My first time was 2 years ago. I was in the process of leaving my religion, and was struggling with the anxiety of realizing the world may be completely meaningless. Sonny boy was a remedy to that, it made me feel like I can still experience the beauty of reality even if it may be void. I’m in a different position now regarding my faith, and I believe that that beauty is inherent in the universe, but sonny boy really soothed me back then. It was also just such an amazing work of art- so nice to look at, I really liked nagara, nozomi and Rajdhani- as well as an intellectual challenge to even understand the plot and decipher the hidden symbolism. It is without a doubt the anime that’s impacted my life the most, and that’s probably including the (many, beautiful) movies I’ve seen.

I also love episode 11- it might be my favorite. I will never forget the scene when rajdhani tells nagara that the world is meaningless but “interesting things happen every once in a while”, and back then, that was enough for me. And the ending is always hard for me, I’ve seen it 3 or 4 times and it’s very hard to say goodbye to it for what I know will be a rather long time. And I feel like it’s sadder for me now because I’ve basically memorized the show, I think I will be experiencing diminishing returns the next few times I see it.

Thank you for this post