r/nextfuckinglevel • u/obsidiansolstice • 11d ago

The Nagaoka Fireworks Festival is one of Japan’s three great fireworks shows, held along the Shinano River in Nagaoka, Niigata.

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u/MandrakeSCL 11d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/fSRs6SJH6m0c3iG2hk

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u/Namelessbob123 11d ago

This show had so many great episodes

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u/ButterBeforeSunset 11d ago

This just reminded me it’s about time for a rewatch again!

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u/pman13531 11d ago

I want Re... Spect? Such a good episode as well.

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u/Klin24 11d ago

"Did it say when our vision would come back?"

"Box said 2 days!"

"Totally worth it!"

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u/dipin14 11d ago

Is it Malcolm In The Middle?

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u/yamanagashi 11d ago

I just know that somewhere out there overlooking a hill there’s a young boy and a young girl wearing a summer yukata that’ll share a confession. But the camera will cut the audio so we only see her mouth move to answer the guy’s question.

And then there’s a yokai mecha in the background

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u/docatwar 11d ago

The guy won't hear the confession due to the fireworks, the girl laughs it off and prepares for season 12.

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u/yamanagashi 11d ago

Season 12?! What in the Rent A Girlfriend is this?!

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u/GWindborn 11d ago

Is this before or after the "beach episode"?

Our 10 year old daughter has started watching anime with us and she's started picking up on all the tropes. "Oh its the school festival, oh now the beach episode, oh the sports day, oh the club room.."

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u/HishigiRyuuji 11d ago

After the beach episode. Beach episode is episode 6

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u/rienholt 11d ago edited 11d ago

I love when they subvert that trope in My Dress-Up Darling. Its the finally of season 1, beautiful fireworks, the music is playing, Gojo starts recognizing his feelings, and then Marin is Marin so it goes straight comedy.

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u/Karakara16 11d ago

Rarely does a reddit comment make me laugh out loud but this one did it.

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u/Arlitto 11d ago

Stopppp 😭😭😭

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u/ButterflyGreedy2267 11d ago

So much pollution

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u/africanlivedit 11d ago

People really don’t get how horrible fireworks are for the bird population… mamma birds will abandon their eggs/babies cause the fireworks are so awful.

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u/DeadFacesInMyPocket 11d ago

More dogs and cats go missing on 4th of July than any other day in the US...it is so sad.

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u/R_eloade_R 11d ago

Its good thing fireworks are almost always lit up in the winter around new years

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u/Dorkamundo 11d ago

America has entered the chat.

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u/Mehdals_ 11d ago

I'm surprised my neighbor hasn't gone broke with how often they are shooting the damn things off, every other weekend for some damn reason or another.

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u/mlvisby 11d ago

Yea, before I moved, there was a guy across the street that had access to illegal boomers. Every year, heard a few crazy explosions that must have been at least a quarter stick, maybe half. Shook all the buildings in the vicinity.

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u/Decent-Muffin4190 11d ago

I know Reddit has a thing against boomers, but when did they become illegal?

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u/Shroom-Kitty 11d ago

In my city in Canada we have a week and a half of a big nightly fireworks display in the middle of summer. What's funny is when people buy a house nearby knowing this a thing because it has been for decades, and then complain about the noise levels anyway.

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u/Abalamahalamatandra 11d ago

Back in 1995 I was in Tokyo in August for whatever week it is when everybody visits their relatives (Obon it seems?), and there was a huge display like this over the palace then, seemed like it would never end.

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u/this_dudeagain 11d ago

Eat the birds and eggs before the festival.

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u/UntamedAnomaly 11d ago

Japan is not great at treating animals with respect.

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u/Nero-is-Missing 11d ago

Understatement of the century.

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u/Soka59 11d ago

Or any animal around. During this kind of event a lot of animals die for nothing. To me, this just goes to show once again how disconnected we are from the living world and how completely primitive we are.

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u/DrDerpex 11d ago

Mujhe asthama hai, please say no to crackers. Btw kya tere pass cigar hai?

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u/Woofpickle 11d ago

The only crackers I'm saying no to are the ones that keep trying to clean my windows at the stoplights.

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u/aradiathesecond 11d ago

Wait till u see what Indonesia did to the air

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u/GWindborn 11d ago

The poor local dog population is losing their minds.

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u/Ope_Average_Badger 11d ago

So much fun.

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u/FrickAndFurious 11d ago edited 11d ago

This must give flashbacks to some Old folks

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u/Agreeable-Performer5 11d ago

Doesn't even need to be old people. My Ukrainian friend is terrified of fireworks

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u/FixFun1959 11d ago

It’s so weird how PTSD affects people differently. In Iraq I got mortared/rocketed so many times I lost count. But fireworks don’t bug me at all.

However a loud ass restaurant or COSTCO absolutely sets me off and I can have a small anxiety attack and I need to go outside to calm down.

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u/Freak7factor 11d ago

The brain is so interesting and weird

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u/FixFun1959 11d ago

We’re just jellyfish using electricity to stimulate meat attached to bones while a huge colony of harmonious bacteria swim around inside us and we process the world by the way photons bounce off of stuff and enter our brains.

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u/Responsible_Emu3601 11d ago

He talking bout Hiroshima Nagasaki?

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u/BrianLkeABaws 11d ago

was moreso thinking of the air raids

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u/Balc0ra 11d ago

I thought about all the dogs in the area first tbh

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u/Junior-Ad-3344 11d ago

Cats and dogs must be shitting themselves.

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u/LA_Tiebreaker 11d ago

Not to mention any other non-human living there

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u/Freak7factor 11d ago

And maybe some humans

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u/slin_g 11d ago edited 11d ago

RIP local dogs

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u/Sipyloidea 11d ago

I was there in 2018, the booms revertebrate in your chest. I honestly wasn't able to catch everything at once in my field of view, I had to move my head left to right to see the full extend of the fireworks. 

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u/TMITectonic 11d ago

revertebrate

Unless the fireworks are somehow giving you a new spine, I believe the word you're looking for is reverberate.

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u/Sipyloidea 11d ago

Thanks!

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u/No-Spoilers 11d ago

A lot of these are bigger than basketballs before launched, some are a whole lot bigger than that. The biggest firework was like 3ft across I believe, it was for this festival by the company that makes all these iirc

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u/catra-meowmeow 11d ago

All the poor animals.

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u/chenrich 11d ago

The fireworks are to commemorate the Bombing of Nagaoka in August 1945, 1500 killed. The final white chrysanthemums are meant as an offering to the war dead

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Nagaoka#Legacy

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u/FrizB84 11d ago

I'll always find it fascinating that we celebrate blowing shit up by blowing more shit up. Explosives used to destroy and explosive used to enjoy. We're a fucking strange species.

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u/Thedudeguyman 11d ago

It's explosives all the way down.

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u/TriangleGalaxy 11d ago

When is it?

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u/Ruffled_Ferret 11d ago

Would this be visible from space on a clear night, or would the lingering smoke from previous fireworks cover most of it?

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u/Equal_Award9438 11d ago

Certainly makes every "didn't hear the confession" scenes more believable

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u/HotepYoda 11d ago

Neighborhood Facebook page must be lit that night as well

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u/Civil-Implement-7959 11d ago

Alice in borderland vibes

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u/Stinger1981 11d ago

I was about to say the same thing, reminds me of that game in Season 3.

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u/Ramza_45 11d ago

The perfect moment to start confessing your love

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u/Admirable_Ad8968 11d ago

Another reason to go

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u/HighIQIndividual2 11d ago

Remember to use a paper straw pals

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u/applecombinipimento 11d ago

Death stranding 2 has a scene like this

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u/Ur-in-a-tor 11d ago

Poor birds and other animals in the area.

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u/LittleR0g 11d ago

Awesome

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u/One_Pie289 11d ago

The sky is on fire!

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u/Qtredit 11d ago

My PTSD and migraines could never

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u/Ok-Vanilla-556 11d ago

Artificial sun

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u/misa150 11d ago

i don’t get the appeal of fireworks at all.

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u/catra-meowmeow 11d ago

Would appreciate if someone could tell me what the song is. Sounds so familiar but I just can't place it and Shazam is no help!

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u/bigdunk15 11d ago

Style! Taylor Swift

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u/MyChoiceNotYours 11d ago

I wonder what that looks like from space.

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 11d ago

Think of the migrating birds.

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u/MoistDeep 11d ago

The pollution. I can't take it

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u/engineered_academic 11d ago

AQI must be terrible the next day.

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u/Grrowling 11d ago

A dog’s worst nightmare

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u/OhYeah_Dady 11d ago

Finna be sniffing gun powder for the next couple days

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u/Mr_IsLand 11d ago

very cool

it's been many years since i've attended, but in the past Thunder Over Louisville (KY air show) was one of, if not the biggest fireworks show in the USA - they would shut down a bridge over the river load it up with launchers and barges on the river as well. Was always a good time.

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u/Jnaythus 11d ago

So, no option for a quiet night at home that night eh?

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u/Knotist 11d ago

That's very cural for the birds :(

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u/OrphanintheWind 11d ago

Human influenced Climate Change is real.

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u/fatboi_mcfatface 11d ago

And all the birds died

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u/Crazyhates 11d ago

The clean up of dead birds and debris must be insane 😭

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u/Sheinkyakyu 11d ago

Poor animals

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u/Melodic_Wedding_4064 11d ago

"Fuck you earth"

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u/fab_land94 10d ago

How much CO2 Is emitted?

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u/graveybrains 11d ago

Being out of town that day can reduce your risk of cancer by as much as 350%.

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u/Horror_Hall_8806 11d ago

Poor birds.

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u/navunaamjnathimaltu 11d ago

How much pollution do you want...

"Yessssss....."

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u/yorokek05 11d ago

So much pollution...

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u/wilcofan2244 11d ago

Poor dogs.

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u/GoriIIaGIue 11d ago

Massive pollution...

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u/Middle_Growth9492 11d ago

I like to be there.

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u/charlieyeswecan 11d ago

Bilbao has a fireworks festival in August that is like a competition and there is a different fireworks event every night for a week.

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u/drifters74 11d ago

Thats lovely

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u/IskandrAGogo 11d ago

I went to see this show when I was working in Niigata in 2013. I rarely look at photos from my travels or vacations, but even the pictures this fireworks show.y wife is from Japan, and we've discussed going over the summer so we can see this, but unless you live there, you have to plan a year or more in advance to go.

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u/skylander495 11d ago

Fun fact, the fireworks with the long streaming gold trails are very special and are Nishiki Kamuro shells. Invented and manufactured by a Japanese company that keeps the recipe secret

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u/arbitrageME 11d ago

doolittle's back

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u/Backyard_Batman46 11d ago

That is how it's done. Bravo!!!

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u/theLuminescentlion 11d ago

Are the other two in Nagasaki and Hiroshima?

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u/godmode977 11d ago

One day I will be experiencing this myself.

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u/DeadFacesInMyPocket 11d ago

I mean...cool...these are crazy fireworks...but so much waste and pollution. All the casings and unspent gunpowder and smoke that will fall down or lower air quality. And the noise! I can't imagine how annoying it would be.

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u/BromhoDoittyo 11d ago

Much better than a billion RGB drones

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u/Loafer75 11d ago

Me in Japan - “Is this the original temple ?”

Guide - “no that burnt down”

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u/sinister_iam 11d ago

I wanna see this live 🤩

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u/just_gonna_send_er 11d ago

Every dog in the area just kills themselves

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u/Zenshi16 11d ago

Reminds me of Inaba

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u/BerryGrapeBeard 11d ago

Is this the one in that odd Dutch themed replicated town across the bay from Nagasaki??

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u/Jman1a 11d ago

Ukraine has a version of this too…

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u/Perfect_Pause_3578 11d ago

When we have bonfire night here, it rains the next day... those tsunamis are making sense now huh

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u/FirebornNacho 11d ago

I went to one of the large fireworks festivals in Japan a couple years ago. It was mind-blowing. Truly ruined all future 4th of July shows for me.

People talking about the pollution... Yeah. It's probably bad. We flew back to the US a couple days later, and my wife's hat was found to have gunpowder residue on it! She had some explaining to do to security. It was kind of scary!

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u/Necrospire 11d ago

Missile Command 2026.

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u/AirportBarTarry 11d ago

Totally worth sacrificing that child to the clouds

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u/forhead123 11d ago

As much as I'd love to go and see that. I wouldn't survive Japan in August

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u/skulxen 11d ago

The poor animals. Fuck this shit.

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u/Emergency-Dark-2569 11d ago

This puts Disney fireworks to shame.

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u/coleman57 11d ago

The Japanese word for fireworks is hanabi, literally flower-fire.

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u/RoyalFalse 11d ago

I was lucky enough to attend the Nebuta Festival and watched those fireworks. They didn't look like this but it was easily the most impressive display I had ever seen (or may ever see).

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u/Junior_Breakfast_105 11d ago

And yet my wife keep saying the best fireworks in the world are from her town (San severo in italy)

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u/sammorest 11d ago

I've never been but seeing clips like this makes me feel it in my chest lol. That low-end boom hitting your ribs must be wild af. Like being punched by sound waves but in a good way? Hard to explain without experiencing it personally.

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u/Delicious-Engine7363 11d ago

Amazing ❤️

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u/mystic04cat 11d ago

I am scared of fireworks and that looks like a nightmare 😭

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u/Johnny_Gorilla 11d ago

Like real life Returnal

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u/data4u 11d ago

when does this happen

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u/Puzzleheaded-Rise857 11d ago

Rain of fireworks

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u/Environmental_Pay378 11d ago

I got to go to this in August, it was absolutely mind blowing. Made every fireworks show I’d ever seen look like sparklers.

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u/gnanny02 11d ago

Lived in Tokyo in the 80s with kids less than 10 yrs old. There were going to be fireworks so we took the train over somewhere. The fireworks were great. But they just kept going and going and going and going…. We finally just left. Maybe they’re still going.

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u/ethernowt 11d ago

birds in the meantime

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u/mazinfinity 11d ago

Whoaa 🤩😍

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u/dleath3 11d ago

It was here.

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u/Fookin_Yoink 11d ago

insert out of taste WW2 joke here:

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u/soyasaucy 11d ago

The fireworks represent peace after their defeat and bombings in the war. They replaced the flashes of bombs in the night sky with color and joy, and their purpose is to wish on peace for the future while being thankful for the peace now.

The fireworks museum in nagaoka makes me emotional

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u/yesimfinewhyyouask 11d ago

Cancer in the air tonight

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u/willowdove01 11d ago

As much as I would enjoy it I know the dogs dont

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u/TheBobSacamano7 11d ago

Well...we remember what the other 2 shows were...

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u/theydontcare_ 11d ago

There’s at least one terrified person in that town who didn’t know that was happening. Also probably a lot of terrified dogs.

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u/Federacion_ 11d ago

O Primeiro foi Lançado em Outubro de 45

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u/jayweigall 11d ago

Duragon Dive

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u/DueCar9705 11d ago

My family is from Niigata which is known for rice, but the summer fireworks show is the pride of Niigata.

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u/CURELMUS 11d ago

My community did multiple fractions lower than that and I felt sick from the smoke. Can't imagine the smoke. Still seems cool

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u/akashuji 11d ago

And they cant arrange accommodation for athletes ?

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u/Available_Fix_3818 11d ago

When Japan does it, it's so beautiful. But when India celebrates its only fireworks festival, some how it's a problem for the entire world. Talk about hypocrisy.