{"id":147201,"date":"2026-02-13T03:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=147201"},"modified":"2026-08-03T09:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T16:29:39","slug":"kyoto-animations-sparks-of-tomorrow-reveals-more-cast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/02\/13\/kyoto-animations-sparks-of-tomorrow-reveals-more-cast\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Animation&#8217;s Sparks of Tomorrow Reveals More Cast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">More cast details for the new Kyoto Animation TV anime <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/01\/26\/kyoanis-sparks-of-tomorrow-will-stream-on-netflix-from-july\/\"><em>Sparks of Tomorrow<\/em><\/a> have been revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">One of the names joining the main duo, <strong>Yuma Uchida<\/strong> (playing Kihachi Sakamoto) and<strong>&nbsp;Sora Amamiya<\/strong> (Inako Momokawa), is <strong>Koki Uchiyama<\/strong>. Uchiyama plays Yosuke Mizoe, an engineer who is engaged with Inako as part of his plan to find a book called the &#8220;Electricity Catalog.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TV\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u4e8c\u5341\u4e16\u7d00\u96fb\u6c23\u76ee\u9332-\u30e6\u30fc\u30ec\u30ab\u30fb\u30a8\u30f4\u30ea\u30ab-\u300f\u30ad\u30e3\u30e9\u30af\u30bf\u30fc\u89e3\u7981\u30e0\u30fc\u30d3\u30fc\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mptA8pwAVE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Other cast announcements include 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class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-next swiper-button-next swiper-button-white\" role=\"button\"><\/a><a aria-label=\"Pause Slideshow\" class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_button-pause\" role=\"button\"><\/a><div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-slideshow_pagination swiper-pagination swiper-pagination-white\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2025\/10\/24\/kyoto-animations-sparks-of-tomorrow-anime-to-premiere-in-2026\/\"><em>Sparks of Tomorrow<\/em><\/a> (<em>20 Seik<span style=\"font-size: 16px\">i Denki Mokuroku:<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">\u00a0<em>Eureka Evrika<\/em>) i<\/span>s based on a 2018 book written by<strong>\u00a0Hiro Yuki<\/strong>\u00a0and illustrated by\u00a0<strong>Kazumi Ikeda<\/strong>\u00a0(<i>Clannad<\/i> character designer). The adventure tale, set in an alternate steampunk Kyoto in the Meiji era, will premiere on Netflix in July.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"intro01 font-LB js-trigger is-active\">\u00a0<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The book is published under KyoAni\u2019s KA Esuma Bunko label. It received an honorable mention at the 8th Kyoto Animation Awards.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Staff<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Director:<strong> Minoru Ota<\/strong> (<em>CITY The Animation<\/em> Episode 5 storyboard artist and director).<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Series composer:&nbsp;<strong>Tatsuhiko Urahata<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Baki Hanma<\/em>, the upcoming&nbsp;<em>GATE<\/em>&nbsp;Season 2)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Character designer and chief animation supervisor:&nbsp;<strong>Kohei Okamura<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Free!\u2013the Final Stroke\u2013 the second volume&nbsp;<\/em>co-chief animation supervisor)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Setting design:&nbsp;<strong>Takaaki Suzuki<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>DEAD DEAD DEMONS DEDEDEDE DESTRUCTION<\/em>)<\/span><br><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">\u2022 Music composer:<strong>&nbsp;Hitomi Koto<\/strong>&nbsp;(<em>Shadow Labyrinth<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Kyoto Animation YouTube channel, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/denkimokuroku\"><span class=\"css-1jxf684 r-bcqeeo r-1ttztb7 r-qvutc0 r-1tl8opc\">@denkimokuroku<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More cast details for the new Kyoto Animation TV anime Sparks of Tomorrow have been revealed. One of the names joining the main duo, Yuma Uchida (playing Kihachi Sakamoto) and&nbsp;Sora Amamiya (Inako Momokawa), is Koki Uchiyama. Uchiyama plays Yosuke Mizoe, an engineer who is engaged with Inako as part of his plan to find a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":147208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,1625,410,180,448,12035],"class_list":["post-147201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-anime-adaptation","tag-kyoto-animation","tag-light-novel","tag-netflix"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Sparks-of-Tomorrow-Yosuke-Mizoe-1-e1770980066310.jpg?fit=1080%2C606&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-Cid","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164837,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147201\/revisions\/164837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}