English Dub Review: Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You “The Fireworks Ten Years Later”

Overview:

The year is 2030. Mizuho hasn’t heard from Kizuki in years. But at the fireworks festival she bumps into…?

Our Take:

I can’t remember the last time I was less excited for a second season of an anime. Okay, I take that back. Rent-a-Girlfriend is way worse than this one. But the fact that it’s even in the conversation tells you all you need to know. I don’t want to be all negative, so I will say that in the past timeline, it does have me interested because Mizuho and Kizuki seem to be making some progress, but there’s a looming problem concerning that, too.

When you have a show taking place simultaneously in the past and future, it can bring things down or lift them. For me, at least, in this case, it brings it down. We know that any progress Mizuho and Kizuki have isn’t going to last because in the future they haven’t talked for three years. It makes it difficult to get excited about anything happening in the past because we know that over ten years later, they’re still hung up on each other with no progress. I love romance shows, but this one has not won me over yet, but maybe this second season will change that.