Kyoto Animation has a particular way of making
any historical period feel intimate. Sparks of Tomorrow takes
that to the summer of 1907, in the middle of the Meiji era, with a fifteen-year-old
girl caught between arranged marriages and a boy who speaks passionately to her
about the future of electricity. The new trailer for the anime arrived
confirming the premiere for July 5, 2026 on Netflix worldwide,
along with a new visual and five additional names for the cast.
The trailer broadens the look at the story
of Inako Momokawa and Kihachi Sakamoto,
reinforcing the tone of a series built around the tension between family
expectations and the desire to decide one's own destiny. The opening "Eureka
Evrika" is performed by Luna Goami, while the ending
"Soarin'" is performed by Ginger Root.
The Production Team
Minoru Ota is directed in his first project as a
director within Kyoto Animation, with Tatsuhiko Urahata supervising
the scripts and Kohei Okamura in charge of character design
and chief animation direction. The music is composed by Hitomi Koto.
About Sparks of Tomorrow
Sparks of Tomorrow (20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku) is a novel by Hiro
Yuki with illustrations by Kazumi Ikeda that won an
honorable mention at the Kyoto Animation Awards in May 2017,
being the only work to receive recognition that year. It was published by Kyoto
Animation's KA Esuma Bunko label in August 2018, and the anime
adaptation was announced that same year. The story takes place in the summer of
1907, in the Fushimi neighborhood of Kyoto. Inako, the second
daughter of a sake maker, feels that nothing she does goes well and lives under
the shadow of her father's expectations. His life changes when at the Fushimi
Inari shrine he meets Kihachi, a young man who rejects the gods and
speaks enthusiastically of electricity as the future of humanity. When the theme
of arranged marriage appears in their home, Inako discovers in Kihachi someone
who helps her find her own voice, and together they set out on a quest through
Kyoto and Shiga Prefecture in search of a rare book that could change
everything.
