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Dr. Stone: This was mostly freaking great. Definitely my favorite non-sequel of the year at this point. The sheer joy of science it delivers is incredible. I found myself tearing up at several points, mostly just from Senku's amazing descriptions of great scientific accomplishments in the past. It's great when a show can focus on emotional content without being melodramatic or whatever. I feel like I heard some people complaining about the edutainment aspects of the show, but those were the parts I liked best. Honestly, the show would've been better with even MORE science! The rest of the cast wasn't quite as good as Senku, but there were a few standouts. Chrome was excellent, Kohaku was fun, and the brothers were cool. Taiju and Yuzuriha were much less interesting, but the show doesn't spend much time on them, thankfully.

The one flaw of the show that keeps it from being 10/10 (I'd give it a 9 at this point) is that the battle scenes are all boring. There aren't too many of them (maybe like 5 episodes of 24 have battles?) but none of them are interesting. The animation for the battles is generally garbage, and the motivations for the villains are all blah. I wish Senku would stop talking up how smart Tsukasa is when basically everything he says is stupid bullshit. Tsukasa's pretty much the weak link of the show overall, IMO. Get rid of him and it's a lot more fun. The battles are where the show feels most shounen-y too, what with the non-fatal nature of them. There's no way the villagers wouldn't have killed Hyoga, for example, considering how happy they are to kill outsiders in general.

Still a great show though! Would highly recommend it, even to people who aren't really into shounen fighting series. Check it out, pyre!
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