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Fire Force Season 3 Part 2 Episode 22 – Quick Summary
In Fire Force Season 3 part 2 episode 22, “Hero Resurrected,” Fairy could not believe that Dragon fell by Arthur’s hand. But Fairy wasn’t done. Yuuichirou Kurono now faced off against his Doppelgänger, who was as deranged as Yuuichirou Kurono was strong. Even worse, Benimaru Shinmon face off against his own Doppelgänger – and he’s the strongest one there is. Can our heroes overcome their Doppelgängers? And just where has Shinra gotten to?
Note: This post may include spoilers, so be cautious.
Favorite Quote from Fire Force Season 3 Part 2 Episode 22
This is not Shou’s impressed face. Capture from the Crunchyroll stream.
Shou has really grown on me. The more we learned about him, the closer he got to Shinra’s side, the more I liked him. In this episode, he delivered my favorite quote with quiet and complete confidence. And he could not have unleashed this insulted on a more deserving person.
I disliked Fairy as much as I liked Shou. So when Shou attacked Fairy, but Fairy used his own time manipulation ability, I felt bummed. Was Fairy really going to best Shou? Or at least keep him occupied so he couldn’t help his brother?
Fairy even launched into a prideful description of how his gravity ability allowed him to warp time. Fairy even taunted Shou, calling Shou a one-trick pony whose trick Fairy had learned.
That, however, was not what Shou was thinking.
Instead, he said (16:07), “I was just thinking, ‘Is that all?’… All you’ve done is manage to step onto the same playing field.”
After which he stabbed Fairy through the heart. Could not possibly have happened to a more deserving target.
Favorite Moment from Fire Force Season 3 Part 2 Episode 22
Strangely, it fell to a corporate boss to deliver the insight. Capture from the Crunchyroll stream.
Setup: Islands of Competence Highlight the Darkness
Episode 20 took on the hive/herd mentality in social media. It did so with artistic grace and scalpel-like accuracy. The whole situation with Tamaki even forced me to re-evauate my own attitude.
Do you know how many times art has forced me to self reflect? Or admit that I was wrong? Not often. Decreasingly often, one might say. The coarseness of the conversation is unlikely to contain any insights worth reflecting on.
I read the website Ars Technica for technical news. Its writers are serious about their craft; they are knowledgeable about their fields. The readership often leaves insightful comments that actually shed light on issues. Except, not always.
The Doppelgänger was little more than a caricature. Capture from the Crunchyroll stream.
Even on Ars Technica, you occasionally find a poor soul who reads the headline, then regurgitates some party line. You often see supporters of that guy who hawks Grok gush about the man’s greatness, inspired by some Ars Technica headline.
I say “poor soul” because most of the Ars Technica readership isn’t that shallow. They don’t want to understand by slogan. They do want to read deeper than the headline. It’s one of the reasons I keep up with Ars Technica. It’s also one of the most obvious ways it differs from social media.
Delivery: If the Shoe Fits…
Yuuichirou Kurono’s boss Ooguro knows this. And he drove it home in my favorite moment. Kurono had been fighting his Doppelgänger, and he’d become increasingly annoyed. Not with how effectively the Doppelgänger fought. But by how cliche it was.
It acted, as Kurono put it, as a shallow caricature of a psychotic killer written by a third-rate writer. It irked him; it pissed him off. And in my favorite moment, he might as well have been skewering the mass-bullying, shallow-thinking hordes that grab a headline, twist it into a shiv, and attach people with it.
Kurono didn’t seem to feel terribly threatened. Capture from the Crunchyroll stream.
Speaking of how people must see him based on how his Doppelgänger acted, Kurono complained to Ooguro, who said (04:33), “That’s how it goes. If you’re not close to someone, they’ll sloppily categorize you and then feel like they understand you. That’s all.”
In those three short sentences, Ooguro judged a huge swath of behavior on social media, and he found it lacking. I have to say, I think it nailed it. The method by which social media amplifies bad behavior is among the greatest challenges facing us. At least, it’s a challenge if we keep the status quo. And there’s no guarantee we’re all going to agree to that forever.
What did you think of Benimaru’s fight? What were your favorite moments? I’d love to hear what you think in the comments!
Fire Force Season 3 Part 2 Episode 22: Other Posts
Other Anime Sites
- Reddit: Enen no Shouboutai: San no Shou • Fire Force Season 3 – Episode 22 discussion
- But Why Tho? REVIEW: ‘Fire Force’ Season 3 Episode 22 — “Hero Resurrected”
This Site (Crow’s World of Anime!)
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 1: Indomitable Resolve
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 2: Prisoner
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 3: Incarnation of Flame
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 4: Golden Secret
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 5: Chance Meeting with an Arch-Enemy
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 6: Beyond Prayer’s End
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 7: Sleeping Truth
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 8: Holy Mother of Darkness / The Knight King’s Great Adventure
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 9: Holy Sword, Resurrected
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 10: Advent
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 11: The Great Kaiju Battlefront
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 12: The Madness of the Distant Past
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 13: Unaware
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 14: With the Sun At His Back
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 15: Birth
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 16: Savior
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 17: At the Center of the World
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 18: Incantation of Destruction
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 19: Those Who Fight Back
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 20: Where Hope Is
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 21: Dragon and Knight Surge Toward the Heavens
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 22: Hero Resurrected
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 23: Despair Saintess
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 24: Answer
- Fire Force Season 3 Episode 25: Hero’s Tale
