(CR) Dr. Stone

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It looks like the manga 'Dr. Stone' is getting an anime soon. Recent domain has been registered and important announcement coming.

Spoiler:

Domain site:
DR-STONE.JP

Plot

One day Ooki Taiju builds his courage to confesses to Yuzuriha, the girl he loves, when the sky is filled with a strange light. Everyone touched by that light is turned to stone. After a thousands years trapped in stone, he breaks out of his shell and starts to explore the world until he finds his old friend Senku, who was freed from his stone state half a year ago.

Taiju and Senku decide to team up and bring back the now lost human civilization, starting by investigating the true nature of the light that turned them all to stone thousands of years ago and how to fix the situation.

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It's coming Summer 2019.

http://moetron.net/post/180117974480...inagakis-manga

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visual

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Key visual



Studio is TMS Entertainment.
https://twitter.com/pkjd818/status/1076368221605834752

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Staff

Director: Shinya Iino
Series Composition: Yuichiro Kido
Character Design: Yuuko Iwasa
Music: Tatsuya Kato, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yukihiro Kanesaka
Studio: TMS Entertainment

+ New visual
http://moetron.net/post/183447473485...visual-preview

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Animated Preview

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More character designs revealed

https://moetron.net/post/18491603592...rstones-kohaku

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Crunchyroll will stream it.

https://twitter.com/Crunchyroll/stat...70331741573120

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Episode 1 is out on Crunchyroll.

This looks great so far. The setting looks so natural with the amount of content. The stone turning scenes also looked eerie.

Along with the main characters, we meet Senku (that shirt...I see what they did there) and he's quite an fascinating young man with his curious mind + personality. It pretty much sets up for rest of the season with the invention type of gags from the episode.

Taiju is also pretty funny to watch. I also find the music choice kinda clever for this.

[FlareKnight]

That was a solid first episode. It went by quickly and established the setting well enough. On some levels certainly a horror show with people smashed to pieces and planes crashing. I doubt the show would touch it, but an interesting topic of who you should bring back. Some are just done for. But someone with their smashed could still in theory be revived. But you probably wouldn't want to do it until civilization was re-established. Going to need hospitals to take care of individuals in that case.

The leads are likable enough. They've got energy to them. I'm curious what will be done with Yuzuriha. No doubt she'll be revived as soon as next episode. But how will her character factor into the group dynamic and plot is what I'm more curious about. Will she add something besides just being Taiju's love interest?

But that was a solid first episode. I wasn't blown away, but I did enjoy it.

[4th Dimension]

BTW, what was the trick in the end. They have been pouring lots of the etching solution to presumably break the shell but it didn't work in the hut. So what was different with the feather and that last bird? Is it exposure to sunlight? But then that wouldn't have worked on the Brawn-kun...

[Mad Pierrot]

It is quite good but there sure isn't much to comment with only two characters appearing in 20 minutes. I mean, the final scene felt like progress but focused on just birds

[grecefar]

I don’t know but for the opening yuzuriha seems that she won’t wake up that easily.

It was a good first chapter.

[Drake]

Crazy hair aside it was a pretty interesting first ep overall. One to keep an eye on I think.

[Random14]

I've been looking forward to this show a lot, this is one of my favorite ongoing manga series at the moment. Considering the grim setting (the show starts with human civilization wiped out) its actually funny much of the time.

Taiju's just the standard idiot hero lead but science genius Senku is a nice change of pace. Arrogant, apparently a walking encyclopedia but still pretty nice (and ambitious about saving humanity). And a lot of the science is relatively accurate (alcohol, edible stuff, etc.), a nice bonus.

Pretty good first episode, although they're mostly still setting things up. When its just Senku and Taiju they get a bit boring (Senku explains, Taiju does the grunt work), but with their discovery at the end, things will change after that.

[Grifis]

This is kind of boring. So I guess I'm watching this to the end to find out how they stayed alive in the stone shells for 3700 years huh. I think one ep is good enough for me.

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Spoiler for ep1:

That was actually a pretty good first episode.
I mean, the fact the protagonist is talking about beating fantasy with science even though I think being petrified for so long would cause too much damage to instantly recover from through just willpower... You know, that's just the part you have to let slide, perhaps. It is a shounen manga, after all... Maybe.

Either way, it is is something creative like this, I think it might have been worth animating into a late-night anime (unlike another certain shounen story continuing from last season).

However, the only thing I worry about is from the OP, I'm afraid it is still going to go into some shounen superpower crap with beam shooting and whatever. And then they will start trying to explain that using "I-said-so-so-it-is-but-I'm-going-to-call-it-science" like Toaru.

[Applehell]

The transition from modern to post-apocalyptic setting was a bit clunky due to Taiju thoughts taking away from some of the tone, but otherwise a very good first episode. Probably the best of 3 I watched today. The ramport and chemistry between Senkou and Taiju is quite nice even if nothing we have seen before. The heavy focus on survivalism and science does great job keeping interests how the duo will come discover what to caused the worldwide petrifaction to happen.

Compared to other two big summer shows that came out today Dr.Stone'ds OP is the strongest musically among them, but Fire Force and Granblem, have better animation sequence. Still pretty solid on it's own tho.

[Wandering Soul]

That was a good first episode. It was mostly set up and the story does take a while to find its stride in the beginning, but it becomes a fun ride once it has found it.

[magnumcyclonex]

Hmm...so you want to beat science with fantasy? Well, what about tackling the first and most important issue the show conveniently failed to address?

What I'm talking about are the "living" minds of those entrapped in stone. If they could think, their brains were functioning, and for that, their cells needed to metabolize, but they had no sustenance and no water for all that time. So scientifically, none of them should have survived past a week (3 days without water), let alone a year, let alone 3700 years.

If we play along with the show's "logic", what happens to the statues that were less fortunate? The ones in pieces, with a head here, and a body over there. Are those people still "alive"? Will they die once the stone cracks because their body parts are not altogether?

Too many scientific plotholes already, but I'll watch for entertainment purposes.