Dr. Stone's Big Reveal Doesn't Make Any Sense
Warning: Contains spoilers for Dr. STONE chapters #228, #229, and #230.
The Weekly Shonen Jump manga Dr. STONE is quickly heading towards its conclusion. The latest chapters have finally unveiled the big mystery behind the whole plot of the series, but unfortunately, this revelation does not make much sense.
Dr. STONE is a peculiar take on the isekai genre in which the protagonists are not thrown into a fantasy world, but three thousand years in the future, after all of mankind has been petrified by a mysterious energy beam. The first humans to awaken find themselves in a world that reverted to the stone age, forcing them to rebuild civilization from scratch, counting on their wits, survival skills, and the genius intellect and inventions of protagonist Senku Ishigami. Drawing inspiration from the «build your own civilization» games, Dr. STONE uses science as the cornerstone of its plot, providing a much-needed breath of novelty to the shonen genre, even if the manga has its good share of old-fashioned fights. However, the much-awaited reveal of who petrified humanity and why left much to be desired.
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It was discovered early in the series that the source of the petrification beam is an advanced technological device that Senku group dubs «Medusa». Senku and his friends first learn of the existence of someone behind the Medusa, who they call «Why-man», when they pick up a Morse code signal coming from the Moon, putting them in front of their biggest challenge yet: building a space rocket with the limited technology they have. After gathering resources around the world and building entire cities with the sole purpose of producing the materials needed for
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