![]() ![]() ![]() Whether as a village or as a villager, the ability to work determines one’s worth. And presiding over their safety from the Fiends are the Fire Hunters, the ones whose sickles and dogs kill Fiends for their golden blood to create a new source of light and heat. The world is thusly one that, as sequestered as a village might want to be, must rely on others for money, bartering, and liquid fire. A single village can only have access to so many resources, so it became necessary to create a commodity that can bring commerce of some kind (muku paper, or a paper to communicate with the gods, being the most-referenced in-show). ![]() ![]() Within the pods of villages that exist on the outskirts of the capital city and beyond, they had to learn to defend themselves against the possibility of the fire that could kill them, but they cannot survive purely on their own. Both in terms of the larger social structure and character relationships, there are constant layers to be unpacked and chewed on. Where is the sense of grand adventure? Instead, what we see and experience is an intense interiority, which allows for the series to develop some fantastic subtextual worldbuilding. The idea of a sprawling world for our characters to explore and meet so many new faces (along with an equally-sprawling soundtrack) as they fight against a relatively clear-cut evil is traded away. It is this cloistering quality that makes *The Fire Hunter* a hard sell, both as a seasonal anime and as a general fantasy story. So, there’s only one option that seems sensible: cloister yourself from everyone else, and keep outside contact to a minimum. The sea of black, red, and orange bathe the screen as people scream for the pain to stop, as though they were mere kindling that allows the fire to spread at an alarming rate. on showing just how terrible it really is. Coming into proximity of it would lead to the body instantly burning, and if it should happen to occur within a group of many people…well, it doesn’t take much imagination to think about what could happen. And it is easy to understand way in the past, a terrible catastrophe struck humankind and made it so that humanity could no longer harness fire. Whether that something in particular is a Fiend that is running wild, or even your fellow man, it’s always present and looming. To reside in *The Fire Hunter’s* world is to be perpetually afraid of something. He conducts secret research on a special fire stone found by his late father, kickstarting a race against time between the country's leaders and those trying to save mankind from its ultimate demise. Koushi learns some troubling facts related to the country's ruling royal family. After the hunter's dog, Kanata, heals from his own injury, the girl's family sends her to the capital in order to return Kanata and the hunter's fire sickle to his relatives.Įlsewhere, the fire hunter's son, Koushi, and his sister are adopted by a wealthy family. Touko, a young village girl, is saved from a forest monster by a fire hunter who perishes during his heroic action. Those tasked with collecting this precious resource are called fire hunters. However, a new source of energy prevents society from complete collapse: a stone-shaped material used to produce light and steam lies within the bodies of monsters that infest numerous forests. Repeated wars have changed human biology, and people now spontaneously combust when they get close to natural flame. Human civilization no longer revolves around fire, but is instead now driven by fear of it. ![]()
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