Episode
Fire Force: The Battle Begins
Overview
While jogging, Shinra inadvertently disturbs Iris’s purification rite, and sees that she is troubled. When Iris later turns up missing, the other members of Company 8 rally to Company 5’s compound, to which Iris had secretly slipped away.
Details
- Series
- Fire Force
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 2019-08-10
- Runtime
- 24 min
Episode context
The Battle Begins is Episode 5 in Season 1 of Fire Force. It aired on 2019-08-10. The runtime is 24 min.
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Episode 4: The Hero and the Princess
A call mistakenly comes in to Company 8 to rescue a dog out of a tree, to which Shinra and Arthur respond. However, when an Infernal suddenly appears at the district courthouse, the two must play catch-up to join the rest of the company.
Episode 6: The Spark of Promise
Shinra confronts Hibana in an attempt to rescue Iris, and must once again deal with her ability to make his body shut down. The story of Hibana and Iris’ youth as orphans, as well as Hibana’s rise to prominence, is revealed.
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