They visit their ill mother at the hospital. He was sent to the home along with his little brother Shosuke ( 笑介). Junsuke ( 純助) An artistic, musically-inclined and playful boy. He feels uneasy at the home and does not really try at the beginning to connect with the other kids, believing that his parents will come back any day now.

Sei Yamashita ( 山下静, Yamashita Sei ) A bespectacled smart quiet boy and a newcomer to the Star Kids. Haruo keeps a round tin of Nivea which reminds him her smell. Her mother left him in the Star Kids and they reunite on occasion. He deeply cares about the other kids at the home, getting in trouble if it requires it to help them. The Sunny is used by the children to go magically wherever they want, travel the world, go into space, or just find a refuge from the troubles of reality.Ĭharacters Haruo Yano ( 矢野春男, Yano Haruo) Also referred as 'White' ( ホワイト, Howaito), is a rebellious white-haired boy who is usually fantasizing inside the Sunny and getting into fights. Their only way out from their situation is the Sunny, a dilapidated old car in the front lawn of the home. They struggle with both the everyday issues of growing up and those specific of being abandoned or orphaned children. Sunny is the story about the foster children of the Star Kids home, a combination group home/orphanage facility. Sunny won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category in 2016 and received an Excellence Award at the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2017. The manga was licensed for English release in North America by Viz Media. Its chapters were collected in six wide-ban volumes. It was later transferred to Monthly Big Comic Spirits, being serialized from January to July 2015. It was serialized in Shogakukan's seinen manga magazine Monthly Ikki from December 2010 to September 2014, when the magazine ceased publication.

Sunny is a Japanese slice of life manga series written and illustrated by Taiyō Matsumoto.

竹光侍 一 by Taiyo Matsumoto

竹光侍一 by Taiyo Matsumoto