Anyone else notice?

jinayvora21 said:
It felt to me as a much better weekly show than a binge watch. A week allows you to process the developments and enter into discussions with friends and community. Curious to know the reason behind the gradual rise in score...

-Elevate- said:
if i hadn’t watched sonny boy weekly i wouldn’t have watched it to begin with afterwards but eh to me i had problems with the characters not having inner monologues. i’m a bit stupid to understand symbolism & shit like that so i was super fucking confused most of the time. again i read subs most of the time on the screen and if i wanted or not some of the symbolism crap i am bound to miss especially if the stupid german sub has some complicated words i barely use and thus have to think twice about what it means. so i definitely would have liked sonny boy more if the characters explained their actions through monologues but aside from that animation was top notch so i ended up with a 5/10

danielsalt said:
Seems that Sonny Boy stats got refreshed recently. Jumped to #889 in popularity, I think it used to be around #1000, and the score jumped from a 7.67 to a 7.73

I'm telling you time will treat this show very well, as scores from binge watchers start taking over the scores from uninterested seasonal viewers 😎

Apolygon2 said:


mark my words, years from now people will realize what a masterpiece this was.

I firmly believe this to be a near flawless execution of it's genre, and the only people complaining are the ones that just don't like these types of shows.

The only thing that would make it better is if there was more of it

danielsalt said:


It was an intentional choice not to have inner monologues, because Natsume felt that it shoves the author's ideas in your face and doesn't allow for any interpretations or conclusions from the viewer themself, this form essentially has the viewer engage with what is presented instead of having it fed to them. We all consume media in different ways, so some will enjoy this more while others prefer to sit back and be told a story more explicitly. There's no right or wrong way to enjoy anime after all, but that's what Natsume intended to do anyways.

P.S. if the subtitles distracted you too much, I suggest you watch the dub as it's pretty good too, if you can understand it without too much of a hassle that is.

murisio said:

he actually didn’t implement monologues to reflect a more realistic development watched from the outside, but he made sure for the audience to at least grasp the characters’ intentions by what the mixture of what they do, say and how they do all of that. Here’s the quote: "Now, by doing away with the monologues, it's inevitable that the viewer can only tell what a character is going through emotionally by watching how they act. And there's a kind of... How can I say this? I ended up creating a sort of internal grammar, you might call it, a visual grammar, as a result of that."