{"id":166245,"date":"2026-08-20T04:28:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=166245"},"modified":"2026-08-20T04:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:28:40","slug":"kyoto-animation-releases-animated-trailer-for-sogen-no-kagayaki-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/08\/20\/kyoto-animation-releases-animated-trailer-for-sogen-no-kagayaki-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kyoto Animation Releases Animated Trailer for Sogen no Kagayaki Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/08\/14\/sparks-of-tomorrow-teases-upcoming-events-with-new-trailer\/\"><strong>Kyoto Animation<\/strong><\/a> has unveiled an animated trailer for the <em>Sogen no Kagayaki<\/em> novel, which is published under the studio&#8217;s KA Esuma Bunko label.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Uno Nakata<\/strong> storyboarded the unit directed the commercial, which depicts a tender interaction between main characters Tao Constable and Benjamin Lawrence. Nakata is also one of the two key animators, the other being animation director <strong>Tomomi Sato<\/strong>.<\/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=\"KA\u30a8\u30b9\u30de\u6587\u5eab\u300e\u8349\u539f\u306e\u8f1d\u304d\u300f\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u30fc\u30b7\u30e7\u30f3CM\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RL4P26k1DOc?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: 16px\">Other staff include color designer <strong>Kana Miyata<\/strong> (<em>CITY The Animation<\/em>, <em>Beyond the Boundary<\/em>), background art director<strong> Mayu Harashima<\/strong>, and compositing director <strong>Kazuki Ueno<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><em>Sogen no Kagayaki<\/em> was written by <strong>Reiko Yoshida<\/strong> (<em>A Silent Voice<\/em> and <i>L\u2019etoile de Paris en Fleur<\/i> scriptwriter) and illustrated by <strong>Yukiko Horiguchi<\/strong> (<em>Demons&#8217; Crest<\/em> and<em> Kokoro Connect<\/em>, \u00a0<em>K-On!\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Lucky Star <\/em>character designer). According to the synopsis, the premise sees 13-year-old Tao entering a public school after his mother&#8217;s remarriage, due to their inability to get used to their new family only to feel estranged even there. Tao begins to secretly grow a Colchicum bulb in a corner of the school, which leads to an encounter with a person with platinum blue eyes.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The novel went on sale on November 22, 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> Kyoto Animation YouTube channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyoto Animation has unveiled an animated trailer for the Sogen no Kagayaki novel, which is published under the studio&#8217;s KA Esuma Bunko label.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":166251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,410],"class_list":["post-166245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-kyoto-animation"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Sogen-no-Kagayaki-animated-commercial-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-Hfn","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166245"}],"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=166245"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166253,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166245\/revisions\/166253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}