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Every episode is more or less its own story with a distinct message. You never know what you’re gonna get and I don’t intend to spoil that here. It can be pretty fun trying to break the individual messages of episodes, but a lot of these focusing choices, which I know exist the way they are because of Sonny Boy’s anime-original status, are easy to be overshadowed by the influx of lore, as well as Natsume’s visual direction.
Sonny Boy’s at least a show that’s easy to appreciate on a stylistic level. Eguchi Hisashi, who hasn’t designed anime characters since the turn of the millennium, created a very distinctly designed
cast in spite of their similarities from the head down. The way characters’ faces look avoids following the lazy expectation for modern anime art direction. Most episodes have some sort of impressive visual flex, like Episode 2 with the atmosphere established by the paper-looking blue fire, though particularly Episode 5 and Episode 8 for their specific style of animation and shading when distinguishing the mental realms. The mental twisting of many dimensions of pattered color is a particular animation highlight whenever it comes up, the bus flying through it in Episode 9 like it were The Magic
School Bus’s serious YA adaptation. It does tend to shortcut with several static shots of faceless characters, but it has an especially unique choice for background characters in them being shaded like the type of “anime minimalist wallpaper” you can easily find on Google Images. There’s this scrapbook uncanniness to some of the scenes while avoiding the scrunched-up outlines often seen on characters out of focus, adding to the many wallpaper-worthy shots appearing throughout.
At times the visual direction could be dull when not much was happening on screen, when it just hard cut between cast members starring into the screen trying to comprehend the
tangle of plot with music missing, but it
feels like that freedom of design is what Shingo Natsume saw with this entire series.
Granolah Read
Chapter 78: Gas's Wish Read Chapter 77: Bardock, Father of Goku Read Chapter 76: The Fate of the Saiyans Read Chapter 75: God of Destruction
Power Read Chapter 74: Vegeta vs. Granolah Read Chapter 73: Goku vs. Granolah Read Chapter 72: Saiyans and Cerealian Read Chapter 71: The Heeters' Plan Read Chapter 70: The Universe's Greatest Warrior Read Chapter 69: The Evolution of Planet Cereal Read Chapter 68: Granolah the Survivor Read Chapter 67: Happy Endings. And Then. Read Chapter 66: Moro, Consumer of Worlds Read Chapter 65: Son Goku, Earthling Read Chapter 64: Son Goku, Galactic Patrol Officer Read Chapter 63: Merus's Resolve Read Chapter 62: Edge of Defeat Read Chapter 61: Vegeta Reborn Read Chapter 60: Merus's Miscalculation Read Chapter 59: Activate Ultra Instinct -Sign- Read Chapter 58: Son Goku Arrives Read Chapter 57: Battles Abound Read Chapter 56: Warriors of Earth Assemble Read Chapter 55: Merus's True Identity Read Chapter 54: Gohan vs. Seven-Three Read Chapter 53: Saganbo's Galactic Bandit Brigade Read Chapter 52: Goku and Vegeta's Training Read Chapter 51: To Each Their Own Plans Read Chapter 50: Great Escape Read Chapter 49: Outer Space Battle Read Chapter 48: Moro's Wish Read Chapter 47: Stolen Dragon Balls Read Chapter 46: Namek in Decline Read Chapter 45: Moro's Magic Read Chapter 44: Escaped Prisoner Moro Read Chapter 43: Joining the Galactic Patrol! Read Chapter 42: Battle's End and Aftermath Read Chapter 41: Ultra Instinct Read Chapter 40: Jiren vs. Universe 7 Read Chapter 39: Sign of Son Goku's Awakening Read Chapter 38: Universe 6's Last Resort Read Chapter 37: Awaken, Super Saiyan Kale Read Chapter 36: Quirky Competitors Read Chapter 35: Hit vs.
I understand that they were trying to build up the characters to make us care about what was going to happen, but they completely failed at it, so it just became a drag
Voice acting 6/10
Nothing spectacular or noteworthy. Can say I laughed a bit after hearing 3 times in a row the dude scream due to the girl's death
Sound design and OST 6/10
Nothing spectacular or noteworthy
TL;DR
Overall, it's a super mediocre
anime that struggled to get my attention and even getting to episode 7 was a chore. I'm sure you've realized by now since I've repeated this as many times as the anime repeated the poor girl's death scene, but the only thing I can say about this anime is that "It's nothing noteworthy". Especially if you've already seen a lot of anime and are aware of all the tropes/clichés Reviewer’s Rating: 6
What did you think of this review? Nice 0 Love it 0 Funny 0 Confusing 0 Informative 0 Well-written 0 Creative 0More reviews by Kalo_Dawg (21) Show allRead moreShow lessOpen Gift Report Feb 20, 2024 T-H Not Recommended FunnyPreliminary (3/24 eps) I don't understand why so many people praise this? It's really not good in my opinion. Why? (no spoilers)
- The fights are boring. It's your typical "we can't pay animators for a decent fight scene, so we'll just make it into those talk-and-think scenes with only a handful of actual attacks". Some people like that, but I prefer fight scenes with, well, fights.
- The girl character is extremely annoying. I get that she's a 12y-old, but that doesn't mean she has to act like she's 8. Of course, whenever they then try to make her act cool and badass, it flops and just looks cringe.
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