at first but becomes their trainer and ally, and in the final season he comes to their rescue disguised as "Moonlight Mask".

The captain of Company 5 and a scientist backed by Haijima Industries. She grew up with Iris at St. Raffles Convent, and after the fire that killed the other sisters she lost her faith and turned her research on Infernals into a route to power. She begins as Company 8's enemy, holding Iris to lure them in, but after Shinra defeats her she becomes one of their firmest allies and falls for him.

A wanted criminal who keeps turning up to help Shinra while pursuing his own aims. Raised as an assassin in the Holy Sol's Shadow under the code name Five-Two, he lost his left eye in an Adolla Link and fled the church, determined to uncover what the Tokyo Empire is hiding, and he secretly works with Company 8's scientist Viktor Licht. When Company 8 are declared outlaws in the final season, he teaches them how to survive outside the law.

Shinra's younger brother, thought to have died as a baby in the fire, who was taken by the White-Clad and raised to command their Knights of the Ashen Flame. He is the Third Pillar, and with the Adolla Burst he draws away the heat that drives the universe's expansion, which brings the world around him almost to a standstill so that he seems to stop time. Cold and detached at first, he begins to remember his family after fighting Shinra, and in the final season he breaks with the cult to fight beside his brother.

The White-Clad's acting leader, who speaks for the Evangelist, and the Second Pillar. She wears a crown over her eyes and hears the collective unconscious of humanity, a ceaseless noise of people's darkest thoughts that has worn away her sanity. With electricity she can take over people's nerves and brains and use them as puppets. Her guardian, Charon, protects her as if she were his daughter.