SoniAni: Super Sonico The Animation

Super Sonico is a clutzy, adorable, and well-endowed 18-year old girl. She's a complete sucker for anything cute, especially stray cats, all of which she giddily adopts. However, though Sonico should be enjoying a carefree and simple lifestyle as a young college student, her life is really anything but easy: she must balance being a professional model, working part-time at her grandmother's restaurant, and practicing guitar and performing concerts with her friends Suzu Fujimi and Fuuri Watanuki in their band, First Astronomical Velocity—all while attending college. SoniAni: Super Sonico the Animation follows Sonico as she faces daunting challenges in her search for her place in the world, even when her days are brimming with love and happiness.

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Super Sonico Main

Yamamoto, Ayano Japanese

Fujimi, Suzu Main

Gotou, Mai Japanese

Watanuki, Fuuri Main

Ozaki, Mami Japanese

Kitamura Supporting

Takeuchi, Ryouta Japanese

Leila Supporting

Inoue, Kikuko Japanese

Kinomoto, Sayaka Supporting

Toyoguchi, Megumi Japanese

Tomano, Kyouko Supporting

Itou, Shizuka Japanese

Satsurikuin, Ouka Supporting

Kanemoto, Hisako Japanese

Joujouji, Kabuko Supporting

Tanaka, Atsuko Japanese

Komatsuri, Hibiki Supporting

Murakawa, Rie Japanese

Iwasa, Gaku Producer

Oosawa, Nobuhiro Producer

Doi, Yoshinao Producer

Nishikawa, Kazuyoshi Assistant Producer

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Mar 9, 2020

rokukitty

Recommended

As a big fan of Sonico myself, this anime is great for me. It's a relaxing slice of life story/music anime centered around our beautiful shy girl, Super Sonico. At first glance, people would think she's just a mascot with no personality just there to look pretty and provocative or simply just "B00BS" but that’s not the case. You get to see Sonico's character shine in this anime which is that she is a huge cat lover, loves rock, is a big nerdo, and works hard for her band, her grandmother's restaurant, and anything ! She is as sweet ... and she is as cute.

There really isn’t much of story going on, it’s basically just Sonico chasing her dreams in music and simply enjoying the wonders of life. One episode I really enjoyed is episode 7, which is titled, Star Rain. That episode is just the definition of a peaceful Slice of Life, which Sonico travels to Niigata and we can see the nice scenery and it makes a nice aesthetic, I really enjoyed that one scene where she stops by a glassmaker's shop in the rain.

The art is pretty good, the backgrounds are well drawn, nothing "meh".
Although, I kind of wish the characters would look more like Tsuji Santa's art style, it does but like even more if you get me ? But anyways art isn’t bad.

Opening is really catchy and also adorable and screams out what is Super Sonico ! I sometimes listen to it as Nightcore version. lol
The endings are also cute since each episode has a different montage of what happened in each episode, and also feature a different song in each one by First Astronomical Velocity. Nightmare Buster and Star Rain are my favorites.

Suzu, Fuuri, and Kitamura, are great too. First, Suzu, I like how in the anime they explain how she met Sonico and Suzu wanting Sonico to join her to see a concert together was so wholesome, so I enjoyed that very much, and she's quite the tomboy as well. Fuuri, the one who always wants nikuman, hence why I call her "foodie" since her name sounds like that. xD I like the concept of three-girl band so FAV is one of my favorite fictional bands, although, I wish we could've seen more of them playing music, since I found the times when they did play music very cool. :)
Kitamura, we never got to see what was under his mask, and that’s a shame. Would be interesting if that happened. xD I like how gentle and kind he is with Sonico and knows how important her band is to her and even showed up at one of her performances, that was sweet.

Also Super Pochaco, the modeling buddy of Sonico, appeared as a cameo as a background character here and there and it looks like she went from being black haired to a blondie. You can probably tell who her role model is so I’ll just keep my yap shut. Although this aside, would have been nice to hear Pochaco speak or at least have a full scene with her in it. I think it would have fit perfectly. The rest of the characters are pretty much minor so not much to say about them. So I guess that’s it for the characters.

Overall, I enjoyed this anime, so I gave it a 9/10. For me ? I even re-watched it a few times. But I don’t know if that’s just me being a fangirl or not. Lol

Would I recommend it ?
If you like music anime or a nice slice of life, I recommend this or of you are simply a Sonico fan like me, then GO WATCH IT, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR !? Also Season 2, when ?

Reviewer’s Rating: 9

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May 12, 2024

LarissaWeeb

Mixed Feelings

💖✨ I watched this anime years ago when I was just getting into anime. It's been a while, but I remember it being one of my early ones. 🌸

💖✨ I was excited to see Super Sonico in action, but it didn't quite meet my expectations. The girls were cute and entertaining, but everything else was just okay. The story was forgettable, the art was average, and the characters, while enjoyable, weren't anything special. 🎀

💖✨ The show is short, with about twelve episodes, and it's pretty brisk-paced. It's more about Sonico's day-to-day life than any overarching plot. 🌟

💖✨ Overall, I'd give it a 5/10. It wasn't ... great, but I still enjoyed it for what it was, especially as one of my early anime experiences. 🌸

Reviewer’s Rating: 6

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Jan 2, 2023

Disapeared_Ghost

Not Recommended

Super Sonico is the mascot for Nitro +, a videogame company. The series details her day-to-day life as a model, college student and budding guitarist. Sonico loves gaming, anime and all things cute and she loves music. She’s a narcoleptic due to her hectic schedule.

The show is animated by White Fox, however, this animation lacks the quality of Steins Gate. The CGI looked very awkward especially in the concert scenes. The character designs were very good and complimented by the myriad art styles.

I should mention this show has a lot of fanservice every few seconds which make sense given the nature of the ... character and franchise.

The dialogue was childish and stories bland and uninteresting. There really isn’t any main story to speak off since its pretty much plotless and just about Sonico’s day to day life.

The series is short with just about twelve episodes and the pace is fairly brisk. The voice acting is serviceable.

Jessica Nigri has cosplayed as Sonico before and now is the voice actress for Sonico but her inexperience shows as the performance is a bit inconsistent. Each episode focuses on the hectic day to day life of Sonico and there is really no plot whatsoever and it's like Lucky Star, the show about nothing. There is no character development, villains or rivals. Everyone loves Sonico and her band and the entire focus of the series is on her.

You learn almost nothing about the characters backgrounds. The dialogue was irritating with the use of millennial slang that will become dated in a few years. The comedy is cheesy and repetitive. The musical score was ok but too reliant on electronica. Each episode has a different song at the end.

There was a big inaccuracy in one of the episodes. Sonico was playing Bioshock 2 on the SEGA Saturn but the game never came out on the Saturn but on the PS3, Xbox 360 and Pc. One episode was based on a “murder mystery” but came off more as a comedy rather than anything serious like homicide. One of the ending scenes in this show was Sonico doing a parody dance to Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

Sonico the anime only exists to serve as a commercial for Nitro Plus and get fans to purchase their merchandise. It gets 2 out of 5 guitars.

You really have to be a hardcore Nitro Plus fan to enjoy this show. I spent 75 dollars on this on amazon for Christmas and this has to be the most overpriced anime I have purchased.

cYou're better off hoping for a sequel to Outlaw Star and Cowboy Bebop than watching or purchasing anything from this series.

Reviewer’s Rating: 2

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