included · Causal Loop

Fireworks

Nobuyuki Takeuchi · 90 minutes

Moshimo, Japan. The annual fireworks festival is about to take place and a group of schoolboys, arguing over whether they are round or flat when viewed from different angles, set out to find it out.

Drama, Romance, Fantasy, Animation

Before you choose

What kind of time-travel story is this?

Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.

Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Causal Loop.

Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)

Repeated rewinds through the marble allow alternate outcomes that organize the young characters' adventure.

A magical marble repeatedly rewinds events to permit different outcomes; repeated intervals take priority over the artifact’s supernatural origin.

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An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.

Scale, legacy & time

The scores

Titan61.0

Weighted archive score

Time-travel significance9/10

high confidence

Quality consensus5.8/10

Aggregate source ratings

How Titan works

Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.

Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]

This film: 71.99 base × 84.8% weighting.

Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.

The evidence

Research & sources

Research notes may reveal plot details.

These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.

Cast: Suzu Hirose, Masaki Suda, Mamoru Miyano, Shintaro Asanuma, Toshiyuki Toyonaga

Edition by edition

Releases & formats

4 cataloged editions. Narrow by format, then check region, audio and subtitles. Missing specifications mean unknown, not absent.

These listings do not establish a best edition. Use the specifications to shortlist compatible releases, then follow the source to verify details and availability.

Blu-ray