Sonny Boy

Just finished this. Was this anime basically just a Murakami novel animate? It was an okay watch, with the visuals and silliness of some plot elements being the standouts. But the characters are thin as paper, and the series feels like it does its best to obscure a relatively simple message that it doesn't want to take the effort to justify to the audience anyway.

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If you want novel tier anime just rewatch Shinsekai yori

Just post the monkey pasta and let this shotty thread die.

post the pasta

There are restrictions set for discussing Sonny Boy until 2043. Until then, all that is allowed is the monkey baseball.

>when the monkey hits the baseball

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The monkey league is a baseball league here in the world of Monkey Mountain,
played by the great monkeys, which started when the first ball and bat
and the rules of the game were handed down to them.
In the Monkey League, a number of great players arose
from among the nameless monkeys,
whose faces and appearances all looked the same.
They included the legendary home run king,
who batted an unprecedented, record-breaking
80 home runs in one year, Steroid Monkey;
the one who bested the god of batting, Monkey River's career batting average
by two thousandths, the miracle hitting machine, Upper Monkey;
the greatest catcher of the Bigfoot era, Mister Monkey;
later, as manager, he would go on to break the record for most league wins,
with a legendary ten-season-long streak!
Then came the golden age of the M-League.
A miracle monkey came along
and shattered those previous legends one by one--
the monster, Monkey Blue!
This maverick of the league was the only one with blue hair,
who, despite weathering ugly discrimination and crafty persecution,
triumphed over them with overwhelming talent, ultimately becoming a hero,
and a symbol of hope for the monkeys!
Although a rookie, Blue put the brakes to the king, Steroid Monkey!
Breaking his bat as well as his heart, Blue drove him to retirement.
Then, with his mighty pitching arm,
Blue led the underdog team Monkey and Club to victory,
preventing Bigfoot's championship streak from reaching 11.
The public accepted this new hair color,
and there was no doubt in anybody's mind
that the era of Monkey Blue had begun! But then...
...that great tragedy, when a near-perfect game was foiled,
and a monkey was killed, took place!

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I watched it while it was airing with really shitty subtitles and was sort of just confused through most of the watch. Still liked it, probably gotta watch it again eventually.

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How is it similar to any Murakami novel at all? Wait a minute, are you that retarded Mauritanian dude who is always namedropping authors/directors while simultaneously displaying your inability to grasp any of the concepts they're attempting to relay in their work?

I admit that I have only read a single Murakami novel, not a fan. I felt that it had a lot in common with his style and what people seem to value in it. Surrealism and absurdism without much deeper meaning, opaque characters. To be clear even though I don't like Murakami I'm not trying to say this work is bad just because it resembles his style. As I explained above, I think its big problems are the lack of character development and the intended message of the story feeling totally at odds with the plot.

>drifting classroom but for ironicfags that are too retarded to read it because its old therefore doesn't exist

I know of Drifting Classroom but haven't read it. How would you say it compares to this series?

Sonny Boy and Drifting Classroom are similar in the same way that Transformers and Patlabor are similar. Apart from the most shallow of setting similarities they're not.

>Murakami
Sounds like you haven't even read him.

Ah yes, Drifting Classroom, real high IQ entertainment.

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is studio pablo the basedest background studio out here?

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Yeaaah, that's why his novels translated over the world, stupid masses haha.
In all seriousness, Murakami writes about male melancholy, interacting with the world through the prism of women (they are a kind of medium/shaman). The mysticism and action of the novels take place when the hero begins to lose touch with the world. Nevertheless, I suggest you better get into his themes. I recommend watching the movie "Drive My Car", it lays out the basic idea of his books with minimal mysticism. And Sonny Boy is a different league. It's about escapism, made from 25-26 evangelion's ep.

Last episode felt like a proper ending of some 90s movie that I can't remember. Beautiful, sad and pragmatic.

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I love this kinographic series like you wouldn't believe

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