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4.33 AVERAGE
4.33 AVERAGE
Dr. Stone continues to impress. Great adventures, cool gadgets, lovable characters, consistently funny. My only conceivable complaint is that as time goes on, less page space is spent on building new mechanisms over new materials and travelling. It's been coming dangerously close to having too many characters as time goes on, but there's a very clear distinction between main, secondary, and tertiary characters. There's no great loss to the story leaving Ruri or Soyuz behind on their islands, and Inagaki doesn't try and mislead the reader into thinking every Dick and Jane might secretly be important. Characters serve their purpose and exit gracefully. I might wish for my favourites to get a few more stand-out moments, but I can recognize that it wasn't meant to be.
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I love how each phase of the story feels different, yet there's an underlying consistency. Stone Wars was scientific cavemen vs. primitive moderns, and while Tsukasa had a slight advantage in manpower, it wasn't insurmountable with scientific equipment. Treasure Island was scientific cavemen vs. primitive cavemen, and the population disparity between Treasure Island and Ishigami Village was too huge to overcome directly, so all action had to be as covert as possible. America was scientific cavemen vs. scientific moderns, and the situation was reversed to the protagonists having superior manpower but (slightly) inferior technology. Now, in South America, it's all about avoiding a direct confrontation they can't possibly win, and information superiority is in the hands of the antagonists. In every case, however, the key to the conflict has been possession of a single thing, whether it was the revival cave, the medusa, or each side's scientist. You could lose lots of battles, so long as you came out with that one thing. This is why the end of the America arc doesn't feel like a defeat, even though Senku lost his ship and the bulk of his allies. Possession of Xeno was more valuable.
I'm eager to see how South America turns out. Given that we've seen that both turning off/on and popping the battery in/out work for medusae, plus Chrome's idea for a passive depetrification device, it's possible that Senku will try to take the Perseus by petrifying the crew. If they can recharge one, it'd definitely be the best choice. It seems a little implausible to found a city in South America without Minami, and I don't know if their tiny catamaran could possibly make a trans-oceanic journey back to Treasure Island, so it seems confrontation is inevitable. It also raises questions about the future of the series. As Senku says, with the acquisition of the medusa cargo, they could blast past 21st century science into the realm of science fiction pretty quickly. With that in mind, I wonder if the next arc (or next next) could involve a struggle against robots? Maybe that's what China will be? This is probably just my hope that the spinoff is canon talking, and with the revelation that Chrome can, in fact, read, that's looking unlikely. Then again, Chrome remembering that out of the blue would be very fitting for Dr. Stone. Australia is also a complete wildcard.
I'm also curious how the petrification effect will be treated from here on out. There's some discussion in the latest arc about its properties, whether it was a sphere or a wave, its speed, etc. I have to wonder why Inagaki is bothering. It's an impossible effect, so how much worth is there in trying to justify it inside a scientific framework? It's almost certainly going to be some kind of mumbo jumbo when it comes down to it. We also learn that Whyman has (or had) massive industrial capacity at the time of humanity's petrification. There are hundreds of tons worth of medusae in that pile. He also had the capacity to create more (or had more in reserve), as he was able to bomb Treasure Island thousands of years later. He clearly wants to keep humanity down, but either doesn't care about, or can't detect small pre-industrial societies like Ishigami Village. Corn City seems like an obvious target if it actually gets off the ground.
inspiring
lighthearted
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
دیگه حافظه م یاری نمیکنه کدوم چپتر ها اینجا بودن، ولی کلن از وقتی ژنو و استنلی اومدن تو داستان و رقابت علمی راه افتاد جذاب تر هم شد حتا.
adventurous
challenging
informative
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
funny
hopeful
informative
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
[Dr. Stone, Volume 20- Riichiro Inagaki → ☆☆☆.75]
I loved Dr. Stone but i think it's going in a different direction than i had hoped. Or at least im not as into the final version of it.
adventurous
funny
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No