Dr. STONE
Natively: Level 28
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!
Availability
Physical: Amazon
Digital: Bookwalker - can also get it for free until May 7th here.
Personal Opinion
Learn science through shonen manga! All the science! All the shonen! I’ve read the whole thing in English, and enjoyed it a bunch, and have been watching the anime as it’s released. This is, quite frankly, post-apocalyptic fiction at its finest. How do you restart modern civilisation given all of the knowledge but none of the technology? Find out here!
Pros and Cons
Pros
- About two-thirds of it has been adapted to anime (with the next cours due to start in July), so there’s plenty of episodes for listening/shadowing practice.
- Full furigana, which is handy, because whew, the science vocab.
- First volume is free for a limited time if people want to give it a try (though said limited time expires long before the next vote).
Cons
- Whew, the science vocab.
- Some of the characters are… very loud. Yes, even in print.
- At twenty-seven volumes (plus an extra single-volume side-story), it’s a fair time investment if people wanted to keep going with the whole thing.
