Screenplay:
夏目真悟Cinematography:
Akane FushiharaCast:
Aoi Ichikawa, Saori Ōnishi, Aoi Yūki, Chiaki Kobayashi, Tatsumaru Tachibana, Megumi Satou, Ami Naitō, Hana Satou, Hiroki Gotō, Yuuji Murai, Ryōta Asari (more)VOD (2)
Episodes(12)
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Island at the End of Summer (E01)
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Aliens (E02)
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The Cat Who Wore Sandals (E03)
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Great Monkey Baseball (E04)
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Leaping Classrooms (E05)
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Long Goodbye (E06)
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Road Book (E07)
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Laughing Dog (E08)
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This Salmon Chazuke Is Missing Its Salmon Nya (E09)
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Summer and the Demon (E10)
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The Young Man and the Sea (E11)
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A Two-Year Recess (E12)
Plots(1)
It’s an ordinary summer vacation...except for the fact that Nagara’s high school has mysteriously drifted into another dimension. As the students begin to develop strange new powers, will they work together to survive the alien environment and find a way home, or will their newly formed factions and rivalries turn on each other? (Crunchyroll)
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Reviews (1)
Sometimes anime creators let success go to their heads and their next project ends up being a self-absorbed mess that nobody likes. Shingo Natsume and my favorite illustrator Hisashi Eguchi were supposed to be a dream team with their Japanese fantasy take on Lord of the Flies. Instead of a masterpiece, we got a self-indulgent mess full of pointless blabbering. Sonny Boy is a prime example of how even the craziest anime needs a solid foundation for the fictional world to work. Otherwise, all the over-the-top fantasy elements just become a weakness and the whole thing gets boring fast. The creators thought that the "random" feel of the show would appeal to viewers who wanted to figure out which superpower caused what, or who combined their powers to create a spectacle like the last part of Kubrick's 2001. But because the show's own set of rules and physics for the supernatural powers are so vague and unexplained, it feels like the creators didn't even need to put in the effort to explain anything, and could have just turned Sonny Boy into a psychedelic eye-candy without any substantial storyline. The characters, led by the main protagonist, are all boring and there's barely any social commentary or psychological depth after the first couple of episodes. And that twenty-minute long talk about monkeys in episode four? Traumatizing. 1 star.
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