On the official page for the director’s original anime Shingo natsume (One Punch Man, ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka, Space Dandy) and study Madhouse, Sonny boy, a new promotional image was published for the project. The press release from Funimation revealed more details: “Interest in Sonny Boy is only growing! In addition to a new visual, more information about the soundtrack was revealed. Artists from Japan, Taiwan and South Korea are involved, under the direction of the legendary Shinichiro Watanabe!».
The series is scheduled to premiere on July 15 in Japan, with Funimation responsible for sales in the west. There will be a special online event on June 19, where the first episode will be pre-broadcast. Further details will be announced shortly.
Cast
Left to right:
- Aoi Ichikawa as Nagara, the protagonist.
- Saori Oonishi as Nozomi, a transfer student who has just returned to Japan from Berlin.
- Aoi Yuuki as Mizuho, a classmate who is always surrounded by three cats that belonged to her grandmother.
- Chiaki Kobayashi as Asakaze, a rather rebellious classmate who hates being bossed around.
Production team
- Shingo natsume (One Punch Man, ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka, Space Dandy) is responsible for directing the anime in the studios Madhouse, as well as writing and maintaining the scripts.
- Norifumi Kugai (ACCA: 13-ku Kansatsu-ka) takes care of the character design based on the original drafts of the manga artist and illustrator Hisashi euguchi (Perfect blue, Roujin Z, stop! Hibari-kun, Mujin Wakusei survive).
- Mari Fuji (Dororo) of Studio Pablo is responsible for the art direction with the assistant of Ken Hashimoto as a color artist.
- The lead singer and guitarist of the band Went nang boyz, Kazunobu Mineta wrote the lyrics for the title track entitled “Shonen Shoujo”.
Sonny Boy synopsis
The science fiction drama revolves around 36 boys and girls. On August 16, in the middle of a seemingly endless summer vacation, the third year Nagara High School student, the mysterious transfer student Nozomi and classmates like Mizuho and Asakaze are suddenly transported from their quiet everyday life to a school in New York into another dimension. You have to survive with the superpowers they have awakened within you.
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