"Fireworks" is a very entertaining anime that will put a smile on its audience through its simple but captivating romance and the surrealistic brush of the titular question.

| Apr 13, 2020

Akiyuki Shinbo's film (responsible for the anime of 'Yu Yu Hakusho', among others) works, especially on an aesthetic level, and if you forget about its irrelevance in other aspects. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jul 22, 2019

Some parts of the story worked and other parts felt very muddled and confusing.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Feb 26, 2019

There are funny moments and great glimpses of what this film could've been, but Fireworks leaves a lot on the cutting room floor.

| Jan 5, 2019

'Fireworks' features brilliant animation but suffers from weak storytelling. It also features out of touch attitudes towards women.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 12, 2018

Shinbo has a real talent for painting a pretty picture, but the end result of his work can be summed up with one word: flat.

| Oct 27, 2018

This is probably one of the worst anime films I've seen that got a theatrical release in America.

| Original Score: D+ | Jul 13, 2018

Anime teen romance has vibrant visuals but tired storyline.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2018

With a premise adapted from a live-action television film and boasting fantastic animation, Fireworks looked to be promising. While it is many things bright and beautiful, it misses the mark.

| Jul 10, 2018

It's a treat to see a film about young love where the young lovers aren't wise beyond their years; instead, they're prone to making stupid mistakes out of inexperience and perfectly understandable fear.

| Jul 4, 2018

A strange little movie that attempts the tricky feat of combining comedy, drama, sci-fi and romance, but it doesn't get those individual elements right so it never coheres as a whole.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 4, 2018

Fireworks is very much told from the male point of view, and Nazuna seldom rises above "free-spirited object of desire."

| Jul 3, 2018

The unrealized potential makes the rote line style and stagnant backdrops seem all the blander.

| Jul 3, 2018

Akiyuki Shinbo and Nobuyuki Takeuchi's time-travel device mostly just exists to complicate what is, at heart, a trite and sexist love story.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 28, 2018

All in all, the co-directors [Akiyuki Shimbo y Nobuyuki Takeuchi] do not let these heterogeneous elements deprive their film of any harmony... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2018

It's closer to sensory candy than an enriching experience... [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 25, 2018

Very often, in fantasy, the balance that a story establishes with its day-to-day elements is key to the result. In a way, Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom? understands this... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2018

The nuances of teenage male friendships and loyalties are sensitively handled: What do you do when you and your bestie both like the same girl?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 29, 2017

Temporal loops and magic balls make for a strange, colourful combination.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2017

From top to bottom, Fireworks is far too complicated, and frustratingly trite.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 15, 2017