The production team behind the television anime adaptation of Hiro Yūki‘s novel Sparks of Tomorrow (20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku) released a pre-broadcast promotional video on Sunday, alongside a new key visual and the announcement of five additional voice cast members.
Newly Announced Cast
- Hiroshi Yanaka as Jinemon Momokawa, Inako’s father
- Mayumi Asano as Naeko Momokawa, Inako’s mother
- Daichi Endō as Bunshichi Yagura, Yajiro’s father and Kihachi’s uncle
- Ayahi Takagaki as Tome, a maid serving the Momokawa household
- Ayahi Takagaki as Inari, an ermine with a fondness for Inako
Previously Announced Main Cast
- Yūma Uchida — Kihachi Sakamoto
- Sora Amamiya — Inako Momokawa
- Kōki Uchiyama — Yosuke Mizoe
- Daisuke Ono — Seiroku Sakamoto
- Shunsuke Takeuchi — Kengo Kuga
- Minako Kotobuki — Noriko Momokawa
- Yō Taichi — Suzu Harashima
- Natsumi Kawaida — Kate Okura
- Kazuki Ura — Yajiro Yagura
- Daisuke Hirakawa — Izo Masubuchi
Staff
Minoru Ōta is directing the series in his debut as a director, having previously served 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. Tatsuhiko Urahata, known for his series composition work on Haganai, Hi Score Girl, and Saki Episode of Side A, is overseeing the scripts.
Kohei Okamura, who served as chief animation director on Free! The Final Stroke and key animator on Sound! Euphonium, is handling character design and chief animation direction. Takaaki Suzuki (Violet Evergarden, Strike Witches) is responsible for the worldview setting, and Hitomi Kotō is composing the score.
Luna Goami performs the opening theme “Eureka Evrika,” while Ginger Root performs the ending theme “Soarin’.”
Broadcast and Streaming
The anime premieres on July 5, airing on Tokyo MX at 11:00 p.m. and BS11 at 11:30 p.m., with additional broadcasts on ABC TV and TV Aichi. Netflix will stream the series exclusively worldwide every Sunday beginning July 5 at 11:00 p.m. JST.
A World Premiere Tour is planned with stops in Japan, the United Kingdom, Thailand, and North America. The North American premiere will take place at Anime Expo on July 3.
About the Source Novel
The original novel earned an honorable mention in the full-length novel category at the 8th Kyoto Animation Awards in May 2017 — the only work to receive any award that year. Kyoto Animation’s KA Esuma Bunko label published the novel in August 2018, with illustrations by Kazumi Ikeda and art and backgrounds by Momoka Nagatani. An anime adaptation was first announced by Kyoto Animation in July 2018.
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 Kyoto’s Fushimi district and the second daughter of a sake-brewing family. Prone to mistakes and constantly scolded by her father, she finds solace in her prayers at the local shrine. At Fushimi Inari shrine, she encounters Kihachi Sakamoto, a free-spirited young man who dismisses the gods and speaks boldly of an coming age of electricity.
When Inako’s father unilaterally arranges her marriage, Kihachi helps her confront her true desire to break free. Their only hope lies in tracking down a mysterious book called the “Electrical Catalog” — a childhood prediction book about electricity that Kihachi wrote, only for his older brother Seiroku to take it, leaving its whereabouts unknown. The two set off together on a search that takes them across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.
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