Boo!
What are you doing?
Looks like the writing's coming along.
Yeah.
One more and I'll have 20.
I wonder what I'll think of next.
- Kihachi, I have a request. - Yes?
Would you lend me the Electrical Catalog?
Are you going to take it to war?
Huh? What?
Ouch.
Just in case I di...
Ah, never mind.
Kihachi,
when I come back from the war,
let's make everything in the catalog.
Yeah, it's a promise.
What's written in it?
Electricity's...
...far surpasses that of humans.
That's amazing.
It's a secret.
Seiroku...
Because I'm like this, I don't have my family's trust yet.
But I'll win their trust.
Enough to freely use Mizoe Firm's power!
I promise!
So let me help you, Seiroku.
Okay, Yosuke. We'll see the future together.
Yeah!
Let's make the 20th century the Age of Electricity.
SPARKS OF TOMORROW
CHAPTER THREE: THEIR DREAM
No! This can't be it!
Impossible!
This is a fake.
- Huh? - I'm telling you, this catalog is a fake.
Where's the real one?!
A fake? What are you talking about?
- This is the real catalog! - Don't lie!
Seiroku's brilliance should be in this catalog!
Seiroku said that with this catalog,
the 20th century would become the Age of Electricity!
Seiroku should have written important information in here!
This...
- This piece of crap! - Yosuke?
If only I had...
What's an "Electric Full Moon"?
Light bulbs go out as soon as the filament burns up.
They can't replace gas lamps, let alone create a full moon!
The next one and the next one too!
Every single one is just a childish fantasy!
It's just doodles!
This catalog was supposed to hold hope for us!
You're wrong.
This is something he and I...
There's no way something this worthless was Seiroku's dream!
Please stop!
Inago?
I...
- What are you doing? - I...
I believe in Kihachi!
I don't understand a word you're saying.
Kihachi has a talent for electricity!
He makes slide projectors and even managed to fly!
So what?
So this catalog is the real thing!
Kihachi is going to make the future, the Age of Electricity, a reality!
Enough of this.
If it's the real thing,
try making those doodles a reality yourself.
I have no need for that thing anymore.
You can throw it away.
How selfish!
And, my honey,
I won't tolerate today's behavior again.
I still need you.
What have you done, you brat?
- He hasn't done anything! - Be quiet!
We're already in trouble.
If this marriage doesn't go well, my daughters will be out on the streets!
Jinemon.
I will hand him over to the police.
Please, leave the rest to me.
What a day...
Get up.
You're letting me go?
Listen, how do you people even know my big brother Sei...
I mean, that guy?
You dared to kidnap the daughter of a sake brewery.
Don't make a scene. Just go.
What the hell?
It's not a fake.
It's not worthless.
It's not just doodles.
Kihachi Sakamoto! Are you home?
- So many! - A squashed fish...
Who are they?
Here's some tea.
This tea is delicious!
Oh, you can tell, little lady?
Take your time.
Who exactly are you?
You don't seem to be here for machine repairs.
I'm Suzu Harashima.
This is Kate Okura.
We're Inako Momokawa's classmates.
Inago's...
You two used a kite to fly yesterday!
You saw us?
We came to tell you something, since you were flying with Inako.
We asked Inako's older sister about this place.
Did something happen to Inago?
Inako was
hospitalized.
Hospitalized?
MIZOE PARK
That was wonderful, Yosuke.
I'm honored.
Yosuke, the next one's with me!
Dance with me, please!
I have prior arrangements.
I'll be waiting for you.
I can't stand the smell of face-whitening powder.
A meeting with the Railway Bureau, then a chat with the prefectural governor.
Goodness, not a moment to rest.
About your engagement...
The head of the family is delighted.
I simply required a connection
to a prestigious family so I could maintain my status.
For the sake of our promise,
until the time comes...
Are you sure we were correct to hand over the catalog to the boy?
I have no interest in random doodles.
This catalog has tremendous power.
The power to turn the 20th century into the Age of Electricity.
You wouldn't lie to me.
The real catalog must exist.
KYOTO KAMOGAWA HOSPITAL
So I've heard. Understood.
She can't be hospitalized for such a minor injury.
Come on, Inari!
Why did you climb up there?
Come down. Ouch!
Inago? Are you okay? Ina...
Kihachi! Are you all right?
Aren't you being hospitalized?
I only twisted my ankle,
but my father was really worried.
You're arranged to be married.
Of course he'd be worried before your wedding.
How do you two know about that?
- Your neighbors were all talking about it. - You don't want to?
My father made the decision.
I'm sorry.
I ended up hurting you.
No, please don't worry.
Anyway, I'm glad you got the Electrical Catalog back.
"Electrical Catalog"?
What is that?
Kihachi entrusted it to his brother.
It's his precious vision of electricity in the 20th century!
What's the future of electricity? Show me!
"Electric Full Moon."
"Electric lights will illuminate the night like a full moon."
"Everyone will walk the streets at night without worry."
"Electric Pond."
"It stores and carries electricity."
- "Get it easily from electricity stores--" - It really is worthless.
It's just doodles.
That pretty boy was right.
My bro...
He... would never take such childish doodles seriously.
It's useless.
- Huh? - Sorry I bothered you.
- I'm going home. - Kihachi!
Don't forget the Electrical Catalog.
Suzu, please stop Kihachi.
What now?
Kihachi!
The catalog smells like my mother!
Huh?
I can smell my mother's scent on the catalog.
Your mother?
Inako's mother...
She passed away.
But it smells like the sake my mother made when she was a brewer.
Please smell it.
Ouch.
I have no idea!
It's faint but unmistakable.
The smell of old sake soaked into the paper.
We need some ash.
That's ash?
Why do you have that?
My catalog!
- Ouch! - Just wait.
Let's trust Suzu.
What is going on?
Even the inside of the binding is full of ash.
I can see something.
No way.
It's my brother's handwriting.
How'd the ash show the letters?
It's a ninja trick.
Ninja?
Look at this. Here!
"To Kihachi."
There's no mistaking it!
Your brother must have written these words for you!
It must be all about electricity, right?
This is the real thing, filled with your older brother's thoughts.
So it wasn't useless, after all.
He...
- I won't be fooled! - Huh?
I can't trust something written by a guy who broke his promise!
What are you saying?
How can you still doubt your brother?
He might have written nonsense just to make fun of me!
Look at this!
"The filament is the moon princess"?
I don't get it!
Haven't I told you it's wrong to doubt people?
Believing everything is wrong too!
Don't fight in a place like this.
Anyway, there's no proof.
I don't know if he really believed in these doodles.
Then you should prove it!
There's no way I can prove that!
You can.
You have to make them!
The things written in here!
If you do that, you can prove that your brother took them seriously!
Make them?
That's right!
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY ELECTRICAL CATALOG
You're back. How's Inako...
What are you making this time?
An Electric Full Moon.
An Electric Full Moon?
Are these the lightbulbs your brother made?
Yeah.
I'll use these
and make a light that's brighter and lasts longer than gas or candles.
An "Electric Full Moon."
And with that, we'll confirm whether the catalog is real.
HORAI BUDDHIST ALTAR SHOP
Hello.
Oh, welcome.
Kihachi's in the back.
Okay, thanks.
Hello.
What are you doing, Yajiro?
Huh? Kihachi is upstairs.
Good.
But the filament is still a problem.
The "hilament"?
What's that?
It's you, Inago?
I thought you were a ghost.
Is your leg all better now?
I can't stay in the hospital forever just for a sprained ankle.
So, what's a "hilament"?
It's "filament."
It makes the bulb light up.
The most important part.
But it burns out too quickly, so it doesn't stay lit for long.
The branch manager said that too.
He wrote this in the catalog.
"The filament is the moon princess."
It must be a clue, but I don't understand.
Wasn't there a fairy tale like that?
Princess Kaguya.
The princess born from bamboo who returns to the moon.
Princess Kaguya... Bamboo?
Should we use bamboo for the filament?
- Did you figure it out? - Yeah!
Kihachi?
Just like always.
He never tells me everything.
He even hides things on the inside of pages.
I guess he wants me to figure out the rest on my own.
Please let me help you as well, Kihachi.
Why would you help me?
I want to help you believe in your brother.
Even you must want to believe in your brother!
I won't be fooled.
Sounds fun, so I'll help too.
Then I will too.
Kihachi, the kiln is finished.
What's next?
Yes.
Yes!
Then...
Huh? What the hell?
I'll help you.
Huh?
Why are you here?
Inako told us.
Yosuke and I both went to school in Shiga.
Seiroku was our classmate.
I knew Seiroku too.
So that's why you had the catalog.
Yes.
I heard.
Seiroku wrote something in the catalog.
Here.
This is Seiroku's...
I don't know if it's really his handwriting.
You're
skeptical, aren't you?
Do you believe it?
That's what I want to find out.
This is amazing!
It glowed until morning!
I won't be fooled.
What? You still doubt your brother?
Is this really the electric light he was aiming for?
Can't we make it brighter and last longer?
Should we carbonize the filament at a higher temperature
and improve the glass quality too?
I have an idea for the glass!
This glass workshop does business with our brewery.
They said we can use that small kiln.
Thank you very much.
Naeko has done a lot for us, so use it as much as you like.
Naeko?
My mother.
Yosuke, an invitation arrived from the daughter of the Momokawa family.
From my honey?
TO YOSUKE MIZOE
"The Electric Full Moon has been created."
"The catalog is not a fake," she says?
There's no way that can be true.
Impossible!
Those doodles can't be the real thing.
I couldn't sense any of his brilliance in that catalog!
I saw it with my own eyes.
I wouldn't overlook a trace of him!
That's right. This is just a bad prank.
What was I thinking?
- Let's go home, Izo! - Yes, sir.
But why do I get a bad feeling?
What are you plotting, sparky brat?!
An electric light?
- It's been glowing for hundreds of hours. - Hundreds?
Don't lie to me!
There's no filament that can glow for that long!
The filament is made from bamboo!
My big brother Seiroku
left us a clue in the 20th Century Electrical Catalog!
Bamboo? Seiroku did?
No, this can't be.
He and I were supposed to make this light together.
What good is this tiny speck of a light? The future he sees--
The full moon hasn't risen yet!
What are you planning to do?
Ah, so I was right! And now you plan to escape under the cover of darkness!
I knew it.
You think you created even one part of his dream?
You lied, didn't you? It was all a bluff!
Pathetic!
What is it?
The night is so bright.
This is amazing, Kihachi.
It really is a full moon.
I, too...
- Take a look! - Look at the flowers!
Heave-ho!
Aren't these long nights delightful?
Together
let's make the contents of this catalog a reality,
Kihachi.
Big Brother...
Seiroku and I were supposed to do it.
Yosuke, please get a hold of yourself!
Hey!
Are you my big brother's...
I
hate you!
Subtitle translation by: Daisy Savage