Master of Flame

I have a bold prediction here. When Senku’s last name is finally revealed it’s going to be something like “Einstein.” Sounds like a pretty good prediction, doesn’t it? If that’s the case I promise you right now that I’ll lower my rating of this series — currently it’s a 5/10 for me.

But this week’s episode actually had nothing to do with Senku’s last name. It’s just that the Grand Bout is coming to an end and I assume we’ll learn about Senku’s last name after it from Ruri. Oh, and I should also mention I was wrong about how the Grand Bout progressed.

I figured the fight between Kinro and Magma was over at the end of the previous episode, but clearly that wasn’t the case. I’ll be discussing this further in the next section.

For now what I want to mention is the new OP (and ED, though I have nothing to say about that) which premiered with this episode. First of all, the song for this OP is better than the song for the previous OP, so that’s already a plus.

But what this episode really does which the first one didn’t is make the series actually look like it’s going to be good. I still don’t think it will be good, but at least the new OP at least gives the impression that the series is going to be good.

We also saw a few new characters teased. One appeared to be a follower of Tsukasa and I’m assuming he’ll be the antagonist for this cour. Another was some girl dressed (barely) in pink who seemed to be eating cotton candy. Not sure who she is, but nice.

Cheaters Always Win

So going back to the fact that the fight between Kinro and Magma wasn’t completed at the end of the previous episode, what are the rules of the Grand Bout? There’s obviously some set of rules, but we aren’t really told what they are.

I think the only rule actually stated was that spectators weren’t allowed to interfere by hitting the combatants with things. They are, however, allowed to verbally abuse the combatants and attempt to distract them. That’s fine, but what about the rules for the combatants themselves?

Magma was clearly lying when he brought this up, but Kinro seemed to actually believe the melon helmet he got from Suika may have been against the rules. After all, it counts as outside help. The referee — I think Jasper was his name — decided that the helmet was fair game since it’s only a piece of clothing.

But if the referee and Kinro both had to consider the fact that the helmet may have counted as cheating, why did nobody call Magma out on cheating? He got Kinro to talk to the judge and then attacked him from behind while he was discussing the legality of the helmet. Is that not against the rules?

I guess that counts as a distraction in the same way spectators can distract the combatants, but it seems like a clear violation to me. And what makes it weirder is that nobody called Magma out for this action — not even Kohaku, Chrome, or Senku. Senku literally responds with, “Well, whatever.

This scene didn’t feel natural. It felt like the author realized having Kinro win easily wouldn’t be exciting, so he just made up an excuse for Magma to win which wasn’t executed well.

Gen Shows up Again

Gen shows up again in this episode, in case the section title wasn’t clear. And I kind of feel like he interfered with the fight between Chrome and Magma to the point of breaking the rules as well.

So Gen pretends to cast a spell on Magma and says that if Magma takes another step his heart will explode. Magma believes him because he thought he had killed Gen, so the fact that Gen is still alive proves he’s a sorcerer. Obviously if Gen was telling the truth this would be against the rules.

But, as Senku points out, if Magma takes a step and his heart doesn’t explode, then what Gen is doing is no more than a verbal distraction. And like I already mentioned, that’s fair game.

However, the problem is that although Gen can only be proven guilty of interfering if Magma takes a step, he can only be proven innocent in the same way. If Magma loses because he didn’t move, which is what happened, then the argument could be made that Gen actually interfered.

This is because as long as the minute Gen said his “spell” was in effect for passes without Magma moving, it’s impossible to prove that there was no spell to begin with and that Gen was bluffing. Therefore, that should be a violation of the rules, meaning Chrome loses by default.

Chrome Wins

I don’t have too much to say about how Chrome defeated Magma other than that it was extremely unsatisfying. We had to sit there for minutes, waiting for a small fire to start as the other character explained what was happening. That has to be one of the most anticlimactic ways to end a fight.

I get it, science won, but come on. You can’t honestly think that was fun to watch. There’s no way.

Also I just want to point out that all of the sweat and tears Chrome was shown to have used to make the lens the right shape weren’t there to begin with. He only had sweat and tears in the flashback while Senku is explaining what happened, not when it actually happened.

And one last thing I want to mention on the topic of Chrome winning is that while he’s still going to win the honor of marrying Ruri, I’m not sure he’ll do it (yet). Something tells me Chrome won’t want to marry Ruri because he won her as a prize. He’ll want to actually have a relationship with her.

I could be wrong. I was wrong about Kinro defeating Magma. But I’m not sure if this is the kind of anime that’s really going to objectify women like that. Aside from the fact that it’s already done that simply by having Ruri labeled as a prize to be won, of course.

Conclusion

Anyway, what are your thoughts on Dr. Stone episode 14? Did you think Magma was going to end up defeating Kinro? Do you think what Magma did counted as cheating? What about Gen? Let me know in the comments.

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Masked Warrior

We’ve finally made it to the end of the first cour of Dr. Stone, and surprisingly it seems like we’ll be having an episode next week. I assumed that the mid-season gap would be hitting us next week, but based on what happened in this episode my guess is we have one more episode before the one week break.

This week we began the Grand Bout “tournament arc” and it will likely be concluding next week. This then serves as a great stopping point for the series before the second cour truly begins. After all, along with concluding the current arc, we’re probably going to learn some major information and get a nice cliffhanger.

As for what that information is, I think it’s fairly obvious. Ruri has never met Senku, yet she knows who he is. She also knows that before the petrification event humans had both first and last names — this knowledge comes from her role as the priestess of the village.

It’s pretty clear that the reason Ruri knows of Senku is also due to this knowledge that has been passed down to her. Whoever was the first “priestess” of the village must have been someone who personally knew Senku before the petrification event. It could have been a classmate, a family member, or even a teacher.

Whoever it was, they recognized that once he awoke in the stone world, Senku would lead a scientific revolution. And so, they passed his name down through the generations until he became a mythic figure.

Also, since the role of priestess seems to be semi-hereditary, it’s possible that Ruri and Kohaku are the direct descendants of whoever this person who knew Senku is. Maybe you can find someone who resembles them back in episode one.

The Final Ingredient

The Kingdom of Science has also almost completed the development of sulfa drugs. The final basic ingredient they need is alcohol. Luckily, alcohol isn’t exactly the most difficult thing to come by. After all, humans have been making alcohol for thousands of years.

But it turns out that our heroes won’t have to make this ingredient from scratch like the others. That’s because one of the many prizes for winning the Grand Bout is more alcohol than you could ever drink — or at least that’s what Kaseki seems to believe. Lightweight.

Also, let’s not forget that the Kingdom of Science would have had to win the Grand Bout even if alcohol wasn’t one of the prizes. Unless they win, they won’t have the opportunity to give Ruri the drugs she needs to survive — or so we’re lead to believe. I’m pretty sure Kinro or Ginro could just hand them to her regardless.

And that brings me to the next topic relating to how exactly they plan to win. The Kingdom of Science isn’t the most ethical of kingdoms. Senku has no problem with cheating as long as it’s the most logical course of action to take in order to achieve his goals.

He plans to rig the tournament in two ways, but it turns out that neither of them actually ended up playing a role.

The first way he rigged the tournament was by filling it with Kingdom of Science-friendly competitors. All together they have five: Kinro, Ginro, Kohaku, Chrome, and Senku himself. Senku knows he has no chance of winning, but at least anyone who goes up against him will get a free pass to the next round.

Senku also makes a stamina-enhancing drink, but Ginro wastes the whole thing.

Fake Tournament Arc

Wouldn’t it have been cool if we actually got a tournament arc out of the Grand Bout? Too bad we aren’t going to because the deciding match was the very first one of the tournament. That’s right, in round one Kinro takes down Magma.

I get that the bracket was decided at random via drawing lots, but you’d think the tournament organizers wouldn’t want the biggest match up of the competition to be in round one. That just means it’s all downhill from there — not that it matters to us since we won’t see the rest.

And the reason we won’t see the rest is because there’s not really a point for us to. We may see abbreviated versions of each fight, but it will simply be a quick tournament montage if anything. However, I do want to point out that I don’t think Kinro is going to end up as the winner.

Throughout this episode Kinro learned a few things about himself, and about science as well. First, he decided that he doesn’t want to win for his own honor or for greed like Magma does. Instead, he wants to win because his friends are relying on him to do so.

He then also truly learns how science can have a positive impact on the lives of people when he uses Suika’s melon helmet to defeat Magma. Once he sees the world through the lenses Senku made, he realizes that even if he doesn’t understand it, science can achieve amazing things.

And this brings me to why Kinro is going to lose the tournament. I’m predicting he’s going to forfeit in the final round against Chrome so that he can win Ruri’s hand in marriage — and bring science to the stone village.

Conclusion

What did you think of Dr. Stone episode 13? Do you think Ruri and Kohaku are related to someone Senku knew before the petrification event? Do you think you could out drink Kaseki? And who do you think is going to win the Grand Bout? Let me know in the comments.

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Buddies Back to Back

I have a lot of issues with today’s episode of Dr. Stone. And it doesn’t help that I would rather be playing the newly remastered Link’s Awakening right now rather than writing about this series. But, I know there are some of you who actually want to read this, so I’m taking one for the team.

However, it’s also true that while there were a lot of problems with this series, there were also a lot of interesting parts that I think were executed well. We got some good development for Chrome, Kohaku, and Ginro which I really wasn’t expecting to get.

The episode focused around our scientists — and their bodyguards — acquiring a key ingredient of sulfa drugs: sulfuric acid. This is a highly dangerous acid, but that’s not the only issue. It also gives off toxic fumes which can kill a person in a matter of seconds.

It’s these fumes which are the real danger to Senku and his comrades. After locating a sulfuric acid lake, Senku realizes that it’s located in the bottom of a depression, meaning they’ll have to walk into the gas in order to collect the acid.

But fear not! For Senku knows how to create makeshift gas masks by using charcoal as a natural filter. Now, I’m not quite sure how effective these makeshift gas masks would really be considering the materials used, but whatever. That’s not one of the issues I have with this episode.

Curse of the Spring Fairy

The “curse of the spring fairy” is one of the problems I had with this episode. However, it was also one of the things I think this episode executed really well. As you can see, I’m conflicted when it comes to this particular part of the episode.

On one hand, I disliked how sulfuric acid was portrayed as a quasi-physical monster. I mean, sure, it looked really good, but we haven’t seen anything else portrayed in this way so far. It’s not like the artificial light Senku created was depicted as a shining goddess. It was depicted as light.

So, why would sulfuric acid suddenly be depicted as a decaying monster? I think this would have made a lot more sense if other scientific phenomenon had previously been depicted in similar ways. But this also brings me to what I liked about this whole depiction.

Sulfuric acid isn’t merely depicted as a monster because it’s a dangerous substance. It’s only depicted this way through the eyes of Ginro, someone who doesn’t understand science. It’s exactly how we know ancient people thought of things they didn’t understand in our own world.

Ancient myths are filled with monsters which serve to explain the natural phenomenon they witnessed around them but had no scientific explanation for. So looking at the scenes with sulfuric acid through that lens, this episode did a great job.

Like I said, the major issue here is that it seemingly came out of nowhere. I would have loved to see other scientific phenomenon also be explained like this earlier on in the series. Who knows, we may even see more of this later on as well.

All of Senku’s Knowledge

Let me start this section off with the thing I found absurdly stupid — the fact that that Senku was going to pass all of his scientific knowledge on to Chrome in a single night. First of all, this is impossible for Senku. Second of all, this is impossible for Chrome.

But, that’s not the issue Chrome has with this plan. The issue he has is that by Senku passing on all his knowledge, it makes it “okay” for Senku to die. Chrome isn’t fine with that and so he refuses to hear Senku’s scientific knowledge. I will admit that I liked this development from Chrome.

And Chrome’s character development leads into some character development for Kohaku as well. Just as Chrome refuses to hear Senku’s knowledge because it would mean Senku is allowed to die, Kohaku did the same thing with her sister, Ruri.

As I predicted literally a month ago, the job of the stone village priestess is to pass down the history of the world from before the petrification event. Once Ruri was diagnosed with her mystery illness, it was decided that Kohaku would hear the history of the world from her sister and take her place as priestess once she dies.

However, Kohaku didn’t view this plan as extra insurance for the survival of the world history. The way she saw it, if Ruri no longer needs to survive for the sake of her knowledge, she might give up in her fight against her illness. This is also why Kohaku was ultimately disowned by her father.

While I liked learning more about Ruri and Kohaku, I have to say that as a historian Kohaku’s decision stresses me out. Imagine if Ruri died shortly after Kohaku refused to hear the world history and they never met Senku.

Ginro the Hero

Then, we also have Ginro’s character development when he learns that fear is something everyone experiences and he just needs to get over it. Again, this was actually depicted extremely well, especially when we saw Senku hesitate and his hand begin to shake due to his fear of the toxic fumes.

But, this portion of the episode still wasn’t without its faults. For one, that was extremely irresponsible of Kaseki to create a third gas mask and then guilt Ginro into taking it and following Senku and Chrome. That’s a great way to get Ginro killed.

Kaseki had even just finished telling Ginro that fear is a natural instinct for a reason — it helps us survive. And yet, he then decides to toss his own advice aside and encourage Ginro to charge in to his possible death. It’s not even like Kaseki knew Ginro would be needed in the end.

The other issue with this part of the episode comes when Chrome falls and Ginro appears just in time to save him. I hate to say this, but there’s a 10 billion percent chance that Chrome would have died if this series followed real physics.

1. Chrome probably wouldn’t have been able to grasp onto the spear tight enough to save himself.
2. Even if he did grasp the spear, the shaft would have snapped.
3. And even if the shaft didn’t snap, Ginro wouldn’t have been able to hold Chrome above the acid.

Any way you look at it, this scene was a complete and utter destruction of physics (science). I thought this series was supposed to be all about realistic science? You know, aside from the JoJo villain who can kill an adult lion in a single punch and the fact everyone on Earth was turned to stone.

Conclusion

What did you think of Dr. Stone episode 12? Did you like how sulfuric acid was depicted as a monster? Did you predict the role of the stone village priestess like I did? And most importantly, are you looking forward to the remake of Link’s Awakening? Because that’s what I’m going to go play now.

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Clear World

This week’s episode of Dr. Stone is all about making and crafting glass. While I know that fans of this series are going to think it was a great episode, I’m here to tell you it wasn’t. It was actually one of the worse episodes the series has had so far.

For starters, in order to make up for the startling lack of the phrase “10 billion” in last week’s episode, it was said at least four times this week. And if that wasn’t bad enough, Senku also used the word “drooltastic” to describe glassblowing. I’m starting to think Tsukasa has the right idea with his purge.

But as Senku explains, glass is actually pretty important for the continued evolution of science due to some of its more unique properties. For example, being clear is a big plus because it means you can see what’s happening inside of containers.

However, that’s more of a quality of life improvement. A more concrete benefit of using glass is that it isn’t affected by, and doesn’t react with, many chemicals. But, it’s not as if glass is the ultimate scientific material. If he ever plans to work with acids, which he surely will at some point, glass isn’t of any use.

That’s right, sooner or later Senku will have to introduce plastics to the stone world. It’s only a matter of time before he creates single-use plastics and begins polluting the oceans again after they’ve finally been decontaminated.

Fuzzy Sickness

This week we also learn about the “fuzzy sickness,” also known as nearsightedness. In the stone world, this is a debilitating condition (sort of). It’s definitely not the worst condition to have, but when being able to see things clearly can literally mean the difference between life and death, it’s kind of a big deal.

So far we know of two characters who are nearsighted: Suika and Ginro. Also Suika’s nearsightedness was revealed when Senku pulled the watermelon husk off her head against her will. It turns out that she wore the watermelon because the pinhole effect from the eye holes cut in it helped her to see better.

Senku then decides to show off the power of glass by creating glass lenses to put in the eye holes of Suika’s watermelon mask. As a bonus effect, Suika is now more productive since she can actually see.

But here’s one of my problems with this episode. We got Suika’s face reveal and the conclusion to her “arc” all within half an episode. She can now see and her dream of being able to see the world has been realized within about 10 minutes of us learning of it.

That’s a problem because I’m still not invested in Suika. She barely qualifies as a character. Before this point she had no development and we had no reason to care about her. So why would we care about her dream suddenly being realized?

She’s basically indistinguishable from the dog that follows her around as far as character development and impact on the story are concerned.

Kaseki the Craftsman

The second issue I have with this episode comes when Senku and Chrome try their hands at glassblowing. Well, actually, the results they achieve are fine. I wouldn’t have expected them to be any good at glassblowing right away, and Senku even mentions that it could take months for them to get the hang of it.

The issue is really with Kaseki, the craftsman whom Chrome kidnaps to blow glass for them. Despite never having seen glass before he makes a perfect vessel on his first attempt. He then proceeds to create all the modern scientific glassware Senku needs for his laboratory.

I don’t care if Kaseki has been a craftsman for 50 years, that’s not something that’s going to happen. Also, as far as we know he’s a craftsman who specializes in making wooden shields. I’m not sure if you know this, but that has absolutely nothing in common with glassblowing.

It’s also unclear exactly how much of a role Kaseki is going to play from here on out. Sure, a craftsman could definitely be useful to have around, but how many of the things Senku plans to create are really going to require one? I guess once they get to metalworking he’ll be helpful.

But, again, it’s not like a single craftsman is going to be much use even for the metalworking Senku would be doing. It would mainly stick to melting things down and pouring them into casts. Even Senku can do that at a basic level.

Honestly I don’t see Kaseki sticking around in any major role. Like Suika, he’ll probably just be another character who exists but doesn’t really matter most of the time.

Conclusion

Anyway, what did you think of this week’s episode of Dr. Stone? Did you think it was good, unlike me? Was Suika’s face reveal all you ever dreamed of and more? And what are your thoughts on Kaseki? Will he play a major role going forward? Let me know in the comments.

Also, maybe I just never paid much attention to the ED before, but was it different this time around? I mean, the song was the same as far as I know, but the visuals seemed to be different. I didn’t think Suika and Kaseki were featured in the ED previously, but maybe I’m wrong.

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A Flimsy Alliance

In some respects not a lot happened in Dr. Stone episode 10, but in others it did. Sure, we didn’t see Senku & company invent any new scientific technology. In fact, not much story progress was made at all in this episode. But, there are three key things which happened during this episode.

1. We learned about Gen’s origin
2. A minor antagonist was properly introduced
3. Senku’s Kingdom of Science gained a new ally

While the main story didn’t exactly progress, I’d say those are fairly important developments. And the great thing about episodes dedicated to information is that I can discuss how this information affected the past, is affecting the present, and will affect the future.

Gen Awakens

So the first thing to discuss is Gen Asagiri’s origin. We already knew that before the petrification he was a “mentalist,” but that information alone doesn’t explain why he’s currently here. The biggest question surrounding him was, how did he become unpetrified?

What we learned in this episode is that he was personally selected to be unpetrified by Tsukasa. So, at least we now know he didn’t randomly awaken one day. But, then the question becomes, why did Tsukasa choose to awaken someone like Gen so early on?

From the piles of statues we see Tsukasa has collected, it’s clear that Gen is an outlier. Most of the statues are of extremely physically fit people. Gen is not one of them. The main reason I can see for awakening Gen first is so that Tsukasa has someone who can control everyone who is to follow him.

Gen’s specialty is in understanding and manipulating the human mind, which makes him perfect for this position. Sure, Tsukasa could control those he awakens via his physical strength, but it’s much easier to control people’s minds.

We also can’t forget that although Tsukasa himself seems to be a genius, he needs more “thinkers” on his side. Even if Senku really was killed, there’s no guarantee that another person won’t attempt to make a Kingdom of Science, and that’s where Gen may come into play. He can manipulate those would-be scientists into joining Tsukasa.

And as for how Tsukasa knew about Gen in the first place, apparently they were on some sort of game show together. I guess Tsukasa was impressed by Gen’s abilities from that one time they met.

The Grand Bout

Next, a minor antagonist of the series, Magma, was formally introduced. We already met Magma in the previous episode, or maybe even one of the episodes before that. But at that time he was little more than a background character.

Magma is the strongest warrior in the Stone Village — aside from Kohaku. He also has two primary goals: first to kill Kohaku so that he can be the strongest, and second to become the chieftain of the village. But while I call those two separate goals, they’re actually intertwined.

In order to be recognized as the chieftain of the Stone Village, you first have to prove that you’re the strongest. While that’s certainly one reason he needs to defeat Kohaku, another is because she humiliated him the last time they fought.

And, of course, because he was defeated by a girl, Magma assumed Kohaku must have cheated somehow. He determines that she was helped by a magician (Senku) and decides to take him out first so that Kohaku will lose her strength. The only problem is that Kohaku isn’t strong because of a magician, she’s strong because she’s a gorilla.

Bad recurring jokes aside, Magma also can’t simply assassinate Kohaku. He needs to defeat her in a ritualistic form of combat known as the Grand Bout. During this martial arts tournament, competitors fight one on one until there’s a clear winner. That winner is then declared the next chieftain — except for when they aren’t.

The Stone Village Patriarchy

The Grand Bout is supposedly only held once every generation, but this generation’s ceremony was already held. Kohaku ended up winning after she defeated Magma, but apparently her victory didn’t really count. You see, the chieftain of the village must be male according to village tradition.

However, since the winner of the Grand Bout was female, nobody is designated as the next chieftain. It seems that simply being the highest placed male competitor isn’t enough to have that honor bestowed upon you. And for this reason, a second Grand Bout is going to be held.

But I don’t really care about the Grand Bout. What I care about is what this means for the system of government the Stone Village uses.

Clearly it’s a patriarchy since only males can hold the position of chieftain, but there’s more to it than that. Not only does the the man who is to become the next chieftain have to be the strongest, it seems he needs to marry the priestess of the village as well.

So, in a sense, the village is matriarchal in nature because it’s a woman who actually grants the power to the chieftain. And, something I’ve mentioned before is that the priestess is likely the designated village member for passing down knowledge from “generation 0.”

It seems that even in the stone world, knowledge is power.

I’m also assuming that the role of priestess is hereditary since the current chieftain’s eldest daughter holds it. Her mother was likely the priestess before her, and her daughter will be the next priestess.

Senku Cola

And finally, we get to the part when Senku and the Kingdom of Science gain a new ally. Gen has been hanging around with them for what I’ll assume was a week. It would really be nice if we had some frame of reference for time within this series, but we don’t. I guess you could count the day/night cycles.

Anyway, after being attacked by Magma because he thought Gen was Senku, Gen decides to flee from the Kingdom of Science. And where does he go? Back to the only other place he knows in the stone world, the Tsukasa Empire.

However, he doesn’t return to the Tsukasa Empire in order to report that he found Senku alive and well. Instead, he tells Tsukasa that there is no sign of Senku and so he’s therefore “definitely” dead. And as we learn, the reason he sided with Senku was because Senku promised to make him cola.

But let’s not kid ourselves — there’s no way Tsukasa actually believes Gen’s report about Senku being dead. First of all, Tsukasa knows that Gen’s specialty is manipulating people, so he’s likely wary of Gen’s report due to that alone. Tsukasa probably already believes Senku is actually alive.

So why send Gen out in the first place? Well, if Gen comes back saying Senku is dead, then no harm done, Tsukasa can ignore his report. If Gen comes back saying Senku is alive, then Tsukasa can pinpoint Senku’s location and finish him off once and for all.

Also, Tsukasa definitely picked up on the fact Gen said Senku is “definitely” dead despite finding no trace of him. Gen’s insistence that Senku is dead despite any supporting evidence is proof enough that he’s lying.

Conclusion

So what are your thoughts on Dr. Stone episode 19? Why do you think Tsukasa decided to awaken Gen first? How many episodes do you predict Magma will be around for before he’s defeated? And, do you think Tsukasa knows Senku is alive? Let me know in the comments.

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