Dr Stone

…Hmmm, yeah, after reading the chap I'm not too sure anymore. But I don't want Tsukasa to die either… I can't imagine this series lasting long without an antagonist.

Perhaps I should re-phrase. A well-written series wouldn't simultaneously kill off both of the characters with any interesting characterization this early in the game. I haven't seen anything that suggests to me that the series is written by somebody who has that little idea what they're doing.

And to respond to the specific example Silentedge cited, that's a different beast because it was an LN adaptation- so the first volume, or first arc in the anime version, was allowed to be basically a self-contained story, but it still left enough character and world-building stuff dangled that the series could continue. Removing one character didn't undermine the premise in that series like would here.

Anyone else happy with Yuzurihas role in the latest chapter?

New chapter out. Apparently it's the epilogue of the prologue.

Senkuu survives, to no one's surprise.

And now we launch into a flashback where we see what exactly Senkuu was up to when he first woke up from petrification. Interesting path for the narrative to take at this juncture.

Hmm… This… actually made sense. Sorta. I didn't expect that narrative "twist" at the end either.

This is getting realy interesting now.

I wonder, does 12 chapters count as a Prolonged Prologue?

edited 25th May '17 5:15:10 AM by Lyendith

Huh.

Nice trick there Senku.

I wonder what we'll see from this flashback to his time before the other dude woke up.

Regarding the length of this series, the chapters are assigned atomic numbers. There are currently 118 known elements, and work continues on producing period 8. Thus, we can expect this series to last 118-120 chapters.

New chapter out, chronicling the adventures of a smooth, shiny monkey.

Smooth shiny monkey, aka the deadliest of monkeys.

Who somehow never grew a beard during this whole time.

He's pretty lucky that nothing attacked him though.

…Also, the monkeys "speak" in kansai-ben. Because why not.

edited 5th Jun '17 10:52:29 AM by Lyendith

New chapter out. I'd suspected as much; it turns out that it was Senku who broke Taiju out of his stone shell, or at least hastened its degradation.

It was cool to see the laborious experimentation Senku had done. The thing that stood out to me the most is that it was specifically humans and swallows that got petrified. Huh.

I also really have to give my plaudits to the art here, it really captured the persistence and creeping desperation of the last man in the world. Perfect juxtaposition of the "Come back" lines at the end, too.

edited 8th Jun '17 5:58:26 AM by fillerdude

The only humans and Swallows plot point is interesting to me as well. There's still a lot of mystery behind the petrification right now.

Indeed. Indeed. That's the kind of wonderfully incongruent detail I love. The only real explanation I think of is that Swallows were test run- which implies it was intentionally done by someone of something.

Latest chapter:

HAIL SCIENCE! HAIL SCIENCE!!!

Okay, that was a pretty awesome chap. In the end the route the story is taking (Tsukasa groupe vs. Senkuu group) isn't that surprising, but the way it's brought about has me intrigued.

And I'm starting to like Yuzuriha, that's a good point.

I hope we follow Senku for the time being. His route is more interesting.

400 kcal/day for 3373 years is about 2 TJ, about .025 grams of mass equivalent.

New chapter out. We do follow Senku. And he (and Tsukasa) meet a girl who seems to have been born in this new Stone Age.

/side-eyes the fact that this new girl appears to speak perfectly intelligible Japanese, despite being far enough removed from civilization she doesn't know what a pulley is.

Why wouldn't she? They are in Japan, so one would expect that her ancestors spoke Japanese and taught it to their children. Technology words may have fallen into disuse, but depetrified people still retain their knowledge of how things used to be.

edited 26th Jun '17 3:03:52 PM by mythbuster

Because linguistic drift is a thing. A single glance at Shakespeare tells you how much english has changed over the past few hundred years. Imagine that multiplied by a factor of ten, and you get the version of Japanese this girl should be speaking. Though really the apparent lack of writing means even that's conservative estimate on how different things would be.

And I'm not expecting someone who thinks gunpowder is magic and isn't familiar with the concept of a pulley to have a significant amount of surviving cultural heritage from the old world, y'know?

Says who? Odds are her ancestors de-petrified less than 200 years ago. I can read the Constitution or Declaration of Independence and make perfect sense of the words, though some spellings have changed.

That's a text you've based your political system around being able to understand, so the situation's a tad different. And it's, y'know, about halfway between Shakespeare and the present day, just to put the chronology in context.

And, I mean, I'd argue the 'says who' point on it being likely to be less than 200 years. Like, if I'm reading the foreshadowing right, her ancestors were never petrified at all. But even accepting 200 years, there should still be a noticeable difference.

New chapter out.

Huh, we get mug shots of all the people of the town. Guess they'll all be somewhat important.

I'll give the artist points for the Cast of Snowflakes there. Also, I'm really liking Kohaku. I'm really not sure dropping a cartload of names at once like that is the best way to go, but we'll probably be introduced to those characters one by one anyway.

…The only thing I can think of is that these people are the descendants of those who petrified humanity in the first place. I can see them wanting to recreate a "pure" society from scratch like Tsukasa − minus the "killing the old" part.

edited 29th Jun '17 3:16:11 AM by Lyendith