#nozomi sonny boy

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anyway go watch sonny boy

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[hak]

it’s been weeks since finishing sonny boy but I’m still not over nagara catching nozomi when she’s about to fall versus asakaze having the power to catch her and still being unable to. im gonna weep

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[windvexer]

Hi chicken, hope you're well. I don't know if you've already answered this, but how can I go about inviting a person into my life that could push me towards a better me? (I'm being really vague here, but bear with.) I don't think a therapist-client dynamic would work, it's more like two friends pushing eachother to be better. Dunno if I explained myself well enough but a nice example would be Nozomi and Nagara in Sonny boy lol (don't judge pls it's silly as it is wishing for a friend on anon...).

I've read ofwoodandbone's spell for manifesting a lover with specific qualities and was wondering if something along those lines would work? But instead of cherry pits one should use another pit that represents friendship better? If you don't know what I'm referring to i can find the link to send if you wish.

Thank you for your time, even if you can't/don't wanna respond. Plus, I appreciate what you do with your blog and the patience you have replying to a lot of asks!!!

As much as I enjoy ofwoodandbone's old content, I do not have this spell memorized. Could you link it, please?

[nonsenuser]

sonny boy thoughts

i wanted to compile all my thoughts on sonny boy since its been about a week (longer now) since ive binged the whole thing and ive since revisited a couple episodes as well

i wanted to sit and think ab what the story meant to me before going ahead and watching all the video essays on it. i think it touches base on a lot of things through its characters and i found that super fascinating and deeply touching

one spot i would like to start is the ending and the concept of other worlds. the other world is great for people who kind of had nothing in the real world. people like asakaze for example loved and basked in the idea at first. i think hoshi really enjoyed himself too. 

then u have people that seemed somewhat neutral about the whole thing like rajdhani. he eventually becomes "one with the forest" so he kind of finds a sort of peace in being in the other world for thousands of years. 

nagara and mizuho returning to the real world is very bittersweet. nozomi doesn't remember nagara he's pretty friendless atp, and mizuho doesnt have her cats anymore 

but even when they were in the other world, it was a grim thought to know that they would be static beings for thousands of years

this static ness isnt something that is easy to accept for many, i believe rajdhani was able to accept this while asakaze probably never will. if nozomi didnt die, i think she would've come to terms with it too but who knows 

seeing the ending with nozomi and asakaze is the real world was also bittersweet bc they look pretty content. and it makes me wonder if nozomi was the one to have remembered instead of nagara would she have said "lets me friends" like they initially promised? either way i think it was extremely in character for nagara to just, let it be. the ending feels quite optimistic, will nozomi and nagara be as close as they were in the other world? maybe, maybe not but i saw a bit of hope that there would be *SOMETHING* there in the ending 

my most concrete thoughts r ab the ending (which as u can see r not even that concrete anyways) but i cant wait to revisit some of the middle episodes and see what i feel ab those (esp episode 8, a story in and of itself) 

I wrote this like a few weeks ago and im too lazy to proofread but i'll add stuff if i want to. I really enjoyed this anime overall though, not only was it pleasant to look at art style and animation wise, but it has a great cast of characters, great themes, ost and overall good message. It's def a less optimistic ending than my other fave anime (tatami galaxy) but i like the open endedness of it all and it doesnt leave a bad taste in ur mouth its just not brimming with positivity either. But its very REAL in that sense. I would like to think that nozomi and nagara really do become friends again even though it is not as close as they were before, and that is enough for me because im sure nagara will take away from his experience in the other worlds (and so will mizuho).

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SONNY BOY, EP.11

june 8th ✸ p.57 clf6 //58

"*I'm being drained away by time, until someday, I'll become a mere shape. There's no such thing as a soul, and our consciousness is born for no reason, then it just fades away.* Life is an endless exercise in vain effort. But it's precisely because it's meaningless that I think the brilliance of this moment in life is so precious. Because that one moment belongs to that person alone. Nozomi isn't ever coming back. But even so... her will still lives on." - Rhajdani

"No matter how well I've come to understand the psychology of this universe, I can't do anything more for a friend who's crying but sit next to him." - Rhajdani

// This anime is one of those. It goes with Evangelion, FLCL and maybe others I don't have in mind right now -- one of these shows that shut "this makes no sense" guys up. I just take it as it is and appreciate its weird, wild ideas.

[cora-lin]

I'm gonna be writing out random thought trains that I have about this show after watching it. Just want an archive of my emotions and I want to be able to look back and remember the conversations I have in my head about it lolll

MAJOR SONNY BOY SPOILERS!!!

I think a major part of why it was so engaging to connect with this show was because of how easy it is to relate to characters like Nagara, and Mizuho, and to even believe in the light at the end of the tunnel that Nozomi represented. The show has its introspective moments and in those times, it almost feels like they're breaking down the argument on things like regret over past actions, fear of the future, and choosing apathy over caring because it's easier. Despite seeming so closeted and lost at the beginning of the show, and even falling victim to harsh scrutiny and scorn from their peers, Nagara and Mizuho were the only ones who were able to reach what they had originally set out for by the end of the show. I guess Rajdhani counts too, but even he had to take an absence from the island after enough of their efforts had fallen behind. What makes Nagara and Mizuho special is that they are seemingly the exact opposite when the show begins, Mizuho is barely even shown while they're stuck in the school! Yet they are the ones who overcame the impossible and found themselves all together in one piece by the end. Seeing them 'win' over such odds is satisfying because even if it took thousands of years they, who were shut off from the others as nobodies and nuisances, were the ones who found themselves succeeding in achieving their dreams.

But it's funny how they show what rose-tinted goggles can do to a person's hopes and dreams, they literally give Rajdhani a monologue about it lol. The world looked so dark and gloomy when they returned, almost to the point that you kind of miss the eternity world that they lived in before. They were basically immortals living in the present, and the apathy that results from such a state showed in their demeanor too. Nozomi didn't remember what happened, obviously ):, but Nagara seemingly took this to the chest and accepted it. He had a funeral for his Nozomi, he cried for his Nozomi, and he had just spent months recovering from having the bear the weight of a concept that had been completely wiped away for two thousand years of his life, death in an eternal world. He understood that he probably wouldn't wind up as her friend again, but Mizuho (fucking based ;-;) spoke the most true-to-heart advice she could have possibly given him in the time of his processing how that interaction would affect him. She told him, "If you're even a little bit of the same person as you were when we got on that island, you'll do just fine". She said this because it's that which got them the relationships they had with each other anyway. It was the molding of their personalities that brought out the best in each of them, and knowing he still has that ground to stand on in Mizuho, who knows him and their past, and vice versa for Nagara as a person besides her pets that she could truly rely on, makes you realize that this future, this world that they find themselves in after all their hard work has passed and the powerful emotions of drive and dreams have waned, is enough for them. At least that's how I see the ending, and it's what makes my heart feel so full seeing them have each other to validate everything they worked for as well.

Sonny Boy

(HALF spoiler-free… no major events spoiled except for a reference to the ending and kinda telling references to the progression of the plot)

I just finished Sonny Boy last night and the amount of pure content I feel right now is so crazy. The pacing of the show felt like an eternal walk in the park where you’re focused on nothing but the view of what’s presented around you. I haven’t had a show make me so invested in character’s actions and decisions like this in a long time, and while at some moments it can seem random, their growth and development flows as seamlessly as time moves in the show. Two-thousand years pass within the show’s time, and they go from wearing their personality trope on their sleeve to becoming so human despite the inhuman place they live in.

I think the show did a great job of depicting the huuuuge number of ways people cope with growing up, and you can even align how it feels to go from being a middle schooler to a second year high schooler with the different worlds the characters reside in throughout the story. You can even go specific and make out how it feels to have a large friend group when you’re younger to having your close knit best friends as you get older. You can legit even make out individual characters personalities’ growing and shaping with age despite them never truly growing up due to the nature of the world. I don’t know how you depict both how eternal life would effect the human mind while also using it as a foil for those same characters graduating and moving on to high school.

AND THAT ENDING AGAGAFACAUAGSUSNM

The most important questions they knew you needed answered right the fuck away once they made it back and they said BADABING TAKE THESE NUTS INSTEAD BUD. And then you’re sitting there like ): what the fuck man

But then 🤭♥️ AYYYY MARIA (by Joan Sebastion) they give you nice and cuddly answers to make it be like hey its gonna be okay dude

“Nagara”

HOOOOOOO IM SOBBING

To stay true to your values, to of course stay true to yourself but acknowledge your shortcomings. Do your best to pay back the consideration that’s given to you. Chase after your dreams and please please please don’t get tired and give up or run away. Their last encounter before running off as the song plays them out… omfg… my besties for the resties are okay, they know it’s gonna be tough and it might not be all that in the end but nothing is more important than trusting and loving yourself through it all. Be kind to yourself and try to let yourself follow whatever motivation that is that you can see, and with that, even when it’s dreary you’ll be able to find solace and content in the fact that you trust yourself enough to believe in the path you chose. No matter what anyone says you ultimately get to make those decisions for you, it’s why some characters outright refused Ms. Aki, they didn’t want someone else telling them what their lives meant. In the end of the day, those who follow may or may not find reach their stars, but who knows better where you would like to go than you (:

I loved this show so much.

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don’t say goodbye

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I do still have thoughts about Sonny boy and probably will for a while but I kind of am glad Nozomi and asakaze are together and happy in the new world because it kind of clarifies how the hardships that the “this worlds” gave made them face their demons much quicker in a way and nozomi just hated how asakaze refused to face his own demons/ran away from them. it makes sense that the new world just erases that for them bc otherwise they do seem like a really solid match personality-wise lol. it also is just another echo of “nothing that we do changes the world” and maybe in that universe they really just do get together and it’s all fine bc it’s not like what happened in the “this worlds” really made a difference anyway

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So I know it’s obvious that Sonny Boy is a coming of age story, and I’m not active in the discussion circles but before they revealed it they established enough clues in the show for me and I’m sure others to infer that the reason Nagara had the power to drift or be the “observer” of all these worlds is because he was indecisive about his future back in their world, and since everyone demand him to make a decision he quite literally “ran away” (especially symbolic with episode 1′s ending of him and Nozomi running off the school rooftop to the main “This World” of the island).

After episode 6, I wasn’t sure where the story was going to go since it felt like a perfect, but bittersweet ending. But now that I’ve seen episode 7, I think I have an idea about what the show is going into. Everyone is now able to leave “This World” if they want, in other words, everyone has decided on their futures, like they had in reality. Nagara still hasn’t really decided on his future, although he is starting to have a goal, as seen with him looking at the notebook with info on World Creation at the end. I think it is interesting that Nagara, Nozomi, Mizuho, and Asakaze are the ones left behind on the island (ignoring the dog character for now) not just because they are the more “main” characters, but because their character arcs and in turn their powers are all very reliant on them not being alone. Nozomi can see the light of other worlds, but she can’t travel to them without Nagara to observe them (at least I’m inferring this. We saw them able to jump around a few episodes ago without Nagara, when the teacher and the other students were hunting him and they all were hiding in another world, but I’m assuming as long as Nagara has “observed” a world once and the others had that piece of cloth from the other world that they can jump around without him but only between those locations). In episode 1, even though she ran and jumped off the school roof, we don’t know what would have happened if she and Nagara hadn’t fallen together into the light. So, her power is reliant on Nagara, and similarly, Mizuho did originally use her power of having things delivered for her own use, but it was more for her to hold it over others (by withholding items from those who were mean to her), and so alone as well she doesn’t have a purpose, or she feels like she doesn’t have a purpose, so she will not travel outside the group. With Nozomi though, we also have the new mystery of why she was dead at the original world’s graduation ceremony. Could it have been that when they first went adrift, she had already “jumped” off the school roof on her first day as a transfer student? She did meet Nagara on the roof after all, and her being able to see the light (especially her remark at the end of episode 6 about “what is that light then/what does it mean”) makes it all point to her being able to “see the light” because she has died. 

With Asakaze though, he is also tied to Nagara, although not really powerwise. Although Nozomi has been the most friendly to Nagara, Asakaze feels like the character most emotionally tied to him. He started off as someone not close to the main group in episode 1, but once they started doing experiments and exploring the rules of “This World”, Asakaze ended up hanging out with Nagara more. It was not explicitly stated, but we can infer that he was upset and in a way felt abandoned when Nagara and the others left him briefly, and not able to communicate this effectively, he built up resentment due to his internalized loneliness and then sought out the comfort of the false teacher, who was someone who was willing to pay him attention. Now that she too is gone, Asakaze is trying to coax Nozomi to come with him, because he is angry at Nagara and unable to resolve this divide between them now, a divide only he sees but Nagara does not, and so though Asakaze does not want to be alone and wants all of them to come with him, his character arc and probably the ending of the story will hinge on him and Nagara resolving this divide- Asakaze was also a nobody in a way like Nagara was, but because Nagara was more of a nobody Asakaze was not upset or lonely. But now that Nagara has started developing a goal, Asakaze is being left behind, and so he has swapped places. Although his main power is to fly/float, we first saw him demonstrate his ability to almost crack the world, and so if Nagara is an observer, then I feel like Asakaze is being set up to be the destroyer or eraser, the exact opposite.