8.1/10239 votes#1 - The Island at the Far End of Summer
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/16/2021
Midway through summer vacation, 36 students, some with newfound super-powers, find themselves all alone in their high school, adrift in a black void, unable to contact the outside world. Some students try to impose order, but are faced with opposition.
Director: Shingo Natsume
Writer: Shingo Natsume
7.6/10187 votes#2 - Aliens
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/23/2021
The students have relocated to a nearby island, where they have no shortage of food, and can get whatever they want through Mizuho's power. Suddenly, unexplained fires begin breaking out, and the hunt is on to find out who or what is causing them.
Director: Tomoya Kitagawa
Writer: Shingo Natsume
7.8/10177 votes#3 - The Cat Who Wore Sandals
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/30/2021
Nagara, Nozomi, Asakaze, and Rajdhani continue searching for new worlds. Students start going missing, and their bodies are found "frozen" into black shells, so Pony asks Mizuho to look into the matter. Mizuho reveals a surprise about her power to Nagara.
Director: Keiichiro Saito
Writer: Shingo Natsume
6.9/10182 votes#4 - The Great Monkey Baseball
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/6/2021
As the castaways swim in a mysterious sinkhole, they seem to be momentarily taken back home. Cap invites Nagara to practice baseball with him, leading to him telling about the Monkey League, and how its star pitcher, Blue, missed out on a perfect game.
Director: Lim Ka-hee
Writer: Shingo Natsume
7.7/10159 votes#5 - Leaping Classrooms
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/13/2021
Nagara and friends use his power to survey new worlds in an effort to get back home. Meanwhile, the others students discuss the bombshell from Ms. Aki that some students were able to use their powers beforehand, and that may be what set them adrift.
Director: Rei Ishikura
Writer: Shingo Natsume
8.5/10191 votes#6 - The Long Goodbye
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/20/2021
Nagara and Rajdhani arrive in a world called "Filmmaker," and discover a movie filmed entirely from Nagara's POV. Mizuho discovers a stray dog by the name of Yamabiko, claiming to be another castaway who attended the same school as the other students.
Director: Tomoya Kitagawa
Writer: Shingo Natsume
8.0/10152 votes#7 - Road Book
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/27/2021
Having learned the truth about This World, groups led by Ms. Aki and Hoshi prepare to go their separate ways. Nagara finds himself in an upside-down world he cannot freely leave, and is forced to work on building a Tower of Babel that reaches downward.
Director: Kento Matsui
Writer: Shingo Natsume
8.7/10178 votes#8 - Laughing Dog
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 9/3/2021
While traveling the wilderness, Mizuho asks Yamabiko how he became a dog. Yamabiko then relates how, 5000 years ago, he wandered different worlds all alone, until meeting a girl to whom he gradually opened his heart. But their happiness was short-lived.
Director: Keiichiro Saito
Writer: Shingo Natsume
7.5/10137 votes#9 - This Salmon Chazuke Is Missing Its Salmon Nya
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 9/10/2021
In a vast frozen waste, twins Sou and Seiji have been fighting each other for millennia. Ms. Aki says that to change the world, they need the twins' "Reverse" power, and Nagara and Mizuho come to assist. Yamabiko questions Sakura, one of Mizuho's cats.
Director: Atsushi Kashiwa
Writer: Shingo Natsume
7.8/10140 votes#10 - Summer and the Demon
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 9/17/2021
Kossetsu reads the minds of others passing by in a train station world using her true power. She pines for Asakaze, knowing that he is interested in Nozomi, and that Nozomi is the only one who can change him. Asakaze is given a world-changing assignment.
Director: Tomoya Kitagawa, Kento Matsui
Writer: Shingo Natsume
8.6/10170 votes#11 - The Young Man and the Sea
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/24/2021
After learning of Nozomi's death from Kossetsu's letter, Nagara and Mizuho hold a memorial service for her. While advancing the project to return home, they are visited by an old friend, who tells them the story of when he met the man who invented death.
Director: Nichika Ono
Writer: Shingo Natsume
9.0/10199 votes#12 - A Two-Year Recess
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 10/1/2021
Nagara attends the opening ceremony of his technical school, but feels out of place. He sees Mizuho leaving her all-girls' school, but she brushes him off. He recalls what happened after blasting off into space, questioning if he ever really went adrift.
Director: Shingo Natsume
Writer: Shingo Natsume
The Best Episodes of Sonny Boy Season 1
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On August 16, midway through a seemingly endless summer vacation, middle school third-year student Nagara, the mysterious transfer student Nozomi, and classmates such as Mizuho...
Genres:AnimationDramaMysterySci-Fi & Fantasy
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Island at the Far End of Summer" is the best rated episode of "Sonny Boy" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 239 votes. Directed by Shingo Natsume and written by Shingo Natsume, it aired on 7/16/2021. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Aliens".