FINISHED
Sonny Boy
12 Episodes
25 min each
SUMMER 2021
Synopsis
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? Note: The first episode received an advance release on YouTube on June 19, 2021. The regular TV broadcast started on July 16, 2021.
Drama
Mystery
Psychological
Sci-Fi
Supernatural
Format
Unknown
Episodes
12
Per Episode
25 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
12 / 12 Episodes
1
Episode 1
Island at the End of Summer
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
Episode 2
Aliens
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
Episode 3
Cat Wearing Clogs
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
Episode 4
The Great Monkey Baseball
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
Episode 5
Leaping Classrooms
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
Episode 6
Long Goodbye
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
Episode 7
Road Book
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
Episode 8
Laughing Dog
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
Episode 9
This Salmon Chazuke Is Missing Its Salmon Nya
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.
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Episode 10
Summer and the Demon
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.
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Episode 11
The Young Man and the Sea
After learning of Nozomi's death from Kossetsu's letter, Nagara and Mizuho perform a ceremony in her honor. As they advance on 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.
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Episode 12
A Two-Year Recess
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.
Characters
Voice Actors
Aoi Ichikawa (japanese)
Nagara
Main
Voice Actors
Saori Oonishi (japanese)
Nozomi
Main
Voice Actors
Aoi Yuuki (japanese)
Mizuho
Main
Voice Actors
Chiaki Kobayashi (japanese)
Asakaze
Main
Voice Actors
Ami Naitou (japanese)
Hoshi
Main
Voice Actors
Hiroki Gotou (japanese)
Rajdhani
Main
Staff
Shingo Natsume
Original Creator
Hisashi Eguchi
Original Character Design
Shingo Natsume
Director
Norifumi Kugai
Character Design
Toshiaki Uesugi
Title Logo Design
Kenichi Konishi
Design Assistance
Comments
Information
Aired
Jul 15, 2021
to Sep 30, 2021
Season
SUMMER 2021
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
MADHOUSE
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