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Sonny Boy(TV show/series, 2021)

TV-14
| 24min per episode | Genres: Animation, Drama, Mystery, Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 12 episodes

Sonny BoyRating: 3.7/5 (with 22 votes)
Sonny Boy is an original Japanese anime television series animated by Madhouse and written and directed by Shingo Natsume. The series aired from July to October 2021. Sonny Boy utilizes non-traditional storytelling, occasionally skipping over major events and instead focusing on various characters' reactions to those events. While fantasy elements are present, the series primarily uses its setting to explore psychological themes such as identity, social expectation, freedom, and loneliness. ()
Poster of Sonny Boy

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About Sonny Boy

On August 16, midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation, middle school third-year student Nagara, the mysterious transfer student Nozomi, and classmates such as Mizuho and Asakaze, are suddenly transported from their tranquil daily 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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Trailer for Sonny Boy + Featurettes/Teaser/Clips

Sonny Boy Seasons and Episodes

07/16/2021Season 1 - 12 episodes
#1 | 07/16/2021The Island at the Far End of Summer
4.1/5 (with 4 votes)
Midway through summer vacation, 36 students, some with newfound super-powers, find themselves all alone in their high school, adrift in a black void, unable to contact the outside world. Some students try to impose order, but are faced with opposition.
#2 | 07/23/2021Aliens
3.8/5 (with 4 votes)
The students have relocated to a nearby island, where they have no shortage of food, and can get whatever they want through Mizuho's power. Suddenly, unexplained fires begin breaking out, and the hunt is on to find out who or what is causing them.
#3 | 07/30/2021The Cat Who Wore Sandals
3.9/5 (with 4 votes)
Nagara, Nozomi, Asakaze, and Rajdhani continue searching for new worlds. Students start going missing, and their bodies are found "frozen" into black shells, so Pony asks Mizuho to look into the matter. Mizuho reveals a surprise about her power to Nagara.
#4 | 08/06/2021The Great Monkey Baseball
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)
As the castaways swim in a mysterious sinkhole, they seem to be momentarily taken back home. Cap invites Nagara to practice baseball with him, leading to him telling about the Monkey League, and how its star pitcher, Blue, missed out on a perfect game.
#5 | 08/13/2021Leaping Classrooms
4.0/5 (with 3 votes)
Nagara and friends use his power to survey new worlds in an effort to get back home. Meanwhile, the others students discuss the bombshell from Ms. Aki that some students were able to use their powers beforehand, and that may be what set them adrift.
#6 | 08/20/2021The Long Goodbye
4.2/5 (with 3 votes)
Nagara and Rajdhani arrive in a world called "Filmmaker," and discover a movie filmed entirely from Nagara's POV. Mizuho discovers a stray dog by the name of Yamabiko, claiming to be another castaway who attended the same school as the other students.
#7 | 08/27/2021Road Book
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Having learned the truth about This World, groups led by Ms. Aki and Hoshi prepare to go their separate ways. Nagara finds himself in an upside-down world he cannot freely leave, and is forced to work on building a Tower of Babel that reaches downward.
#8 | 09/03/2021Laughing Dog
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
While traveling the wilderness, Mizuho asks Yamabiko how he became a dog. Yamabiko then relates how, 5000 years ago, he wandered different worlds all alone, until meeting a girl to whom he gradually opened his heart. But their happiness was short-lived.
#9 | 09/10/2021This Salmon Chazuke Is Missing Its Salmon Nya
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
In a vast frozen waste, twins Sou and Seiji have been fighting each other for millennia. Ms. Aki says that to change the world, they need the twins' "Reverse" power, and Nagara and Mizuho come to assist. Yamabiko questions Sakura, one of Mizuho's cats.
#10 | 09/17/2021Summer and the Demon
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Kossetsu reads the minds of others passing by in a train station world using her true power. She pines for Asakaze, knowing that he is interested in Nozomi, and that Nozomi is the only one who can change him. Asakaze is given a world-changing assignment.
#11 | 09/24/2021The Young Man and the Sea
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
After learning of Nozomi's death from Kossetsu's letter, Nagara and Mizuho hold a memorial service for her. While advancing the project to return home, they are visited by an old friend, who tells them the story of when he met the man who invented death.
#12 | 10/01/2021A Two-Year Recess
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)
Nagara attends the opening ceremony of his technical school, but feels out of place. He sees Mizuho leaving her all-girls' school, but she brushes him off. He recalls what happened after blasting off into space, questioning if he ever really went adrift.

Additional Information

Official websites:
Production country: Japan
Original language: Japanese (JA)
Spoken languages: Japanese (JA)
Translated into 15 languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Indonesian (ID), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Thai (TH), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Ended
First episode released on: 07/16/2021
Last episode released on: 10/01/2021
Voice Actor: Aoi Ichikawa, Saori Ōnishi, Aoi Yūki, Chiaki Kobayashi, Hiroki Gotō, Ami Naitō, Hana Satō, Yōji Ueda, Shōta Yamamoto, Yūji Murai, Tōru Ōkawa, Kenjirō Tsuda, Ayana Taketatsu, Kōji Yusa, Mie Sonozaki, Yoshiaki Hasegawa, Taiki Matsuno, Takuya Nakashima, Makoto Furukawa, Yuka Ozaki
Director: Shingo Natsume
Screenwriter: Shingo Natsume
Composer: Conisch
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"サニー​ボーイ-"
"소니 보이"

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WatchPlayStream ID: SHOWS:48421, Added: 07/02/2021, Last updated: 04/03/2024