Sonny Boy

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Japanese: Sonny Boy (サニーボーイ)
English: Sonny Boy
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Type: TV
Episodes: 12
Status: Finished Airing
Aired: Jul 16, 2021 to Oct 1, 2021
Premiered: Summer 2021
Broadcast: Fridays at 00:30 (JST)
Licensors: Funimation
Studios: Madhouse
Source: Original
Genres: Award WinningAward Winning, MysteryMystery
Themes: IsekaiIsekai, Super PowerSuper Power
Duration: 24 min. per ep.
Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older

Statistics

Score: 7.811 (scored by 119184119,184 users)
1 indicates a weighted score.
Ranked: #10002
2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded.
Popularity: #760
Members: 333,468
Favorites: 7,423

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Synopsis

Thirty-six students find themselves and their school building suddenly adrift in a void-like dimension. When supernatural powers awaken in some of them, a sense of detachment begins to divide the group. Despite the student council's attempts to impose order, they clash with the students possessing special abilities, who rebel against their strict control.

This conflict leads them to discover that this world has its own set of rules—and following them is necessary for survival. After one of the students decides to take a leap of faith, the school switches dimensions once again. While they deal with the unique challenges and circumstances that each world presents, the students must unravel the mysterious phenomenon and find a way back home.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Background

Sonny Boy is based on an original story written by director Shingo Natsume who previously had his hand in directing shows such as One Punch Man and Space Dandy.

Sonny Boy's first episode debuted on Funimation's YouTube channel on June 19th but regular broadcasting began from July 16th.

Winner of the Excellence Award at the 25th Japan Media Arts Festival.

Characters & Voice Actors

Mizuho

Main
Yuuki, Aoi
Japanese

Nagara

Main
Ichikawa, Aoi
Japanese

Nozomi

Main
Oonishi, Saori
Japanese

Asakaze

Main
Kobayashi, Chiaki
Japanese

Rajdhani

Supporting
Gotou, Hiroki
Japanese

Yamabiko

Supporting
Tsuda, Kenjirou
Japanese

Hoshi

Supporting
Naitou, Ami
Japanese

Kodama

Supporting
Taketatsu, Ayana
Japanese

Cap

Supporting
Ueda, Youji
Japanese

War

Supporting
Yusa, Kouji
Japanese

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Ending Theme

"Shounen Shoujo (少年少女)" by GING NANG BOYZ (銀杏BOYZ)

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Reviews

Sep 30, 2021
The only thing I don’t understand about Sonny Boy is what other people don’t understand about Sonny Boy. The story is a reimagining of The Drifting Classroom, only now, some of the students lost in limbo have thematically relevant superpowers. People all over the anime community have given this show a reputation for being abstruse, or “2deep4u” as the saying goes, but I could not disagree more, and in fact, I actually think the show almost suffers from being too simplistic. Sonny Boy is a metaphor for entering the Japanese school and work system, and the emotional issues of these characters stem from their middle ...
Sep 30, 2021
Mixed Feelings
Whenever you browse a seasonal chart, it’s inevitable the majority of shows will be adaptations. Manga, light novel, visual novel, video game, music CDs, etc. It’s just less of a hassle for studios to tackle media proven successful elsewhere, and these works often provide a very clear path to follow as far as where their stories are headed or what key moments should be highlighted for the maximum oomph. Anime originals don’t have that same expected trajectory. They’re closer to western cartoons, in that they mainly get made because their creator attained clout within the industry and then was given the space by a studio ...
Dec 25, 2021
WARNING: THIS REVIEW CONTAIN SPOILERS

Where should I start? Sonny Boy was considered as one of the hidden jewels of 2021 and the "new" Serial Experiments Lain or Ergo Proxy. Well, the only things that I found watching this anime were a constant improvisation, expectatives manipulation and meaningless symbolisms for the main plot. Let's find out together the issues that this "deep" anime had:

1. Beginning: Unknown forces transport our protagonists to an alternate world giving them superpowers, how? I don't know, and here is when the problems begin. There's no explanation about the limit of the superpowers given to our cast, so this opens the possibility ...

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