Dr. Stone ABRIDGED
is an Abridged Series by JoyRide Entertainment based on the work Dr. STONE. The series premiered right after the finale of their previous Abridged series, My Hero Abridged. The series consists of the first (three-episode-long) season that aired in 2019, a movie that aired in March 2021, and a second season that began in 2022 and continued into 2023.
3700 years after humanity's mysterious petrification, two university students from the modern era are suddenly revived: the genius but sociopathic Senku, and his strong but dim-witted former lab partner Taiju. The duo waste no time in trying to restore their old civilization... including, as Senku is eager to remind everyone, its atrocities. This ends up causing a rift with another human they reawaken, an eco warrior named Tsusaka, leading to two warring factions that will decide their Stone World's future: a virtuous Kingdom of Might, and the evil Empire of Science. And in typical JoyRide fashion, you're rooting for the bad guys.
Dr. Stone Abridged provides examples of:
- Adaptational Sexuality:
- The relationship between Senku and Taiju is depicted as Unresolved Sexual Tension (at least for Senku) that takes a backseat to repopulating/restoring civilization.
- When asked whether he's gay or a tactician (which are the only reasons Senku thinks Tsukasa would bother caring about his emotional state), Tsukasa admits to being bisexual.
- In the Movie, Ginro and Kinro are in a homosexual relationship, and Suika's gender is "they" instead of "she".
- Black Comedy: Some of the jokes are fairly macabre, such as Senku calling a gun "everyone's favorite back-to-school accessory" at the end of Episode 2.
- Breaking the Fourth Wall: Reoccurs throughout the series, most prominently midway through Episode 1, when Senku and Taiju outright ask the audience why they're still watching.
- Brick Joke: After the Song Parody in Episode 2, Senku and Taiju have an argument about how they didn't need to waste oxygen singing, and sometimes a silent expression is a better way to communicate. At the end of Episode 3, when they part ways, the last thing they both "say" to each other is a Fist Pump.
- Clarke's Third Law: As in the source material, in the Movie, villagers claim that what Senku and "Google" Chrome can do is sorcery...though Chrome claims he's also multi-classed to Level 1 Healer.
- Credits Gag: The credits for the Movie includes the lines "All abroad licensing of these propertiesnote are now a monopoly under Sony, dear GOD" and "It is classified as fair use under copyright protections Sony won't bother to read. Toho, blink twice if you need help."
- Dumb Muscle: Taiju's depicted as even dumber than in the source material; although he can be insightful about other peoples' motivations, he also tried freeing Yuzuriha from petrification with an axe and had to recollect all of the ingredients for the restorative Miracle Fluid prior to its first test because he ate them all.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Kohaku first appears at the tail end of Episode 2 (making a "PEW" noise with her mouth) and has one line in The Stinger of Episode 3, before being properly introduced in the movie.
- Fun with Subtitles: A "Translator's Note" in Episode 3 is actually a declaration of revenge to a "LuffySlayerX29".
- Grey-and-Gray Morality: Tsukasa is a wannabe Eco-Terrorist that's disappointed someone else ended civilization before he did, and delights in crushing its petrified remains. However, our Villain Protagonist is Senku, who refers to himself as sociopathic and looks forward to restoring all of civilization, including war, corruption, pollution, and reality television.
- Gun Nut: Despite only wielding knives, the American-descended Kohaku's first line in The Stinger of Episode 3 is wanting a gun. When she and Senku first meet in the Movie, Senku wins her over by describing even more destructive creations of mankind, such as drones, nukes, and social media.
- Hulk Speak: Kohaku only refers to herself as "Kohaku", and has done so since she was an infant.
- Love Triangle: At the start of Episode 3, after Taiju tries to finally finish his Love Confession to Yuzuriha from 3700 years ago, Yuzuriha admits to loving Senku more than Taiju...which Taiju interprets as trying to compete with his (non-Eros) love for Senku. Averted later in the episode, when Yuzuriha makes her intentions more clear, and Taiju's actually glad because their relationship would've felt forced given their current circumstances.
- Misplaced Accent: Despite being set in post-apocalyptic Japan, Abridged Taiju's voice is (perhaps fittingly) a Patrick Warburton impression. Tsukasa, meanwhile, sounds like an Evil Brit.
- No One Could Survive That!: Subverted; after trying to drop a boulder onto Tsukasa with an explosion, Taiju fully expects Tsukasa to have survived (because "it might be 3000 years in the future, but this is still Japan"), even accurately guessing that he'll walk Out of the Inferno Laughing Mad.
- "Not Making This Up" Disclaimer: Rei v37 is inserted into a flashback in the Movie, and when Byakuya asks it to 3D print itself into a new space station and become his "hot robot waifu", the words "This Actually Happens In The Spin-Off Manga" appear in the corner.
- Overly Long Gag: The Woodland Scout motto, recited by Taiju and Tsukasa when the former realizes that the latter is a member, takes a full minute to recite and includes a tangent about how a member named Kyle needs to relay a specific set of numbers to a specific clerk in order to obtain The Declaration of Independence.
- Post-Modern Magik: In the Abridging, the Miracle Fluid used to cure everyone's petrification requires the key ingredient of...Diet Mountain Dew soda.
- Product Placement: Gen's reward for returning to the village and helping Chrome and Senku win the tournament is a Coca-Cola sponsorship (or at least Senku's revival of the brand), and the story Ruri tells Senku afterwards starts with her reciting an advertisement for Audible.
- Shout-Out:
- When introducing himself, Chrome first states that his name is Googlenote , before Senku asks him to "try again".
- Ishigami Village has comprehensive knowledge of TV Tropes, thanks to Ruri's ancestors preserving the knowledge of stories, but it being much easier to preserve a collection of references than whole works.
- The flashbacks to Byakuya and the astronaut crew landing on a deserted island references Lord of the Flies and Cast Away.
- When Gen Asagiri is introduced, he states that he's not a regular magician, but a Mindfreak (because it gets more girls).
- After obtaining Sulfonamide, the lid of its bottle beeps like a Pokeball.
- When Gen returns to the village after trying and failing to report Senku's location to Tsukasa, Senku calls him into action with "I summon you, Narc Magician!"
- The line "Winter is coming" is used a few times in the Movie to portend a major event, and The Stinger states that a potential Season 2 of the Abridged series will be named "Game of Stones". When Season 2 was actually created, this was indeed its subtitle.
- Song Parody:
- Episode 2 has Stone Cold Road, a spoof of Old Town Road that's sung in-universe during a montage.
- The Movie has "Lost in the Woods", which is a song from Frozen II but covered by Senku and Taiju, and "Magma's Song", which is "Gaston" from Beauty and the Beast but directed at local bully Magma.
- Episode 2 has Stone Cold Road
- Speaks Fluent Animal: Early in Episode 3, Taiju claims that the hairstyle advice he's sharing with Yuzuriha was gotten from squirrels. Later, while trying to revive Senku from Tsukasa's attack, a squirrel chimes in with knowledge on ancient Greek doctors.
- Stuff Blowing Up: The village tournament ends with an on-fire Magma falling into the nearby Sulphur lake, producing a massive explosion (that he says he survived).
- Tsundere: Senku's treatment of other people has him act this way; to quote him in the Movie, "If you aren’t expendable then I won’t know what to do without you".
- Villain Protagonist: Senku is a self-admitted sociopath that repeatedly refers to his only allies as "expendable", wants to bring back the horrors of old civilization alongside its benefits, and is willing to use methods like slavery and kidnapping to do so.
