Dr Stone

My favorite fact about space travel is that they've got a moat around the launch pad so the water can dampen the sound waves coming out of the engines. Because otherwise the sheer power needed to break free of the earth means that the sound of the engines is enough to tear the rocket apart.

I cannot fucking wait to see how Senku bullshits his way through this one.

Well they're on an island, surrounded by water, could be easy to make a moat if even that's too big.

Sure, but they still need to deal with the fuckin' everything about this endeavor. The sound waves thing is just an illustrative fact to help show how completely bananas space travel is.

So, how fast can they produce revival fluid now that they have platinum?

Well, it makes sense for this manga to end in space.

Of course this is a huge endeavor for a stone civilization, but they have more manpower and have already a lot of modern tech to begin with, not to mention we could have a few years of a timeskip if necessary.

And if they actually manage to get a lot of revival fluid... then it's just a maytter of rebuilding civilization. Though they might want to prioritize going after Why Man first.

Edited by NinjaDragon on Feb 16th 2020 at 5:18:06 AM

Just caught up on this. It's really good. And is it actually a weekly manga? Damn.

Still mildly annoyed at the 3700-old village speaking perfect Japanese and surviving without incest being a problem, but whatever. Leads to many powerful moments.

So the Medusa devices are activated using English, right? That's what the brackets mean? I would assume that Kirisame was just taught the "magic words" to a very specific range and time lag, but Ibara seems to have been fluent.

As for the identity of the Whyman, AI is the obvious answer, but it might be an alien—or even an alien AI. The only thing that I wouldn't accept would be a colony of humans on the moon, for a number of reasons.

Yes, it is a weekly manga.

The founders of these tribes consisted of two native English speakers and four more who were fluent, so them being able to speak English is a whole lot more believable than them speaking Japanese. Even so, the Hundred Tales, whose knowledge they depend on for their survival, was passed down in Japanese, which is the justification given for Ishigami Village speaking Japanese exclusively.

Yeah, the language remaining static for three millennia is bullshit but so is Senku keeping accurate count of the seconds for that period so I'm just rolling with it.

Have you read the Byakuya side story?

So the calamity that this new samurai dude mentions which apparently seeded the Earth with a bunch of Medusa devices actually somewhat answers the question of why there are so few people and why their technology was so primitive after thousands of years. They had only just begun rebuilding and recovering after a huge calamity that probably petrified a majority of the population.

Yes, I read the side story and loved it. They better encounter Rei in the coming arc, but I've been burned before on the main story ignoring spin-offs.

I guess, but hunter-gatherer societies are pretty limited in population growth anyway, due to food constraints.

I feel ya on the spinoffs thing. Still waiting for main-story My Hero Academia to have Melissa Shields exist. But the way the spinoff ended it feels like Rei's story won't be complete until she meets Senku, which I think ups the odds.

On the subject of the samurai guy, I love how he's all old-fashioned because he's a few centuries closer to the modern day.

It can be tricky to bring importants elements of a spin-off that not everyone has read into the main story. Like that time in Black Clover when characters from the novel suddenly popped up in the manga and everyone was like "wait, who are these guys?"

Yeah, MHA recently had a case of that when a particular character who was introduced in a spinoff as an important figure in a main character's backstory became important in the main series, and people who only knew the main manga thought it was a case of Remember the New Guy?. Also caused a bunch of debates on how the anime should handle it.

Despite the threatening recording, I still want there to be multiple causes involved, at least one of whom had good intentions (healing the sick or that deep space exploration thing I mentioned a few pages ago).

The fact that no one has claimed dominion over the empty Earth in 3700 years does imply it wasn't a deliberate attack. Or rather, if there were humans behind this, they got caught up in it too by accident.

New chapter:

- Senku and Kohaku have another "definitely not a couple" moment

- Kirisame and the samurai guy join the crew

- Soyuz stay back at the island

- The crews head back to save Tsukasa

…What? How did you read it?

I could only find raws.

It quite easy to guess what going on base on the image alone. This isn't an exposition heavy chapter, more like a closing chapter for this arc.

You know we have these spoiler tags for a reason, right?

Wait, it seems my settings got switched somehow? Sorry.

WTF? My settings have been randomly switching on and off all week, what's going on?

Edited by Daremo on Feb 21st 2020 at 6:41:30 AM

I found an English version of the chapter. The raws went up a couple days ago, but I didn't look at them.

The chapters this week are up on Viz.

Ah, right, I had forgotten about Tsukasa. Now there might be a non-negligeable time skip, since I doubt we're gonna follow every single step of the process to go on the moon.

....but we've followed every single step before.

I see your point, but I'm not sure why they'd change things now.

We did skip over the construction of the ship, though that's because the various steps were basically "we figured out how to do the thing, then we did the thing".