That anime is so good and I still listen to the soundtrack often just to get through the day

absolutely love that people can find a piece of media and be spurred to create something

I think the core message/theme of sonny boy, along with the main character's character arc, all are made around this single line: "Are you a dandelion, or are you a sunflower?"

I am shocked there are people still talking about this I mean sure i am all for it but i never thought this underrated masterpiece would ever get the light much anymore as i understand it is not for everyone and very artistic and experimental but yet it's truly such a deep psychological thought provoking unique anime man i love it so much especially the music and animation too

this anime is special to me - i watched it month before my highschool graduation - i don't know it was the worst moment or the best moment. It made me feel soo many things. I was already stressed about my future, strongly confused about everything in life. Sonny boy made me like I'm on drugs, but like in philosophical way. I was in this state for a week. Good OST, distinctive artstyle, creative worlds. I literally cried while watching this video because it reminded me of all this feelings. it's really a good watch.

I watched this show last summer and it connected with me and stuck with me in such a way that I couldn't stop thinking about it. It has since become one of my favourite shows of all time and I'm happy people are still discovering it.

I've been watching anime for an embarrassing amount of time and Sonny Boy is one of my all time greatest experiences with the medium. It's bold, confident, has a great visual language, it isn't preachy and despite the usual Nipponese nihilism it still manages to shine through some glorious sun rays of objectivity (again, without being preachy). Stunning work, an accomplishment of a production on a modest budget.

Glad I've trained the KZfaq algorithm to recommend me every little video about sonny boy that pops up. One of, if not my favourite show, and it was great hearing your opinion about it. "Whilst yes, life does suck, we can do little things to make it and ourselves better" is the sentence I would personally sum up the message I brought out of the show. Anyway super well made video, Subscribed!

Sonny boy to me is about being hopeful in the face of hopelessness, the whole journey begins because our main character had nothing to live for and through his journey drifting with the others he finds a will, a reason, people to live for and even when he's lost that he's changed. Even when he's back where he began, he keeps living, because now he knows that even if there isn't now, someday something will make living worthwhile, even if just for a little bit.

Sonny boy is one of my favourite anime of all time. I am very happy you made this video

I watched sonny boy as it came out and it remains one of my favorite things.

yooooooooooooooooo some people still experience this masterpiece and it makes me glad!

Yep, I think you did a great job understanding Sonny Boy's message. And just like you, this anime made me think. A lot. So I appreciate I wasn't the only one.

Just wait until enough time has passed that you can start forming coherent opinions on this show, that's when the real fun begins

yeah what I felt at the end was the same: Life feels meaningless, but it does because "you" are the one feeling that way. So life at least for now became a bit less "meaningless".

Just saw this anime and yes it is definitely an incredible anime made me completely think about life. Definitely a beautiful anime!

nice vid, glad to see there are still people finding sonny boy

9:50 this is the exact moment I end up bawling every time. Nagara returning the ball of sunshine to Rajdhani because he doesn't need it anymore and his reaction to it is just... T-T

Hey cool video Also having run as your b roll footage is wild

Suprisingly great video on one of my all-time fav shows out there;) We all might feel like we didn't undestood Sonny Boy, but... i feel in videos like this we well-understood it. It's not about connecting every single dot and understanding every single element, but about it's entire philosophy and how we internaly feel it. Keep it up with great vids!

saw the anime's first few episodes when it aired and then actually tried to watch it in 2023, dont regret it yall, the music is fire (i have not listened to the ost properly) i properly got into toe and was introduced to sunset rollercoaster due to this anime !!!

Loved this video & Your read felt spot on to me. I felt like all the parallel universes/other worlds the kids were going to brought up all thise potential futures you imagine for yourself when you’re in high school, that eternity of kind of just waiting for the rest of your life. 9/10 when you get out shit is no where near like you thought it would be. But there’s still good to be found there, reasons worth living. I think all the theory crafting about plot specifics is fun, but kind of can make you miss what feels like the real emotional core of the story. Damn I love this show, gotta watch again. Thank you for this vid!

Impressed by the English voice acting in the few clips shown

love this anime, might need to set up a rewatch soon

wwhy did i just start crying when this song came on 9:55 lmao

this is cool great work man keep uploading

What i love about art is that everyone sees something different in this, and so i will say what i saw in this anime: our main character struggle to find a reason to live and the point of his existence but unlike all other people in this group (who got stuck in this place) he's the only one who is afraid of death and still wants to exist despite all his misery, but every other people in this anime just accepted their fates and refused to fight against it, which is kinda funny and ironic, how one boy, who has nothing in life wants to survive and be alive more than all these people who seems to be content with their lives (i will dare to call them a normies), he's afraid to die because he's afraid to miss something in his life, because he haven't found himself in this life unlike other people, that's why they decided to stay in this place, they found a peace for their minds and realized what they love to do and what they want from this life, but he's not, that's why he struggles and blindly searching for a way to escape from this unbearable pressure and existential dread. I'm not very good at putting my thoughts into words, but i hope that this is as close as possible to the view in my head and also understandable for others

and and and Toe dropped a banger song at the end

One of the all-time greats. I'll never get over how it instilled a feeling in me I could not fking place until I looked up a director interview and he spelled out what he had made me feel.

Sonny boy is my favourite anime and i loved your video, keep with the good work!

great music choice in video

Something about this anime made my summer of 21, glad you watched it :)

I’ve been wanting to watch Sonny boy since it first dropped this vids the perfect excuse for me to watch it

Dude I originally watched it like early 2023 and now im rewatching it rn on ep 7

I am cryinggg gotta rewatch it now

nice, glad ur finding a path for urself, gl and hf

lmao funny how your spoilers got me even more interested in watching it, i think i just might

Glad to see sunny boy appreciation. One of my favorite show and nagara is one of my favorite characters as well as having my favorite final episode. Also episode 8, laughing dog, is amazing in the sub, you should check it out. Yamabikos voice is really good in both but tsuda delivers 😌

Sonny boy singlehandedly got me into anime again after putting it on the sideburner for a couple years. So glad I got to watch it and just thinking about it makes me feel weird in a way that makes me feel alive

I just finish it yesterday, and it was beautiful.

Its so fucking good bro one of my favourites

When I finished Sonny Boy for the first time I Just felt nothing, felt lonely, felt empty I don't even know. And I won't even pretend to understand the show maybe I was able to comprehend about 60% of the show but yet I don't know why I felt this empty after finishing it.

I enjoyed this video. I subscribed to you as i am typing this.

Thank you I will now watch it

Thanks for throwing this shit at the wall, I enjoyed it thoroughly.

I started to watch this last year, but got frustrated with it! I've stopped the video at the appropriate time and will go back and re-watch it. I'll see how it goes~

Sonny Boy is such an interesting anime, I'm really excited for 10 years from now when more and more people discover it and more and more people right video essays on it because I truly believe there are 100s of different things you can get out of Sonny Boy: I hope it gets the cowboy bepop treatment where ever frame is thoroughly disected to find tons of different interpretations of the story.

The only sad thing about sonny boy (besides all the moments it made me cry) was the fact it would probably not be getting a second season and thus there wouldnt be a satisfying conclusion, but i think that was for the best 😿

The goat Sonny Boy

such an honest and genuine video, super refreshing compared to similar content

I also just watched sonny boy for the first time and finished it a week ago such a hidden gem

My husband and i watched everything except the last episode we were too scared 😂

saw the the first minute, watched the anime, watched the rest of the video completely agree, nice little analysis

I love this anime when I first watched it. I didn't understand the messages and it's typically not the kind of show I would enjoy. I was slow at watching the show because I *really* didn't care for it but I eventually finished it and actually felt like I was going to miss this show. It gave me the same feeling as those occasional anime backgrounds that is just a high school student alone in the middle of nowhere but usually filled with nature or some stuff like that.

I'll agree with you about not knowing how I felt after watching it. Some of the angst between characters was irritating but I think that was the point. There's some thoughtful conversations that can be had after watching it. I think I'll try rewatching it again at some point, now knowing the story I can focus on the things I might not of caught in the first play through. Soundtrack was fantastic

I did an edit on this it’s just so fun to splice

Such a good anime

This show is a masterpiece. The soundtrack alone transcends anime.

I like your conclusion "life kinda suck" it's original and I didn't even think about it for a second while watching the show, for me, the drift is (in part) a kind of metaphor for adolescence, a period when you discover a billion things, everything's new, colorful and scary, so the return to the real world is a bit like mizuho and nagara leaving adolescence to enter adulthood : It's not that life sucks, at this age, we've already experienced all the new, scary and colorful things of adolescence, so we're starting to get used to a lot of things, it's just not as brightly new as it used to be. That match what Rajdhani says when he say that the accumulation of experiences makes us numb. Or maybe I'm just talking nonsense because I literally just finished the anime and I'm high.

I've watched this show like 5 times.

lowkey in my top 10 anime

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LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

The best anime with 12 caps

The fact that people don't seem to immediately understand it makes me think its actually worth watching.

I watched it about a month ago and I expected something weird and I finished it in like 3 days it took me a while to figure out how I felt and it was really good but like not in the way most anime are good I don’t get it but I think that’s the point I still remember how I felt when I finished it the last 20 minutes was one of the most different felling I felt from a anime I think it had something to do with how normal life and how that’s ok and not ok at the same time a beautiful anime though a didn’t expect it to be this good I don’t give anime 10/10 vary much and I would still need time to think about it more but it’s a 10/10

Hey, can you tell me all the songs in ur vids? anyway thank you for vids

Liminal space the anime

if you like Sonny Boy, give Drifting Home a try

It's a trip thats for sure. Still not sure whar it was about.

Should've stayed in the Distortion World tbh.