Dr. Stone: New World Part 2 Episode 9 Discussion

this just a guess but think why-man is just AI that got out of control, and his objective is to continually wipe out humanity. how far am I manga readers ?

Kohaku returning was a great moment in this episode. Senku is back at it again trying to raise his stonks this time. Also, seeing the ED with colored sand instead of black and white was a nice touch.

This episode might've felt more relaxing, considering how tense the last few episodes have been, it still had important revelations and discoveries that'll help drive the story further on.

Slowly but surely, Senku was able to get everyone revived by the revival fluid and the repairs of the ship got underway. It's also nice that the group chose to revive Kirisame and she's settling into the group already, from seeing her having sparring match against Kohaku, to seeing her adorable expressions on her face upon seeing Kohaku hugging Senku, still believing that they were dating. XD

However, while getting their communication system working again and calling up Ruri on the mainland, they get a message from Why-Man, which not only uses Senku's voice, but the message itself refers to the whole diameter of Earth itself. Upon reviving a man who has been petrified a few hundred years prior to the present say (as well as proving to be immensely strong and made Kohaku and Kirisame weak in a comedic fashion), he did confirm about the petrification beams raining down from the sky.

With this, Senku concludes that Why-Man's location is on the Moon itself. That is a long term goal that'll be very difficult to achieve, but knowing Senku's skills and the group he has, I'm sure that objective of getting into space and landing on the moon is definitely possible.

Also, I do love the addition of colour in the ED sequence. It already looked great due to how tricky it is to make well-detailed scenes with sand, but with colour added, it looks amazing. =)

It never was "well-detailed scenes with sand", just a few sand scenes and the rest were normal drawings processed to look like sand. They just reduced the processing now.

@RainyShadow Is there anything that confirms that, out of curiosity? I'm only going by assumptions from what's shown on the ED sequence, so that's where I'm probably jumping to the wrong conclusions. I still like how it's done overall, although I guess I got fooled too easily into thinking my previous though.

@Meta_Yoshi No, it is just my personal observation.
I knew it was mostly fake from the second episode with this ED.

Of course, i may be wrong, but i doubt it.