"Is it about hope or despair?"
A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They suspect the cause to be the young age of one of the members and try to convince the high school girl to quit.
Honoka Murakami
Minehiro Kinomoto
Shinobu Tsuji
Kanji Tsuda
Kazuya Ito
Makoto Yasawa
Nobu Morimoto
Yuki Tayama
A group of four decides to commit suicide using gigantic fireworks. But every time the fireworks explode, they find themselves back in time before they carried out the plan. They suspect the cause to be the young age of one of the members and try to convince the high school girl to quit.
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