A new trailer for Kyoto Animation‘s Sparks of Tomorrow has been released. It’s an over two-minute trip into the anime’s steam-powered world, where male protagonist Kihachi Sakamoto finds himself with a previously lost, coveted catalog containing the secrets of electricity.
The trailer also reveals that the anime will begin on July 5 (JST), both for its TV broadcast and its Netflix streaming. The newly announced opening song “Eureka Eureka’ by Luna Goami is previewed as well.
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Other reveals include a new key visual, Ginger Root being the ending song artist, and some additional staff credits. Among the latter are background art director Mao Takayama (Uji ni wa Monogatari ga Aru), color designer Fuyuki Otsuka, and compositing director Hiroki Ueda (CITY The Animation).
Sparks of Tomorrow (20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku: Eureka Eureka) is based on a 2018 light novel written by Hiro Yuki and illustrated by Kazumi Ikeda (Clannad character designer). Netflix describes the anime, which will be part of Annecy 2026’s TV Films selection, as such:
Based on Hiro Yūki’s novel 20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku and realized in a bold, impressionistic new vision from Kyoto Animation, the series follows a boy and a girl who dream of a life beyond the haze. But after losses upend both of their lives, any hope for a brighter tomorrow feels achingly out of reach. The boy has grown cynical since his brother’s death shattered their shared vision of an “Age of Electricity.” The girl, devoted in her faith, has learned to keep both her own dreams and her grief for her late mother carefully hidden away. Drawn together by the mysterious 20th Century Electrical Catalog and its tantalizing glimpse of all they’ve longed for, the two set out to uncover its secrets. Staring down their pasts together, the two begin to clear a path toward the future they once thought was gone — and push their smoke-choked world to the brink of a blazing revolution.
The light novel is published under Kyoto Animation’s KA Esuma Bunko label/imprint. It received an honorable mention at the 8th Kyoto Animation Awards.
Production credits
• Director: Minoru Ota (CITY The Animation Episode 5 storyboard artist and director).
• Series composer: Tatsuhiko Urahata (Baki Hanma, the upcoming GATE Season 2)
• Character designer and chief animation supervisor: Kohei Okamura (Free!–the Final Stroke– the second volume co-chief animation supervisor)
• Setting design: Takaaki Suzuki (DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION)
• Music composer: Hitomi Koto (Shadow Labyrinth)
• Animation production: Kyoto Animation
Cast
• Yuma Uchida as Kihachi Sakamoto
• Sora Amamiya as Inako Momokawa
• Koki Uchiyama as Yosuke Mizoe
• Daisuke Ono as Seiroku Sakamoto
• Shunsuke Takeuchi as Kengo Kuga
• Minako Kotobuki as Noriko Momokawa
Sources: Netflix Anime YouTube channel, Sparks of Tomorrow anime website, @sparks_of_tmr
