Name: When the most motivational spark comes shaped as an animated science class
Item: Dr. STONE
Rating: 84
Author: Zhariv

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When the most motivational spark comes shaped as an animated science class · Waifora

This is so Exciting

-Ishigami, Senku

Now, excluding the manga readers, who already knew this was going to be this awesome, Dr.Stone came as a huge surprise for all Anime Comunity; based on the premise of a huge green flash of light that turned all humankind into stone for 3.000 years, the series had such a tremendous ability to captivate that no one expected, and the whole ammount of reasons this is so delicious to watch is what I'll try to find out.

So, the acknowledge of Dr.Stone came for me as a huge and annoying ammount of Crunchyroll ads, so I thought it was shitty. But then I realized it won two (I guess) awards at Crunchyroll awards, and I know, I know, that awards doesn't mean anything, specially comming from Crunchyroll, but if it was nominated to more than 4 awards, it had to be good in some level, so I went to watching it and Holy Shit how good it was.
I mean, the first 4 episodes are kinda meh, like, Senku, Taiju were good since then, but the story wasn't actually so compeling, and the narrative wasn't that fluid...

Untill we met Kohaku.

I don't want to keep talking how Kohaku is an amazing girl (wich she is, actually) cause I don't want to feel like a fucking simp. But what I mean, is that her presence made all dynamics in the series change, and her prescence symbolizes the arrive of other great fucking characters like Chrome, and his passion for something that he doesn't actually know, the fun dynamic between Kinro and Ginro, the huge sweetness of Suika, the intresting ambiguity from my boy Gen, and a huge ammount of others. And the way they interact with each other and how that makes the story progresses is fucking amazing.

But don't think it's deep in some way, 'cause it's really not. Dr.Stone doesn't raises any deep questions and reflecions (it tries, but nothing to much reflexing), don't try any complex personality to (almost) none of it's characters, and doesn't have SUCH an inventive storyline, and specially, the animation is really nothing special. But nothing matters, it is there, but I don't give a fuck. Specially since this wasn't just incompetence, but because they wanted to focus in the paths the story could shine, that is it's lightness and care-free entertainment that is watching a guy with scallion hair and his crew make hyper complex equipments from zero, wich is awesome, since following this story is non-challenge, in the best way possible. I finished this shit in almost a day and I don't fucking realized that it was going to be over at some point. The fact that you mustn't be worried with notinhg (at least untill now) may be bad for some people that want a more compelling and more challenging narrative, well... All I can say is that Dr. Stone is not for you

And also, I heard a lot of Dr.Stone watchers complaining that in an anime that "claims to be realistic and scientific" also has a guy kicking a lion to death with bare hands, saying that's "beyond what suspension of disbelief can handle"; and I understand that suspension of disbelief is personal, but bitch, BREAKING FUCKING BAD, One of the most acclaimed DRAMA and THRILLER series from Tv have scene where a guy FUCKING BLOWS UP HALF OF HIS BODY AND WALKS ARROUND LIKE A BOSS. AND NOW YOU ARE COMPLAINING THAT A FANTASY ANIME HAVE A GUY OUNCHING A LION IS TO UNREALISTIC.

breaking bad spoiler down below:

Spoiler, click to view

And apply this to almost all "incongruities" over the series, I mean, of course there are limits, but this is a fantasy anime from it's fucking begining, the scientific applications throughout it aren't THE narrative itself, but they are part of it; that is the fun of it, it's an anime set on a fantasy context, where our MC tries (and succeds) to apply science to it, that's not just part of the narrative, but the essence of it's messages, wich are perfectly tethered with our boy, Senku.

Wich means, getting toghether everything we got from the 24 episodes from this, you can do whatever you want, doesn't matter the difficulties, the challenges, natural or unnatural, and the lack of ressources, you can do whatever the fuck you want. I mean, in less then 100,000 years we went from sticks and stones to cars, cellphones, internet, and all of that from basically nothing, that's something Senku learnd and applied in his whole life, and when humanity was transformed into stone, he kept counting every single second so, when the time would come (and it did) he would use everything he knew to do what he wanted, from nothing, he lived and changed from stone age to bronze age in less then a year, he teached a whole cave man civilization how to cook lámen, how to craft glass and swords, and all of that because he wanted to. It may seems forced af, but the best point is that Senku isn't just an bottomless pit of knowledge, he has feelings, and an awesome development from what he wanted at the begining for what he became with all his new friendships. And yet, his deep rooted message still remains there, with every step, with every breath he takes.

Sorry if it was too long, but this was special for me, I took a while to finally wacth it, and, at the time, the pandemic had already started and there was nothing we could do, but 24 episodes of a guy with scallion hair making science with his friends browser navigator, blonde hot gorilla and morally questionable Todoroki made me realize that even with that huge ammounts of limitation i had arround me, i could do whatever the fuck I wanted, and despite any small problem that could show up here and there, everything was so perfectly matched that I could had more fun in that than in lot of fight shounen, and that was so exciting :)