Sonny Boy

TheRogueNob Sep 20, 2021

4

It's pretty rare I get almost to the end of show just to drop it. And there is a good reason sonny boy is boring plain and simple. Not every show needs to be action/shounen/ thriller and a lot of shows do a great job doing just that but not this one. Constant rambling that gets the cast no where long potinless monologue cliches that mean nothing and goes nowhere. Still give it 3 episodes if you curious and if you feel even slightly bored drop it. Sonny boys doesn't get more exciting. Regardless of animation or some decent characters you can't excuse a boring story. I don't think it's worth your time there are so much better shows to watch 

doux Nov 23, 2021

7

Anime Review #20 - Sonny Boy (some spoilers ahead!) I'm giving this show an amibiguous 3.5 stars because I'm not really sure how i feel about it lol. I understand that the show isn't meant to "make sense" and that it's all very symoblic and surreal, but it was a whirlwind trying to decipher what each episode was "about". To watch this show, you kind of just have to go in understanding that you can't really predict what is going to happen. A lot of things go unanswered and are up to our interpretation, but i like having closure lol. The twinky kid with the star on his cheek was so interesting in the first few episodes but then he just stopped being in the episodes lol. He said, "bye guys we're gonna go fly away in a giant cube and disappear in this odd dimensional space forever!" That was odd to me. I kind of wanted to see their perspective but instead we just saw Nagara and Mizuho with some Asakaze and Ms. Aki side plot. (Ms. Booby lady teacher is still an enigma to me i don't undesrtand if she was really the teacher or another student dressed as her since they said it wasn't the real teacher that they knew???) Also the whole War and God thing confused me. I liked Mizuho and her grandma's cats a lot though. It's just like me to love the girl with long dark hair and bangs character. It's an added bonus that she like's cats and she's got a little attitude. I also loved the dog!!!!!!! Yamabiko! he was hot ngl...and his voice was hot.... anyway. I also liked Rajdhani but why did they have to make him a caricature of an Indian boy... he was cute though, i liked his random parrot and how he eventually became a forest and looked after the animals that couldn't travel out of the Drift. I also liked Nozomi in the beginning but then she kind of stopped being a main character half way through (at least to me) it felt like she was drifting and then ofc she dies, but i had a feeling that would be inevitable as she saw the light and was fated to die before graduation. I wonder if the other Nozomi in the world that they went back to will still die... hmmm. It was an odd show, it intrigued me so I watched all the episodes. There was only 12 episodes so it wasn't a huge commitment lol. I had a feeling that I wasn't going to get a satisfying ending about halfway through watching though. I haven't watched a whole anime through in a while so this was nice. I guess I'd reccomend it only if you had nothing else to watch and just wanted to watch something random. It kind of reminded me of Fooly Cooly and Promised Neverland. The soundtrack was also kind of a banger at times. I guess that's all I want to say about it. I tried to Google some things for more clarity, but it's all up to your own interpretation and it isn't meant to have an explained ending. :-) ok bye!!

ThatAnimeSnob Jan 28, 2022

5

During its airing Sonny boy was hyped up as an anime unlike anything else out there. Because it’s an isekai and there was a great shortage on those, am I right? But this one was different, you see, because it wasn’t a power fantasy about otakus forming harems in a videogame. For some reason being so different to the point it becomes completely alien to the reasons people are watching something is supposed to be a good thing. No, the actual reason they were hyping it was for thinking it’s deep and mature, and even then it was an overestimation of its presentation. The themes and meanings of the show were fairly easy to understand; it’s just that no one was infodumping them on the viewer. The average anime fan is used to having the characters going Captain Obvious all the time and explaining everything they do. The moment he finds a show where they don’t do that he instantly thinks it’s deep, when in reality the only difference is he can’t be playing some gatcha game on his smartphone while hearing the plot of the anime he is supposed to be watching by letting the characters constantly explaining everything. Nonetheless, because of that Sonny boy was niche compared to what most people are use to in anime and ended up being overlooked or dropped by the majority of people who just wanted a good action adventure. This one was closer to a surreal character drama that lacked stuff like action, adventure, or harems in a videogame. It also lacked a compelling cast, because all the major characters were typical school students going through typical first world problems, like getting a job or paying taxes. The gimmick was they were going through all that while exploring alternative dimensions. This means the bizarre setting ended up overshadowing the normal characters, which is not a positive thing when the story is supposed to be character-centric. As if that wasn’t enough of an issue, the anime is presenting itself as a mysterybait where you are constantly made to wonder how superpowers powers work or what are the rules of the weird world they end up in. You are wasting so much time on trying to figure out what is going on, for something that won’t matter by the next episode since the setting is constantly changing, the message is fairly simple, and the cast is bland. As I “Captain Obvioused” already, the issue is there isn’t much focus given to the characters who are supposed to be dealing with social issues, and they feel like flower symbolisms for whatever moral message the episode is going for, instead of being interesting on their own. None of them are compelling, you are just looking at the situations they are going through, you are thinking about superpowers and weird social symbolisms, but you never give a damn about THEM experiencing ALL THAT. One could say they are easy to understand and thus easy to relate with, since in effect they become self inserts. The counterpoint to that is how you just don’t care if they get over their issues. Other similar shows like Fooli Cooli, Abenobashi and Tatami Galaxy were also surreal and also had average people going through social issues, but the character chemistry and the comedy in them were superb. The cast of Sonny Boy has absolutely no charm. What you will mostly remember will be the artwork and the directing. It was very artistic with attention to its scene composition. Too bad it ends up being art for the sake of art, since as I “Captain Obvioused” already, it isn’t deep and doesn’t have interesting characters. Thus all the pretty colors go to waste and you end up dropping the show after a couple of episodes in favor of some generic isekai that is fun to watch.