![]() It was aired in 1993 as part of a series of stories that explored the idea of "what if.?". Fireworks is based on a short film called Fireworks, Should We See If From the Side or Bottom written by Shunji Iwai who also wrote the anime. TGWLTT is based on a wider body of work comprising live-action film, TV drama etc. We have a teen characters, romance, the recklessness of youth and someone granted the ability to repeat and change an event by an item. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (TGWLTT) is a good comparison for Fireworks. It is an interesting question - if you could go back, what event would you change in your life? In anime, perhaps the most obvious example of this is the Girl Who Leapt Through Time directed by Mamoru Hosoda. The idea of repeating a day (like Groundhog Day), of a what if this happened? ( Sliding Doors) or having the ability to go back in time and change events is quite a familiar premise. As you expect things don't go quite according to plan and the artefact Nazuna was looking over at the pool appears to bestow the power to go back in time so you can repeat events. Keeping away from here Norimichi and Yusuke enter into a swimming race where it seems the prize is to attend the upcoming festival with Nazuna at 17:00. She is lazing by the pool contemplating a kind of marble she picked up. Later that afternoon whilst on pool cleaning duty Norimichi and Yusuke encounter Nazuna. ![]() If they are flat, when viewed from the side you should be able to tell so that night that is just what they plan to do. High-school friends Norimichi and Yusuke muse with their other school mates whether fireworks in the sky are round or flat. The town of Moshimo is about to have its summer fireworks display. If he is able to change the decisions he makes how will the events play out and will it ultimately work out for the best? Norimichi is able to relive and alter key events with his friend Yusuke and schoolmate Nazuna. In Fireworks this idea is once again explored during high-school summer holidays. ![]() If you were able to go back and change the course of events in your life would you? It's a genre that has been explored from live-action films like Groundhog Day, The Man With Rain in His Shoe s to the animated instalment of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. ![]()
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