All three of these videos have been excellent, thanks for all your hard work. I hope these do something to encourage those on the fence to check out Sonny Boy, or give it a second chance if they found it too confusing or inscrutable at first. Waiting for your next entry on the show's themes will be a very hard wait!
The white vase/white flowers combo that Nozomi breaks makes me think of the kind you place on a butsudan - the family shrine where you set memorial tablets. The fact that it's broken could represent a whole host of things, but it would have stronger connotations of taboo or desecration, a complication in her relationship to mortality or the social conventions around the dead, and would tie in with her narrative of discovering in the Director's Cut that she's no longer alive.
Thanks, I love making them. I think I'd miss a lot otherwise; even while editing these I'm always partially frustrated at the new things I find that I wish I would have said, heh.
Thank you for talking about this masterpiece, I'm able to pick some details and nuances but you really help me understand and linking even more this anime thank you!!!
Splendid video as always, θ with an 8. Some people in unrelated discussion groups picked up the fact that everyone is named from trains like the Rajdhani Express or the Midnight Nagara. I'm not sure what the exact significance of this is though I have my thoughts on this, but it was an interesting detail I read about and wanted to share. Keep up the great work and God bless you, Th8a. It's always a good day when I see you posting a video.
Thanks! Someone in the discord had brought up the train thing but I haven't looked too much into it or thought a lot about how it could related. I'm always nervous about external references if I don't immediately recognize them or think I have an idea of what they are going for. But this next script is more about the 'ideas,' so perhaps something will click. I hope, haha.
@@NearlyOnRed I still think that the ending will feature several references to Night on the Galactic Express with Fast Train playing in the background. Joking aside, I think it's a prudent decision on your part, especially in cases where religious imagery isn't particularly significant to the analysis of shows like Evangelion, though the counterargument to this would be Land of the Lustrous where it's very relevant.
i dont know why but everytime that scene in nagara's house with all the garbage lying around makes me imagine her mother is dead and is just a dacaying corpse in her room.
man your videos on sonny boy rule. u really put a lot of effort into these and we really appreciate them! makes me look forward to the new weekly sonny boy episodes even more
While I can’t say this show is deep, I can call it well crafted and dense with visual detail. If you want to prove the power of how animation can express ideas, this is a definite contender…. This and the entire catalog of Satoshi Kon’s work
One thing that has come up a few times in streams is a similar idea -- that this show really leverages its medium; it wouldn't land the same in another format. A real strength of it.
Hmm... Probably the reason why Nozomi shuts down everyone else is because she is afraid of everyone else, once they know of Terminal-Nozomi, will shut her down back, abandoning her. Maybe that's the reason why she doesn't conform and makes no attempts at first, probably it happened to her before, and the reason why she fixes on Nagara is because she caught a glimpse of someone who, maybe, if he knows about her condition, wouldn't shut her out but instead would be there for her.
@@alanway5 She doesn't strike me as someone who is thinking of suicide. There's a very specific pattern for those that think of suicide and she doesn't exhibit any of those traits. Her energetic self makes more sense if she knows she's about to die and suddenly was granted unlimited time to live her life. Maybe the last struggle of the show will be of her willingness to go back to a life where she is about to die instead of this current life of indefinite time that lets her live as a somewhat normal kid, and her choosing to leave, since it has been established that her power lets her see the way back.... unless something changes, of course.
I was confused when Rajdhani experimented with death, and with the conclusion that we cannot die in drift world. But Nozomi dies when she falls off a cliff. And when they returned to their original world, Nozomi had not died and looked healthy. Does this have anything to do with Mizuho's power? Or Mizuho's cat?
It's not that Mizuho feels she needs to be punished, but (like her statement about the rigged student election) nobody would support her so she couldn't change the situation. That mindset (as well as Nagara's paralell with the death bird almost being 2) is reflected in her words "what can I do alone?'' She only talked to clarify things after Nagara and Nozomi went along her in front of the class.
i wonder what you watched on because i watched sonny boy through hulu and the ED was always translated if i saw it on my tv vs on my phone. i think. oh i can’t remember…
I have a feeling this will never get a part 3... whole reason I subbed to the channel is because of this channels sonny boy analysis but it has been so long now that even the dub finished airing months ago so I doubt the channel is gonna continue. What a shame...no point for me to follow the channel then. Sorry
Those videos are freking amazing! Are you gonna do the other episodes as well? I can't wait to know your opinion about the finale Btw i truly suggest you to cut the video in shorter videos instead of just one with different sections, 5 20 minutes video are a way user friendly than 1 of one hour In the end great work and i really hope to see the rest
This channel is simply great, very few are currently talking about anime and it saddens me a lot because it has different readings and a somewhat hidden but motivating message. I hope the subs keep going up, as do the visits. Go for more
Now that I have finished the series, I still can't understand why pretty much the only 2 that had literally no friends, family, or connections whatsoever to their original world, were the only 2 that wanted to go back in the end...this just confused me and broke my heart a little :(
i think there are two things id say motivated this. these were the two who were most influenced by Nozomi, the girl who had the drive to say "this might be how God rolled the dice but it I will not just say reality is too harsh and sit idly". they were the ones who had understood that the most precisely because it contrasted their own lives. The other main thing is that it was shown to everyone that they were essentially copies now. going back would send them into the middle of what is pretty much someone else's life at this point. there would be such a massive disconnect between the world as they know it now and the reality everyone else sees it to be. it's not like their family and friends missed them anyways. they dont know them anymore The one exception to this would be my boy Rajdhani the Best Boy. the reason he specifically couldnt go back is because he had spent 2000 years already due to time dilation. he couldnt go back. he would die. Just like Yamabiko