Dr. Stone

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There’s a lot to talk about in regards to Dr. Stone, but I’ll keep this review short and simple. Here’s a few things that I want to note:

- Story/Characters: Basically, the this show revolves around Senku starting mankind from scratch. He’s a pretty lovable character with his limitless confidence and pride. He’s not some overleveled isekai protagonist that has everything go his way. The direction of the show can vary from his proud accomplishments or his critical mistakes. I’ll admit that Senku can feel too smart for the convenience of the story, but I mean hey he’s the protag. The side characters who get involved ... with Senku’s journey are solid. They have unique motives and sense of humor. Your perception for a few changes as new information is shown to you. Though I’ll say every new antagonist introduced got weaker in a complicated manner regarding their motivations. This is mostly due to the story feeling like a sandbox game. There isn’t a need for villains in a setting like Dr. Stone. I never got the feeling that anyone in the main cast would be in real danger.

- Art: It’s solid. Boichi’s art is pretty distinctive if you’re familiar with his works (his most famous being Sun-Ken Rock). But the men look more unique than the women. I’m not sure if I had a hard time recognizing the minor female characters because of their wide eyes or whatever. It’s not something I’d consider a flaw.

- The pacing: The step-by-step process of building new inventions was great. The science is pretty accurate, sometimes blown out of proportion for the sake of comedy. But this got progressively worst. I understand that they can’t dedicate a few chapters for every single project they make. But the process got to the point where they can build whatever, all within in a few panels without a cohesive explanation. No more of the good ol days of seeing the grit and grind pay off. Now the characters usually say something similar to "wow science is amazing" almost every chapter like Senku is a magician. You could tell Inagaki started to fast forward civilization after Stone Wars which made the admirable side of science look more meaningless.

- Continuing the narrative is a tricky situation (following my previous point): This story would go on for a long time if they continued to be analytical from the start, which has a good chance boring most of us readers. It’s hard to say how the manga could improve in this manner, but it’s evident that this lead to the ending feeling rushed.

- No one ages: The story goes on for many many years yet everyone looks the same. This could slide if the whole cast were adults, but they’re not. The majority of characters look young. I get how convenient it is to make everyone’s character design the same. But cmon, you’d expect them to age a bit, especially from the characters who do the hard labor they’re not used to. They should look more sturdy than the average person right? Welp, Suika has the Ash Ketchum treatment.

Conclusion: It’s pretty simple for anyone to get a grasp of the story of Dr. Stone. This was never meant to a a psychological/thought provoking. Just pure entertainment. Even with the few complaints I had, it should be clear that you don’t need to use your brain to enjoy this. Just be aware that the quality of pacing and logic will fall off a bit around the last few arcs.

Interesting characters, original history, extremely beautiful art, BUT misused and badly executed script.

Reasons:

Because it is a story that takes place in the past and the protagonist is extremely intelligent, it creates from scratch the current technologies, so far so good, it is interesting, but the script pushes this idea to the limit making each chapter (manga) and each episode (anime) boring with each new discovery/ideia in all, exactly, all episodes.

It looks like they are pushing the main arch away, because of that it causes spaces between mini-archs and main arch.

Although they introduce new characters, they give a lot of importance to it and they waste ... time giving each one a arch and again, they push everything, a lot of the times this doesn't contribute to the progress of the script.

If you have the patience not to lose interest because of this, it's a good request.

But even when they explain the main arch, it shows a lack of complexity and script preparation, thus making everything very shallow and cliché.

As I said at the beginning, for all these reasons, you can summarize Dr. Stone:


"A history of modern society's growth in prehistory misused"


It had everything to be good, good art, original history and innovative ideas, but they have a terrible screenwriter.

Final grade: 6/10

This review will contain spoilers

This shonen manga is definitely unique by presenting the idea of science against brawls;
If you major in science and take thing quite SERIOUSLY the things Senkuu does are ridiculous and it might trigger you.

This manga has a lot of potentials, I personally like the post-apocalyptic setting and I hope we get to explore more than just the village, characters are average nothing exceptional, the story is predictable until they arrive at the village and we get to meet new characters.

I like the art, the background is drawn with careful substance but Boichi draws his female characters with a slight lack ... of details making them look almost alienish.

read on as senku uses the power of science to save the world. that's the premise anyway, and so long as you don't ask too many questions and hold on to that dreaded suspension of belief you're in for a pretty good albeit forgetful time.

this manga is really more of a showcase on the progression of science and technology, how it advances civilisations and how we determine it's purpose. and then it finds a way to expertly meld that in with the typical shonen themes of perseverance, determination, courage etc

that being said, it does have it's flaws. the artwork is rough in a couple of ... areas, the pacing is a little awkward and the ever-expanding cast are just a couple of those. i believe that those can be overlooked however.

overall, give it a read or at the very least a chance. but i do think that the anime would probably provide a much better experience and helps alleviate some of the problems i've brought up.

Dr. Stone is a manga unlike any other. It has been successful in finally providing unity between science and fan. If you are a science this manga is for you; if you aren't, this manga is still for you. Its art is fantastic, A 10/10; The storyline is really gripping and it manages to maintain its zeal until the end. The character are goddamn amazing with each having a distinct personality and not the characters feel left behind; every character has his/her moment and this just shows the how brilliant the mangaka is. I seriously believe that is a must read for anyone and everyone. ...
STORY SNYOPSIS:
The story follows a highly passionate and intelligent high schooler, Senku Ishigami, who with all of the people on the earth has been sent back to the stone age; not really, but a mysterious beam of light petrifies (turn to stone) all the of the living species on the planet for thousands years in which the planet rehabilitates and goes back to the stone age. Senka being the goddamn genius break out the petrification and vows to take the earth back to its modern roots.