English Dub Review: Dr Stone – Science Future “Until We Meet Again”

We’ll meet again, don’t know where, don’t know when

OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)

Senku’s plan to re-petrify the world takes effect, leaving Suika the only conscious human on the planet. What will she do next, and how will she revive all of her friends?

OUR TAKE

Just like last episode ended on, the second global petrification takes effect and takes with it all of our protagonists and antagonists, which is probably for the best considering how many of Senku’s group were about a couple seconds away from death. And while it would be quite the bold move for them to pull a “Transformers: The Movie” and axe a majority of the cast, I’m also kind of glad they didn’t, especially with only a dozen or so episodes left in the story. What I’m more surprised at is how the final moments before everyone got petrified lasted for half of this episode, but it’s probably for the best that it did. We got to see everyone basically act like they would if they were about to die, which is certainly something with a non-zero possibility if there’s no one around to revive them. Everyone’s reactions are interesting, and in some cases kinda funny, but possibly the most fascinating is that of Stanley, who instantly clocks that Suika is being set up to be the one who revives first. Given that he’s spent this past stretch of episodes trying to track down and kill everyone on Senku’s side, his natural first instinct is to destroy the fluid that would revive Suika, but what stays his hand is understanding that she may be the only hope the world has.

And that small act of mercy pays off, as while every human is petrified for an unknown amount of time, eventually Suika is able to break through. However, she is all alone, literally the only conscious person on Earth, and with no prepared revival fluid around and none of her older friends there to guide her, she must fend for herself in the Stone World until she can bring her comrades back. I have an inkling of what happens next for her, but it’s probably best to wait until next week to go into that. We have just two episodes left in this part of the season, and after that is another break and then the race to the finish, so what do we do with the remaining forty or so minutes we have left? Well, we’ll probably see Suika trying to work from what she’s observed over her time with Senku and apply that towards her goal. And after everyone else is revived, will the fighting start again? I suppose we’ll find out very soon.