Sonny Boy 2021
- Animation, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- 24 min episodes
- 1 season
- 12 episodes
- Ended
- TV-14
Nothing matters in this world, but once in a while, cool things do happen.
On August 16, midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation, middle school third-year student Nagara, transfer student Nozomi, classmates Mizuho, Asakaze and their entire class are suddenly transported from their tranquil lives to a school adrift in an alternate dimension. They must survive with the super powers that have awakened within them.
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Contemplative, contemporary, open-ended and formally daring.
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- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- Lutiston TMDB · Feb 20224/10
I'm not going to pretend I understood the meaning the author wanted to convey with this show. Sonny Boy is the story of a group of students that get lost in an alternate universe, this world doesn't work like our own. The time is messy, the rules not always apply and cats are more like Jeff Bezos. Characters are a mixed bag; you get the interesting ones like Nozomi and you get the boring ones like Nagara. What bothered me the most is time in this world doesn't work like you would expect, in some cases thousands of years transpire and our character's behaviors stay the same, as if they didn't change from past experiences. The story is a mess, one episode they spend like 12 minutes talking about invisible monkeys that play baseball, after that episode the monkeys are never mentioned again. The fight between copies of the same person divided the people, they've been fighting for centuries. One copy kills the other and then it's never mentioned again and our characters are as if nothing ever happened. The animation sometimes is clean and other times it looks unreal, janky and cheap. The sound is good in most parts, there is no intro song and the ending song is likeable. Characters have
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Cast
- Aoi IchikawaNagara
- Aoi YuukiMizuho
- Saori OnishiNozomi
- Chiaki KobayashiAsakaze
- Hiroki GotoRajdhani
- Ami NaitoHoshi
- Kenjiro TsudaYamabiko
- Yuka OzakiKosetsu
- Yoji UedaCap
- Hana SatoPony
Crew
- Akane FushiharaDirector of Photography
- Kashiko KimuraEditor
- Motoki MukaichiProducer
- Ayuri TaguchiProducer
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Seasons
- Season 112 eps · 2021
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