Dr. Stone

This manga is one of my favorites, It's about a man named Senku manage to make incredible things from scratch in a stone world, and also it's comedic flavor, I highly recommend reading this manga, it will give you an exciting feeling when they just finished their inventions, and also the characters are good too. It has now 150+ plus chapters and it never ceases to amaze every arc in the story. Bunch of cool inventions great character development and has an amazing plot. Well I think you can somehow gain some scientific knowledge when reading the manga cuz the mc always talks about the contents in the table of elements and some scientific things (spoiler) right now i think they plan to go to the moon to defeat the enemy.

God, in how many ways can I say that I love this manga. If I could rate it 20 I would, it's just so perfect.

It subverts the normal "Shounen Fights" by using rebuilding science as it's form of progression, which makes the whole story feel powerfully fresh compared to most other shounen manga.

The characters are fun and energetic, and the art perfectly backs it up. With moments of just pure beauty due to how detailed it can be.

The writing is just perfect, I love it. The jokes always make me laugh, and the chat between characters is natural and feels like a real conversation.

The first few chapters are more of a 17, but it quickly builds to the 20 rating that it sorely deserves.

Read this, you won't be disappointed!

Dr. Stone is a very unique manga. Not just because of it's unique premise and setting, but also because of the unique storytelling technique.

Story: 9/10
At first glance, the story may look simple (ie, good vs bad, standard shonen) but go into a little bit of depth and you realize that the overarching plot isn't what makes Dr. Stone enjoyable. After the first arc, which is a good introductory arc, the story shifts narrative. Each of the later arcs have a definite end goal (except a few). And, to achieve each outlandish and seemingly impossible end goal, the characters work, fight, and slowly but surely, mature. So, I think that Dr. Stone should be viewed and enjoyed as a semi-episodic manga, where the different methods they use, paths they take and the fun they have while achieving the goal is the main focus, not the advancement towards the overarching story. or the 'deep philosophy'. And, there's also lots of foreshadowing, which is always good.

Art: 10/10
Boichi.... do I need to say anything else. Well, this is a review, so of course I do. Boichi is definitely a master artist. Sure, a weekly manga has taken its toll, and the art is not as good as what you see in, say, Sun-ken Rock. But still, it is very well done. Also, Boichi pulls of the humorous faces perfectly. But I am not really an art connoisseur, so I shouldn't say much.

Character: 7/10
This is where Dr. Stone takes a hit. The episodic narrative of Dr. Stone doesn't allow for a lot of character development. However, I still think Dr. Stone handles most of its characters in a good way. Each character is unique and provides an interesting contribution to the story. My favourite characters are Ryusui and Chrome. The first is a 'charismatic and leader-like' stereotype, and the second is, surprisingly, a 'standard shonen protagonist' stereotype: humble beginnings but a ton of character development. In that sense, I like to think of Senkuu as the 'aged master' of Chrome, and I have a feeling that Chrome is set to surpass Senkuu in the future.

Now, let's talk of a character that I don't like: Tsukasa. Tsukasa is a character that doesn't fit into the narrative of Dr. Stone. He sets a philosophical background of the story, and hence serves as a villain on a moral basis. Howewer, not only is he a bad villain (his philosophy is pretty crazy, and I doubt anyone agrees with it), but also he is an inappropriate one to the story. This is because to defeat such a morally ambiguous villain, you need the infamous 'Talk-no-Jutsu', and this really doesn't fit well with manga that are like Dr. Stone. The villain in the second major arc is much better: he is simple, and yet is mysterious and scary.

Enjoyment: 9/10
Like I said, the story is extremely enjoyable once you look past Tsukasa's bs and focus on the episodic narrative.

Overall: 9/10

(Spoiler Free Review) From Chapter 19

Now Dr Stone as it is has a huge amount of potential but it takes a while to start up and get into it, which is one of the reasons why I believe a many people are not keeping up to date with it and dropping it after a while. Now don't get me wrong its far from perfect but I think its got potential and I hope that people give the manga enough time to start up and create a unique personality from itself that it deserves

The Story -8- The story revolves around a typical high school scene with your overly hyper main character with unrivalled strength with that of a Silver-Back Gorilla Taiju, your cute female romantic interest of your main character Yuzuriha and last but not least one of the most interesting characters shown in Shonen Jump Manga for a fairly long while is our science loving nerd Senku who has an unparalleled knowledge and love to science a bit of a throwback to Albert Einstein if you will. The manga quickly changes when everyone is suddenly turned to stone as if God wanted to do a restart and only Taiju and Senku are released 3,700 years later into a world uninhabited by humans with Senku and Taiju trying to rebuild civilisation again using science.

The Art -7- I actually quite enjoy the art but it does take some time to get used to the main thing that I dislike about the art is the fact that many of the female characters look the same just with a slightly longer or shorter hair than the others but the male characters especially Senku have a very different style to the characters, the landscapes and backgrounds are drawn very well and my favourite aspects of the manga is the comedic style art that is used as comic relief but changes to a more serious tone as the mange continues through.

The Characters -7- Now its too early for me to judge all the characters but the main characters Taiju is very cliched a bit stupid but has overwhelming strength,not scared of any situation, Taiju is also used as a comic relief character which I believe is done very well overall but I would like to see him developed more in the future as the manga develops as of yet Taiju has not been seen for around 4 chapters so his development is yet to occur. Senku is where this manga shines, he is a great character and has a unique personality that is unique to his character which is nice to see. The idea of Senku using science as a weapon instead of brute strength or a form of magical power is a nice change to Shonen Jump manga which is a pleasant read instead typical manga archetypes.

Enjoyment -8- I am really enjoying Dr. Stone at the moment but I will say when it was featured in Jump Start I was reluctant to vote for its continuation as I thought it was going to be boring and go no where, but was pleasantly surprised when it continued on the lineup and am continuing to hope for its next chapter after finishing the last.

Overall -7- I think people need to give these newer style and different manga a longer time to develop as characters a plots like these are unique to it own genre on itself now don't get me wrong its a very interesting manga and I understand that not everyone will Like it as it is but I'd definitely say give it a go wait until chapter 5-6 to drop or continue as it does get moving on faster after that point.

P.S. Thanks for reading this review its the first one I have written and is a little bit long but I will try to keep this review updated as the manga continues and will write more in the Future, Thanks, Hashiyan

I don't remember feeling so proud of humanity while reading a manga. Sure, we've done an awful lot of damage to the environment and to ourselves but we've turned our desire for an easier life into an amazing opportunity and yes, Dr Stone utilises just that.

I still remember screaming CATHODE RAY OSCILLISCOPE halfway through a chapter and I'm sure I've never involved myself with the usual shonen plots before.

Story 9/10
What can I say? I used to love science (before I met Math) and Dr Stone rekindled that love. It's simple and straightforward. On a seemingly random day, all of mankind had turned into stone. 3000 something years later after erosion, bacterial decay, and possible mutations among other things decided to change the world (I'm saying for the better), Science boy wakes up and proclaims that he's going to rebuild civilisation to how it was before. So we follow him (and equally likeable side characters) as they try to fit 2 million years of mankind's progress into a span of a lifetime.
So why didn't I give this a 10? Well, as the story progressed, I located a HUGE plot hole. Not really a plot hole but it still bugged me anyway. I don't want to spoil anything so let's see if this seemingly random reader would manage to spot it. In terms of realism, what Senku tries to do doesn't seem to be realistic but then again, realism is boring. I'm not calling his endeavours impossible but when you really really really think about, Senku is OP. Even 103 chapters later, I don't want to make any rash decisions so we will have to wait till we come to a point where all these achievements come to a staggering halt and the pressures of real life take a toll on everyone.

Art 8/10
I wouldn't call this art unique but it's refreshing to see some almost normally proportioned characters (without spindly arms and legs). When it comes to the women however, I don't think the clothes at that time would make them look like what they look like.
I would've given a 10 but I hate fan service so that's minus two for you! (Again, this is my opinion)

Character 8/10
The character development in this story is rather enjoyable to see, my favourite being Chrome, and I hope to see our protagonists have some development as well.

Enjoyment 10/10
I know I enjoy a manga when I stop studying just to read. Dr Stone may not be everyone's cup of tea, what with all the scientific details in nearly every chapter. But for someone who knows these things beforehand, it feels almost like a journey through my favourite textbooks (can I say this without sounding weird?). Dr Stone isn't unique. Scientific reasoning and smartass youngsters can be found in some shonen titles (I'm looking at you FMAB), the same going for waking up in a weird place without knowing exactly how one ended up in such a state. Dr Stone keeps you on edge at times and reminds you how amazing humans really are to have gone far and wide on their quest for knowledge.

Overall 9/10
Yes, there's a lot of room for improvement but seeing as we still have a lot of unanswered questions, I'm sure this manga will be sitting around for quite some time. Until then, I'm a billion percent sure that it's heading in the right direction.

Give this a read, you won't regret it.

Dr.Stone manga got a winning concept and a mediocre execution.

The characters are flat, generic and boring - unrealistic and extroverted (and so is the story!)

The story follow "Dr.Stone" a character that all it purpose is to spout science words from chemistry and to glorify science every 5 minute, and its sidekick an idiot shounen boy, that apparently isn't very smart at all.

I think I almost dropped the manga when Senkuu caught an arrow with his hand (that flys in 200 km?...)
But I tried to overlook it, because manga logic.
Senkuu character is boring, edgy and inhuman - I mean really all the dialog from this character is just random bad guy cliche. (and his vision for mankind or what ever is stupid and egocentric)

The first village is where I dropped the manga, in it 40-what people that calls trowing sulfur and other material into a fire "magic"
Its a boring arc about them trying to create antibiotic filled with random dialog about how "Dr.Stone" want to create the "Kingdom of science".
Do you honestly want me to believe that people will be stupid again (I mean really stupid, not just undeveloped) after an apocalypse, that's just bullshit.

I'm sorry about my harsh review, but its my honest review, I wanted to give this manga a shot, mainly because the anime is near by, but I can't recommend it to anyone.

Waste of time.

Might fit kids - ages 13-17 I guess.

Some settings are quite exaggerated (catching belt, beating lions, knowing how to make literally everything) but those where necessary to even start the story so I omit longer complain.

Author lacks in very basic knowledge and replaces that with long chemical sentences and general confusion of other characters.

Manga challenges readers with more and more ridiculous ideas with each arc (it's hard to review this part without spoilers so here are some):

1. Village started by 6 ppl (at least 5 of them were fairly or very intelligent) 3700 years ago. (Forget about extinction caused by to small number or genes poll) They didn't develop anything, didn't use any of modern time devices and there is only 40 of them

2. Phones (communication) as response to enemies overwhelming advantage in numbers and individual strenght (even though mc already created crossbow in 1st arc and new ones could be much more powerful and even children can use crossbow pretty efficiently)

3. Rival wants to replace corrupted civilization with his paradise where civilization doesn't exist (resurects only muscles to create civilization based purely on strenght)

It must go worse with time but I already dropped it

Was this written by 12 year old with internet access? While the manga's initial premise is mad interesting, the utter lack of nuance when treating themes of civilization, war, violence, and community is honestly embarrassing. The presumptuous and erroneus assumption that violence is the central pillar of civilization is lame, tired, insufferable. I hear they develop this eventually (cell phones, wow...) but I dropped this 8 chapters in. I was initially drawn to Dr. Stone bc someone described as the 'new hope of Shonen Jump' (and so I recognize and understand that this is a manga for kids!!!!) but the series does not live up to the hype.
The characters are all extreme caricatures, and worse, some are caricatural morons - not only one-dismensional but also unnervingly grating. The humor....weird facial expressions and characters yelling at each other.
The art is lovely and detailed. EXCEPT for the tropey girl character who LOOKS LIKE ASTROBOY TO A DISCONCERTING EXTENT!?
Writing this review has actually convinced me to continue reading Dr Stone if only to indulge in the so bad its goodness of the series.

I rarely like to review ongoing series, but I think Dr Stone is an interesting story, and I wanted to put my thoughts out there for the zero people who care.

Dr Stone is about a genius kid rebuilding society with the power of science. Many people compare this series to Minecraft, and I think that's an interesting idea, because my enjoyment is reflected by that comparison. In my opinion, the best parts of Minecraft are when you begin and have this humble home with humble yields. Dr Stone begins the same. Senku begins with these science-fair like inventions made with his small friend group, but now Senku has hundreds in his science nation. In many ways, this is an interesting way to apply the shounen formula, but it has its shortcomings.

There are now too many characters in Dr Stone. Honestly, very few of these characters are interesting in any way. Senku is a very simple shonen protagonist. He loves science and is kind of cynical. The Villain Tsukasa is much more interesting, but I feel like the interesting part of him is often thrown around. In the first arc of Dr Stone, Senku has to earn the trust of others, but *spoiler* eventually, villains of the series just kind of join him and act like best buds with everyone. Not every character needs to be super great, but we need more depth to our characters.

The science stuff is pretty awesome though. I'm not an expert on science, but I'm pretty sure most of the science in the show is accurate. Don't be fooled though; There is a good amount of dramatization, and the tone is far from grounded and realistic. This is a lighthearted manga, and it doesn't always seem to take place in the real world. Death Note feels more realistic than this, honestly. Nevertheless, the science stuff is the best part of Dr Stone.

The art ranges from really great to 'it works'. Boichi has worked well in the weekly format to make some great art. Sometimes it's goofy and light, othertimes it's detailed and realistic. There's also some great facial expressions. Oh, but there is some fanservicey stuff, which always annoys me.

Dr Stone is good, but I honestly can't see it getting any better unless big changes are made. I recommend reading it, but if you don't like it by like 50 chapters, you should probably drop it.

Interesting characters, original history, extremely beautiful art, BUT misused and badly executed script.

Reasons:

Because it is a story that takes place in the past and the protagonist is extremely intelligent, it creates from scratch the current technologies, so far so good, it is interesting, but the script pushes this idea to the limit making each chapter (manga) and each episode (anime) boring with each new discovery/ideia in all, exactly, all episodes.

It looks like they are pushing the main arch away, because of that it causes spaces between mini-archs and main arch.

Although they introduce new characters, they give a lot of importance to it and they waste time giving each one a arch and again, they push everything, a lot of the times this doesn't contribute to the progress of the script.

If you have the patience not to lose interest because of this, it's a good request.

But even when they explain the main arch, it shows a lack of complexity and script preparation, thus making everything very shallow and cliché.

As I said at the beginning, for all these reasons, you can summarize Dr. Stone:


"A history of modern society's growth in prehistory misused"


It had everything to be good, good art, original history and innovative ideas, but they have a terrible screenwriter.

Final grade: 6/10

I was immediately drawn into Dr.Stone from day 1 during it's english release through Weekly Shounen Jump.

The art-style by Boichi is always unique and captivating, partner this up with such a science heavy premise and it leads to a very high-quality manga.

The story itself focuses on a "What if" kind of scenario. "What if humanity reversed back to the stone age with limited survivors". Because of this premise it focuses heavily on individuals using modern knowledge to survive in an age when body strength trumpeted everything.

This of course results in one of the main arcs and themes for the manga, strength vs science. Which leads to a lot tense but also at times, humorous interactions between characters.

The way they approach science theorems in this is really well executed, explaining in detail exactly what is happening. (For example: Mixing Substance A with Substance B results in C occuring). The mangaka himself even has a science expert on hand to verify some of the chemical reactions which adds an extra layer of realism.

It also has a very interesting approach towards it's Villians. Rather than there being a token individual whom is evil for the sake of it. We are instead treated with characters whom are relatable and are just using a different method to survive in such a world. It is easy to sympathise and understand their way of thinking even if you disagree with their actions.

Summary:

- Art-style is highly detailed and lends itself well for the premise.
- The premise is interesting and engaging, everything is unfamiliar on this new Earth however since has familiarity to it.
- Humour is subjective and depends on the reader however, the faces some characters pull should cause some laughter alone.
- The realism in the science, detailed explanations and fact checking done helps you learn some science whilst enjoying a hobby.
- Each character has their own personality, strength and weakness, even the minor ones.

This review will contain spoilers

This shonen manga is definitely unique by presenting the idea of science against brawls;
If you major in science and take thing quite SERIOUSLY the things Senkuu does are ridiculous and it might trigger you.

This manga has a lot of potentials, I personally like the post-apocalyptic setting and I hope we get to explore more than just the village, characters are average nothing exceptional, the story is predictable until they arrive at the village and we get to meet new characters.

I like the art, the background is drawn with careful substance but Boichi draws his female characters with a slight lack of details making them look almost alienish.

This review will contain spoilers up to the marked chapter.

A modern-day take on the ancient battle of Athens and Sparta with new twists and turns. What happens when one day all of humanity is petrified by an unknown light and humanity must rebuild? Enter your cast of The Brain, the Brawn, the Girl and the Enemy. Dr. Stone starts off strong with an engaging premise that has a ton of potential something that I wish was explored more often in anime and manga - the rebuilding of human society after a mass tragedy. Most of the time we see the after-product without seeing the process that was used, the mistakes that were made and the things that were learned. Dr. Stone shows us all of this but that's about one of its only strengths.

I don't believe a lot of what Dr. Stone goes out to accomplish is done well. Our protagonist, Senkuu is a prodigy of the sciences, so much so that he built his own rocket that exited Earth's atmosphere before the tragedy happened. Prodigies are totally acceptable but knowing this creates an aura around Senkuu that just seems like he can find himself through anything. Specifically, in the tournament arc where one of the gags is that the heroes want to rig the tournament in a specific way, of course, they have to rely on chance for it to work out. Luck is against them in every shape and form and the worst matchup happens first. But the story can't just throw out it's most important character of the arc right away right? Of course, so through sheer luck, he wins. While this bit was executed well, it solidified that the aura around Senkuu was strong and I had predicted by this point he would succeed in the tournament and I was correct. I'm a believer in that you need a certain level of predictability in your work so the consumer can understand it, even if it only makes sense in hindsight. However, this isn't the only time Dr. Stone is so obvious. Upon its reveal of antagonist Tsukasa early in the story - his appearance is just so genuinely evil that there's no reason for you to question his allegiances from the moment he's introduced. You just know he's not gonna be allied with the heroes from the minute you see the guy.

Tsukasa and Senkuu create an interesting and philosophical duality. Where Senkuu wants to rebuild the world and Tsukasa wants to purge humanity and create his perfect world. It's nothing new, we've seen it in Death Note, Code Geass, Evangelion, Durarara, JoJo and more by this point. Tsukasa hasn't had his time yet to shine so his character is still very underexplored but this is an interesting part of Dr. Stone that has potential to be great. Likewise, the exploration of science through Senkuu's character is interesting but as smart as Dr. Stone portrays itself with science and philosophy it has a few glaring issues that it doesn't take Newton or Plato to find out.

First, when we learn of the village of survivors, later to be descended from Senkuu's father we know they've passed down 100 Stories known as the Hyakumonogatari, we even get an entire chapter dedicated to the establishment of the stories. But none of these descendants knew how the old world used to be. They passed down knowledge of what foods, materials and other items would be necessary for survival but no stories of the past, where they came from, what they could strive for? It's not like it was out of the realm of possibility for this either. They made 100 Stories, why not 101 where one is just a brief history of the past. Another glaring issue with the Hyakumonogatari is the original generation of surviving humans seemed to gamble on the entire idea that Senkuu would even emerge from this rock slumber. In the possible case that he never awoke, they never took any precautions for that.

Second is a bit of an ongoing issue but it deals with the humor. The humor exists in primarily three ways: sex jokes, facial expressions, and vocal inflections. I don't really need to explain why the first one can get old real fast so let's focus on the latter two. Facial expressions are probably the most common type of humor in Dr. Stone and it's very hit and miss. While the artwork does the expression justice, constant weird face making does not make good comedy. Tell me some good jokes, give me some funny dialogue, both of these are to be found in Dr. Stone but not all that often. Most of the dialogue based jokes kind of fail too, not as a result of poor writing though but because certain lines require an inflection of the voice. While most manga run into this issue Dr. Stone doesn't do much to mitigate against it. Sakamoto desu ga and Watamote were manga that had me laughing out loud, and Dr. Stone has the potential to have some laugh out loud moments. But if all of your jokes in this vein rely on the same kind of drawn out line like Spongebob saying "Reaaaaaaaaaaaaally?" you have a bit of an issue. In fact, I'm sure as an anime, most of the humor would work in general just because of how fluid it would work and the timing it could have. As a manga, Dr. Stone misses out on some of the comedic timing it needs for the jokes it uses, so if it ever gets an anime adaptation I totally expect the humor will improve.

Overall, I'd love to love this series it just has so much potential underneath all its problems. Nothing is extremely standout about it, but nothing is extremely offensive. But as a series based on science and the on-going themes of Brains vs. Brawn and ambiguous evil, there seems to be a huge level of suspension of disbelief I need to not question some of the things that are actually happening. If you've been through the song and dance of 100 shounen before and are bored of the same old same old, Dr. Stone probably isn't for you. But if you're looking for something with a different premise with the same general storytelling techniques you'll like it. But I'd rather go for Death Note or Hunter x Hunter personally both of which contain better twists, better philosophies, less predictable outcomes, and a smaller threshold of things that I need to accept to believe in the world and what's going on. They've also both been published in the same magazine as this so why not just grab those?

Story: 8/10

The protagonists will have to restore mankind from the beginning, both in terms of people, and in technology. It is easy to understand and very fun to read, it also has the mystery behind the petrification, which ends up making the story even more interesting.

Art: 10/10

One of the strongest points, even in comedies the art is good, Featured to the double pages, because they are absurdly beautiful.

Character: 6/10
At the moment, the characters are not very charismatic, the only ones that caught my attention were Senkuu (who makes the story to progress) and Tsukasa with opposing ideals and is the villain of the history.

Enjoyment: 8/10

I love reading this each week. It is richly imaginative and a comedic story with Sci-Fi that does not disappoint.

Overall: 8/10

It's a really good story to read that improves with each chapter, also quite fun and has a mystery that is shown at the beginning that leaves us curious to find out what is behind it. If I mention a weakness in the work, I would say that they are the characters, but I believe that it improves throughout the work.

This review is heavily based on personal opinion and may feel biased (which I don't disagree if you say so), feel free to agree or disagree.

Story: 9/10
The concept of rebuilding humanity from the stone age with all of the knowledge that we have from the modern age is truly amazing by itself. Dr. Stone not only presents this concept to the public (though may not be the first one to do so) and executes it very well.

Art: 10/10
The artwork from Boichi is truly outstanding, the high detail on the art really makes me appreciate it and wonders how does a man accomplishes this. The character designs, the details on the materials such as rocks and wood, it just all clicks.

Character: 7/10
Dr. Stone's main attraction for me isn't the character, however the clashing ideology between the protagonist Senku and the antagonist Tsukasa is something that I'm always interested to check out.

Enjoyment: 10/10
I love Dr. Stone, to the point that it's my favorite manga of all time. Seeing Senku and his friends make our everyday tools that we thought is impossible to make at the stone age is always thrilling. Every single chapter makes me wants more, and so far it hasn't disappointed me and I don't think it ever will.

Overall: 9/10
Dr. Stone is a Shonen Jump manga that tries to put the typical power progression system into technology and executes it magnificently.

Art 10/10: Is good to look at

Story 10/10: As the story progressive it gets more and more interesting.

Characters 9/10: They did great on the characters even the supporter ones are not bad at all plus some bring good comic relief once in a while.

Enjoyment 9/10: Pretty fun to watch a kid, who uses real world science, with the help of his friends, create modern civilization again, while others are trying to stop it and more.

Overall 9.5/10: is an amazing manga for anybody. I promise you, you wont get bored with all the science stuff. That's part of the fun!.

Been in this manga for the whole run so far (Review posted on 16th chapter). It's good, like I think the idea, however it's kind of got a "Kid" vibe to it, as in the way things occur, like the miraculousness of everything that occurs is kind of absurd. Like small (to big) dues ex machinas all over the place.

Also the art is drawn for kids, and like the panels don't always explain whats going on or how things happen (like in chapter 16).

Characters are overly powerful for being children, and, for example, one of the main character's catchphrases gets kind of dumb.

In the end, its a nice manga with silly things going on.

Overall its a 6.5 - 7

Dr. Stone has finally reached the 50 chapter milestone and I've decided to give it a review. I'll probably update every ~50 chapters or so if I can, to keep things up to date. Tl;dr ratings below

Story 9/10
Art 10/10
Characters 7/10
Enjoyment 10/10
Overall - 9/10


Story - 9/10

I'll be upfront, I'm baised here because I really enjoy the survival style, man vs nature conflict that's present in many parts of this series. Nonetheless I think Inagaki has done a fantastic job with the story of Dr. Stone so far, and made use of both man vs nature conflicts and man vs man conflicts to keep the story very engaging throughout all 50 chapters. Each arc in the story has had good pacing, and with every new chapter I've felt as though something notable happened to progress the plot and drive Senkuu to reaching the arc's goal.

The one major issue I do have with the story is that quite a lot of it requires a lot of suspension of disbelief. It's only natural given that the series is science heavy while being set in a post-apocalyptic world, but that's why I've rated the story portion a 9 instead of a 10.


Art - 10/10

I love Boichi's art. There hasn't been a single chapter so far where I'm not thoroughly impressed at the detail and attention that has been put into a lot of the art, especially things like double page spreads. I'm even more impressed considering that Boichi is also doing the art for his other weekly series, Origin, at the same time as he's doing art for Dr. Stone. It seems like a ridiculous quantity of work yet he still maintains that incredible quality as well.


Characters - 7/10

The weakest point of this series is by far the antagonist, who at times seems like he was made to be an extremely perfect and extremely overpowered character. It does set up a very nice ideological conflict between him and Senkuu, however this can also feel a bit forced or absurd at times.

Aside from the antagonist(s), I think the rest of the characters in this series are written well. Interactions between Senkuu and the characters around him are always interesting and there are a lot of lovable side characters introduced. Although very few of the characters in the series have been developed in much depth, it is only chapter 50 so things will likely change as the story itself progresses. This rating will quite likely go up by chapter 100 if more characters are developed well


Enjoyment - 10/10

I really enjoy man vs nature conflicts, post-apocalyptic settings and science driven plot in their own rights. Mashing those together is really a winning strategy for Dr. Stone. It's the manga I look forward to reading every week the most, tied with One Piece. Every chapter is a treat to read


Overall - 9/10

Dr. Stone has a bit of everything - comedy, action, adventure, and most importantly a hell of an entertaining story. You'll be consistently amazed by the art and entertained by the characters, certainly all the way through chapter 50 and likely beyond.

It's well worth a read if you like the idea of a non-standard shonen series that focuses a lot on the adventure and less so on the action, but still has a good mix of the two.

(No spoilers)
This is my very first review of anything. I decided to do it on Dr Stone because I feel like this is a very underrated series, many people are missing out on.

Story 8/10
Humanity has been petrified and turned to stone. People start breaking out of the stone in the year 5738 AD and the world is now in the stone age. The main character Senkuu is a genius of all sciences and plans to bring the world back to the modern age, or even further. It is quite a unique and interesting concept.

Enjoyment 9/10
Dr Stone is a very funny and enjoyable series to read. This is my second favourite series to read after One Piece, in terms of enjoyment. It may even surpass it in the future. Senkuu's inventions are broken down into simple plans on how to make it. This makes it easy and enjoyable to understand. Sometimes my jaw drops with the insane stuff he makes with little resources.

Art 10/10
The art is constantly top quality. I've got no complaints. In the recent chapter 99, the panels were laid out so beautifully, you'll just have to read it to find out.

Character 9/10
All the characters are really funny and have hilarious reactions to stuff. I like all the silly quirks Senkuu and the supporting cast have. Side characters also have importance to the story and aren't useless. They actually make the world seem alive.

Overall 9/10
I definitely recommend you to watch it. It will be a fun experience.

(Please note that I intend to update this review as this series continues.)

Dr. Stone is the new series from veteran manga writer Riichiro Inagaki, known best for being the writer for Eyeshield 21. This new story is a big departure from the sports story of his old work; an action-adventure tale set in a dark future where most of humanity has been petrified into a stone state. In this new world a few people make it out of their stone restrictions and attempt to rebuild the world.

In a world devoid of many people, Inagaki manages to keep things interesting with the few characters at his disposal. Fast-paced and action-packed, this series keeps the plot moving forward at a surprisingly quick speed. Inagaki doesn't seem one for subtlety of plot, which is perfectly fine for the story he is attempting to write. For its length, Dr. Stone has been able to present a fun, entertaining story, unhindered by the barren landscape the characters are set in.

The characters are not particularly note-worthy. They are what you would expect from the average shounen, a dim-witted yet kind main character, a shrewd yet compassionate genius, and the obligatory cute female lead. Despite making use of overdone characters, the story is able to retain a glaze of freshness with its interesting use of setting, and unexpected villains. Though not anything worth writing home about, the series offers a fun sense of escapism that most look for in shounen manga.

The art, drawing by Boichi, is good for what it is. Clean line-art and vivid colouring. The expansive settings and backgrounds are well drawn, and the panels are well paced and positioned, giving us a sense of movement and action. Though at times the perspective seems slightly off, it is not really anything I'd complain about.

Time will tell what this series goes on to perform, but at the moment it seems worth keeping an eye on. If you're looking for a new manga that is fun and easy to read then give Dr. Stone a shot.