 https://myanimelist.net/anime/57592/ Plot Summary Senku and the Kingdom of Science revive Tsukasa and build a spaceship to reach Why Man on the Moon! Other Information Type: TV Episodes: Unknown Status: Currently Airing Aired: Jan 9, 2025 to ? Premiered: Winter 2025 Broadcast: Thursdays at 22:00 (JST) Producers: TOHO animation Licensors: None found, add some Studios: TMS Entertainment Source: Manga Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi Demographic: Shounen Duration: Unknown Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older |
| While this is the final season, it's going to be three split cours long, so this will wrap up sometime in 2026. Episode 1 It's time to head out to America now that Senku and company have built the means to sail the Pacific to get right to the source of the petrification in the Amazon, and then become this era's version of Neil Armstrong to confront the entity known as Why Man on the moon. First order of business is to decide how to get to America, and Senku is right on the money wanting to arc towards Alaska rather than going on a straight line knowing full well that due to the Earth being spherical that it's actually the shorter path than the straight line path, as well as not having the luxury of spending an extra 30 days at sea since they would arrive after the harvest. But not everybody is convinced and also the route is more dangerous, so they decide this through poker. But Ryusui and Gen were cheating as Ryusui swapped his cards while Senku and Kohaku were distracted. So Senku cheats back by secretly staining the cards with a chemical he reacts strongly to, and beats their 4-of-a-kind with a royal straight flush. So the circular route they go. That was quite the way to start off this season as this journey is going to be very long and there's no telling if or when they will get back. |
| The crew of the Perseus is on its way to the United States, but Senku and Ryusui disagree on the best way to get there. So, they decide to settle it with a poker game, and shenanigans ensue with Gen trying various tricks to favor Ryusui and Kohaku exposing them. But Senku has the last laugh when he marks the cards, and the crew now have a casino and bar to keep entertained during the voyage. The new opening is a real banger, and it actually fits with the theme of this episode. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 2 Senku and company continue their journey, and the guys who are old enough to drink enjoy some booze, while Francoise also makes some mocktails for the underaged passengers. Afterwards, Senku figures out their location by using the sun's location. But they run into trouble when the skies get cloudy and seas get rough. But Chrome comes through using something the vikings used to use by making a sunstone that allows him to see through the clouds. And after navigating through some rough seas, they finally reach America. That was nice to see Chrome come through there, and now they are at their destination after 40+ days at sea. |
| More drinks made by Francois for everyone, and Tsukasa has Hyoga unpetrified so Matsukaze can train. Hyoga in turn requests to revive Homura and Moz. Then Chrome fashions a prism to serve as a Viking sunstone to find the location of the sun even when it's cloudy, and now the Perseus has finally reached America. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 3 Senku and company have arrived in America in San Francisco, and then they sail up the Sacramento River to set up their corn farms. They encounter a bunch of crocs upstream, but this serves as an opportunity to get themselves some meat. And then they go further up finding pieces of corn on the river. Then Senku sets up a light trap to confirm what he suspected all along that there are corn moths from Europe there and that somebody was growing it. And then Senku and company get attacked by a guy wielding a machine gun forcing them to retreat. Even though they found themselves in danger, Senku welcomes the opportunity to face off against another fellow scientist. So while they found corn, now Senku will have to fight for it seeing that somebody did in America what Senku did in Japan. |
| It's time to find some corn, and the first evidence of it shows up when the battle team hunts some crocodiles for meat and Tsukasa finds a corn cob in the stomach of one of them. But as more evidence is found, Senku begins to think it's rather too convenient, almost as if there's another group of people harvesting corn. And as it turns out, these people have the power of science on their side as well, as someone with a machine gun attacks, forcing the team to fall back. Senku is relishing the chance to face off against someone with his level of intellect. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| I appreciate some of the eccentricity of this show, but this episode threw science out the window...crocodiles in San Francisco? American Alligators can't live that far North, much less crocodiles who can stand cold weather even less. Also, corn can't survive without humans. It is a completely human developed and engineered plant. Even the crops planted each year come from special seeds, not seeds that are kept from last year's plants. |
marklebid said: Well he said the earth's wobble changed the climate. I think he just meant it pushed the end of fall back further. If the climate changed, the fog they showed wouldn't be around anymore, and the redwoods would probably die too. |
| Episode 4 As it turns out, the Americans are further along in their advancement of technology as they already have the reinvented the airplane, which easily tracks down Senku's ship. But thanks to a makeshift bomb, they damage the engine causing it to crash. They look for the pilot, but only find the plane, and after searching for him Gen finds the pilot, Stanley. Gen is taken to the enemy base that's much more advanced than back in Japan to meet the leader Xeno. Gen decides to become a spy to gather as much intel as he can, and when asked about who the scientist is on their side, Gen says it's Taiju instead of Senku. This sets the stage for a showdown between scientists as it's clear that Xeno revived much earlier than Senku did and is further along in scientific advancement. |
| The guy with the machine gun, Stanley, is also an ace pilot, but Senku crafts a makeshift grenade and has Kirisame throw it at Stanley's plane, causing it to crash. After the group takes the downed plane for themselves, Gen, Kohaku, and Chrome try and tail Stanley. But when Gen realizes they're being lured into a trap, he goes on ahead and allows himself to get captured. Gen is brought to Stanley's boss, Dr. Xeno, and he's subjected to a polygraph test. He decides to go undercover and mentions to Xeno that his group's leader is Taiju instead of Senku. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 5 Xeno and "Dr. Taiju" have a conversation and Senku and company find out that they have a plan for making weapons, as well as a huge corn field. But seeing that they don't know about the secrets behind the revival fluid that Senku is not going to give them that as their biggest edge. And thus, the Kingdom of Science goes to war against Xeno and company seeing that after the scout plane went out, there's no escaping. Seeing that the enemy has the aerial advantage that Senku decides to fight by through the air and turn the Perseus into an aircraft carrier to give the plane a runway to fly. This has become an arms race between kingdoms of science, but the enemy is still in the dark that Senku is the brains behind the operation and not Taiju, all while the revival fluid secret is something Senku will keep hidden until the time is right. |
| Xeno's group sends a scout plane out, and now both sides know where the other is located, and neither side is going to budge. The race is on to modify the Perseus into an aircraft carrier to use the plane they commandeered in the upcoming battle, while a small team is assembled to try and capture Xeno. Meanwhile, Stanley and Xeno are confident they can take out their opposition's leader, even though they have the wrong person in mind. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| No bamboo in America? Then why is my neighbor's back yard full of it and encroaching on my yard. |
HOOfan_1 said: No bamboo in America? Then why is my neighbor's back yard full of it and encroaching on my yard. More specifically, bamboo doesn't grow in California. It can grow in the southeastern U.S., but they don't have time for a foraging trip. Also, the American bamboo thickets are actually considered critically endangered. |
Galaxy-CrisisFeb 6, 5:03 PM
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Galaxy-Crisis said: Also, the American bamboo thickets are actually considered critically endangered. There's plenty of bamboo in the Southeast...most of it is probably an invasive species, but there is a lot of it, and it is almost impossible to kill. I bet there's plenty of invasive bamboo in California, and without humans to check its growth for thousands of years, it would likely really spread. |
| Episode 6 Xeno attempts to resolve things in an "elegant" manner, by having Stanley snipe their leader. As Stanley has never seen Taiju that he orders Luna to board the Perseus to identify Taiju, pretending to be a damsel in distress. While Luna got on-board, she has a tough time trying to figure out who Dr. Taiju is, and while she did correctly identify Taiju, that's not their leader. But she did meet the leader and sees Senku in action when he's making vanilla extract for Francois to make ice cream. As it turns out, Xeno was a NASA scientist and the reason why Senku got into science as he was mentored by him. Luna is quite confused seeing that she was told to find Taiju, but finds out that Senku is actually the brains of this team, so it will be interesting to see what she does here whether it be to report Taiju or Senku to Stanley, or neither at all seeing how they treated her so kindly. |
| Stanley's plan is to snipe Taiju, and he has a fellow ally, Luna, sneak on board to identify him and bring him out in the open. Senku isn't going to miss this chance to get information from her, in the same way that Xeno is trying to extract info from Gen. Luna manages to identify Taiju quickly, but when she sees Senku use chemistry to make ingredients for ice cream, she starts feeling rather conflicted. Then, when Luna mentions Xeno's catchphrase, Senku realizes that he knows him, the man who inspired him to get into rocket building. |
Galaxy-CrisisFeb 20, 7:41 AM
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| Episode 7 And the history between Senku and Xeno is explained as Senku's father used to work under Xeno in America. Xeno helped Senku build a rocket and really inspired Senku to advance his science knowledge. He would go out and frequently visit his father in Cape Canaveral when he was undergoing his training as an astronaut. And then right before the global petrification, Senku and Xeno examined the petrified birds. Xeno saw that while bird is stone, it was still alive, which is critical knowledge that helped them get through the petrification. And then came the global petrification that happened during a party at the Pinnacles National Park. During the 3000+ years as a stone statue, both scientists were planning their next move, and knew that he needed to find corn right away, hence setting up his base of operation inside the corn belt up the Sacramento River. This goes to show just how smart Xeno is, and how Senku learned from him as they prepare to meet in a showdown between geniuses. |
| Now comes a flashback episode showing how Senku got to know Xeno through e-mail correspondence on how to build a rocket. Senku traveled to Houston a couple times to see his father, and he actually met Xeno once during his travels abroad. The major difference between the two people is that Xeno is an ambitious man, and he's not above using the power of science to rule the world. In contrast, Senku is just naturally curious about the workings of the universe. Then we see the onset of the global petrification from Xeno's point of view, where a meeting was being held to discuss the petrification of the swallow population. Xeno's deduction of trying to keep their brains active until they were revived proved rather useful for everyone around him, and Xeno kept himself busy thinking about what to do next. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 8 Xeno developed firearms as he had the platinum wedding ring that survived after over 3000 years, and that's when Xeno decided that science is power. And back in the present, Luna is struggling to figure out what to do as she's not exactly willing to out Senku or Taiju for Stan to snipe. However, she relays a message that Senku is the guy and while the others can't fully understand her, Xeno does. So Xeno relays to Stanley based on records of his chats with Senku that narrows him down by height and Stan deduces which one is Senku. Knowing that he's about to get shot, Senku creates something that acts as a makeshift bullet-proof vest. This goes to show that the science war is on and that it can be used for power like what Xeno is doing, or for elegance like what Senku is doing. |
| Now that Senku knows who Xeno is, he believes he can use the Medusa as a bluff. Meanwhile, Luna can't bring herself to point at Taiju so Stanley can shoot him. So she mouths out about Senku's association to Xeno to Carlos, and Max reports to Xeno with the new intel. Xeno soon realizes who Senku is, and after calculating his height based on his voice, he relays his findings to Stanley. Ryusui sees Luna mouthing off, and he warns everyone on deck that there's a sniper nearby. However, Stanley sees this as an opportunity to get his target to reveal himself. Senku rushes to the bar and pours some water in a bag of powdered arrowroot to create a non-Newtonian fluid. While the bag takes the brunt of the impact from Stanley's bullet, some pieces still get through. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 9 While Senku took a hit, he's lucky it didn't hit him in the head or else he would have been dead on the spot, and not to mention he used the flour bag to soften the blod. He needs to be treated by a doctor, and the only person capable of doing it is Luna, who was a medical school dropout. So Chrome comes up with a plan to use the Medusa against Xeno and company now that Gen has located the enemy base, while leading a unit to sneak in from underground to attack Xeno. Quite a tough situation that Senku is in, but they have secrecy to their advantage seeing that the enemy doesn't know that Senku isn't truly dead. |
| Senku is incapacitated, and Luna offers as much medical knowledge as she can to help keep his condition stable. Meanwhile, Tsukasa's group rendezvouses with Chrome and Kohaku, and Ukyo sends the Medusa to Xeno's base to implement their bluff strategy. Chrome devises a plan to build a drill to dig a tunnel to the base so they can capture Xeno, but it seems Brody is building a contraption of his own. It's now a race over two weeks to determine who will finish their preparations first. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 10 While Dr. Senku is still in the infirmary, Chrome and company have built the drill to infiltrate Xeno's base, and the mood there is uneasy with Xeno's underlings present even if they are helping out. While Luna was not cut out to be a doctor in the previous world, her skills come in handy to help manage Senku's wounds. With the Kingdom of Science burrowing their tunnel, while sending decoded messages to Gen, the final showdown is on as they built their carrier and airplane to attack by air while using the tunnel to attack by land as well. But Xeno has a secret weapon up his sleeve as well. This goes to show just how much of a great team Senku has assembled, and it gets even greater having befriended some of Xeno's subordinates as well. |
| Taiju delivers the equipment that Chrome's team needs, and he casually picks up Carlos along the way. Among the equipment is a spear with a specialized tip for Hyoga to use to get the tunnel digging started, and when they hit bedrock, the team automates the process. Meanwhile, Luna continues to treat Senku, and soon she asks him to be her boyfriend. But Xeno has completed his secret weapon, and the battle is set to begin, as Ryusui and Senku take to the skies in their refurbished plane to intercept another one headed their way. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 11 It's time for the showdown between scientists, starting with an aerial showdown between Ryusui and "Stanley" with Senku as his navigator with their only chance of winning being to secure the 6:00 position. But with "Stanley" being a veteran pilot, he does a yo-yo maneuver to take the 6:00 position. In response, Ryusui does a cobra maneuver to gain the upper hand forcing "Stanley" to shake the plane in order to not give Ryusui a clear shot at him. While that's going on, it turns out the aerial battle is just a diversion as the real attack comes from the sub that sneaks up behind the Perseus. In the meantime, Senku and drops some bombs with gas to disrupt the engines to cause "Stanley" to crash, but they crash themselves by accident, only to find out that the pilot is not Stanley knowing that he wouldn't miss from point blank. While that's going on, Moz and Matsukaze fight back, but in comes Stanley to take them down to capture the Perseus. However, the Kingdom of Science has a sneak attack of their own as Tsukasa comes in to attack Xeno himself. It was a chess game here as there was lots of misdirection on both sides. One more episode left before the first of three parts is complete and the show goes on break. |
| While the two planes try to get behind each other, Xeno's forces move to storm the Perseus via a submarine. They manage to capture everyone on deck, but Moz and Matsukaze fight back. Meanwhile, Ryusui gets above the enemy plane, and Senku drops some acetylene gas bombs to stall its engine. But some gas gets in their plane's engine too, and both of them stall and crash. When they get to the enemy plane, they find out that the pilot is not Stanley, and the real Stanley leaps from the sub to dispatch Moz and Matsukaze. However, just as Xeno believes he's won the battle, Tsukasa's group shows up right in front of him. Both sides are now at an impasse. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| The second part of this season will start in July. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 12 Chrome's team infiltrates the fortress and Kohaku kidnaps Xeno, then use a bomb to cave in the tunnel. But it causes a cave-in on both sides and it all comes down to who digs out of their side first between Taiju and Brody, and Taiju is first to make their escape. With both sides being captured, Senku and Xeno catch up with each other, and then the Kingdom of Science form an alliance with the Americans, though an uneasy one. And after that, Senku leads a team on an expedition to South America at the epicenter of the petrification after using the Medusa as a decoy. While they got away, Stanley is in hot pursuit. So with that, this arc ends with Senku leading a team to the Amazon, all while the rest try to build up Corn City and work their way to reviving a million people now that they have lots of corn. So with that, the show goes on break and the second part continues in July. |
| Chrome's team make their getaway with Xeno, but his bomb to block the one end of the tunnel causes a cave-in on both sides. Fortunately, Taiju and Chrome manage to dig out the rubble. Then Max frees Luna, Francois, and Kaseki, and they meet up with Chrome's group as Senku and Ryusui arrive. The guys then hijack a boat from Xeno's base, and Senku coordinates a negotiation with Brody. Senku's group evades Stanley by using the drained Medusa as a bluff, and they're on their way to South America while everyone else prepares to set up Corn City. But Stanley will no doubt be doggedly chasing after them. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Time to resume this, the second of three split cours for this show's final season. Episode 13 To start things off, a flashback to when Xeno and Stanley first became friends as Xeno had built the railgun as a kid. And with that, Senku sets sail for the Amazon, the origin of the petrification beam, with Xeno as a hostage and Stanley in hot pursuit. While making their way to South America, Senku and Xeno exchange their observations to come up with a hypothesis about the petrification light, and they managed to pinpoint the exact location of the petrification light. Pretty much, the episode is one big discussion as Senku and Xeno, with some help from Chrome bounce ideas and observations off each other as there's no question they will uncover the mystery of the light. |
| While Stanley prepares to chase Senku's group to South America, Senku and Xeno collaborate on finding the exact location of the source of the petrification beam, using some eccentricities about the light as a starting reference. With some help from Chrome, they manage to pinpoint the location to somewhere in Brazil. Of course, there's still the question of how to get there once they reach the continent. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 14 Here comes Chelsea, who was at the conference Xeno attended when the petrification happened. She was found after putting up a distress signal that was supposed to say HELP, but actually says HELL. With Stanley in hot pursuit, it's a race against time as they got somebody who can use the radar to locate exactly where the Perseus is and their superior speed to catch up with them, and it's over when they run out of fuel. Senku realizes this and they need to find rubber to get away. But just when Stanley and company have caught up, Chelsea's kites she used for the signal are combined to make a giant sail with Taiju and all the strong men holding them in place. Chelsea sure did make quite the impression there, and with the sails they are good to go for awhile now. |
| While stopping to get fuel for their ship, the gang runs into Chelsea, who put up an incomplete distress signal using kites. To get to the source of the petrification beam, it's decided that they will build bikes, and the first obstacle is securing rubber for tires. However, Stanley is steadily catching up. Fortunately, Senku's group uses Chelsea's kites as a makeshift sail, and their little boat has gained a substantial speed boost. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| they didn't at least want to try and see if the Panama canal was still open? |
| Three thousand years of disrepair probably would have filled in everything, or at least made it impassable. |
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Reply to Galaxy-Crisis
Three thousand years of disrepair probably would have filled in everything, or at least made it impassable.
| @Galaxy-Crisis seems like a better gamble than riding motorcycles over the Andes Mountains. |
Reply to HOOfan_1
@Galaxy-Crisis seems like a better gamble than riding motorcycles over the Andes Mountains.
| @HOOfan_1 Or going around through the bottom of South America, which means navigating through the Drake Passage as that place has the roughest seas in the world. Not to mention, they have limited fuel, so that's a no-go. |
| Episode 15 Senku and company approach Panama, where a canal used to be that serves as a shortcut between the Pacific and Atlantic. To shake off Stanley, Ukyo and Gen go on a decoy ship to the canal to buy Senku and company time, using it to make the rubber they need to make tires from it. Then they arrive in Ecuador where they make their bikes, stripping down the ship for the materials. And when Stanley's gang arrives, everybody gets away on their motorcycles. Stanley's fighter jets would normally give them a huge advantage, but Senku secretly inserted sugar water that breaks down primitive engines over time, and they are not noticeable during inspection. And now, it's off to the Amazon to the source of the petrification. |
| Well, the Panama Canal was brought up, as the gang sends the mobile lab on autopilot towards it to serve as a decoy while they harvest rubber to make tires for their motorcycles. Once they reach Ecuador, they scuttle the ship and gut it for parts to build the bike frames, and they get away just as Stanley's group catches up to them. They would have had an aerial advantage, but Senku sabotaged their plane's engine by pouring sugar water in the gas tank when they crashed it in California. Senku's group is on their way to Brazil, but Xeno left Stanley a message in Morse code via blinking his eyes, so he'll be hot on their trail again soon enough. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| I'm still wondering how they plan to get over the Andes Mountains on motorcycles. If the Panama Canal silts in after a thousand years, then any mountain pass the pumpkin woman knows about could have been closed by landslides, volcanic eruptions, glaciers growing back etc. |
| Episode 16 Senku and company are scaling the Andes to get to ground zero of the petrification, while Stanley's crew is working to get the planes up and running again. While that's going on, back in Corn City they recover the Medusa that's now broken. Senku creates a manual fax machine to send a message back to Corn City where the watchmakesr Joel is revived to examine the Medusa. He figures out the thing that activates the Medusa, a diamond that triggers the magnification. So with Senku looking to get past the Andes before Stanley strikes seeing that once they are in the Amazon the trees will provide the perfect cover, they build the capability for balance in the mountains. And then Senku comes up with a high-wire plan to carry the motorcycles up the mountain. Let's see what Senku comes up with in order to get past the mountains before Stanley gets to them. |
| While Senku's group head to the Andes, he sends instructions to the team back in California to retrieve the Medusa device and find out how it works. To that end, they revive a watchmaker named Joel, who soon discovers that the device is powered by a diamond. Back at the Andes, Senku's group has to shuffle the seating arrangements on their motorcycles to provide better balance, but even that only gets them so far up the mountains, so Senku devises a plan to build a ropeway to get the motorcycles the rest of the way. But Stanley's group has finished repairing their plane, and he's soon airborne to resume his chase. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 17 Thanks to Kohaku's athleticism, she got to the other side of the chasm so that Senku and company can build a ropeway. The next question is how to cross realizing that Xeno and Hyoga can't be trusted, so these two end up crossing together while explaining the dilemma about how to get the fox, chicken, and the corn across the river with only one of them taken at a time, with the answer to take the chicken first, and have it cross back and again. Suica nearly fell into the chasm as due to her being a lightweight that she's easily swayed by the wind, but Kohaku saved her. And after that it's onward to Manaus, the Ground Zero of the petrification and while the jungle provides cover, Stanley and company know that they are leaving tracks behind to follow. So after crossing the river while taking ant extracts to use, they made it to the palace where the petrification light originated. |
| Kohaku leaps across a chasm easily so the ropeway can be constructed. The real issue is how to cross without leaving Xeno and Hyoga together at one side. A gust of wind causes Suika to fall off mid-crossing, and Kohaku has to think fast to save her. Once across the chasm, it's relatively smooth sailing through the Amazon rainforest, with Senku making several implements to ward off the insects and other animals. At last, they make it to the epicenter of the global petrification, a temple practically covered with Medusa devices. |
| Failure is always an option. |
| Episode 18 Senku and company have discovered a pile of Medusas at ground zero, which are out of juice. With all these Medusas, Senku concludes that Why-Man throw these Medusas onto Earth a long time ago and they all were activated to petrify the planet. With all the Medusas unusable, this provides an opportunity to tear them apart and examine them as they take as many Medusas with them as they can. Knowing that Stanley is eventually going to find them with the radar that Senku builds a stealth ship designed to bounce radio waves into the sky rather than back to them, using the Medusas to cloak their vessel. While cruising the Amazon River, Senku and company are examining the diamonds noticing the difference in shape and Senku asks the guys back in California to make diamonds. And after pulling an all-nighter, they crafted a batch of small diamonds. So with that, Senku and company have gotten one step closer to solving the mystery of the petrification. |
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