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After five years of harboring unspoken feelings, high-schooler Taiju Ooki is finally ready to confess his love to Yuzuriha Ogawa. Just when Taiju begins his confession however, a blinding green light strikes the Earth and petrifies mankind around the world—turning every single human into stone. Several millennia later, Taiju awakens to find the modern world completely nonexistent, as nature has flourished in the years humanity stood still. Among a stone world of statues, Taiju encounters one other living human: his science-loving friend Senkuu, who has been active for a few months. Taiju learns that Senkuu has developed a grand scheme—to launch the complete revival of civilization with science. Taiju's brawn and Senkuu's brains combine to forge a formidable partnership, and they soon uncover a method to revive those petrified. However, Senkuu's master plan is threatened when his ideologies are challenged by those who awaken. All the while, the reason for mankind's petrification remains unknown. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
After five years of harboring unspoken feelings, high-schooler Taiju Ooki is finally ready to confess his love to Yuzuriha Ogawa. Just when Taiju begins his confession however, a blinding green light strikes the Earth and petrifies mankind around the world—turning every single human into stone. Several millennia later, Taiju awakens to find the modern world completely nonexistent, as nature has flourished in the years humanity stood still. Among a stone world of statues, Taiju encounters one other living human: his science-loving friend Senkuu, who has been active for a few months. Taiju learns that Senkuu has developed a grand scheme—to launch the complete revival of civilization with science. Taiju's brawn and Senkuu's brains combine to forge a formidable partnership, and they soon uncover a method to revive those petrified. However, Senkuu's master plan is threatened when his ideologies are challenged by those who awaken. All the while, the reason for mankind's petrification remains unknown. [Written by MAL Rewrite]
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mpdissonance
December 18, 2019
Dr. Stone is an anime with a fascinating premise and a very intriguing world. On first pass, it looks competently animated, the plot progression is quite enjoyable, and hints at fascinating themes. With all those features, surely this series had to be quite great and I’m writing a rave review of it. Right? Well, in this stone world impossible things are possible. Despite all this series had going for it, it was wildly, ridiculously flawed. Dr. Stone is sophomorically directed, cartoonishly over-acted, and the largely decent soundtrack is used incorrectly. It’s childishly written, and its characters were unbearably cliché and plastic. It’s somehow simultaneously annoyinglypretentious and crudely constructed. I will start with on positive note. The premise is incredibly intriguing. One day, some cataclysmic event causes every human being on earth to freeze in stone. Over 3,000 years later, a genius-level teenager, our main character Senku, and his brutish friend, Taiju, become unfrozen. Senku is now tasked with using all his scientific knowledge to rebuild human society from scratch. However, they unfreeze our main antagonist, Tsukasa, out of necessity. Tsukasa decides that a premodern world without scientific knowledge and liberal ideologies surrounding it would be better as the strong could survive, and evil people from modern society couldn’t corrupt the purity of the strong. This premise, to quote Senku’s overly repeated catchphrase, has the potential to be “exhilarating.” We have themes explicitly discussed about the relationship of scientific knowledge to social progress and political ideologies, pitting modern liberal egalitarianism against a radically inegalitarian critique of individualism of modern society. As well as the potential for a fascinating, rewarding, almost RPG-like plot for the trials and tribulations of building scientific advancements out of nothing. Instead of fleshing out those themes and premise, we get subjected to a cliche battle shounen/comedy replete with the most obnoxious of shounen tropes. Our main protagonist comes off like an obnoxious, pretentious Rick and Morty fan. He has little to no personality outside of the fact that he’s a stereotypical ‘genius science guy’ that is minimally built up using the most annoying tropes. He has no need for personal relationships and views everyone instrumentally, which just contradicts the whole thematic contrast that is explicitly brought to light at with his early arguments with Tsukasa. I can put up with unlikable main characters, but Senku is unlikable in ways that contradict the themes the anime pretty much throws in your face. As a result of marred execution, the themes this anime pretends to have just make absolutely no sense. Further, like most other characters in this anime, Senku’s development is non-existent and his entire development is unsubtly thrown in your face with the most obnoxious, predictable tropes (eg., he literally wears a shirt that says E=MC^2 for Christ’s sake, which might as well be from Big Bang Theory). Taiju is a typically bland shounen protagonist, driven only by love for a girl thousands of years ago at first that is quickly resolved, and then is just a rather useless energetic idiot. But it’s not a big deal, because he’s essentially entirely forgotten after about the tenth episode. Tsukasa, meanwhile, is just not sympathetic in anyway and is built up to just be a stereotypical badass with a stiff-to-non-existent. Taiju’s love interest, Yuzihara, is about as poorly written as a shounen female character could possibly be. She has no personality at all, and seems to only exist as a cheap excuse for occasional trashy weeb fan service. As the plot progresses, Senku gets separated from Taiju and Yuzihara and he comes across a primitive village full of the descendants of the only survivors of the freezing. Senku starts using his rather unbelievable level of scientific knowledge to make the village more scientifically advanced, while Tsukasa goes off to unfreeze those he deems worthy to build his own somewhat anarcho-primitivist society. Little attention is given to Tsukasa for the rest of the series, as well as Taiju and Yuzihara who join his society as informants to Senku. They are largely ignored for the rest of the series, which brings to mind one of the worst traits of series like HunterxHunter and Naruto: forgetting important characters and plot points for extended lengths of time that makes everything in between feel like filler. It would’ve been better served if it would’ve shown what was going on with the antagonist and given a chance to develop the rest of the characters. The rest of the season is essentially just an expository build-up to the inevitable war between Senku’s Kingdom of Science and Taiju’s Kingdom of stone which will happen in season two. The cast of characters in the village is notably better than the cast we started with for the first ten episodes. There’s Chrome, a curious villager who becomes Senku’s protégé and is essentially a smarter version of your typical Shounen protagonist. Ginro, a boisterous and vain guard. Kohaku, the younger sister of the village cheif who is essentially the only somewhat well-written female character in the series. Run, the village’s princess and a cliché damsel in distress. Gen, a vain mentalist from modern society who was unfrozen and decided to join Senku because he wants modern conveniences. Kaseki, an ever-resourceful craftsman who helps Senku in his inventions. Magma, who has ambitions to be village leader and distrusts Senku for potentially taking that away from him. As well as a host of others. None of them are particularly well written, but some of the dynamics they have are at least passably entertaining and minor characters, though understandably underdeveloped, are less cliché and stiff than the main cast. Most of the middle portion of the series involves Senku earning the trust of the villagers by building modern conveniences for them. Things from simple frivolities like decorative spears and ramen, to unbelievable advancements like electricity generators and antibiotics. Here, the writers really stretch your willing suspension of disbelief. Sure, the basic premise does a bit and unbelievable feats are forgivable in a shonen, but for a show ostensibly about science it is wildly unrealistic. The idea that Senku as a teenager is an expert on every single aspect of modern technology is ridiculous, a lot of the ways they build the technology are wildly crude for the precise results they get (like vacuum tubes, prescription glasses, and chemical antibiotics). Heck, in the first few episodes we are told Senku somehow stayed conscious every waking moment of 3,700 years, and Tsukasa (an 18-year-old, mind you) can somehow kill a lion in one punch. I suppose I can forgive it for a little unrealism, but it comes off as pretty damn corny most of the time with its over-the-top theatrics. That’s not to say the invention phase was devoid of entertainment value. Probably the best part of the series was watching the villagers come together to build impossible inventions, at times learning to innovate themselves. The sense of discovery and accomplishment from watching them made this series far more enjoyable than its aesthetic merit would predict. Further, the background story and lore for the village was well-executed in well-placed flashbacks and was one of the best points the story had going for it, even if the idea behind was a little ham-fisted and not believable. The world-building, setting, and sense of history were strong points. But beyond the “invention of the week format,” the key plot points were developed in ridiculous, formulaic ways. We have the annoying cliché of a Shonen battle tournament to determine the village leader, which is interrupted in the dumbest of all possible ways. We have annoyingly over-explained battle techniques and tactics and overly liberal use of flashbacks. Most of the ugly features typical of battle shonen are omnipresent, which is extremely disappointing given the compelling premise meant that they were entirely unnecessary. No sense of subtly given to any writing at any turn. Worse yet, it introduces humor at the worst most annoying of points when it could have a modicum of emotional engagement. Sometimes, the jokes are funny, but most of the time they’re just childlishly rehashing the stereotypical actions of characters in predictable, unfunny ways. Often times, the humor is just the same few jokes told repeatedly. The scenes that were supposed to have emotional impact were largely just Senku repeating the same few inspirational lines about science over and over with over-the top animated representations, indicated how low-quality the direction was. The animation quality itself looks fine at a glance, but when the only way anything could be conveyed was with unfunny chibi lines and over-the-top diagrams, you really get the sense the directors had no clue how to convey anything without feeding it to the viewers on a silver spoon. No sense of originality was given to the direction at all, despite the talent in just drawing pretty scenes that was present. The soundtrack sounded fine and the basic instrumentation of the main themes was mostly fitting, but it would often introduce musical interludes at the most predictable of times. Like the music was just some sort of applause card for a live studio audience or something, worsening the overall ham-fisted nature of the direction. The voice acting, meanwhile, usually over-acted especially with the main cast, again feeding the theme of a lack of subtly, and unremarkable. At least the OPs were quite good. To conclude, this was a deeply flawed anime. I’ll admit, it’s quite enjoyable to watch, but in the way that eating cheap junk food is enjoyable. It’s just designed to formulaically hit dopamine receptors in the most conventional, safe and predictable manner possible, and not really do much else. It feels like a series with remarkable potential that was wasted by a studio that just wanted to callously cash in on a marketable IP. I suppose whether the themes will make sense will depend on where it goes in the second season, I have not read the manga. I will probably watch it just like I will probably eat potato chips despite knowing they’ll ruin my dinner, but I wouldn’t recommend that you do it as well. Story: 3/10 Art: 3/10 Sound: 4/10 Character: 1/10 Enjoyment: 6/10 Overall: 3/10
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Zerity
December 13, 2019
Slight spoilers Dr.Stone is alright. When reading the synopsis of Dr.Stone I was pretty hyped. As post-apocalyptic stories are my favorite kind of story. However when watching it I was let down. Even though the premise was amazing the execution was silly and poor with many plot deceives. However it was still enjoyable to watch and watching Senku rise up his city of science was satisfying. One of the things I don't like with this show are the characters. I mean I like Senku a little but none of the characters honestly stick out or make any real impression. There all the extremes of their tropesand for most of the show everyone is just screaming. They are all kinda fun to watch but after the show ends there all just forgettable and hard to remember who they are. I will say watching the villages growth from not believing in science to loving it and that transformation was really nice. There were some good heartwarming moments which were sweet and that was one of the things I liked about the show. With the show having this silly vibe to it never had any moments were I was scared or worried about what was going to happen to the characters. You know nothing bad will happen so even the dangerous situations make you feel like nothing serious will happen and Senku will just save the day like he always does. With no real danger you can't get excited or feel anything during the dangerous parts. Like when Senku and that Magma feel into that whole during the cave expedition, we all know nothing serious was ever gonna happen. So it just makes the show less interesting overall. However, I can't find myself loving the show. It really is just the dumb stuff that happens that as a kid I wouldn't even notice or mind but when thinking of them just bothers me. For example during the tournament, when Chrome had to keep completely still to have the water not move to burn blond muscle man and put his clothes on fire bugged me because in Senku's words that is 10,000,000% impossible and especially in that scenario. I would list a few more but then it'll just sound like me just being a petty bitch so I will refrain. There was also no character development throughout the series, sure the villagers turned to like science but that's not character growth, same with Chrome the only thing that changed with him was him calling himself a sorcerer user to a science user, because of this I couldn't become immersed or generally love the characters. Sure they were kinda fun to watch at the start but as the story goes and they become less interesting and just bland. The music is honestly good and I love to listen to the OP and ED on youtube. There just perfect songs to jam to, the inset songs though are alright, there were a few I liked but the rest I completely forget after it ended. The animation was alright, a lot of moving panels during the action scenes with very little fluid movement but it was awful and it got the job done, and the character designs were okay, the only good one was Senku. Overall a pretty fun show to watch but nothing to fantastic that leaves an impression on me. It had it's good moments and it's not so good moments, it's silly moments and heartwarming moments, and I will say I'm a little excited for Season 2 where we will be getting a war arc, because who doesn't like a war arc. However I doubt anything serious will happen.
ChinaJapanStan
December 29, 2019
a friend of mine gave me the advice to watch me, speaking about how scientific this series is. i' ve found nothing about science in this series, at least if we don't consider some elementary school level things. totally overrated. unrealistic things like humans defeating lions with bare hands, 6 months to create a hut pretending to be a scientist. the protagonist is annoying, and the characters too. comic relief without a meaning. the beginning of everything is the most anti-science thing in the series, and rather than analysing it, the play a survival game. good joke. it was boring and annoying.
HaXXspetten
December 13, 2019
Dr. Stone is an interesting shounen in the sense that it takes a bit of a different direction from the norm. Despite the manga being published in Weekly Shounen Jump, Dr. Stone is by no means a battle shounen, but instead focuses on something more intelligent and creative, namely scientific discoveries and the development of early human society. That is not to say that the show is necessarily realistic all the time, but rather more of a liberal and fictional take on something that at least has realistic roots. That being said, I also have to stress that the opening arc of Dr. Stone is... notvery good, to put it lightly. More specifically the first six episodes of this anime are honestly quite awful and mostly annoyed me when I watched them. At the time it just came across as a very childish show that couldn't shut up about trying to shove in your face just how incredibly realistic it was all the time, despite having a superhuman and all-knowing protagonist in Senkuu with a seemingly perfect memory and who somehow managed to not lose his mind after staying conscious for literally thousands of years. Not to mention the rest of the cast consisted of his friend Taiju who does nothing but scream in every possible moment (Black Clover flashbacks on that one) and a Jojo character in Tsukasa, capable of punching lions to death with his fists. Overall it just felt like a mess that pretended to be way smarter than it actually was instead of being something that actually felt like an actual representation of how someone could try to get by in life in their particular situation. However, fortunately and to me quite unexpectedly, after that Dr. Stone managed to resolve most of its problems almost in a split second. See, the main story of the anime doesn't actually start until episode seven, and from there on out the show is actually quite good. So how did it manage this comeback exactly? Well first of all it pretty much got rid off the super annoying Taiju from the spotlight entirely and Tsukasa only rarely shows up anymore. Instead, we get to meet a whole new cast of characters that are much more likeable, believable and fun to watch. And most importantly, the general direction of the story changes drastically. Instead of merely having the rather monotonous goal of simply going around reviving petrified statues all over, we instead get a much more interesting plot direction as Senkuu and the others tries to elevate a primitive village into something with modern day technology. Senkuu of course has the knowledge of what he wants to achieve with it, but actually getting there with such limited resources and a group of sceptical natives that don't understand what they're doing is no easy feat. Basically, you can say that in many ways, the main story of Dr. Stone is actually not too different from what Slime did a year ago, I.E: showcasing the development of society and technology, as well as how to implement it in an otherwise primitive world. Once again, it all feels a bit like playing a game of Civilization. That is not to say that there still aren't times where Dr. Stone's showcasing of science becomes very questionable as far as realism goes, such as when Chrome supposedly makes a fire lens out of his own sweat and tears in episode 14, which for numerous reasons would be impossible to do in reality in that situation. Nevertheless you can still at least see the thought process behind it and what the show is trying to get at. And I think that might be the most important thing to remember about thie anime, namely that despite the direction it's taken and the fact that it's largely based on real science, it is ultimately still a shounen. In other words it's still primarily an anime made for kids and people in their early teens. It doesn't have to be 100% believable when it's merely a fictional show made for entertainment in the end. I mean god's sake let's not forget we have a character literally rolling around inside a watermelon to move around. Overall, Dr. Stone is far from a flawless anime but it is creative and original, and it has an interesting concept to work with that still has plenty of potential to be expanded upon in the future. Ironically, the initial premise of the global petrification and how the world ended up in this primitive state is one of the least interesting aspects of the show, but the civilization building side of it is always fun to watch. The opening arc is still unforgivably bad though and that is definitely dragging down my overall score of the show, but nevertheless I would still recommend people to drag themselves through the lackluster early parts because what comes thereafter is worth the effort. If you can get over the fact that some of the characters seem to have a couple light-years of distance separating their eyes for some inexplicable reason that is.
JJMFREAP
January 12, 2025
It's quite rare to find something you have basically zero complaints about. Something that excels at basically everything. Dr. Stone is one of those rare gems! This is an anime that delivers on so many fronts, remains consistently engaging all throughout and delivers astonishing quality. It also succeeds in the daunting task of making bucketloads of real world science fun and interesting without becoming drab and boring. I think this should be on the watchlist of anyone, because there's so much to love about it, I'm ten billion percent certain anyone, regardless of their taste, can find something to latch onto here. On a purely technicallevel, the anime is done exceptionally. The visuals are vibrant, expressive and gorgeous to look at. The animation is smooth, dynamic and full of energy. Personally, I'm a huge fan of Boichi and his instantly recognizable artstyle and the anime managed to handle the daunting task of bringing his outlandish drawings to life perfectly. The visuals even switch effortlessly between a more detailed and realistic look to something much more stylized and cartoony to fit the tone of the specific moment. The sound design and music are awesome too and contribute flawlessly to the experience. The voice acting on hand is also some of the best I've heard. Over the top, yet always on point for what's happening and each casting choice fits the characters perfectly. Their exaggerated deliveries fit perfectly with the wacky Boichi expressions. It truly helps the characters come to life. The pacing is also handled really well, it stayed engaging from beginning to end and never felt rushed or overextended. For the story itself, Dr. Stone is quite unique and if you just told me this premise, I never would've thought it would work so well. A science focused story in a primitive world is certainly creative and the way the progression of story follows the progress of inventions and innovations is really satisfying. They even managed to capture the big explainy pages from the manga really well, without going into overt exposition dumps. The characters feel genuinely intelligent and creative (or not when it befits them), their decisions all make sense for their respective personalities and they all have awesome chemistry with each other. You can take any pair of characters and observe how they have a unique relationship with each other, their respective traits adding unique layers and nuance to the whole deal. For this reason, one of the very few complaints I have is that I kind of wish that the original quartet of Senku, Taiju, Yuzuriha and Tsukasa stayed together and worked together for a little bit longer before the split. I really liked their dynamic and I wish we got a little bit more of it. Regardless, even the way things turned out works really well and that part was just something subjective about how I felt about it. Senku himself is an awesome protagonist with lots of layers to him. He isn't just a walking exposition dump and his ambitions make sense. His wacky yet entirely logical Spock-esque approach is also engaging and unpredictable. Not to mention that his and Chrome's genuine love for science is truly infectious. If you're a science nerd, this show will scratch that itch really well for you. Learning all these real world phenomena in a fun and entertaining, story relevant manner is just a blast and it makes you feel very smart whenever you actually know something and go "Hey, I've seen that before" when they show it. Beyond that, the entire experience is just fun in such an unexpected way. The series comes from a shonen jump series, yet doesn't feel like it. While there is action and some great fight scenes, they aren't the focus, yet that never detracts from the overall feel The conflicts feel real and believable without being overdramatic. Seeing characters that disagreed before actually reach mutual understanding is really fulfilling to see. There's plenty of poignant interactions and every moment has meaning, there's no filler to speak of. There's lots of humour too and it's balanced really well with all the serious moments. Also, I want to mention that it's also really refreshing to have a series like this, especially one that is de facto post-apocalyptic in nature, have such an air of optimism and positivity. There's this really strong feeling of hope that permeates everything, in a very tangible and non-cheesy manner. It truly feels like a celebration of humanity's accomplishments, of the power of collaboration and of our resilience. Even if the whole planet turns to stone, it's good to know that all it takes is one onion-headed turbonerd to save us all from extinction. The dinosaurs perished, but we will survive! Don't get me wrong, I love a good dystopia, I engage with those all the time, but given the times we live in, it's great to get some genuine, non-sugar coated positivity from a story. In conclusion, Dr. Stone is just a blast and it's a very unique show. With its awesome cocktail of action, humour, clever science, engaging story and fantastic characters, I believe anyone can find something to love here. If nothing else, you can come and see what happens when we give caffeine to a primitive boy and watch him become a hyperactive berserker for a few minutes right before violently shitting himself. That alone makes this worth it. I'll definitely be diving right into the next seasons to see where this goes. So go and watch this now! I'm ten billion percent certain you'll enjoy it.
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