News

Kyoto Animation's Sparks of Tomorrow TV Anime to Debut in 2026

Kyoto Animation announced during its "KyoAni no Sekai-ten" ("Meet the Worlds of KyoAni") event on Saturday that its planned anime adaptation of Hiro Yūki's 20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku (20th Century Electricity Catalog) novel will be a television anime that will air in 2026. The anime will be titled 20 Seiki Denki Mokuroku Eureka Evrika (romanization not confirmed).

The below video features the English title Sparks of Tomorrow for the anime, and also has English subtitles.

The anime will star:

Yūma Uchida as Kihachi Sakamoto, a suspicious boy who loves to tinker with machines and invent things. He once swore to create an age of electricity with his older brother, and depicted this dream in the "20th Century Electrical Catalog" book. He gave up on his dreams after the book and his brother both disappeared.

Sora Amamiya as Inako Momokawa, the second daughter of the long-established Momokawa Sake Brewery in Fushimi, Kyoto. She is a clumsy girl who lacks self-confidence, but who excels at trusting others. Her secret dream is to become the chief sake brewer like her deceased mother.

Minoru Ōta (key animator for Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!, Liz and the Blue Bird; episode director for CITY The Animation, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid S) is directing the anime as his first directorial project. Tatsuhiko Urahata (Haganai, Hi Score Girl, Saki Episode of Side A) is overseeing the series scripts. Kohei Okamura (Free! The Final Stroke chief animation director, Sound! Euphonium key animator) is the chief animation director and character designer. Takaaki Suzuki (Violet Evergarden, Strike Witches) is in charge of the worldview setting, and Hitomi Kotō is composing the music.

Kyoto Animation had announced the anime adaptation in July 2018.

The novel won an honorable mention in the full-length novel category at the 8th Kyoto Animation Awards in May 2017. The entry was the only one to win any of the awards available that year. Kyoto Animation's KA Esuma Bunko label published the novel in August 2018. Kazumi Ikeda illustrated the novel, and Momoka Nagatani is credited with art and background.

The novel takes place in the summer of 1907, the 40th year of the Meiji era. 15-year-old Inako Momokawa lives in the Fushimi area of Kyoto, and is the second daughter of a sake brewer. Nothing she does ever comes out right, and she receives a scolding from her father every day. Her only relief is the trust she places in her prayers to the gods. One day while at Fushimi Inari shrine, she meets a freewheeling young man named Kihachi Sakamoto. He rejects the gods, and boasts of the incoming age of electricity.

The topic of marriage suddenly comes up in Inako's household. Her father is one-sidedly making all the decisions for her, and Inako is about to give up hope. It is then that Kihachi draws out Inako's true feelings of wanting to run away from her family. The only way to stop her marriage is to find an unusual book called the "Electrical Catalog." The book is a prediction book about electricity that Kihachi wrote when he was a child, but his older brother Seiroku took the book, and its current whereabouts are unknown. Inako and Kihachi together go in search of the book across Kyoto and Shiga prefectures.

Kyoto Animation has opened an English website for the anime.

Source: Kyoto Animation 2026 New Work Announcement Stage livestream