English Dub Review: Dr. Stone – Science Future “The Truth About the Rocket”
OVERVIEW (SPOILERS)
The science team builds a computer with memory, and finally get a working Medusa device with one of Joel’s custom batteries, revealing the risky and solemn next step once they reach the moon.
OUR TAKE
We’re nearly half way through this last batch of episodes, and while we’re still having our fun putting gadgets together and giving abridged lessons on how to make them in real life, now is when the endgame for the series truly begins to take shape. Confronting Why-man on the moon has been the plan for a good long while, but it wasn’t clear how pressing the timeline was or what they would have time to put together for the rocket. Well, at least according to Senku, they can’t risk waiting for Why-man to try and petrify the whole world again, whether it be through a radio signal or by randomly showering the Earth with Medusa devices like he has in the past. So, while the rocket construction and testing continues, they unfortunately don’t have time to make a return craft to get whoever goes back to Earth. That means they’ll have to wait there awhile, and the only way they know to do that without dying is to petrify themselves. They could be there for weeks, months, years, even several millenia, but they’ve all done that a couple times now, so what’s the biggie? Well, while Senku is resigned to this fate, and presumably so are Tsukasa and Ryusui who have been assumed to go along with him, others are not so ready to give up.
And this begins what I imagine is the last major conflict between the characters. Senku being willing to make the sacrifice play for the rest of his friends and the whole of humanity by getting stoned on the moon somewhere, Chrome thinks there is another way. His genius in science is basically third next to Xeno and Senku, and while it’s probably a pretty distant third, he still has the know how to make what seems impossible into the possible, something that Senku taught him in the first place. Talking with Suika, the two work to create a return craft for those who plan on going to the moon, so that no one will have to sacrifice any more of their lives to this mission. But with eight episodes to go, can they complete the craft in time before the shuttle’s completion and launch? And will Senku even be willing to take it if it’s finished in time? The countdown to the end of Dr. Stone continues next time as we inch closer and closer to the end of the series.
