Audience reviews
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Caeruleus_CCXVI
5/10: Fine junk food.
This show for at least season 1 can best be described as anime's take on a 1v1 battle in a CIV game where one player went for Domination and the other player simultaneously went for Science and culture.
This show is both realistic while being unrealistic, funny yet with high stakes. That being said they took the Shonen battle anime formula and honestly the "stakes" don't seem that high as you know that the main charecters will prevail.
The first 5 episodes are really really bad, There is nothing more in anime I hate more then a loud shouting protag and the "main characters" Taiju and Ogawa are truly terrible charecters. Im not sure why the show focuses on them for the first few episodes, but oh was I glad that the focus changed. The focus change almost reminded m…
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Dr Stone is a "comedy" that starts with a highschool boy getting ready to confess his love to a girl.
But then the end of the world happens and every human in the world is turned to stone. Cars crash. Planes fall from the sky. One can only imagine the amount of deaths.
Turns out people are still conscious in their stone body, and our MCs keep themselves occupied one by thinking of the girl he loves. The other by simply counting.
They break free after 3000 years and somehow still kept their sanity despite being stone and conscious for 3 millennia.
First of all this is a terrible way to start a comedy. Im not sure at which point i was supposed to be laughing.
None of the characters are interesting. One of the MCs is always yelling.
The animation looks like flash animation.
Five minutes…
Read at the sourceLucianael
[This is as much a review of Season 1 as it is of anything that comes after it, that being said, I am not going to directly spoil any part of the plot]
Dr.Stone might just have one of the greatest premises in fiction. I find this statement to be a bit hyperbolic, but I fully agree with it. Dr.Stone’s premise is as genius as it is simple, sadly the show is a lot simpler.
I am going to start this review by saying that I didn’t really have a good time with this anime, I didn’t hate it (for the most time) but I was quite disappointed. To be perfectly honest I still kind of am because I to this day believe that Dr.Stone should have been a Seinen. Maybe it is just the fact that I will always believe that a more mature story is a better one, but I also just enjoy a show way more if I can actual…
Read at the sourceGsarthotegga
I try to avoid giving 1-star ratings very often, but I can't think of any redeeming qualities this show might possess. After looking up animation clips for this (revised) review, I have to say that the animation is mostly poor based on the "choice bits," and almost every scene of animation uses time/money-saving techniques; there are loads of stills and hardly any good effects or background animation, and even then, the characters mostly just slide around and you see their mouths flap. All of the budget is dumped into the fights, and they are still very bland; they give you these wide "money shots" where they actually animate, then it's back to close-up animation saving techniques. The character design is not only ugly, but I feel queasy looking at it. This is some of the most sterile and…
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a friend of mine gave me the advice to watch me, speaking about how scientific this series is. i' ve found nothing about science in this series, at least if we don't consider some elementary school level things. totally overrated.
unrealistic things like humans defeating lions with bare hands, 6 months to create a hut pretending to be a scientist.
the protagonist is annoying, and the characters too.
comic relief without a meaning.
the beginning of everything is the most anti-science thing in the series, and rather than analysing it, the play a survival game. good joke.
it was boring and annoying.
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Dr. Stone is an anime with a fascinating premise and a very intriguing world. On first pass, it looks competently animated, the plot progression is quite enjoyable, and hints at fascinating themes. With all those features, surely this series had to be quite great and I’m writing a rave review of it. Right? Well, in this stone world impossible things are possible. Despite all this series had going for it, it was wildly, ridiculously flawed. Dr. Stone is sophomorically directed, cartoonishly over-acted, and the largely decent soundtrack is used incorrectly. It’s childishly written, and its characters were unbearably cliché and plastic. It’s somehow simultaneously annoyingly pretentious and crudely constructed.
I will start with on positive note. The premise is incredibly intriguing. One day…
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Dr. stone had a lot of potential that got completely wasted, this show has a lot of problems:
1)The plot goes totally no sense, the focus goes from the stone world and the mystery around the petrification to a battle for the world's dominance between two kids,then the show became a chemistry documentary.
2)The main villain it's one of the dumbest characters I've ever seen, Tsukasa wants a "young world" because an old man one time broke the necklace made for his sister, so all the old people must die, that's stupid, this is not even comparable to a decent background, that story seems like a joke, how can anyone take it seriously.
3)Senku, Senku is the real problem of the show, he can handle every situation without any tension or problem, every situation ge…
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-Note: English is not my native language, I apologize for possible mistakes. (This review does not contain spoilers)
Dr. minecraf... to begin with it this entertaining, this had a unique style and it's very creative, the premise is interesting, and in several moments I loved how combined comedy and science (although it doesn't always turn out to be funny at all), of course, it's the perfect example in many moments of why science is great.
But there are several things that take me out of context, and although this it's not a "shonen battles" as such, I am quite shocked that they want to be so scientific and put a guy who busts bears, dodges arrows, it has superhuman strength, when they are supposed to represent a normal high school students and not only that, in the first episodes they wan…
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I was quite interested in this series going into it, with such an interesting premise it had a lot of potential to be something great. To have everyone get turned into stone and have our protagonist awaken 3,700 years later where he has to re-build society from scratch makes for a lot of interesting possibilities. However before this series was able to take advantage of this premise they drove it off a cliff by introducing what can best be described as a communist gorilla. I guess it couldn't be a shounen jump series without a shitty villain, huh?
Our communist gorilla by the name of Tsukasa immediately change the series from a promising civilisation building series into what is essentially another battle shounen, this time scienence vs brawn. Because of this most of the science stuff is…
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If Dr. Stone was a human being, it would be that one really annoying and narcissistic kid in class that thinks he knows everything about whatever sh*t and cr*p, but in reality, is just a whiny little p*ssy that nobody respects. I wish I could say that this analogy is 100% accurate, however, that is not the case as the fanbase, which encompasses of Turbo virgin redditors and other uneducated meaningless lifeforms, deeply respect and defend the show almost making it impossible to criticize. I get that this is a shounen and all, so there are bound to be some “illogical” things here and there, but if you’re going to add “science” as the main idea, then there can be absolutely NO ERRORS with the basic scientific laws that are used. But there is anyways. I feel like anyone with a basic understan…
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Dr.Stone is alright. When reading the synopsis of Dr.Stone I was pretty hyped. As post-apocalyptic stories are my favorite kind of story. However when watching it I was let down. Even though the premise was amazing the execution was silly and poor with many plot deceives. However it was still enjoyable to watch and watching Senku rise up his city of science was satisfying.
One of the things I don't like with this show are the characters. I mean I like Senku a little but none of the characters honestly stick out or make any real impression. There all the extremes of their tropes and for most of the show everyone is just screaming. They are all kinda fun to watch but after the show ends there all just forgettable and hard to remember who they are. I will say watching the v…
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“Mix the chlorosulfuric acid into the acetanilide we just made, and we get para-acetamidobenzenesulfonyl chloride.”
Dr. Stone is a very, very good children’s cartoon. Easily one of the best series to ever come out of the Weekly Shonen Jump. Normally, I wouldn’t care about a children’s cartoon enough to review it, cause I’m an adult (it’s a joke, it’s hard to convey the comedic intent in writing because you can’t do intonations… so you wouldn’t get it unless I explain it). But the polarized audience reaction to this show is a phenomenon interesting in itself.
Dr. Stone very vividly demonstrates that any show has two completely distinct components to it - the plot and the story. The plot is a summary of the events that happen during the show - who goes where, does what, fights whom, etc. T…
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Dr. Stone is amazing
First off, this anime may not be for everyone
The story: Some mysterious green light turns everyone into stone statues, then after 3700 years our main character Senku wakes up. He knows what happened and he wants to turn everyone back into living beings. Then he starts his quest on resurrect everyone. He starts off by building essential tools and equipment. Later on his best friend Taiju wakes up. Senku wants to rebuild humanity with science.
Characters: Senku is very weak body wise but his intelligence is off the charts. Taiju is kinda dumb but he is strong and has a god like stamina. Yuzuriha is Taijus "girlfriend", she is very skilled with her hands. Tsukasa is the main bad guy of the show and he is kinda a communist. Kohaku is very strong and has very good agil…
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Dr. Stone is an interesting shounen in the sense that it takes a bit of a different direction from the norm. Despite the manga being published in Weekly Shounen Jump, Dr. Stone is by no means a battle shounen, but instead focuses on something more intelligent and creative, namely scientific discoveries and the development of early human society. That is not to say that the show is necessarily realistic all the time, but rather more of a liberal and fictional take on something that at least has realistic roots.
That being said, I also have to stress that the opening arc of Dr. Stone is... not very good, to put it lightly. More specifically the first six episodes of this anime are honestly quite awful and mostly annoyed me when I watched them. At the time it just came across as a very child…
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Local turnip hair kid wakes up in a prehistoric future and uses the power of science and improbable percentages in an attempt to beat the anime version of Sid Meier's Civilization in record time.
This basically sums up what I’ve seen from Dr. Stone, and I’m 99% percent certain that its unique premise has drawn the attention of a lot of anime fans. Ha, bet you were expecting a cheap 10 billion percent joke, but I still have my dignity. Of course just because this anime has a plot that isn’t “dude dies by truck-kun and is revived as an OP isekai god” doesn’t mean that the show itself will be great. With that said, let’s dive into my thoughts on Dr. Stone!
Plot: 7 billion out of 10 billion (So much for my dignity…)
Premise aside, I actually kinda like what they did with the execution of th…
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Having been a fan of Weekly Shonen Jump works for many years, their arsenal of genres continues to bring diversity to its audience. From ninjas in hidden villages to mages from magical guilds, it seems once in a while, there comes a new hot topic for fans to celebrate. Dr. Stone celebrates a post-apocalyptic adventure that serves as a love letter to science but also brings a refreshing look to its fans.
One of the more distinctive features about the anime is the illustrator of the manga. Boichi had previously worked as an illustrator on manga such as Sun-Ken Rock, Wallman, and more recently, Origin. To see his character designs being animated is a breath of fresh air. In fact, the previews and key visuals demonstrated that Dr. Stone can be translated into the anime medium. Studio TMS coll…
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Thrilling and satisfying, but imperfect and some times ugly, are the words I would use to describe dr.stone. While on other shounen animes you can only get the satisfaction at the end of an arc that takes dozen of episodes to get to, this anime does it in less than three episodes by putting smaller goals. Although, that doesn't mean it the best anime ever or even this season. The rewarding feeling that you get every few episodes is enough to make up for a ton of its flaws and make it memorable.
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The story feels a lot like an isekai (and I know many people would describe it that way), and that is in no way a bad thing. The anime starts with a little intro that gives us a brief look into the world and the main character before the disaster happens. The int…
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Dr. Stone is an anime that took itself too seriously, and not serious enough — at the same time!
It did this by highlighting the ‘cool’ aspects of science (through Senku’s re-engineering of past inventions), via methods that were beyond human capability. Sure. Humans can grow their own antibiotic (penicillium) through the natural molding process of bread; in fact, this was taken advantage of in ancient Egypt. But is it reasonable for one man to memorize the entire process of producing a sulfa antibiotic, and creating the various instruments necessary in doing so?
Seems rather absurd.
But what’s more unbelievable than these absurd scientific feats, is Senku’s eccentric personality. Actually, everyone’s personality is turned up to an eleven on the ridi…
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Dr. Stone is one of those sorts of anime which you love even though it’s extremely over the top. It’s realistic while being unrealistic, funny yet with high stakes. It’s set in prehistoric-like times and that’s what’s unique about it. Make no mistake, this is the kind of “you’ll either love it or hate it” anime. It’s got these moments that’ll either make you fall in love with the show because of its execution or make you hate it because of how stupid it might seem. I fall into the former category and I’ll explain why. Dr. Stone is as much a comedy show as it is about science. You’ll fall off your couch laughing if you continue watching it. I liked the concept to begin with and enjoyed the first few episodes, but they are nothing compared to what Dr. Stone has to offer later in the season.…
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Have you ever thought that the civilization now, which we built more than 200,000 years will be destroyed in a few seconds? Dr. Stone tells the story of a modern world that was destroyed because everyone turned to stone. I don't know even I don't want to know why they turned to stone. Senku who wants to accelerate science and bring it to the stone world. He tried to build a modern civilization to restore it to normal. Focuses on two things namely natural science and moral science, while the story itself, seems boring and unattractive because with that difference they create conflict that is too forced, as if they were created so that it has an enemy. Yet what's interesting here is how they develop science from zero, From how they make fire, knives, soap, electricity, lights, medicine, and…
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