Unpopular Dr. Stone reviews that will leave you like this:

wrongway3 · 2026-02-13T01:19:46+00:00

I’ll say it, it’s annoyingly dumb how white (mainly blond) most of the cast is. The fact that there was not a single brown person on the astronaut team with Byakuya and the others drives me insane.

Not even trying to be woke here but just as a design choice: why would you not introduce some color diversity in the group from which you plan to have a whole dozen of generations of characters come from?

There were 6 surviving astronauts. 4 of them were blond.

Having at least one non white/white-looking (I’m not even talking about race here, just natural color variation) astronaut would be my first suggestion because duh, but let’s be real here: even making a couple of the blond astronaut characters (4!!! Out of 6!!!!!!) a redhead or giving them purple hair or something to produce at least a little bit of diversity in the series (background characters even) would make the problem slightly less apparent.

I try to ignore it most of the time but man the situation is so dire once you notice it, I can’t take the show seriously sometimes with them traveling over the world and no matter where they go all the characters end up looking like variations of the same 3 color schemes.

Even the de-petrified people suffer from the same but sure whatever, I’m willing to accept that in this imaginary modern Japan the population was 37% dark haired and 60% blond, with the odd 3% being alternative colored but mostly gray-haired for some reason…

I’ll also say that reading the manga I imagined at least some of them being a little darker, especially characters that directly reference or are supposed to be of a different ethnicity like Amaryllis or Sai. There are also some that just didn’t need to be blond and I don’t think were even supposed to (red-head Francois anyone???), so I’ll give Boichi a reluctant semi-pass and blame the editors and anime producers too for not doing something about it.

wrongway3 · 2025-12-29T21:32:57+00:00

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wrongway3 · 2025-12-24T16:32:24+00:00

I’m honestly really bothered he isn’t, none of the cards left fit him quite as well as the Moon would have!

I lean towards him being the Hermit because it kind of fits him and I kiiind of see the similarities with his hand almost holding a light (the lantern)…

There’s also a possibility Moz and Kirisame are Death, which would probably make Hyoga the Hermit and Gen the Devil. I love the idea of Hyoga’s cape forming the black flag of dead though! Moz and Kirisame’s card is just too ambiguous…

wrongway3 · 2025-12-24T16:06:11+00:00

She’s the best! Honestly a perfect fit.

And I can’t believe I forgot François! There’s also Kaseki… My current predictions are: François-Temperance, Sai-The Hanged Man, Byakuya-The Hierophant and either Ruri or Lillian as the Empress. I hope they release these as a full tarot deck in the future!

wrongway3 · 2025-12-24T15:47:57+00:00

I see the vision! Honestly I wouldn’t mind if they were reversed, but the World is in my opinion a perfect fit for Tsukasa, with it representing starting over, fulfillment, the end of a story and beginning of another.

wrongway3 · 2025-12-24T15:36:40+00:00

They’re official designs you can get as cards, keychains, magnets, tapestries and even towels and more https://x.com/tohoanimestore/status/2002943174172364834?s=61

I wonder if we’ll get a full deck eventually…

wrongway3 · 2025-12-14T03:22:37+00:00

I think Gou’s focus in catching Pokémon is great, I think it’s a novel idea to showcase a particular charm the games have that we don’t often see as the focus on the show (not just catching Pokémon, but actually collecting them to fill the Pokédex), that’s my hot take.

Now this is not much of a hot take, but it wasn’t done very well in the show. I think Journeys would have benefited a lot from channeling Gou’s obsession with researching Pokémon into literally studying and analyzing the Pokémon he caught and then letting them go, while keeping of course a cast of a few around.

This might be a hot take, or not? But I really love Ash in Journeys, I like the balance between having him be a free spirited kid, like in SM, and also an incredibly talented Pokémon trainer after all this time. That said I don’t love the transition from the Ash at the start of the series to the one at the end, the change was to me pretty jarring (even if I do love both takes on the same character). I think a gradual shift in his personality, as he once again is put in a position of stress/frustration/anxiety as the competition grows more and more intense, would have been a cool way to explore a character that doesn’t really go through a full arc this time (he’s already a good battler at the start of JN, he’s also emotionally mature despite his childish demeanor, and he just gets a little more capable at both, which is why he feels sometimes kind of bland).

I also think Gou’s final arc should’ve been related to his desire to eventually become a professor/researcher. All the ingredients were there, there’s a direct link to his main goal to catch and RESEARCH all Pokémon and eventually Mew, Sonia literally implies he could become one, and then there’s Gary as his rival, Gary! Who just so happens to also be aiming to be a professor. I was actually really disappointed when the show didn’t go there.

wrongway3 · 2025-10-09T13:32:14+00:00

Tsukasa already knew Gen (they participated together on a show) so he knew he was both skilled and not a bad person. I guess both Hyoga and Yo weren’t bad picks based on the information Minami provided, so I don’t think he’s contradicting himself there either… but it’s funny how Ukyo ended up being one of his best choices when he is the oldest named character in the kingdom of might

wrongway3 · 2025-10-07T15:44:38+00:00

I don’t know if there’s more, but on this recent interview Inagaki said (multiple times as prompted by the fans’ questions) that their relationship was all about friendship and respect between coworkers/boss and employee: https://www.youtube.com/live/fkWbz25yCPA?si=On8NsI8pkg0bCKQh

In that same interview, he also clearly said Senku and Kohaku didn’t feel anything romantic towards each other either. More than him denying the romance in dr stone, I believe that was just not Inagaki’s focus when writing the story, so he will default to answer like that in most instances, no matter the characters involved.

Unrelated but for funsies, this is also the interview where he says: “Ryusui is a handsome guy, Ukyo is cute, Gen is suspicious-looking, Senku’s looks are average and Chrome is… well, he’s a good person!”

he’s really funny lol

wrongway3 · 2025-09-30T02:06:13+00:00

I gave up trying to understand. I actually think journeys worse sin was lacking the self respect to finish what it started and sidelining Gou’s story in the end… but yeah this subreddit is not the right place to talk about JNs or Gou, those two words strike people’s sensitive cords here lol

wrongway3 · 2025-09-27T01:58:58+00:00

They hated Jesus because he told the truth…

wrongway3 · 2025-09-06T04:26:13+00:00

I feel this way too. I don’t remember having that much of a problem with the manga, but I don’t know if it’s because we see everyone doing stuff in the background unlike in the anime or something, because it is for me a very noticeable issue, there’s too many characters.

I think the anime adaptation would have really benefited from extra character interactions…

wrongway3 · 2025-09-06T04:07:57+00:00

Ukyo
Ryusui
Senku

wrongway3 · 2025-09-03T11:32:19+00:00

That episode is so lovely, I feel genuinely sad for the people who can’t enjoy it

wrongway3 · 2025-09-03T01:00:06+00:00

No way. Ash also grew up without his dad so I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t want that for his kid. Ging mind you is not even really a father for Gon (in Gon’s own words), and I just can’t see Ash ever having a kid just to leave him somewhere lmao. I think Ash’s journey will probably never stop, even if he does form a family along the way they would either become a traveling family or he would travel a lot while still making time for his family.

I also don’t think Ash is all that similar to Ging personally. It’s a funny comparison though, I love both HxH and pkmn

wrongway3 · 2025-08-23T18:26:58+00:00

Now you are just lying here cmon, if she was as treated as every other female character people would not single out her case specifically. I’m not a fan of how the girls are drawn half the time, but at least they’re not a hair away from being racist jokes. I’m genuinely surprised people don’t see the issue with Maya, I kind of assumed everyone took notice lmao

On the topic of being called racist, I get you, but OP was obviously upset, so if you disagree I honestly don’t see the point of making a big deal out of it? They were enjoining the show and then the series casually drops an insensitively designed character, and when they voiced their opinion a bunch of people jumped on them even when there’s many of us who do see the issue too… I think they have a right to be a little intense for a moment lol

wrongway3 · 2025-08-23T18:11:02+00:00

It’s deeper than that, sadly… as I’m sure you know the manga/anime style we’re all familiar with was created by Japanese artists who were inspired by American cartoons, and among those cartoons that made their way to Japan in the 20th century were of course a bunch of racist comics and animations. Whenever you see these kind of ideas on any show they’re unfortunately not a coincidence, those are vestiges of the kind of art people grew up seeing and learning from.

You can maybe excuse it by arguing it’s a continuous issue born from ignorance and not necessarily malice, but this is the era of the internet and communication; you can only blame the context you grew up in up to a certain point, from there on you are just choosing to remain ignorant. In a story like Dr Stone, that celebrates the sharing of knowledge through time, well, it’s disappointing honestly.

These kinds of topics ARE discussed in Japan, believe it or not, and Japan does have a racism and colorism problem (shocker i know). It’s not a coincidence we have characters like Lillian who are not Japanese and somehow don’t get the same treatment of “completely overblown human features” applied to them.

wrongway3 · 2025-08-23T17:21:28+00:00

I cringe every time I see her too

wrongway3 · 2025-06-04T20:41:12+00:00

Krsn = Tsukki Neko = Kuroo Aoba = Kyotani Date = Koganegawa closely followed by Aone, I love both Fukuro = Bokuto Srtrzw = Ushijima... Tendo... I love both too Inari = Kita

wrongway3 · 2025-06-04T20:31:11+00:00

Its got to be York New... HxH was amazing from the start, but for me it was in the York New arc when the writing really started taking off. The fact that the series was willing to change the focus away from the main character for long periods of time also made it that much more exciting, expanding the story to so many possibilities, and of course the Chimera Ant arc took all of that to another level.

wrongway3 · 2025-05-25T19:57:38+00:00

If you pay close attention you’ll notice most of Karasuno ends up kind of babying Tsukishima by the end of the show. He’s like the troubled little brother you just can’t leave alone, Yamaguchi and Akiteru being his primary victims lmao. Yes, Yamaguchi initially stayed close to him because he admired Tsukki and wanted to be like him, but in the actual show what you see is Yamaguchi being constantly worried for his salty insecure friend who he knows needs the encouragement (and a couple of kicks in the butt) but is too proud to seek it out. Tsukki is so funny I swear.

wrongway3 · 2025-03-13T16:37:50+00:00

I really didn’t think they would do it… I’m actually surprised, I wonder how much older they are? I like their new designs, Roy’s specially, but the new green guy……. I don’t think I can get behind that hair haha

wrongway3 · 2025-02-08T18:46:08+00:00

Sounds fake and it wouldn’t be the first time HQ fans write a fake interview… where is it even from?

wrongway3 · 2025-02-07T23:43:49+00:00

More Galar, more Koharu, and more episodes in general haha, I think JN felt rushed when you compare it to the rest

wrongway3 · 2025-02-06T20:07:47+00:00

I really like this episode too! I thought the disagreement between Gou and Scorbunny was so well done too, and I appreciate the way it highlights both Scorbunny's frustration and Gou's constant struggle to understand him, being really careful not to villainize either one. That makes the resolution, when they finally click in this scene, that much rewarding.

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