#DrSTONE#DrSTONE最終回
“Finally, Dr. STONE Anime Comes to an End”
As I watched the final episode of the Dr. STONE anime, I was overwhelmed by emotions beyond words.
"Ah... finally, it's really the end."
The realization that Dr. STONE had come to an end shook my very soul.
Strangely, I didn't feel this way when I finished the last page of the original manga serialization ended.
At the time, many things were happening, and I already knew that we would publish another volume's worth of material the following year to give the story its true conclusion.
I even celebrated the end of the serialization with a trip to an onsen, but even there I was still drawing Dr. STONE illustrations.
One thing I truly loved was the anime's original additions created to complete the story.
I've always hoped that anime adaptations would include plenty of original material.
People often talk about "respecting the original work."
I love the idea of respecting the original.
What I don't like is making it exactly the same.
To me, anime belongs to the animators.
It should be their creation—the result of their own creativity.
It should contain their ideas, their talent, and their hearts.
Because a creative work should belong to its creators.
After all, the people who make the anime are not the mangaka.
Whenever I receive an offer for an adaptation, I always ask for one thing:
"Please make it into a work that reflects the director's own vision."
To me, that is what truly respecting the original work means.
And it is also how I show my respect to fellow creators.
As I heard from my editor at the time, there were proposals from four different studios to animate Dr. STONE.
When I was asked which one I preferred, I simply replied that I trusted Weekly Shonen Jump and Inagaki-sensei to make the right decision.
The only things I requested from the anime staff were these:
1. I hoped it would be a work with beautiful music and beautiful natural scenery.
2. I hoped it would have a real "wow factor."
3. I hoped it would be different from the manga—even the artwork.
I wanted people to watch the anime and I learn from its drawings.
Other than making those requests, I stayed completely uninvolved in the production.
I was invited to attend the voice actor auditions, but I declined.
I wanted the anime director to make those decisions.
I believed my own job was simply to keep drawing as much as I could.
And that's exactly what I did.
Perhaps that is why this final episode touched me so deeply.
I truly loved all of the original scenes, direction, and dialogue created to bring the story to its conclusion.
I could feel how much love the animation team had for Dr. STONE.
And that made me so happy and tear.
That's what I love.
Creation is about putting your heart and soul into your work.
Because the hearts of the creators were present in every scene, every moment moved me.
To everyone who worked on this final episode—and to everyone who helped bring the Dr. STONE anime to life—
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
And there is one thing I would like to say to every single one of you: "Each and every one of you is Dr. STONE."
@PikkuProgram I like Boruto as a series, and honestly from what I gather it's purely dragged down by Ikemoto's insistence on not having any assistants to do backgrounds or what have you. If he did, it would be so much better.
According to multiple leaks, BLEACH by Tite Kubo will be returning to Weekly Shonen Jump with a 'Hell Arc' serialization.
SAKAMOTO DAYS by Yuto Suzuki will be ending in the upcoming weeks, freeing a slot in the magazine for this new BLEACH series.
@VIZMedia Modulo is a given as a JJK fan, but I'm beyond excited for Witchriv and Slam Dunk Deluxes! Those'll be an instant cop. Thanks for the cool announcements! :3
@TonyMunozDev We 100% do not use AI at all developing our games. I don’t think it is actually that unusual to not use AI in the indie game developer community though.
It would take far more than a month to honor the contributions of queer and transgender New Yorkers.
From the Cercle Hermaphroditos in 1895, the first trans advocacy group in the United States, to the drag balls of the Harlem Renaissance, to the Stonewall uprising, to the Lesbian Herstory Archives, to ACT UP!, founded in 1987 as queer people fought for their lives while the Reagan administration looked away, New York City's history has long been shaped by queer and trans New Yorkers.
To all our queer and trans neighbors: you deserve a City where you can afford to live safely, openly, and joyfully.
Happy Pride, New York City.
@Fauxlatin@CosmicEido They never had an Arabic dub of that OVA of Stardust Crusaders, so instead they just (kinda fittingly) treat him as the multilingual in-between for the whole group lol
Before pride month starts im just gonna say this:
-men’s mental health month is in November
-straight pride isn’t a thing. Nobody has ever been oppressed or killed for being straight
-veterans get 2 months. May and November
So do some research before complaining :)
let's break this down, because this really lays the strategy bare.
1) lumping in "pro-transgender" with terror threats, evoking words like Jihadi and ISIS, very unsubtly equating these things that have nothing to do with one another, to subconsciously affix it to things you fear.
2) once again using their neverending posthumous martyrdom of Charlie Kirk to make whatever the fuck statement they want.
3) insinuating that Charlie's killer's "pro-transgender" beliefs are to blame for what he did, tying it to a string of supposed violent left wing extremist attacks, furthering the agenda that leftism itself is a terrorist group, and to be pro-transgender is to be violent and a threat to society (how many shooters have been right wing btw?)
4) the term "pro-transgender" itself is layered in many ways. saying this makes it appear as though being trans is a belief system rather than an identity, and belief systems are easier to make into threats. and while it implies that being pro-transgender is something violent and scary, it also plants the idea that "wow if people who SUPPORT the trans 'ideology' are bad, imagine how bad actual trans people must be" without actually having to say "trans people are evil."
5) strategically not saying "we want to eradicate trans people" but instead saying "we want to eradicate all scary things that threaten our lives, and btw trans people are that"
it doesn't get much more blatant than this. it really doesn't. and i hope everyone can see this for what it is.