“ある日ぼくたちの日常が変わってしまった”
長い長い夏休みも半ばを過ぎた8月16日。学校に集まっていた中学3年生・長良〈ながら〉たちは突然、思いも寄らない事態に巻き込まれていた。長良自身はもちろんのこと、謎の転校生・希〈のぞみ〉や瑞穂〈みずほ〉、朝風〈あさかぜ〉ら、36人のクラスメイトとともに、学校が異次元に漂流してしまったのだ。しかも彼らは、漂流と同時にさまざまな《能力》を入手。人知を越えた能力に大喜びし、好き勝手に暴れ回る者もいれば、リーダーとして他の生徒たちを統率しようとする者も、元の世界に戻るための方法を必死で探す者もいる。渦巻く不信や抑えきれない嫉妬、そして支配欲からくる対立。次々と巻き起こる不可解な事態を前に、少年少女たちは突如として、サバイバル生活に放り込まれてしまう。果たして長良たちはこの世界を攻略し、無事に元の世界に帰ることができるのだろうか……？。
ドラマ・アニメ化された映像作品と原作・関連本と読み比べて、オリジナルならではの違いや描かれなかった裏設定、より深い世界観を独自の視点から楽しみましょう。
+1脚本: 夏目真悟
制作会社: Madhouse / Shochiku / Marui Group / BS Asahi
I'm not going to pretend I understood the meaning the author wanted to convey with this show. Sonny Boy is the story of a group of students that get lost in an alternate universe, this world doesn't work like our own. The time is messy, the rules not always apply and cats are more like Jeff Bezos. Characters are a mixed bag; you get the interesting ones like Nozomi and you get the boring ones like Nagara. What bothered me the most is time in this world doesn't work like you would expect, in some cases thousands of years transpire and our character's behaviors stay the same, as if they didn't change from past experiences. The story is a mess, one episode they spend like 12 minutes talking about invisible monkeys that play baseball, after that episode the monkeys are never mentioned again. The fight between copies of the same person divided the people, they've been fighting for centuries. One copy kills the other and then it's never mentioned again and our characters are as if nothing ever happened. The animation sometimes is clean and other times it looks unreal, janky and cheap. The sound is good in most parts, there is no intro song and the ending song is likeable. Characters have powers but these powers are not the main focus of the show, it creates conflict between the characters, which its okay but when this conflict is not resolved and instead of finishing the idea it's throwed away 7 episodes in it becomes very jarring. I do not know how I feel about this show, for one side I’ve never seen anything quite like this, on the other hand I didn't understand anything, was falling asleep and became frustrated by the lack of direction and purpose. I would only recommend this if you're looking for something very unique.
