How would you rate episode 5 ofSparks of Tomorrow ? © Hiro Yuki, Kyoto Animation/Sparks of Tomorrow Production CommitteeSparks of TomorrowNice try, but shoehorning a baby-queer romance into your story isn't enough to make me forgive the shortcomings in this episode's story structure and conceit. Why the team at Kyoto Animation working on Sparks of Tomorrow chose to pivot away from the central characters of this episode to the largely unimportant to this episode is beyond me, but this misplaced focus goes on to define much of this episode. Sparks of Tomorrow doesn't recognize what actually makes its characters interesting or trust its own premise to be appealing, and is rapidly becoming a slog to watch week after week. Sparks of Tomorrow is currently streaming on Netflix.