I need someone to tell me why they like this show

Azriel-chan said:
beacuse it is fun goofy show and it makes me laugh when i watch it

MrKessler said:

I meam I guess that's fair but it still makes me disappointed after the firat season

MrKessler said:
Don't get me wrong, the first season was pretty great (besides the tournament), I still remember, 4 years later, the episode about Senku's dad, by far the best and most emotional in the whole show. Actually lets get out of the way and say this: everytime Senku's dad gets highlighted in episodes the show is legitimately awesome.

But after watching both the second and third seasons, I have no hope this show will get good again, the progression is RIDICULOUS, in the first season everything was believable and explained, and it took time and effort for Senku to get what he needed, now its just ridiculous, stupid coincidences just so happen to give them exactly wwhat they want, and there is always just a teenager in the science group available that is the best at the thing they need, when I say the best I mean THE BEST, like for example if they need a chef, they just find a statue of a teenager who shows and its GODLIKE at cooking in a way that they would never master in our present world. And mind you I can forgive teenagers like this in normal shonen, and Jojo's and stuff like that because they don't set themselves up as a realistic show from the ground up, Dr. Stone is a show where one of the main selling points is seeing how you could actually use science in a primitive world to get to modern civilization, so I expect some degree of realism, so im not expecting every teenager to be as good as senku is at science at their field of expertise, it would've been awesome if they revived ACTUAL ADULTS that they could scout, it sucks man.
Anyways back to the progression, at this point the science itself is not even interesting anymore, because what before took time to get, now Senku just gets instantly. And this happens in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, as just one example, they make an entire railway system that goes UNDERGROUND between their settlements, hundreds of kilometres away from each other, in HALF AN EPISODE. I still remember the multiple episode journey that was getting the antibiotics in the first season and how satisfying it was to finally see it payoff, but now stuff JUST HAPPENS when the plot requires. And I understand that if every single one of these steps took multiple episodes, the show would be a slog, but the slow progression and the use of science were the most fun part of this show.
Now lets get to the characters, most are super obnoxious, to me at least, and their development is almost non existent, besides Senku and his dad, I feel nothing for any of them, I like Kohaku because she's best girl and I like chrome because he's the only one with actual progression, but even that has changed and he became stale too. Every single one of them just serves their own purpose and act as a reaction for the science Senku makes, but non of the are actually interesting or likeable at all. That might be because, at this point, there's WAY TOO MANY OF THEM, like jesus christ this show has to introduce a character for every little thing. Like the bald guy near the end of this season wwho, suddenly, has connections to the island they need to go to and remembers stuff even though he was a baby when he left. And he's also super forgettable and uninteresting. Also the characters don't age, despite multiple years having pass.
Anyways I could rant about how I dont like this show for ages but that's not the point of this. I want to know why so many people love it and put it on the year's top anime when, for me, its obvious everything about this show downgrades HEAVILY from the pretty great first season.

cassieDmonkey said:
I agree but it's not a serious show so I just watch it for fun, also I'm curious about the explanation of what happened in ep1 and the ending. oh and also tsukasa.

ishinashi234 said:
Mod edit.

borderliner said:


I agree the show has a downward trajectory season to season but I think you're judging a little harshly, and it's still fun as opposed to being a chore like some long running stuff...

Azriel-chan said:

well that is you my guy i love it you hate it that is how the world Work cant make all People happy

MrKessler said:
Don't get me wrong, the first season was pretty great (besides the tournament), I still remember, 4 years later, the episode about Senku's dad, by far the best and most emotional in the whole show. Actually lets get out of the way and say this: everytime Senku's dad gets highlighted in episodes the show is legitimately awesome.

But after watching both the second and third seasons, I have no hope this show will get good again, the progression is RIDICULOUS, in the first season everything was believable and explained, and it took time and effort for Senku to get what he needed, now its just ridiculous, stupid coincidences just so happen to give them exactly wwhat they want, and there is always just a teenager in the science group available that is the best at the thing they need, when I say the best I mean THE BEST, like for example if they need a chef, they just find a statue of a teenager who shows and its GODLIKE at cooking in a way that they would never master in our present world. And mind you I can forgive teenagers like this in normal shonen, and Jojo's and stuff like that because they don't set themselves up as a realistic show from the ground up, Dr. Stone is a show where one of the main selling points is seeing how you could actually use science in a primitive world to get to modern civilization, so I expect some degree of realism, so im not expecting every teenager to be as good as senku is at science at their field of expertise, it would've been awesome if they revived ACTUAL ADULTS that they could scout, it sucks man.
Anyways back to the progression, at this point the science itself is not even interesting anymore, because what before took time to get, now Senku just gets instantly. And this happens in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, as just one example, they make an entire railway system that goes UNDERGROUND between their settlements, hundreds of kilometres away from each other, in HALF AN EPISODE. I still remember the multiple episode journey that was getting the antibiotics in the first season and how satisfying it was to finally see it payoff, but now stuff JUST HAPPENS when the plot requires. And I understand that if every single one of these steps took multiple episodes, the show would be a slog, but the slow progression and the use of science were the most fun part of this show.
Now lets get to the characters, most are super obnoxious, to me at least, and their development is almost non existent, besides Senku and his dad, I feel nothing for any of them, I like Kohaku because she's best girl and I like chrome because he's the only one with actual progression, but even that has changed and he became stale too. Every single one of them just serves their own purpose and act as a reaction for the science Senku makes, but non of the are actually interesting or likeable at all. That might be because, at this point, there's WAY TOO MANY OF THEM, like jesus christ this show has to introduce a character for every little thing. Like the bald guy near the end of this season wwho, suddenly, has connections to the island they need to go to and remembers stuff even though he was a baby when he left. And he's also super forgettable and uninteresting. Also the characters don't age, despite multiple years having pass.
Anyways I could rant about how I dont like this show for ages but that's not the point of this. I want to know why so many people love it and put it on the year's top anime when, for me, its obvious everything about this show downgrades HEAVILY from the pretty great first season.

MrKessler said:
stupid coincidences just so happen to give them exactly wwhat they want, and there is always just a teenager in the science group available that is the best at the thing they need, when I say the best I mean THE BEST, like for example if they need a chef, they just find a statue of a teenager who shows and its GODLIKE at cooking in a way that they would never master in our present world

MrKessler said:
so I expect some degree of realism, so im not expecting every teenager to be as good as senku is at science at their field of expertise, it would've been awesome if they revived ACTUAL ADULTS that they could scout, it sucks man.

MrKessler said:
Anyways back to the progression, at this point the science itself is not even interesting anymore, because what before took time to get, now Senku just gets instantly. And this happens in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, as just one example, they make an entire railway system that goes UNDERGROUND between their settlements, hundreds of kilometres away from each other, in HALF AN EPISODE.

MrKessler said:
I still remember the multiple episode journey that was getting the antibiotics in the first season and how satisfying it was to finally see it payoff

MrKessler said:
but now stuff JUST HAPPENS when the plot requires

MrKessler said:
the slow progression and the use of science were the most fun part of this show

MrKessler said:
and their development is almost non existent, besides Senku and his dad, I feel nothing for any of them, I like Kohaku because she's best girl and I like chrome because he's the only one with actual progression, but even that has changed and he became stale too

MrKessler said:
Every single one of them just serves their own purpose and act as a reaction for the science Senku makes

MrKessler said:
Also the characters don't age, despite multiple years having pass.

MrKessler said:
I want to know why so many people love it and put it on the year's top anime when, for me, its obvious everything about this show downgrades HEAVILY from the pretty great first season.

ktg said:
This is actually a lie. They not happen to be the best. They are looking for the best. They revived that "teenager", because they know what they needed.
Same way, the revived Ryuusui when they needed his skill.

Btw, when you say "teenager", you mean you think teenager, right? I mean half of the cast are actually adult, so you are lying here too.

Also a lie. The show just skips the boring part, because it is about the science and not about mass producting things.
That's why the science part is really interesting even in the latest episodes.

Lol, they followed the exact same logic with railway. They skipped everything that they already used or explained at least once and skipped the really slow production and always showed the interesting parts.

And actually, science-wise railway is much easier concept than antibiotics. I mean the first railway line was in 1825, while the first true antibiotics were in 1926.

Just the ise of science, the slow progression is not.
Well, I mean if you check how much time they skip, they skip more and more. So it is actually slow.

So your problem with them is they are realistic. Interesting.
Because normally an adult like Magma or Kaseki won't change every couple of years. You don't change every 3 years.
People change for a reason. They don't change for no reason.

That's how the world works, which is also realistic.
The scientist come up with a new thing and everyone reacts to that.

They do, but if you expect them to look like 20 years older while only 3 years passed, then it is also stupid. Especially in Japan, where everyone looks really like despite their age.

Obviously, if we accept your lie, then yes, it will become something worse, but if a normal viewer liked the S1 and the science in it and don't lie about the show, then he will also like S2 and S3, because all the seasons give you the same satisfaction.

Btw, it obviously can't always be 100% scientifically accurate, because the show started with "light beam" that turned everyone to stone.

Priya080929 said:
Because it's fun and the science methods are all accurate, i don't need anything more than that.

MrKessler said:
You know that the point of passage of time in a narrative is? Sure they can tell you 3 months have passed in 20 seconds of narrative time, but that's not satisfying nor earned as an audience member, or at least not to me

MrKessler said:
The point of the railway example is that that's an EXAMPLE, but it happens with almost everything in the show. And Im sorry but how is that antibiotic argument even comparable to the railway? It doesnt matter if one's more complicated than the other, wwhat matters to me is that digging hundreds of kilometeres and installing railways would take WAY LONGER than the show presents, which is half an episode

MrKessler said:
as an audience member, I feel nothing with that accomplishment because it feels like there's no work put into it.

MrKessler said:
but if you just cut to the characters suddenly having done it you lose my investment because, and Ill say it again, I didnt see any struggles so I dont care.

MrKessler said:
About the characters aging I dont even know what your thought process was with that response, because Suika starts off as a 9 year old, at this point she should be AT MINIMUM 11 or 12 (because at least 2 years should have past, honestly like 3 or 4 considering how much they've done) and she looks exactly the same. No other character's seem to have aged either and Senku starts off has an 15 year old.

MrKessler said:
About the whole "teenager" thing, these masterminds that they found out so easily all in a limited region of Japan no less, are, at most, in their early twenties. Which like, really? You cant have like a 40 year old character who has actually had decades of experience on their field?

MrKessler said:
I didnt say the characters needed to change, just that I wanted them to be developed, like make them do difficult decisions, or dillemmas, show other sides to them, etc. They dont need to suddenly be different characters, thats not at all what I said.

MrKessler said:
The whole "the show cant be 100% accurate because of magic light" is a terrible excuse, just because you invent one supernatural element for a premise it doesnt disregard the rest not being realistic. Idk if you've been watching Oshi No Ko, for example, which has a supernatural element to start the story, but after that it is super realistic in the way it presents the idol culture in japan.

MrKessler said:
In this whole thing you've called the stuff I say "lies" and didnt understand the reasoning and just blindly defended the show. Like I said I'll give the show credit where its due, but that ain't it man. I ask that you at least understand my take on the show instead of going on the defensive immediatly.

MrKessler said:
Don't get me wrong, the first season was pretty great (besides the tournament), I still remember, 4 years later, the episode about Senku's dad, by far the best and most emotional in the whole show. Actually lets get out of the way and say this: everytime Senku's dad gets highlighted in episodes the show is legitimately awesome.

But after watching both the second and third seasons, I have no hope this show will get good again, the progression is RIDICULOUS, in the first season everything was believable and explained, and it took time and effort for Senku to get what he needed, now its just ridiculous, stupid coincidences just so happen to give them exactly wwhat they want, and there is always just a teenager in the science group available that is the best at the thing they need, when I say the best I mean THE BEST, like for example if they need a chef, they just find a statue of a teenager who shows and its GODLIKE at cooking in a way that they would never master in our present world. And mind you I can forgive teenagers like this in normal shonen, and Jojo's and stuff like that because they don't set themselves up as a realistic show from the ground up, Dr. Stone is a show where one of the main selling points is seeing how you could actually use science in a primitive world to get to modern civilization, so I expect some degree of realism, so im not expecting every teenager to be as good as senku is at science at their field of expertise, it would've been awesome if they revived ACTUAL ADULTS that they could scout, it sucks man.
Anyways back to the progression, at this point the science itself is not even interesting anymore, because what before took time to get, now Senku just gets instantly. And this happens in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, as just one example, they make an entire railway system that goes UNDERGROUND between their settlements, hundreds of kilometres away from each other, in HALF AN EPISODE. I still remember the multiple episode journey that was getting the antibiotics in the first season and how satisfying it was to finally see it payoff, but now stuff JUST HAPPENS when the plot requires. And I understand that if every single one of these steps took multiple episodes, the show would be a slog, but the slow progression and the use of science were the most fun part of this show.
Now lets get to the characters, most are super obnoxious, to me at least, and their development is almost non existent, besides Senku and his dad, I feel nothing for any of them, I like Kohaku because she's best girl and I like chrome because he's the only one with actual progression, but even that has changed and he became stale too. Every single one of them just serves their own purpose and act as a reaction for the science Senku makes, but non of the are actually interesting or likeable at all. That might be because, at this point, there's WAY TOO MANY OF THEM, like jesus christ this show has to introduce a character for every little thing. Like the bald guy near the end of this season wwho, suddenly, has connections to the island they need to go to and remembers stuff even though he was a baby when he left. And he's also super forgettable and uninteresting. Also the characters don't age, despite multiple years having pass.
Anyways I could rant about how I dont like this show for ages but that's not the point of this. I want to know why so many people love it and put it on the year's top anime when, for me, its obvious everything about this show downgrades HEAVILY from the pretty great first season.

MrKessler said:
Don't get me wrong, the first season was pretty great (besides the tournament), I still remember, 4 years later, the episode about Senku's dad, by far the best and most emotional in the whole show. Actually lets get out of the way and say this: everytime Senku's dad gets highlighted in episodes the show is legitimately awesome.

But after watching both the second and third seasons, I have no hope this show will get good again, the progression is RIDICULOUS, in the first season everything was believable and explained, and it took time and effort for Senku to get what he needed, now its just ridiculous, stupid coincidences just so happen to give them exactly wwhat they want, and there is always just a teenager in the science group available that is the best at the thing they need, when I say the best I mean THE BEST, like for example if they need a chef, they just find a statue of a teenager who shows and its GODLIKE at cooking in a way that they would never master in our present world. And mind you I can forgive teenagers like this in normal shonen, and Jojo's and stuff like that because they don't set themselves up as a realistic show from the ground up, Dr. Stone is a show where one of the main selling points is seeing how you could actually use science in a primitive world to get to modern civilization, so I expect some degree of realism, so im not expecting every teenager to be as good as senku is at science at their field of expertise, it would've been awesome if they revived ACTUAL ADULTS that they could scout, it sucks man.
Anyways back to the progression, at this point the science itself is not even interesting anymore, because what before took time to get, now Senku just gets instantly. And this happens in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE, as just one example, they make an entire railway system that goes UNDERGROUND between their settlements, hundreds of kilometres away from each other, in HALF AN EPISODE. I still remember the multiple episode journey that was getting the antibiotics in the first season and how satisfying it was to finally see it payoff, but now stuff JUST HAPPENS when the plot requires. And I understand that if every single one of these steps took multiple episodes, the show would be a slog, but the slow progression and the use of science were the most fun part of this show.
Now lets get to the characters, most are super obnoxious, to me at least, and their development is almost non existent, besides Senku and his dad, I feel nothing for any of them, I like Kohaku because she's best girl and I like chrome because he's the only one with actual progression, but even that has changed and he became stale too. Every single one of them just serves their own purpose and act as a reaction for the science Senku makes, but non of the are actually interesting or likeable at all. That might be because, at this point, there's WAY TOO MANY OF THEM, like jesus christ this show has to introduce a character for every little thing. Like the bald guy near the end of this season wwho, suddenly, has connections to the island they need to go to and remembers stuff even though he was a baby when he left. And he's also super forgettable and uninteresting. Also the characters don't age, despite multiple years having pass.
Anyways I could rant about how I dont like this show for ages but that's not the point of this. I want to know why so many people love it and put it on the year's top anime when, for me, its obvious everything about this show downgrades HEAVILY from the pretty great first season.

HaziqHK said:
I personally just love the characters and the things they do specially senku

BlueberryCake22 said:
Imo I feel like each season focuses on different things, kinda like attack on titan.
Season 1 felt like an adventure with slow yet satisfying progression
Season 2 felt more action oriented with a bit of an emotional ending
Season 3 feels like a high stakes mystery about petrification in an undercover plot

The show isn't fantastic and mind-blowing or anything, but it feels fresh when compared to other shounen anime. I think if what was happening in season 1 kept going for the whole show then it would get stale and tough to watch after a while
What I like about the show is the feeling of adventure u get from watching it, as a bunch of random characters get together to rebuild the world and bring every single petrified person back. Whatever happens along the way happens. (It's why I consider myself a one piece fan, I just love grand adventures.) That's the main draw in for me

kfsilver89 said:

Ahhh well done 👏🏼 you figured out that it’s a shonen jump series at its core. To be honest, the reason I like this series is extremely simple. I think out of all of MC’s that debuted around the same time this series came out… Senku is by far the best. Plain and simple. I’m very picky when it comes to shonen MCs.

The fact we’re 3 seasons in and your issue with this series can date all the way back to when Tsukasa man handled a freaking lion. Only difference now is that are particular people in the series that are so freaking good at their particular craft to same exaggeration as Tsukasa taking on AGAIN a freaking lion!!

No offense, but you lack analysis skills to completely covey your criticism of the series. Simply put… you lost interest in the series… you grew up and started to like other things in your life no shame in that but instead you use a poor attempt to make a rational argument about a problem with the show that was staring you right in the face 4 years ago. Your comments are dismissed.

HMZYMN said:

i'm sorry that happened or I'm happy for you, either way I aint reading all that.

Austin_Bale said:
In episode 2 they introduced a teenager who can kill a lion with one punch. The science is realistic, but the characters’ skills never have been. And of course they’ll invent new things faster the further they progress, that’s how technological advancement works.