Dr. Stone

well to summarize Dr.Stone it's a really good idea but with really bad execution! This anime is so unrealistic when it's supposed to be related to scientific facts. If this was a superpower anime with superpower abilities that would make sense but they're supposed to be just regular high school students. The jokes are bad and not funny at all. The lines are so cringe and awkward "We're going to become the Adam and Eve of this stone world"..... really?

The story is 4/10 had potentials
The art 1/10
Character 1/10 they're all so unlikable
Enjoyment 1/10 when I was laughing at things that were supposed to be serious


I ... think this show might appeal to a very young audience, I had high hopes for it really but in the end I was very disappointed...

I try to avoid giving 1-star ratings very often, but I can't think of any redeeming qualities this show might possess. After looking up animation clips for this (revised) review, I have to say that the animation is mostly poor based on the "choice bits," and almost every scene of animation uses time/money-saving techniques; there are loads of stills and hardly any good effects or background animation, and even then, the characters mostly just slide around and you see their mouths flap. All of the budget is dumped into the fights, and they are still very bland; they give you these wide "money shots" where ... they actually animate, then it's back to close-up animation saving techniques. The character design is not only ugly, but I feel queasy looking at it. This is some of the most sterile and unpleasant artwork I've had the displeasure of viewing. Even completely non-distinct anime copy-pasta on DeviantArt is preferable (please, don't make me regret saying that).

Every time I see Senkuu's smug face, and his swamp-creature hair, his inane dialogue fires off in my head, and I want to pulverize a punching bag that looks like Senkuu, except then I would have to look at his shit-eating grin and broccoli hair, and it would result in an infinite regress. For anyone feeling guilty about beating up nerds in high school, watch this show, and associated your unfortunate victims with Senkuu—should do the trick! I've always abhorred this kind of behavior, but then the question comes to me, "Would you bully Senkuu?" and I have to think about it. Working title for this review: "How Dr. Stone made me reevaluate whether bullying in high school is actually a public service."

I was pretty sure I wouldn't really appreciate this show from all the corny adverts, but I knew I was fated to watch it, because it tackles something compelling that is rarely addressed very well or often in fiction—both survival in a harsh world, and either the building or rebuilding of civilization. Unfortunately, it's a shallow show in all respects, and it overly worships science to the point that it's no wonder scientism is a real problem.

As for the story, our hero Senkuu was shoved into a locker for 3,700 years... no, there's just some strange glowy thing, and then everyone turns to stone for 3,700 years. For some reason, none of the other animals turn to stone except for the birds. I'm not sure why, but I always imagine primates chucking stone pigeons at each other; the idea fascinates me far more than whatever will happen in future seasons.

The basic idea for how the world is "reset" seems kind of ludicrous to me, but I'm not going to judge, as I don't know what direction the authors will eventually take this sad excuse for a story. However, the idea that these characters could be conscious for 3,700 years is a little baffling. It's not full-on consciousness exactly, but they have glimmers of it. Probably dreamlike, at best. What does make it ridiculous is how lucid Senkuu is during the process. He records each day in his mind, so he can be prepared for the seasonal cycle and winter. Talk about dedication. How he has the wherewithal to figure this information will be useful and he will eventually be released from his stone prison is beyond me. Being trapped like this with such coherence for 3,700 years... should make him insane, but I guess he is simply the most logical and mentally stable person to have ever been conceived...

Like most anime that are deeply flawed, this one suffers from empty-headed, tropey characters. Senkuu has a grating personality; seemingly a character of pure logic, who is actually rather illogical at various times (case in point being the stupid "first death" encounter with Tsukasa, which was just dreadful writing). He has a god-like ability when it comes to science, doesn't need any references at all, and his scope of knowledge is very wide. He's essentially a living science encyclopedia of quite a few volumes, kind of like how in Fahrenheit 451, characters were tasked with memorizing books to preserve knowledge. He's quite arrogant, is only interested in science (but secretly he treasures his friends... gag...), and always saves the day. He incessantly repeats annoying lines about 10 billion percent, millimeters, and how exhilarating science is, just to remind you of how obsessed he is with everything science-related—almost every line out of this disgusting green-haired weirdo is the equivalent of Naruto's "Believe it!." He also has e=mc^2 written on his shirt, which is maybe the cringiest thing I've ever seen. A bad Mary Sueish character, and it's extremely unrealistic to think this kid wasn't righteously bullied—in fact, I'm sure they dunked his head in the toilet so many times that his hair turned green from the badly treated toilet water, which would be the only way to explain his sewage-water perm.

The characters are all stock characters: Taiju is a stupid meathead, and Yuzuriha is your typical kind-hearted girl. These two characters disappear to spy on the villain, so we don't see them again for most of the series. It would have made sense to cut back to them on occasion for a break from the science lessons, but I can't say I missed them. Honestly, if you ran into these two idiots, you'd probably assume you traveled back in time and met pre-historic cavemen.

The whole village of characters that Senkuu finds are quite dull. They're basically like "Ooga booga. Me find shiny rock. Trade you for feather of flying chicken." This is the point where we get nothing but phoned-in and contrived drama, a little romance, and heavily exaggerated and lame anime humor—they scream, make stupid faces, conk each other on the head, and deliver jokes from the stalest stock joke manual. This would have already been stale during the time of actual cavemen, and they couldn't even write! One of the strangest aspects about the village is that all of the elderly people appear to be dwarves. Kaseki is your stereotypical dwarvish blacksmith/craftsman, and all of the other old characters are very short or look like children. It's really weird that all of the elderly seem to be half the size of the younger characters.

The best character is easily Asahiri Gen, a machiavellian mentalist who looks like a Naruto villain. He's more realistic and human than most of the other characters, and his humor generally works (ever so slightly) better since he's not a complete idiot and has knowledge of the modern world. All of the characters are so godawful, and even though Gen looks like some weeaboo who shows up at school with Naruto cosplay, he's at least self-aware.

Dr. Stone kind of functions as edutainment—except it's not entertaining, and it's not very educational. Scientific concepts are explained, and they go through the process of how to make various inventions—most of it's pretty basic science, but the average person involves themselves so little with these processes after they've had science classes years prior, yet, in all honesty, watching this stuff on YouTube would probably be more enjoyable. Who wants to watch 24 episodes of a dumb shounen that distills scientific concepts that would probably take no more than an hour to familiarize yourself with? "Edutainment" is the most lazy kind of hack-job one can write. It's literally "Let's have the characters try to make penicillin for 4-5 episodes so we don't have to advance the plot or write interesting characters lol."

The trial and error science segments are the best part of the show, but they're actually very boring and drag the plot down to a snail's pace—there's not much of a plot, anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter? Very little happens, and it's all predictable Saturday morning cartoon crap with stereotypical screaming imbeciles. I suppose there is a sense of weight and accomplishment to their successes in scientific (re)advancement that is kind of compelling. You really do see civilization built from the ground up in a somewhat convincing way—in the sense that most of the science isn't total junk, and they progress in a kind of... cavepunk fashion... nevertheless, the shoddy societal elements and the basic characters render this advancement as superficial.

Of course, the weeks and months of trial and error required for scientific success is also cheapened at various points when the characters are in danger, and they pull some crazy idea out of nowhere. For example, they make a steam-powered automobile. This took time. When they are about to raid the enemy base, they take a mere afternoon to modify their vehicle into an armored tank with a cannon! The show goes from what feels like semi-realism to fantasy nonsense.

Another rather stupid thing is the village could easily fend the antagonist's men off with bows, but they don't seem to have any. In preparation, they construct katanas. Katanas are superb for cutting unarmored opponents and obviously superior to stone tools, but the main reason these were made was to push through technological milestones and because it looks cool in the fight scenes, but what society would make specially crafted swords (not to mention it is terribly difficult to make quality katanas) before the bow and arrow?! Maybe the village had 1 or 2, but they never seemed to use them. They love to show the advancement of society via technology, but they often don't bother to do so in a manner that concords with the needs of humanity.

As can be expected for what is a shounen anime, there are action scenes and conflict, but if you want to write a goody-two-shoes manga/anime, I'd suggest going with something with less conflict. It's difficult to suspend disbelief when you have characters like Taiju who refuse to fight back and an insistence on never causing any death. They're up against brutal musclemen with clubs and spears, and the protagonists always managing to keep things bloodless makes it all the more ridiculous. Their reluctance to kill just increases the chance of them all dying. We don't need massacres like what Vinland Saga offers, but to shy away from how unpleasant warfare can be just cheapens the true nature of what our pre-civilization and our current civilization is like. Seriously, if you want to go dumb-dumb philosophy hour on us, at least make it low-stakes—like high school gang fights. On top of that, everyone has so much plot armor that there's no tension within the conflicts. We know they'll never be killed, seriously hurt, or mentally scarred.

Just thinking about this show makes me hate science, and I start to think maybe science was a mistake, and the villain's anti-technologist stance was the correct one. Had I been born in a world without the sophisticated technology we now have, this cesspool of a show wouldn't exist. This show makes me despise the IFLS crowd even more than I already did. They are some of the most unimaginative, self-righteous, and gullible people, and this show was made for them to reenact the pointing wojak meme while they gulp down soy milk and bug burgers.

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 annoyingly ... pretentious 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

Started for the premise, stayed for Senku. I've been hearing about this series for around a year now and was initially just going to watch the anime until I saw the series at a bookstore and said "why not" and picked up the first two volumes and boy was it worth it. So here we are around the beginning of the village arc after today's episode. This review will be more along the lines of nudging skeptical viewers to delve deeper into the actual quality part of the series. Without further delay, here's my review of Dr Stone so far.



Story: One day a mysterious ray ... of light enshrouds the Earth and petrifies all humans and Swallows. After the brief scenes of Senku, Taiju and Yuzurih'as daily lives we are first introduced fully to Taiju after he awakens from his cryogenic/petrification comatose sleep. After Taiju wanders around his new surroundings he stumbles upon Yuzuriha's body, confused on what to do next he treks around the area until he is spotted by his childhood friend Senku, who has already awoken from his petrified state. After Senku briefs the aforementioned Taiju on the situation we are treated to some of the various things Senku is knowledgeable towards to aid in their survival and slow restoration of the human race. From here onto the end of this prologue arc we are introduced to the artisan Yuzuriha, Taiju's crush, and the brash idealistic Tsukasa, who's ideal restoration of the human race is to eliminate all the "bad" humans so history won't repeat itself. The story and setting are absolutely unique and a breath of fresh air to not only shonen typical anime but the medium as a whole. This prologue arc honestly tends to drag and as a manga reader I can only assure once it gets to the upcoming village arc we'll get to the part of Dr Stone that becomes truly entertaining and a treat to sit through and watch the reintroducing of inventions unfold.




Art: The art of Dr Stone is in simple terms fantastic. TMS did a great job of bringing Boichi's art to life. The characters look crisp and unique. They have a boldness to them while maintaining a slick charm. The only nitpicking I really have towards the characters is that you don't get the same breathtaking upgrade in quality of the art as it does it the source since it doesn't translate well into animation as it does there. The scenery of the Stone World looks vibrant and vivid too, bringing the casts surroundings to life along with them.



Sound: It's nothing spectacular, the music fits the overall mood and gives you a sense of adventure, basically does its job. The VA casting is up to par as well with a few notable Seiyuu, my favorite being Tsukasa's VA (I miss my boy Bucciaratti already).



Characters: I'mma be real with you guys, the characters upcoming are a heap better than Taiju and Yuzuriha (ecstatic to see my man Chrome soon and the adorable Suika). Firstly, we have the snide, smug, seemingly arrogant Senku. The brilliance about Senku is that he's clearly above and beyond most human beings in intelligence, but not the point of being a Mary Sue. He forgets things like any other human would and has his odd quirks. The true entertaining factor of this series mostly revolves around the ways he's able to adapt to bring inventions back into the society with basically zero technology to due so, so we see his crafty ways of getting out of hairy situations, i.e the pulley he made in the recent episode to save Kohaku. Next we have the head-strong, diligent, stamina machine Taiju. Taiju is a very simplistic character, he likes his friends, he has a massive crush on Yuzuriha and he's an endless supply of muscle to help out Senku on his journey to rebuild society to its former glory. He's rather one-dimensional and doesn't serve much early on outside of grunt work and comic relief. Just like Taiju, Yuzuriha thus far is nothing special. All that's really been given to us is that she's good with crafting and that she cares for Taiju and Senku, again pretty bland. Last of the early cast we have the main antagonist, Tsukasa. Tsukasa's ideal world is to eliminate the weak and evil to create a perfect world. He's essentially a Tarzan Light Yagami. He's idealic and will use brute force to take down those oppose his perfect world. Not only is he incredibly strong, as shown early on he can take down feral animals by himself, he is also incredibly intelligent being able to keep up with Senku when he's plotting to escape Tsukasa. Overall, the prologue cast is hit or miss. Without Senku and Tsukasa, most would've dropped this incredibly early on and it's somewhat hard to blame them.




Enoyment: Dr Stone early on isn't the greatest, but it significantly approves once the first major arc starts. Senku is still great to see in all of his radish haired glory and I can't wait to see him go deeper into his invention madness soon, along with the village pals. I'd quite honestly recommend binging this season once its over apposed to weekly as you will be able to see Senku's inventions unfold at a faster pace.


Pros-
Great MC and antagonist
Amazing art style
Fantastic premise


Cons-
Some of the content doesn't translate well from the source
Half the main cast early on are rather flat



Once again, thank you for reading my reviews and I hope you guys give this show more of a chance if you were on the skeptical side within the first handful of episodes.

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.

I was really looking forward to watching this anime when I first read through the idea behind it but sadly it has been a big disappointment.

The premise gives you so many possibilities and I was honestly expecting a story involving survival elements and some interesting knowledge about chemistry and physics to be used with what is available in such a 'stone world'.
Sadly none of these elements are actually in the anime or at least not in a satisfying way.
The story goes into really boring directions and ends up being the same shit you see in every other average shounen anime... might be something you ... find interesting if this is one of the first shounen anime you're watching but if you have seen your fair share of them this is just really boring..
Silly fighting scenes... Comedy which consists of yelling characters... unbelievably overpowered 15 year old characters... A plot that rarely makes sense in a show that is supposed to be about fuckin science but it's not even trying...they just go way overboard with it and it's never really plausible.

Honestly though the one thing I hate most about this show is... Senku. The protagonist.
This whole show is just a sad excuse to praise his greatness and each and every character is just a tool to make him shine as much as possible.
I mean sure, every show does this to an extend but it just bothered me so much in this one as Senku is just not believable at all. (like counting seconds for thousands of years. riiiiight.)
He seems to know just anything of whatever topic.. physics..chemistry...history..medicine...biology....technology
and on the contrary almost ALL other characters are just stupid but strong and look up to him. And oh he also thinks he's the greatest living person of all time as well.
This level of narcissism is just unbearable to me. He's even worse than Kirito at this point.

Im here standing in front of my pc on how to approach the following review. Should i just google what has happened in both the manga and anime and consider myself "smart" enough to criticize the anime or should i just accept that this is just a series thats supposed to entertain with an interesting concept?

Anyway, Dr. Stone has to be one of the most unique and interesting animes i have seen this year in terms of what is all about, the idea of quickly traveling into "time" on a short period of this topic as well is so unique that it actually caught me ... and wrapped me to watch the manga (which i rarely do).

Everything about this world is amazing except for one thing, that i think i want to state: The opening has way better animation than the anime itself. Literally is like watching the manga just with some voiceover and this is my biggest complain so far about the series. But everything else is exceptionaly well done. The story is pretty good, the art (besides the animation) is pretty, the sound must be the most enjoyable thing here (like the voices n stuff) and any newcomer to the anime world, as well as veterans can enjoy this kind of anime.

Overall: 8.5 ---- Must watch

With a bit of a heads up, I have not read the manga, but from the first 6 episodes, I can safely say that this show is definitely worth looking into. Here is why-

Story - 8
The story that is Dr. Stone is one that is a warm welcome. The story opens up similar to that of an isekai show where our main characters are transported into the future 3,700 years via petrification. Here, the current world has been completely rearranged, with few remnants left. Our main character Senku, sees this as an opportunity as he one of presumably few who have escaped the petrification. Our ... mad scientist sets his sights on reviving the human race through the power of not magic, not miracles, but science. However, some do not share the same ideals as him.

Art - 9
It is personally astounding to me, art studios of this day in age, how pristine and detailed art in animation is and this show is no exception. It's clean and colorful with plenty of humorous illustrations of our characters' reactions.

Sound - 7
While I am not a very avid fan of Subaru in Re:Zero, Voice Actor, Kobayashi Yuusuke really does a pretty good job in the show playing the role of the ambitious scientist Senku. Our foil to Senku, Tsukasa is played by Nakamura Yuuichi who has had a large success playing the intelligent, cold-hearted characters driven by morals such as Guren (Owari no Seraph), Gai Tsutsugami (Guilty Crown), and Tatsuya (Irregular at Magic High School). All in all, I believe that there is much that these two can drive these characters to become and I'm excited to see it.

Character - 7
This will obviously change throughout the process of the show since its only been 6 episodes which are just introducing these characters still. However, our cast of characters has a decent amount of potential and show the capability to grow. Characters somewhat behave normally and generic, however, sometimes they behave irregularly and odd leading me to believe that the author or director intended it to be this way in order to open up new routes and explore more of these characters throughout the show.

Enjoyment - 10
From what I have seen, I can safely say that I have been craving a show like this for a while. an isekai show without someone horribly overpowered for no reason and no real villains. This show satisfies my ich for strong characters and clashing ideals from the protagonist and antagonist that will lead to a deeper level of character growth and mold a meaningful story.

Overall - 8
To restate my opinion in the intro, this is only the first 6 episodes but I do think that it has a lot of potential and worth checking out, if it's not your taste, then that's okay. I hope that this was helpful and enjoy! :)

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 tropes ... and 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.

Normally I don't really jump at new animes with high scores, and highly thought about. Because I like to cast my own judgement first, rather than going off what others think. But honestly, after watching the first couple of eps. I got really hooked on the concept and the show in general. To the point I couldn't stop thinking about it for the entire day. So I'd give it a watch honestly, if you leaves you with that.

It really does leave you want to see more, and more of the world that they've set up. What else it'll bring, and what else will happen. If ... you're thinking of something to watch this season, I'd really recommend checking it out. I for one cannot wait to see how the story progresses.

Thanks for reading, and I hope you do too!

this is my first review of the pure without reading the manga, when the trailer came out. I was very interested in this Dr.Stone anime, at the time the anime was airing. Honestly, I feel goosebump when the scene of all humans become statues.

This anime has an interesting story line with additional physics and biology in it, which makes the audience as well as learning as well

there are several designs of the character's face at several angles that I think are unsightly

overall I really like the main character who is very genius

at the beginning of this anime the story looks very monotonous, but believe me ... when the mid-episode has begun to look interesting

that's my brief review of this anime and I really like the opening of this anime.

Please forgive if there is a wrong word. because I'm not very good at English

After a long time, I came across something different.There's something different about all the animes I've been watching.

The character designs are interesting but the main thing that makes you watch is the story and the narration

Instead of compressing unnecessary information together, they took care to show every part full of it.There is information about science in between.As you watch, you learn how to decipher things.This is also a different feature

The sound is not a very interesting subject, but the sound is a little better that could make this anime better

It's an anime that everyone can watch fondly.I can't break up any issues.I suggest you watch

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... not ... very 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.

It seems Dr. Stone is one of those anime's that you either love or hate. I believe this is because the thing that makes Dr. Stone so great is not that it has outstanding characters, nor a good story, it's that it fills a niche that was long waiting to be exploited.

I'd say the best way to describe Dr. Stone in a nutshell, is that it's pretty much the anime version of playing one of those Minecraft modpacks where you start off in a primitive world, make primitive tools,keep upgrading them and making contructs, and eventually after putting a lot of work in you get ... to a futuristic setting. If you love games like that, there's a damned good chance you'll love this anime. It also has a lot of elements that DIY makers, and maybe to a lesser extent, people into science would like too.

When I say lesser extent, I say that because when watching this show, one needs to remember that it's still a shounen jump title. It still has many of the dumb stuff you'd expect from shounen, and that's made very clear in the first couple episodes. We start the anime off with the main character in the past before the apocalypse happened. The main character is in science class and still has his dumb yugioh hair that you see in the promotional posters, and he also ridiculous science setup that in a realistic setting probably wouldn't be allowed at the school. Since this is a shounen series, naturally the main character is a super genius who has answers for damn near everything as long as it involves science. Going forward a bit, a green light envelops the earth, turning all humans and swallow birds to stone. Somehow, someway however, the main character stays conscious for all that time (partially petrified?) and counts the seconds for 1000+ god damned years, never changing as a person, nor going insane, until he unpetrifies a millennium later to find that the land around him has changed to a rather unrealistic extent, and almost all of mans constructs have rotted to non existence. His highschool friend also stays partially conscious as well because he really wanted to confess to his high school crush. Yeah, I wish I was making that up.

Fortunately, that's one of the weakest parts of Dr. Stone because once they wake up, the anime immediately shows off it's strength, and we get to watch the characters build primitive tools. This is because the main character wants to rebuild society from the ground up, and because he's a power fantasy Mary Sue, he has a shit load of knowledge and a good idea of how to accomplish that. This is the majority of what Dr. Stone is about. Getting to see the main character and his allies build cool stuff from what they have, and working up from there, and the cherry on top is that there is quite a bit of realism thrown into what they do, enough at least that the episodes have to put a disclaimer to not try the stuff they do without expertise in each episode. That being said, they kind of take liberties here and there, and while this series tries to be science fiction, it often delves into shounen and science fantasy. Especially with the antagonist of the series, so lets talk about him:

Because I guess every story needs an antagonist, their first mistake after learning how to revive petrified humans is reviving a man who against their goals, and wants to make a fascist new world that is governed by strength. His motivations are far from original, but it's the motivations you'd see from a teenager who doesn't fully understand how the world works. To top it off, he's 10 times stronger than the other characters, experienced in combat, and has unrealistic reflexes that you'd see from other shounen series. After he tries to kill the main character and unknowingly fails, a new goal is set for the main character of the story: Make a nation of science, and build weapons of science that can kill or dissuade the currently untouchable antagonist and his forming tribal nation ruled by physical domination.

If this sounds interesting to you, keep in mind that this is all the anime is. The characters themselves are decent at best, and the story is minimal. But this series knows what it wants to be, and if you are part of it's niche, you'll love it.

Dr. Stone unfolds in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future where the central character, Senku, a science enthusiast, faces an extraordinary event that petrifies all living beings on Earth, including himself. He reawakens 3700 years later to a world devoid of civilization. After discovering the process to revive petrified individuals, Senku gradually awakens friends in his proximity. With his exceptional intellect and the power of science, he embarks on the task of rebuilding civilization.

Among the awakened is a boy with remarkable physical abilities who believes the new society should not rely on science to avoid the destructive fate of the 21st century. This clash between two ideologies ... — the scientific pursuit and the avoidance of past mistakes — becomes a central theme.

It's uncommon to find a Japanese author centering their project on scientific principles, but Inagaki succeeds admirably. He captivates readers through excellent characterizations, infused with humor and action. While I haven't delved into the manga yet, the anime is enjoyable, offering adventure, action, mystery, and simplified explanations of current scientific concepts.

In Dr. Stone, the narrative celebrates human ingenuity, highlighting the significance of seemingly mundane elements, like electricity, taken for granted in a world where their absence exposes humanity's fragility in a wild environment.

The pacing, introducing new characters and their relationships, coupled with technological growth, is well-calibrated, presenting an incremental advancement.

TMS's animations are well-executed, featuring good character designs and a blend of styles to emphasize comical or pivotal moments. The music, aside from Lilian's outstanding singing, is enjoyable if not particularly memorable.

IN CONCLUSION:
Recommended for enthusiasts of mysterious and adventurous tales, with a dash of comedy — especially appealing to those who enjoy post-apocalyptic settings. An additional highlight is the inventive combinations used to progress in the Kingdom of Science!

-Note: English is not my native language, I apologize for possible mistakes. (This review does not contain spoilers)

Dr. minecraf... to begin with it this entertaining, this had a unique style and it's very creative, the premise is interesting, and in several moments I loved how combined comedy and science (although it doesn't always turn out to be funny at all), of course, it's the perfect example in many moments of why science is great.
But there are several things that take me out of context, and although this it's not a "shonen battles" as such, I am quite shocked that they want to be so scientific ... and put a guy who busts bears, dodges arrows, it has superhuman strength, when they are supposed to represent a normal high school students and not only that, in the first episodes they want me to swallow that a boy is able to keep his mind awake and stable counting every damn second for more than 3,000 years in where him happened to be a stone, really? of course this boy is a super genius like Jimmy Neutron that like to act cool at all times.

This anime is so unrealistic or convenient when it is supposed to be related to scientific facts, so much so that it seems to me in many moments a bit ridiculous.

Let's talk about the main character Senku, this is a boy with an IQ of 300 or more, and the series tries to praise his super intelligence in each damn episode while he tries to look great and arrogant at all times and is not small thing, the guy has knowledge in all possible matters that can occur to you or that are necessary for the time of the plot: agriculture, biology, chemistry, architecture, medicine, technology and I'm just starting. Is there anything he don't know? He can literally do and solve everything. To hell with reviving people who have knowledge in different branches to survive, if Senku is enough to solve almost any problem.

Now the main antagonist, he is not super smart and cannot solve complicated problem with the head. What can we do to fix that? Ohhh I know, let's make the boy have superhuman strength, tame bears like Vladimir Putin, run as fast as a four-legged animal, knock down lions at once and look like a very muscular and imposing Tarzan and why not, let's make it a reference to "the pillar men" of the JOJOS (AWAKEN MY MASTERS!!!) and finally we have our super intelligent protagonist and his contrast, the super strong and gifted antagonist. Wow, what a high school boys we have here!!!

As for the rest of the characters, I could describe them as the workforce or workers of Senku, to make any invention that occurs to him, and to the cavemen who follow his beloved and evil Tarzan, literally many of the guys he revived seem than apes with legs and no head, and the occasional super strongs teenagers capable of knocking down 10 men alone, although not as strong as evil Tarzan of course.

The series tries very hard at the moment of wanting to be scientific and intelligent (which in a certain way it is), But they could not even pass the first episode without showing many pointless things. Even so, it is more interesting and enriching than most current series.

As for production is good, the animation and the sound are quite nice... my only complaint is the design of the girls, most of all the eyes become very large and they faces is a little deformed, is to get used to that. Boichi drawing is amazing, but the only thing that works well for women is the bodies.

It would be good if the series recognized its ridiculous nature, but still knows how to characterize its characters, generate conflicts with logical solutions, (almost always) and knows how to separate the comic moments from the tragic, but certainly the series is not as good as they says.

Doctor Stone has many ridiculous conveniences that take away the verisimilitude of the series. It can be seen as an educational program or attempted scientific dissemination or good entertainment for a Saturday afternoon, but for a shonen is mediocre. The premise, art, music are not so bad, but the story and characters leave to be desired.

“¡¡YEAH SCIENCE, BITCH!!” - Jesse Pinkman

Spoiler warning: I will speak on certain spoilers about the story, so therefore I would recommend you to watch the show before you read this review. I also would like to encourage the reader to not blindly follow my or anyone else their opinions. I believe that my opinion is neither correct nor incorrect. I apologise in advance for any grammar or vocabulary mistakes as English is not my native language.

A total reset of the society as we know it today. Humanity send back to the stone-age. How would we deal with this as humans? A hard question to which Dr. Stone tries to gives ... a simple answer. We either choose a society filled with science and go to back to our old ways or we create a new nation based on strength. A ‘survival of the fittest’ nation. When the show started the concept looked very promising to me, yet Dr. Stone failed to deliver. Everything about this show felt extremely average and after a certain amount of episodes it got boring and repetitive.

The story itself is simple. All humans turn into stones, thousands of years pass and the world becomes the kingdom of animals. After a couple thousand years the main character Senkuu awakens from his stone prison and starts his quest to build a kingdom of science. After a certain amount of time Senkuu finds the cure against the stone cage and decides to free his friends and the ‘strongest primate high-schooler’ Shishiou Tsukasa. Tsukasa is very athletic and is one of the few to actually have an opinion in this show. He disagrees with Senkuu’s ideals to save every human and would even go as far as killing Senkuu to create a society where the pure youth rule and there is almost no inequality.

This was looking very promising until the show completely dropped Tsukasa after he tried to kill Senkuu. The show instead focused on the development of Senkuu and his science adventures in the Ishigami village. There is no problem with going this route but after a while it got extremely repetitive and cliché. It went like this: Senkuu wants to build something so he and his friends go on an adventure. After a bit they get in a difficult situation but through some ‘smart scientific’ way they manage to escape trouble and continue with their scientific research. That is 2/3th of this show, nothing ‘exhilarating’ at all.

The characters were a hit or miss. Senkuu had some interesting remarks towards other humans, but his whole scientist personae got really boring. A character that spend minutes talking about actual chemistry and minerals did not make him interesting at all. As I mentioned before Tsukasa was the most interesting person this show had to offer as he cares about equality which is a huge problem in modern society. Unfortunately the show gave him like 5 minutes of screen time after the separation with Senkuu. Asagiri Gen was another interesting character as he got persuaded by the kingdom of science. Not because of a bottle of Cola but because he realised the potential of science. The other villagers were mostly slaves of Senkuu that got persuaded by a bowl of ramen. On the other hand the young elite that got revived by Tsukasa looked like a bunch of bloodthirsty edgy teenagers with no brains. The couple episodes about Senkuu’s father were mostly about him and other astronauts surviving on a stranded isle and creating a village. Senkuu would have taken the same actions no matter what, the village just made his science projects go faster. 95% of the characters felt irrelevant.

Another thing I would like to add is how ironic this show can be. It is about science and science literally defines what is real and not. A 17-year old cannot kill a lion with one punch, an astronaut has to adapt to gravity when he reaches earth. Yet all of these things did not matter to the ‘scientific’ anime Dr. Stone.

The openings were enjoyably but honestly the music during certain episodes was horrible and cringy. The animation was very average, especially Kohaku and her sister looked horrible.

Dr. Stone was 24 episodes long but it was very repetitive and after 7 or 8 episodes it got boring. It is a very bold statement but this felt like a show for kids. All we have to do is soak up Senkuu and his science adventures. That is why I gave Dr. Stone a 5: an average Shounen.

I really wanted to love this, I really did. The idea of it is simple yet promising and original but sadly it failed to deliver.
I did enjoy the first few episodes to be fair, but everything goes downhill during the village arc. It tries way too hard to be funny and sometimes it takes itself too seriously.
This is supposed to be a comedy sci-fi with an interesting plot and yet I couldn't help but be bored out of my mind during the whole thing. One of my biggest issues was the pacing, it was all over the place. Like, the characters would decide ... on doing something important and then next thing they'd change priorities and focus on some other irrelevant shit instead and it just felt like it was filler after filler.
Senku's annoying catch phrases definitely didn't help either... the only character I sort of took interest in was Tsukasa and he is barely even in it, so.
It's a shame that it didn't turn out to be what I wanted/expected but it is what it is!

The premise was kind of interesting, but apart from that there wasn't really anything that made me want to continue watching this series.
The first two main characters that are introduced in the show are essentially a badass scientist who knows pretty much everything and a physically strong guy who has the intelligence of a monkey (though this might be somewhat insulting for monkeys). I think the personality of those characters lacks depth, I didn't really care about them. I still continued watching past the first episode because I found the idea of re-establishing a civilization starting from scratch interesting.

However, when they got chased by lions, ... it started to become really dumb. It's not like you can outrun lions for several minutes. On top of that, how much sense does it make for someone who has literally just been revived after thousands of years to not only be ready and willing to fight, but also to have the strength to punch away a group of lions with their bare hands?

tl;dr:
Boring characters, events lacking credibility. Not my cup of tea despite the interesting premise.

To Quote Mark Watney in The Martian "I'm going to have to science the sh*t out of this."

That one sentence, is Dr. Stone.

Before I go any further I want to stress that the idea itself is interesting. Something happened throwing the whole world back into the stone age and then protagonist-kun arrives to save everyone with SCIENCE!

Fine, Sounds like a great idea for a children's educational show.... but this is clearly not meant for kids though. If anything it's more of a twist on the isekai genre with the OP main character complete with a cast that does nothing but play cheerleader to him.

This ... is where the show has a problem. Science is used as a catch all phrase for everything from chemistry to medicine to rocket science to astrology. It's all "science" everything is "science" and since Senkuu maxed his "science" skill then he is obviously at PHD level in all of them... at highschool... sure.

The characters here are beyond weak. They're so one-note it actually hurts. Tsukasa is set up as the bad guy early on with so many flags they might as well be in an airport runway. Kids shows respect their viewers more than this.

Art is stylized enough for a few character designs to stand out but that's about it.

Overall this show is sorta empty and feels like it doesn't have anything to say beyond "Science is cool yo" which... is sorta lame. it's not a bad show though, just.... meh...