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Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?

Shunji Iwai, Hitoshi One

Translation by Stephen Kohler

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Fireworks, Should We See It from the Side or the Bottom?

© Shunji Iwai, Hitoshi One 2017

© 2017 TOHO CO., LTD. / Aniplex Inc. / SHAFT inc. / KADOKAWA CORPORATION / TOY’S FACTORY INC. / East Japan Marketing & Communications, Inc. / Lawson HMV Entertainment, Inc. / LINE Corporation

First published in Japan in 2017 by KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo.

English translation rights arranged with KADOKAWA CORPORATION, Tokyo through TUTTLE-MORI AGENCY, INC., Tokyo.

English translation © 2018 by Yen Press, LLC

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

ISBNs: 978-1-9753-5326-1 (hardcover)

978-1-9753-8221-6 (ebook)

E3-20180719-JV-PC