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Mar 20, 2025 5:24 PM
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great as always💯🔥
Mar 20, 2025 5:25 PM

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Dec 2015
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Yooooooo this entire episode was so gosh dammn epic!!!!! From the aerial battle to Tsukasa at the end there with the counter checkmate!!!! Dr. Stone has never been this exhilarating to watch!!! Not to mention the Stone World fighters not being scared of modern guns, cuz they have no idea what those even do 😂👌
Mar 20, 2025 5:28 PM
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Jul 2024
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Geez, I got so caught up in the dogfight & the boarding party attack, I forgot all about Chrome's own strike team tunneling in! ROFLOL
Mar 20, 2025 5:34 PM
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Jan 2021
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Amazing!!! Awesome epidsode!
Mar 20, 2025 6:10 PM
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Dec 2020
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What an incredible episode, all the episodes of this season were EXCITING, a battle of the titans, both were very strategic and both planned very well, absolute cinema
Mar 20, 2025 7:28 PM
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Jul 2021
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This show just keeps getting slower and slower. I can't take it anymore. An entire scene spanning 20 minutes is boring as hell.
Mar 20, 2025 7:53 PM
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Jul 2020
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very good man . i love this
Mar 20, 2025 8:49 PM
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Apr 2023
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Xeno's team has much more to lose, especially since their base is now taken, like it is all they will ever have and aside from it they will never recover especially with Xeno captured. And with Senku still free, the tables really got turned.
Mar 20, 2025 9:01 PM
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Feb 2020
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GODDAMN STANLEY 😳🥵
@Nerdason Good Lord Help Me
Mar 20, 2025 9:26 PM
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Oct 2020
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Whoa, what a twist! The dogfight was cool but I didn't see it as a vehicle for deciding the entire outcome of the war. But there were clearly multiple fronts developing at once. Maybe the chess metaphor is a little overused, but it applies so perfectly here that I can't argue with it. Looking forward to seeing how this whole thing wraps up!
Mar 20, 2025 10:29 PM
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Jan 2021
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stanley and tsukasas appearance was a really exciting cliffhanger
Mar 20, 2025 10:33 PM

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Sep 2022
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LMAO I fucking loved that monologuing Senku did at the end mann

"The most powerful knight has us checkmated.."

*Tsukasa and co. finally corner Dr. Xeno*

"...on both sides."

Like damn that line makes Senku sound more like the antagonist than Dr. Xeno and group lmao.. absolutely well-done episode. The science fight is coming to a head!
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Mar 20, 2025 10:53 PM

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wonder how s3 part 2 gonna work with how the pacing of the manga goes all wack after this arc is over
will it all be crammed and then end on that

but then theres not enough for s4 1 cour
One of my favorite anituberisms was when people were saying Re:Zero was this intense deconstruction on anime tropes when it came out, and then years later when I got around to reading it it was just lolicon chuunige.
Mar 20, 2025 11:24 PM
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Dec 2022
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it was really exitting
Mar 20, 2025 11:25 PM

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I'm not surprised that it was a submarine in the end. It did a good job of taking the other side by surprise.

Both parties are now in check. Next episode will probably have negotiations.
Mar 20, 2025 11:36 PM
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Dec 2022
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one of the best episode in this season
Mar 21, 2025 1:54 AM
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Feb 2018
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The idea that they wouldn't all just die from the fall definitely is the most I've had to suspend disbelief in the series so far.

Also the chess metaphors are fucking stupid and extremely pretentious. Like I'm watching Code Geass again.
Mar 21, 2025 2:24 AM
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Jan 2022
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I don’t get it, how stanley switched? plz someone explain :(
Mar 21, 2025 4:15 AM

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Jul 2013
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Classic Senku. His win condition is forcing a negotiation.
Mar 21, 2025 4:24 AM
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Apr 2018
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Okay so the plane fight was just a distraction to attack each other's base, well the enemies even have a submarine damn, but at least Senku's team is also in the enemy's base now
Mar 21, 2025 5:01 AM

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Sep 2013
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This episode was insane, i love this show so much
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Mar 21, 2025 5:02 AM

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Sep 2013
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I don’t get it, how stanley switched? plz someone explain :(
@Nubah i'm guessing both were in the airplane and Stanley jumped on the ship with a parachute
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Mar 21, 2025 7:29 AM
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May 2018
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I don’t get it, how stanley switched? plz someone explain :(
@Nubah Stanley was in the submarine from the get-go. The substitute is just another pilot who happens to be a doppelgänger of Stanley with less skills. The pilot's monologue being in Stanley's voice is misleading.
Mar 21, 2025 8:11 AM
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Very interesting dogfight eh.
And we thought they checkmate science team with Stanley but got double checkmate with Tsukasa with Kohaku on Xeno.
Darn would be interesting to see how Tsukasa and Kohaku slipped to the submarine!
Mar 21, 2025 8:46 AM

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Damn I forgot all about the dig team, to think they both utilized going under their enemies lolz

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But my feels.
Mar 21, 2025 9:05 AM
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Oct 2023
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GYAAATTTT DAAAAYUM !!!
Mar 21, 2025 9:55 AM

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May 2010
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How is this the best and also the stupidest episode at the same time?! I cannot contain my laughter when Senku got the gas in their own plane lmao. So glad they managed to infiltrate Xeno's base in time. Can't wait for the next episode.
Mar 21, 2025 11:41 AM

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Oct 2019
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So they now have each other in check.. Fascinating.
That submarine was quite a surprise, I thought they were building a missile.
Mar 21, 2025 3:13 PM

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Jun 2015
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That was brilliant!
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Mar 21, 2025 4:40 PM
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Jan 2025
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What a good episode, really looking forward to the next one.
Mar 21, 2025 4:42 PM

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Apr 2015
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That Xeno face in the end, i bet he just shit himself there.

Just one more episode for the season break :(
Mar 21, 2025 5:20 PM

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@PokefanPT This arc has like 14 more episodes it not even close to over. But it will change a bit soon. But I guess this season will stop on the change it seems.
@PoisonedTea

Ohh, so the 2nd cour is still going to be about this arc? That's interesting, now I'm really curious to see how things will go out in the next episode
Mar 21, 2025 5:59 PM

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May 2015
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This episode (the few last episodes leading up to this one for that matter) in a nutshell:


But seriously when I saw this I internally jumped out of joy:


And it's a shame Nikki lost just like that, I was hopping for a Nikki vs Maya one on one fight.
Mar 21, 2025 6:02 PM

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May 2015
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GODDAMN STANLEY 😳🥵
@Nerdason Stanely rule 63
Mar 21, 2025 8:36 PM
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Nov 2019
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I can definitely say I did not see that ending coming. Next episode is going to be very interesting.
Mar 21, 2025 10:02 PM
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Dec 2022
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a dog fight??? in this stone world??? ITS PEAK????

need new episode.... NOW....


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Mar 22, 2025 12:14 PM

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Nov 2016
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No way you can Cobra that shit lmaooo
Mar 22, 2025 1:05 PM
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May 2021
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hell naah only 1 episode left. This episode was dam good 🔥
Mar 22, 2025 1:31 PM
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Jul 2024
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Love the combination of action and drama.
Mar 22, 2025 5:26 PM

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Feb 2016
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I love that the adults won this episode, honestly fuck these brats lol

Still, sure, let's say they kill Xeno (of course that will never happen), so what? The americans will lose their genius, but the japanese side will be absolutely obliterated, every single one, this is only a checkmate for the americans lol
Sorry if my english is bad (っ˘▽˘)っ~~~
Btw, cry about it.

Mar 23, 2025 2:14 AM
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Damn, what an episode! Asspulls are justified only if it delivers and this was right up there. The mother of checkmates confused now with 4D chess, xD.
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Mar 23, 2025 6:07 AM
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Jul 2020
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Aww yeah, it's a cockfight and all the power moves from primitive planes make a day view. Stanley and Ryusui really know how to pilot the mangaka had his best moment as the introducing them to us. We even had fitting music for the moment and bluffs just to make the exchange spicier. But when all the attention is directed towards the sky, what do you do? Exactly, you make your move from underground and the submarine was built just for that. And if that wasn't enough and some warriors were able to predict it, apparently Stanley was ahead of them all by having a double on the plane giving him the opportunity to capture the science base.

So it's a checkmate... ON BOTH SIDES. Yes, remember Chrome's drill? It finally made it in time so for the final episode from this part it's time for negotiation. Can't wait.
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Mar 23, 2025 7:07 AM
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Jul 2022
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The way villains use their resourses just seem stupid. Like sure, build a submarine. but that would cost a shit ton more resourses than the speed boat option. Also, they have machine guns, but they didint fire a single round with them during the whole fight. maybe most of the machine guns are fake like senku's one? idk.
The machine gun thing is even more apparent in the dog fight. the doppel ganger stanley could have turned senku's plane into swiss cheese in multiple points during the dogfight. So i guess the airbattle was only a way of distracting the people on the ship, but did they even need any distraction when the submarine existed?
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Jul 2023
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@Nerdason Xeno knew what he was doing when he revived her ;)
@NosTha Boichi knew what he was doing when he chose this angle.
Mar 23, 2025 1:15 PM

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The decisive battle of Science vs. Science starting with the aerial dogfight of Ryusui and Senku (though he's still recovering) vs. Stanley, and it's all strategy for a lock-on in the air. The exhilarating dogfight in the air being a constant challenge, but yet, there's one weapon that Xeno and the others have prepared all this while that doesn't measure up to Senku's standards: the submarine.

The pirate raid with the submarine brigade on Xeno's end to claim the sea, only to get overwhelmed by Moz and the island warrior team, as Senku and Tsukasa claim the dogfight with the acetylene gas. But no star is ever shown until Stanley checkmates the Kingdom of Science...and Senku goes the same for Xeno.

This is a stalemate-checkmate on both sides, who will claim victory in this exciting high-stakes fight?
Mar 23, 2025 9:30 PM

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Double checkmate!
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Mar 24, 2025 12:05 AM
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What a great episode. I can’t wait til the next episode
Mar 24, 2025 12:28 PM
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Jan 2021
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omggg another cliff hanger, but it was so cool
Mar 24, 2025 1:17 PM
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Jun 2024
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crazy that it's finally the second to last ep of the season!!!! concept of a dogfight was bizarre but, I mean, it's dr. stone. glad we got to see some matsukaze / the others. interested to learn 'stanlette''s lore :0
Mar 24, 2025 5:33 PM

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Why were they building a submarine vertically??

That Stanley lookalike pilot must be great at voice acting. Even her inner monologues sounded like Stanley.

Another poor episode.
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