Review of Dr. Stone: Ryusui

I think I'd prefer to get Dr Stone in more short bursts like this. What I found watching the second season was that the concept really doesn't hold up over too many episodes. What made the first season great was it being an anime version of Primitive Technology. There's just something inherently appealing to our human nature in watching something take form from just raw materials, and the process was both fascinating and believable. The second season felt like it rushed through a lot of the steps that might have been more interesting and wanted to focus on the narrative more than the tech treebuilding stuff.

Here I think there's a good enough mix of both, and they finally have a realistic amount of manpower to accomplish some of the things they're doing in the time frame presented. I think Ryuusui himself as the titular character manages to be suitably charismatic for his part. He's just bursting with the kind of Chad energy that makes /fit/izens insist they aren't gay. And then he has to balls to go and invent the Federal Reserve, going full America and just borrowing more money into existence. Hilarious stuff, that whole sequence.

The hot air balloon was neat, and it was honestly surprising that they hadn't invented cloth yet. The fashion show seemed overly-indulgent and the fact they had enough extra cloth lying around for that was a bit of a stretch. Overall it did feel like a return to form after a somewhat lackluster second season, so I'll give it an 8/10