Netflix began streaming a video message from director Minoru Ōta for the television anime adaptation of Hiro Yuki‘s novel Sparks of Tomorrow (20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku) on Tuesday.
World Premiere Tour
The anime is set for a world premiere tour with stops in Japan, the United Kingdom, Thailand, and North America. The North American premiere will take place at Anime Expo on July 3.
Cast
- Yūma Uchida as Kihachi Sakamoto
- Sora Amamiya as Inako Momokawa
- Kōki Uchiyama as Yosuke Mizoe
- Daisuke Ono as Seiroku Sakamoto
- Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kengo Kuga
- Minako Kotobuki as Noriko Momokawa
- Yō Taichi as Suzu Harashima
- Natsumi Kawaida as Kate Okura
- Kazuki Ura as Yajiro Yagura
- Daisuke Hirakawa as Izo Masubuchi
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Jinemon Momokawa
- Mayumi Asano as Naeko Momokawa
- Daichi Endō as Bunshichi Yagura
- Ayahi Takagaki as both Tome and Inari
Staff
This marks the feature directorial debut of Minoru Ōta, previously known as a key animator on Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions! and Liz and the Blue Bird, and as an episode director on CITY The Animation and Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid S. Other key staff include:
- Tatsuhiko Urahata (series scripts; Haganai, Hi Score Girl, Saki Episode of Side A)
- Kohei Okamura (chief animation director and character design; Free! The Final Stroke, Sound! Euphonium)
- Takaaki Suzuki (worldview setting; Violet Evergarden, Strike Witches)
- Hitomi Kotō (music composition)
Luna Goami performs the opening theme “Eureka Evrika,” while Ginger Root performs the ending theme “Soarin’.”
Background
Kyoto Animation first announced the anime adaptation in July 2018. The source novel earned an honorable mention in the full-length novel category at the 8th Kyoto Animation Awards in May 2017 — the sole award given out that year. Kyoto Animation’s KA Esuma Bunko imprint published the novel in August 2018, with illustrations by Kazumi Ikeda and art and backgrounds credited to Momoka Nagatani.
Story
Set in the summer of 1907 — the 40th year of the Meiji era — the story follows Inako Momokawa, a 15-year-old girl living in the Fushimi district of Kyoto. The second daughter of a sake-brewing family, Inako can never seem to do anything right and faces her father’s scolding daily. Her only solace is her faith and prayers to the gods.
While visiting Fushimi Inari Shrine one day, she encounters Kihachi Sakamoto, a free-spirited young man who dismisses the gods entirely and speaks boldly of an approaching age of electricity. When Inako’s father abruptly begins arranging her marriage without her input, she nearly loses all hope — until Kihachi helps her recognize her true desire to break free from her family.
The only way to stop the marriage is to find a mysterious book known as the “Electrical Catalog,” a childhood prediction book about electricity that Kihachi once wrote. His older brother Seiroku took the book, and its current whereabouts are unknown. Together, Inako and Kihachi set off on a search that takes them across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.
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