I still have a lot of work to do.”Īs previously stated, the Fire Force manga’s ending came out on February 22, 2022. On January 25, 2022, he tweeted, “The final chapter has just been submitted.
On January 12, 2022, Ohkubo announced on his Twitter account that he would be drawing Fire Force’s final chapter next week. At the time, he only had two chapters left to draw and he was expecting the final chapter to be contained in about two volumes, which should be Volume 34.
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On December 31, 2021, Ohkubo revealed during a Dark Souls live stream that he was planning on finishing the manga series in a few chapters. At the time Ohkubo gave the exclusive interview, he considered Volume 16 to be “past the midpoint” of the story. It is flexible, but my older manga stories also lead to the ending I had in mind from the beginning.”Ĭonsidering that the Soul Eater manga ended with Volume 25, Fire Force ending with more than 30 volumes isn’t too short. “As I’m creating I’ll come up with different ideas to make the series interesting and fun. “I did have an ending in mind from the very beginning of the creative process, but it was not anything too set in stone,” Ohkubo explained. At the same time, this stopping point was flexible, and “it could change,” but there will be “no more than 50” volumes. In the July 2019 Fire Force interview with Monsters and Critics, Ohkubo said he was originally aiming for Volume 30 containing the ending of the entire story. But the overall manga series is still longer than Ohkubo had planned out in advance. For example, the Demon Slayer manga’s ending story arc was more than a third of the chapter count.īy contrast, the final story arc of Fire Force is going to be relatively short. The final story arc(s) for a manga series can sometimes stretch out for quite a while. Fire Force Volume 33 should come out in late Winter 2022.
Serialized weekly since 2015 in Weekly Shonen Magazine, the Fire Force manga is up to Volume 32 as of December 17, 2021. Pic credit: Atsushi Ohkubo It wasn’t always the plan to have the Enen no Shouboutai manga ending in 2022 The creator has already surpassed his original target for the final chapter.
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It’s possible this announcement could be manga-related, but it could also be the Fire Force Season 3 anime TV series or another spin-off. Regardless, the magazine issue also stated that there will be an “important announcement” soon concerning the Fire Force series. Or, it’s possible the magazine is simply leaving an open door for the manga creator in case he ever chooses to return. Ohkubo has only talked about being retired on Twitter, but perhaps something caused him to change his mind in the last month after finishing drawing the final chapter. Keep in mind this is a standard phrase used whenever a manga finishes its story. A note from the editors states that manga fans should “look forward to Atsushi Ohkubo’s next work” in contradiction to what Ohkubo previously said. But outside of work, things rarely go as planned! Like the PS5 thing lol”īut the final page of Fire Force 304 may have changed things completely.
My family background is in finance and legal work, so I guess I wasn’t the type of person to be a manga artist after I tried it. I never let anything cool happen like the story going in an unexpected direction and messing up my schedule. “I’ve been thinking for a long time that if I make a schedule for this number of chapters to be finished on this day, everything will be finished exactly as I planned. But this time I have no plans to draw a new story, so I really don’t feel like I have a job,” he tweeted. “At the end of Soul Eater, I already had a news story for Fire Force in the magazine, so I didn’t feel like I was done with the final chapter. In early 2022, the Fire Force creator also discussed how finishing the story made him feel unemployed. He’s asking that fans join him “until the very end” of the story. In the author’s notes section of Fire Force Volume 23, Ohkubo hinted back in May 2020 that the manga’s story is in its “final stage” but he also claimed he was planning on retiring from his manga career after finishing the Fire Force manga.