Dr.STONE Home Thread (IMC) - Now Reading Week 1

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Welcome to the Dr.STONE Book Club!

Start date: May 09

This is the main thread for reading the manga Dr.STONE volume 1 together with the Intermediate Manga Club.

We’ll be reading together according to a weekly schedule, asking and answering questions in weekly threads.

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Story summary

Japanese

一瞬にして世界中すべての人間が石と化す、謎の現象に巻き込まれた高校生の大樹。数千年後――。目覚めた大樹とその友・千空はゼロから文明を作ることを決意する!! 空前絶後のSFサバイバル冒険譚、開幕!!

English

One fateful day, all of humanity turned to stone. Many millennia later, Taiju frees himself from the petrification and finds himself surrounded by statues. The situation looks grim—until he runs into his science-loving friend Senku! Together they plan to restart civilization with the power of science!

Schedule & Discussion Thread Links

Week Start Date Chapter Start
Page		 Page
Count
Week 1 May 09 Z=1 STONE WORLD (part 1) 5 31
Week 2 May 16 Z=1 STONE WORLD (part 2) 36 23
Week 3 May 23 Z=2 FANTASY VS SCIENCE 59 26
Week 4 May 30 Z=3 KING OF THE STONE WORLD 85 24
Week 5 Jun 06 Z=4 純白の貝殻 109 20
Week 6 Jun 13 Z=5 杠 129 20
Week 7 Jun 20 Z=6 大樹VS司 149 20
Week 8 Jun 27 Z=7 火薬の冒険 169 20
番外編 作りみよう‼土器 190 2

Where to buy

Physical: Amazon
Digital: Bookwalker

Vocabulary Sheet

Spoiler Courtesy

Please follow these rules to avoid inadvertent ネタバレ. If you’re unsure whether something should have a spoiler tag, err on the side of using one.

  1. Any potential spoiler for the current week’s reading need only be covered by a spoiler tag. Predictions and conjecture made by somebody who has not read ahead still falls into this category.
  2. Any potential spoilers for external sources need to be covered by a spoiler tag and include a label (outside of the spoiler tag) of what might be spoiled. These include but are not limited to: other book club picks, other books, games, movies, anime, etc. I recommend also tagging the severity of the spoiler (for example, I may still look at minor spoilers for something that I don’t intend to read soon).
  3. Any information from later in the book than the current week’s reading (including trigger warnings that haven’t yet manifested) needs to be hidden by spoiler tags and labeled as coming from later sections.
Instructions for Spoiler Tags

Click the cog above the text box and use either the “Hide Details” or “Blur Spoiler” options. The text which says “This text will be hidden” should be replaced with what you are wishing to write. In the case of “Hide Details”, the section in the brackets that is labelled “Summary” can be replaced with whatever you like also (i.e, [details=”Chapter 1, Pg. 1”]).

Hide Details results in the dropdown box like below:

Example

This is an example of the “Hide Details” option.

The “Blur Spoiler” option will simply blur the text it surrounds.

This is an example of the “Blur Spoiler” option.

Posting Advice

  • When asking for help, please mention the page number, and check before posting that your question hasn’t already been asked. As the threads get longer, it becomes more convenient to use the Search function, which is located in the upper right corner of the forum. It is the magnifying glass which is near your profile picture! The best way to search is usually to type part of the sentence you are confused about, and select “in this topic”. This will show you all posts within the current thread which has that string of text.
  • Be sure to join the conversation! It’s fun, and it’s what keeps these book clubs lively! There’s no such thing as a stupid question! We are all learning here, and if the question has crossed your mind, there’s a very good chance it has crossed somebody else’s also! Asking and answering questions is a great learning opportunity for everyone involved, so never hesitate to do so!

Will you be reading with us?

  • Yeah!
  • Yeah, but I’ll start late
  • I’m not sure yet
  • I’m skipping this one
  • I’ve read this before, but will join in the discussion
0 voters

How will you be reading?

  • Physical
  • Digital
  • With my eyes
  • I’m not sure yet
0 voters

Don’t forget to set this thread to Watching in order to be notified when weekly threads get posted!

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So, I split the first chapter in half, because it’s longer than any two other chapters put together. Unfortunately, the most natural stopping point still leaves the longest reading of the book in the first week, but I figured we’re the Intermediate club, we can live with that. Also, there’s quite a few pages in there without dialogue.

Some polls to start off with, though:

When should we start?
  • May 2nd (immediately after Nicola)
  • May 9th (one week after Nicola)
  • May 16th (two weeks after Nicola)
  • Even later
0 voters
Do we need a vocab sheet for this?
  • Yes
  • No
0 voters
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I read a little of this in English when it was recent.

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Nothing to add so here’s a meme about the artist name.

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Going to sign potential interest here

I did pick up the series on Bookwalker recently and was thinking of reading it at some point so maybe a good excuse to get going on it

I did read a fair ways into it in English when the series was in publication. Kept up weekly with new chapters. The Japanese should be interesting given the amount of scientific explanations etc

5

Absolutely loved this in English. I don’t think I’ll ever do cosplay, but if I did it would have to be Senku!

I don’t think I would want to read all 27 volumes in Japanese but might join you for volume 1.

6

Okay, the votes are in: we’ll be starting on May 9th, two weeks from now, and with a unanimous (albeit fairly small) vote in favour of a vocab sheet, I guess I’ll start working on that. Once I remember the process…

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You could open an existing one, chose the option “Make a copy” in the File menu, then it’s just a bit of cleaning up needed: change the title, delete the data from the other club

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Yeah, but, the creation of the Sheets sheet is definitely not the trickiest part. :face_with_tongue:

It’s ok, I found the tab I left open with the instructions. I just gotta work on cleaning it up now.

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Only a few days left until we start reading. Schedule and vocab sheet are now included in the first post.

10

Great book, i;m going to read this for a while..

11

I’m ten billion percent ready :flexed_biceps:

12

I love the hype, I know nothing about Dr. STONE but excited to try it :grin:

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I can’t promise to stay with it for the whole series but yeah, I’ll try reading with the club. I remember a little of the early chapters being about the use of SCIENCE! To improve their lives.

14

Get excited!

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And let’s go!