Warning! This post contains spoilers for Sunny episode 8.

Summary

• Episode 8 of Sunny ends with a major cliffhanger about Masa’s fate and reveals his past milestones and secrets to Suzie.
• Masa’s journey as a hikikomori and his talent in robotics are highlighted, leading to an interesting twist and familial revelations.
• Sunny’s eighth episode explores Masa’s true calling as a roboticist and how that relates to his humanity, setting the stage for the final story arc.

After taking place mainly in a past timeline, Sunny Episode 8 ends on a major cliffhanger, raising questions about the fate of the titular Home Bot. Almost all Sunny episodes feature intriguing flashbacks in their opening moments before turning their focus back to Rashida Jones’ Suzie’s present timeline. Episode 8, however, takes a different approach by featuring flashback for almost its entire runtime, highlighting some key milestones in Masa’s past that are of immense importance to the overarching plot.

During this flashback, the episode of the sci-fi series on Apple TV+ also recounts his journey as a hikikomori and explains why it eventually led him to work on robots. After learning several details about Masa’s past, Suzie becomes even more curious about why he kept so many things secret from her. But before she can fully process these thoughts, Sunny episode 8 introduces a twist that leads to an intriguing cliffhanger.

8 A flashback reveals Masa’s first encounter with his real father

Hiromasa encouraged Masa to leave his room when he was a hikikomori

Like everyone Sunny Episode 8 also begins with a flashback showing how Masa was always neglected by his stepfather. Even when Masa appears on his deathbed, his mother prevents him from meeting him. After being ignored by his father his entire life, Masa decides to lock himself in his room and lives as a hikikomori for several years after his stepfather’s death. Despite Noriko’s best efforts, he refuses to leave his room and finds himself in solitude rather than facing the outside world.

Desperate to get him out of his room, Noriko contacts his biological father Hiromasa in the hope that he will give Masa a reason to leave. When Hiromasa first shows up at Masa’s door and tries to persuade him to leave, even his methods are in vain. But when Finally, he tells Masa that he is his biological father and offers him to stay aloneMasa finally agrees to leave his room.

7 The flashback reveals the true identity of Masa’s father

Hiromasa was the first to recognize Masa’s talent for robotics

Interestingly, the flashback confirms that Hiromasa is the same man who brought Sunny to Suzie’s house in the opening episode of the series. The opening arc of Sunny Episode 8 also reveals that Hiromasa had initially encouraged Masa to work on robots at his company. But even though Hiromasa was part of Masa’s robot journey from the beginning, he seems to have no idea what might have happened to him.

6 The review shows how Masa started working on homebots

What begins as a passion project ultimately helps Masa find his true calling

In the flashback of episode 8, Masa moves into a remote cabin after his father convinces him to leave his room. The cabin is equipped with everything Masa needs during his stay and houses a Homebot. Although Masa initially wreaks havoc without caring much about the consequences, he gradually becomes more interested in robotics after meeting the Trash Bot at his home. When Masa realizes that the Trash Bot has several inconsistencies and errors in its programming, he begins working on making it a more effective cleaner.

The more he observes Masa’s interactions with the Trash Bot, the more he realizes how talented his son is.

As he does so, Hiromasa keeps a close eye on him and realizes that he is different from any other roboticist he has ever met. Hiromasa notices Masa not only manages to transform the Homebot into a more effective cleaner, but also encodes several human characteristics into itwhich seemingly makes him sentient in more ways than one. The more he observes Masa’s interactions with the Trash Bot, the more he realizes how gifted his son is.

5 Masa’s true calling as a roboticist becomes clear

While working on the Trash Bot, he rediscovers his own humanity

After noticing how Masa changes while working on the Trash Bot, Hiromasa comes to an intriguing conclusion. He says that Masa’s goal as a roboticist is not just to improve a robot’s code and make it more human. Instead, his sense of purpose comes from him Discovering his own humanity while working on the robots. This is an interesting revelation, as it also highlights how spending time with Suzie helped Sunny understand her true purpose, and how spending time with Sunny after Masa’s disappearance helped Suzie retain aspects of her own humanity.

4 Masa confronts his mother for hiding the truth from him

Masa learns the truth about the relationship between his mother and Hiromasa

Towards the end of episode 8’s flashback, Masa becomes increasingly frustrated with Hiromasa for abandoning him and his mother. He also confronts Norkio for keeping him in the dark and not telling him the truth about his stepfather. To everyone’s surprise, Masa’s Trash Bot mirrors his feelings by attacking Hiromasa and treating him like trash.

Through this family dispute, Masa realizes that Hiromasa never wanted to stay away from him. Noriko made the conscious decision to raise him with his stepfather Shigeru.. Shigeru always hated him and refused to interact with him because he did not consider him as his own son. Although Noriko had grown distant from Hiromasa, he secretly met with him whenever possible.

3 Hiromasa says Masa visited him a few days before his disappearance

The reason for Masa’s disappearance is becoming increasingly clear

After the end of the flashback of episode 8, the present timeline starts where Sunny Episode 7 ended showing an interaction between Hiromasa and Suzie. While Suzie wonders why Masa hasn’t told her about his family, Hiromasa hacks into Sunny and searches the GPS trackers. Hiromasa, Suzie, and Mixxy soon realize that Sunny’s system shows four people with GPS trackers. Since they previously assumed that only three trackers existed, they become curious about the identity of the fourth person.

The fact that Masa knew how to build killer robots that would take lives to protect him also suggests that Sunny might have killed a Yakuza offshoot to protect him.

Hiromasa also reveals that he left Sunny with him before Masa disappeared and asked him to give her to Suzie. This suggests that Masa had a vague idea that his life was in danger. He apparently knew that the Yakuza were after him, and revealed why he gave Sunny to Suzie as a gift, to ensure she was safe. The fact that Masa knew how to build killer robots that would take lives to protect him also suggests that Sunny may have killed someone from the Yakuza to save herself from a potential threat. This could explain why Hime’s father wanted her to find Sunny and Masa.

2 Suzie finally finds her son

She and Mixxy follow the fourth tracker

In Sunny In the final moments of episode 8, Suzie and Mixxy set out to find the fourth marker, hoping it will lead them to Masa’s whereabouts. However, to Suzie’s dismay, the tracker suddenly disappears as soon as she arrives at the spot where it had previously appeared. Suzie and Mixxy then split up to look for more clues. Just then, Suzie hears her son scream, which encourages her to redouble her efforts to find him.

Suzie follows his voice and eventually enters a room where she sees him from a distance. Unfortunately, before she can reunite with her son, she is caught by one of Hime’s men and has his gun pointed at her head. At that moment, Sunny comes out of nowhere and seems to want to hurt Suzie. But surprisingly, instead of attacking Suzie, Sunny hits the man who had threatened Suzie with the gun.

1 Sunny turns off after saving Suzie at the end of episode 8

The cliffhanger ending paves the way for the show’s final story arc

Although Sunny manages to save the day towards the end of episode 8, the ground beneath her suddenly breaks apart and she falls into a dark abyss. This scene seems to indicate that before Sunny can do any more damage, someone will either override her code to take her out or She has a built-in mechanism that causes her to lose consciousness if she violates her programming. Sunny Episode 9 will explain more about this and reveal whether Masa is still alive.

New Sunny Episodes are released every Wednesday on Apple TV+.