Dr. Stone: New World Episode 14 Review

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I just praised Ron Komonohashi for having essentially a bottle episode so it would be hypocritical of me not to do the same for Dr. Stone. It’s funny how these things come in waves. Especially in a show like Dr. Stone which is not only action-heavy but split between two groups of characters. But you know what, I also quite liked this episode It has been a good anime week!

After seeing all the villagers’ reactions, I kind of want to know what it’s like to get petrified as well. Especially if it cures all your little aches and pains. I am probably overthinking this but you know, the fact that the petrification beam can be used as a sort of rejuvenation for the people that get revived did have me thinking what if the beam wasn’t meant to be a weapon in the first place? Like sure its current iteration most likely is just that but maybe they were originally researching a new form of cryostasis for terminally ill patients or something. Not that it changes anything to the present storyline but it would explain some of the quirks it has.

Kohaku and Ginrou’s statues were quite the sight. Do you guys think they broke them yet?

Again, I might be nitpicking, but how did Amaryllis know everything that had happened. I probably missed something. From what I remember she saw how it went down and that they got stoned but how did she know about the master? Kohaku mouthed something but did she really manage to get all those details through. That he’s a statue and looks like Soyuz and all of that? I should rewatch the last episode.

I mentioned that I missed the little science vignettes we used to get for Senku’s inventions. We still get occasional explanations but as the science is getting more complicated and “magic” like, it’s probably harder to pull off a concise explanation in the middle of an episode. So I appreciated that we got Gen’s soft science explanation instead. I’m not entirely sure how I feel about teaching children how to effectively manipulate people but hey, it’s a useful skill! And the info we got in the episode is actually applicable to real life. So YaY?

This said I do really like how Gen’s mastery of soft sciences contrasts with Senku’s knowledge of hard sciences. I wish there were more characters like that. So far, Dr. Stone has mostly used the old false dichotomy of brains vs brawn. And the show itself didn’t stick to it by giving us characters like Tsukasa who are both physical and intellectual powerhouses. In fact, Moz reminded me of a discount Tsukasa. In his defense, he doesn’t have the few thousand years of human evolution to fall back on that Tsukasa had.

I really enjoyed the exchange. I loved seeing how Gen played him and how victory is sometimes just about not losing. And the silly plan they hatched together is exactly what I would expect a bunch of nerdy teenagers to come up with. Now let’s see if it works!

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4 thoughts on “Dr. Stone: New World Episode 14 Review”

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  2. This episode was primarily adapted from Manga Chapters 122-123, and maybe a page or two of Chapter 124.

    A few quick thoughts …

    – That shot of petrified Kohaku holding petrified Ginro was a full splash page in the manga. And gorgeous. 🤗✨

    – I’d been a bit worried that they’d forgotten about Yuzuriha, but here she is.

    – (I’m still worried that they’ve forgotten about Nikki.)

    – Both Chrome and Kaseki got a kick out of their initial Petrifications.

    – There’s still the matter of that ‘Rando’ statue the gang re-assembled: Someone Amaryllis knows perhaps?

    – Riichiro Inagaki and Bouichi (… whose name I’ve repeatedly mis-typed!) must have read your blog last week, as they’ve addressed the value of having Gen on-site for negotiations. 🙏✨

    – There was a lovely – but incredibly difficult to adapt – effect in the Manga, where at several points Senku and his Generals appear in small, jigsaw puzzle-shaped panels: The ‘Puzzle Piece’ motif was thankfully retained overall, though I would have liked to have seen those specific shots utilized as well. 🧩✨

    – Just over 100 Manga Chapters remain to be adapted, two additional full seasons should do it. 🤞✨

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  3. Amaryllis’s info: I think that part of the previous episode was hurt by how an anime plays out in linear time. In the manga there was a panel showing that Kohaku was relaying some variety of information to Amaryllis; that was the equivalent to Kohaku mouthing to Amaryllis in the anime, but if they’d taken a realistic amount of anime time for the information transfer it would have bogged things down. Then after Kohaku shouted, “Your master is a…” there was a rather unrealistic pause as Ibara reacted and gave orders before Kohaku was able to finish. In “real time” they were happening on top of each other but it’s hard to show that with film editing without “time expansion”.

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    1. TQ Observed:

      >> In “real time” they were happening on top of each other but it’s hard to show that with film editing without “time expansion”.<<

      Not quite the same thing, but a similar convention in film/comics is when a scene cuts in mid-sentence, with the speaker completing the sentence in a different location, after (… presumably) an uncomfortable amount of travel time has passed.

      Someone somewhere on some show recently called attention to that effect when it was used, in a ‘Meta’ sense.

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