As expected, this show is animated by 80% freelance talent from Shingo Natsume's friends list, and the names he continues to attract despite post-2011, post-Maruyama Madhouse being such a dilapidated ghost town never ceases to amaze me. It’s not flashy, but it consistently blew me away with its fluid animation and detailed artwork. My friends…this is not subtle.Īs a work of art, Sonny Boy is a modern masterpiece. The school exists in its own pocket dimension where all your needs are met, all your resources are replenished, and all your wounds are healed, whereas the worlds they travel to outside the school hold actual risk and uncertainty. Of course they’ll want to test themselves to find out what they can do.” Tremendous power can symbolize adult responsibility, independence, or a salary, and testing one’s self can symbolize pushing boundaries which others may not have the confidence or maturity to: learning to drive, moving out of your parents’ house, starting a family of your own, and so on. “People who were nothing special yesterday suddenly gaining tremendous power. The very first piece of exposition at the beginning of episode one makes this crystal clear. Pretty much every episode can be boiled down to embody similarly basic coming-of-age themes, and everything interesting or innovative the show does is certainly not achieved though the depth of its writing. It’s hard to see beyond what’s here at school some of your friends are developing amazing talents and maybe you’re not you have to take a leap of faith out into the real world nothing comes for free, you have to stand up and work for it. Sonny Boy is a metaphor for entering the Japanese school and work system, and the emotional issues of these characters stem from their middle 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. The story is a reimagining of The Drifting Classroom, only now, some of the students lost in limbo have thematically relevant superpowers. The only thing I don’t understand about Sonny Boy is what other people don’t understand about Sonny Boy.
0 kommentar(er)
