I am hereby calling fellow fans to participate in the Dr. STONE Original Character Census that we are conducting.
If you have any dcst OCs and wish to participate, please message me ( @mistertalkingmachine ) or @kittypuppet with the following information:
- Name of your character
- Your DCST fandom hangout spot (ie, discord server name, whatsapp group name, etc)
- One or two pictures
- General information (for example: if they are a self insert, role in the stone world, brief backstory if available, other stats, or anything you deem noteworthy)
- Name that you want to be credited as (or anonymous), and an optional link
The census in its current state is hosted in Ao3
I hope this will be interesting to you all, see you soon!
Image converted into an SSTV audio file, put in the air by a small AM transmitter, received by the Senku phone (which is a technologically accurate replica of the phone as shown in season 1, using a vacuum tube from the 1930's), and decoded back into an image.
I had to use the slowest SSTV protocol to make up for the bad sound quality of the phone. Because ultimately it's my laptop's mic picking the sound from the horn speaker, some ambient noise added static to the image.
Here's a couple of other attempts.
Anyway this was gonna be my Kohaku birthday meme for friday which took more tinkering than I was expecting.
Also it turned out the phone was fine, I was just wiring it wrong due to a mistake in my notes (or maybe I did make a weird choice 4 years ago which somehow worked anyway at the time but doesn't anymore).
We are attempting to revive the namesake for a meme on this here Kohaku day, this device has sat idle since 2021 and I'm not sure I'll be able to get it to work today, so we are making a post anyway.
I'll get back to it after work.
Incidentally, at work we have the same controller Xeno uses, it's based on a Futaba T4GRS or a very similar model.
It was especially amusing to see it when I watched the episode last thursday over lunch break (with @kittypuppet of course), right after seeing my coworker fiddling with the exact same device during the morning.
Also yes, those are some Stanley branded allen wrenches in the background in the first image.
This is the machine featured at the end of today's episode, a toy phonograph kit made by the Gakken company of Japan (it seems to be missing one piece of plastic? wonder if it was done so it wouldn't obscure the title).
It uses a candle as sound recording medium, which if you ask me ("an" ecxpert) is ingenious if a bit misguided, this kit is very hard to get to work, which is probably later they made a different, more well known kit that records onto the side of a plastic cup.
Not the first time these kits appear in anime either, long ago I was sent this screenshot showing the Gakken premium gramophone (i have no idea what this series is)
I may not be in this picture posted by @ DisAnimeBeetch on twitter but the Dragos are my own hand crafted ones, commissioned by them back in June or so, and sent across the world.
(Procrastination hits hard and I can't access the actual post anymore, it might have been deleted)
It's really nice to see my work go so far and be enjoyed by people I haven't even met
As I posted long ago, these dragos are unique pieces made with a hand carved wood block I made a few years back
Here's a few of them; though they ordered 45 I ended up sending 50 including misprints and some extras to make up for a bunch of them being the wrong color (blue instead of red as I ran out of ink).
As the new ink mixed with the previous one it produced a whole range of purplish and grey colors which I think was pretty cool
Went all out with the packaging too, check out my pinned post if you want to see how to make that Kingdom of Science stencil
Incidentally, just after I dropped off the package at the post office, I turned around the corner half a block down the street and happened upon a little stand on the sidewalk with a fella selling miscellaneous items including this
For a while I had been hoping to eventually meet a dcst fan willing to sell me something in exchange for dragos. This wasn't quite it, but I'd say it's close enough for the time being, as part of the commission money went to this (pretty much exactly 600 dragos if you are wondering, considering part over total)
And I know it's a counterfeit, but it was pretty cheap. She can stand on the shelf holding a tiny vacuum tube in place of her missing knife.
I'll make my own Kohaku eventually, just like Suika (haven't been procrastinating on it since 2021, I assure you)
Dr. Stone on a half inch CRT, the smallest one ever manufactured (reportedly)
These minuscule black and white CRTs were used in the viewfinders of some Sony camcorders from the late 90's and early 2000's, the whole module usually takes a plain composite video input (in this case I added a 75 ohm resistor to correct the input impedance, and had to do a small repair too)
This year's Kohaku birthday post comes late and as barebones as it's ever been
Got no time or energy this time around as now I work a depressing, corporate job that has me nailed to a spreadsheet for 10 hours every day
If anything, at this time I've been thoughtful about the time when I started this series during the first month of lockdown back in 2020, and I felt myself yearning for the sense of great freedom that she has in the stone world. Now I feel it more than ever
I know her life was probably worse in a million other ways but I don't feel like this is better either
A few weeks ago, @kittypuppet and I spotted this ceramic statue while on a date at the Colchagua museum in Santa Cruz, Chile.
It's him.
The label nearby mentions the Tuncahuan culture, making this piece at least 1500 years old; however I have a good feeling it's mislabeled (as the tag reads "Tuncahuan culture pots").
I doubt there's any relation but the resemblance is interesting.
I actually have an update for this! We did some googling at first and didn't find anything, but after a second deeper search (which totally didn't happen just now) I found out it is very likely mislabeled like we thought!
I didn't find this specific piece, but I *did* find very similar pieces noted to be from the pre-columbian period in Manteño-Huancalvica culture.
In terms of the relevancy for Dr Stone here, I think it's very likely that Boichi drew inspiration from Ancient Andean and Mesoamerican cultures for Treasure Island, but we may never know for sure. Of course, it could also just be coincidence, but I have my own specualtions.
Fantastic work, yes I am not wholly satisfied with the labelling, or the curation of the museum, though I also gotta admit I have high standards for the preservation of historical artifacts; the museum is one of the most rich and highly polished collections in the country.
I guess somebody (or several of us) could try to ask Boichi about that now that he's youtubing again.
A few weeks ago, @kittypuppet and I spotted this ceramic statue while on a date at the Colchagua museum in Santa Cruz, Chile.
It's him.
The label nearby mentions the Tuncahuan culture, making this piece at least 1500 years old; however I have a good feeling it's mislabeled (as the tag reads "Tuncahuan culture pots").
I doubt there's any relation but the resemblance is interesting.
On this day, when celebrating the onion man is what most people indulge on, let's also turn our eyes to the fascinating civilization that is Ishigami village, in this mini post (compared to what I usually do anyway).
Starting with the reason I am doing this in the first place, Stone Day. It is a celebration from Ishigami Village that takes place in January 4th, which happens to be Senku's birthday, likely an easter egg left by Byakuya in the hundred tales.
Unfortunately we weren't shown anything regarding what this celebration involves.
As the manga itself points out, Stone day is significant in several ways, for one, 1/4 is i-shi in japanese, which also means Stone. It is Senku's birthday (and if you've been following me you'll know that the day Senku was born in, January 4th 2004, was the day that Nasa's Spirit rover landed on Mars).
Another tradition is of course the grand bout, which there isn't much left to say about since it was explained in detail in the series, even down to its specific rules
Rule 6 is the only one that wasn't relevant in the series as far as I can tell.
It's been also vaguely implied that there are other fighting tournaments that take place in the village, which makes sense, since why would you keep an open arena just to use it once very 20 years or so?
(Sideways to save vertical space, Suika will pray for your neck)
However it's never explained how this tradition started to begin with; did it exist in treasure island and disappeared after the Ishigami branched off, or did it start with them in the mainland?
The society structure of contemporary treasure island is substantially different, with a number of small villages that are all (at least in theory) managed by a centralized government composed of the master (or "head" much to our amusement) and the prime minister, where most power is held by the master, who also serves as the main religious figure, being the one who largely keeps the hundred tales, which are passed from generation to generation along his lineage.
In Ishigami village things kinda flipped and thus spawned a system that is at least half matriarchal so to speak. Now political power is split between the chief and the priestess, where the chief holds most executive authority while the priestess holds most of the religious power, and it is the lineage of the priestess that keeps the tales and that power in-family, with the chief being some allegedly suited rando from the village.
Even though it's the obligation of the priestess to marry the chief, she is rarely if ever shown as a subordinate to him and both can be seen directing the village, which I think it's very interesting.
The anime went as far as expanding on this, by implying that it was Ruri who told Kokuyo to abdicate his position to Senku.
Sneakily she gets to keep being the priestess without having to be engaged, and we see her taking leading roles from then on.
Now I've talked about religious figures but what is their religion to begin with?
Hard to tell, we know that they believe in multiple gods who control the forces of nature such as lightning.
Similarly it's also been shown that prior to Senku's arrival, they believed themselves to be the only humans on earth, at least some of them believed the earth was flat, and most bizarrely, they believed the moon was something akin to a floating lake, owning to its small apparent size, however that works.
Perhaps they took note of how water tends to form spheres due to surface tension?
This reminds me of how some scientist a few centuries ago (but idr who at this moment) believed the moon to be a solid mass of congealed air.
The last thing I want to bring up is the Ishigami village rope, reportedly made with a special technique that's unique to them.
It is also said that the rope reflects rank and profession somehow, but this is not reflected in any noticeable way on the series itself. Boichi probably hadn't been told about this when he designed all 40 known villagers in the span of one week.
The rope is worn somewhere around the body, and it contains a single red thread spun into it, serving as a symbol of kinship among them.
For now I'll leave it at that, as it's getting pretty late in the day, and pretty much all of this is written on the wiki article to begin with.
Hope you enjoyed it, I'll see you all some other day.
Hello, um.
I hope yall had a pleasant solstice celebration of your choice-
I've been pondering whether what we just saw merits a triva post, but let's try to squeeze some for the sake of completion, shall we?
Check out also my trivia posts for chapters 1D and 2D.
They're the same picture.
It took me way too long to notice what was off in this cover, it seems to be nothing but an aesthetic choice. Other than these off colors, this specific suika melon design first appeared during the Treasure island arc, right after Ryusui punted her off the Perseus.
To directly quote what I wrote at one time on the wiki:
Too bad, the ship Chelsea shows up in is not the Perseus D. Monkey from chapter 214 (which itself is a One Piece reference, as Boichi is a big fan).
Interesting that we get a nearly identical shot, instead of Kohaku standing behind her, it's Ruri and Matsukaze.
This posture done my Matsukaze is called Namaste (with other names such as Namaskar), which is used both as a greeting and as an indication of reverence all over the southern parts of Asia, along with other similar gestures.
I know this is familiar to many myself included but I had never looked into the deeper details until now.
Figurines showing this pose have been excavated from the Indus valley civilization dating to between 2700 and 2100 BCE, making this piece of cultural heritage at least 7800 years old by the time of this panel.
Xeno has clearly had his hand in the architecture of the Japan side of the KoS, with some new constructions resembling his own Evil Disneyland back home.
Hold back yer tears
Kaseki has lived well.
It's hard to tell how old he is now, he lived longer than the timeline's consistency thats for sure, I blame time travel.
At the time Taiju got wed, he was around 70 years old.
Kaseki and Chrome go back way further than the KoS, the fanbook tells us that Kaseki helped Chrome build his shed when he was just a boy.
Feel your heart a bit shakey? hang on there, we now get to talk about whyman's sorrow, and a small observation that I've made
Whyman can have emotions, the circuits that process that can be switched on and off, but the fact that a message can, or needs to be "left" for themselves, as well as his farewell for all eternity, has an interesting implication: once switched off, whyman loses the recollection of any experience they had in the meantime.
These circuits allow whyman to feel, and also to then forget. This is useful, as emotions help them survive, but forgetting prevents the emotional baggage from growing infinitely over a virtually immortal life.
"If we remembered every single parting person, it would only be a few generations before the sorrow would pile up to the point it became unbearable. Maybe it is a blessing to forget.
Forgetting allows us to get even. Forget sorrows as new ones replace them. Life can go on, if tragically. No accumulating loss that would one day make everyone struggle to survive and eventually pass on; though that last thing does also sound very much like today."
(10B points to the ~2 people who know where this quote is from, I digress)
So that's cool, and heartbreaking, but so what, does it connect to anything we've seen before?
Well...
In ch. 232 we see that Whyman does not know what created them.
How could that be, if they can remember things over deep time?
Maybe it is that Whyman chose to forget their creators, and everything they felt about them. Beings that they may even have loved in the deep deep past, and could not cope with yearning for.
The blonde, bangs & ponytail lineage.
The village graveyard. Last time we saw it, Byakuya's gravestone was opened to reveal the glass record.
A lot of recognizable headstones are still up now, some appear to have moved.
Other headstones might be gone or be different... The one with four dots that was there originally can't be seen in this new shot but it can be seen later in the chapter.
Also, I hate to break this to you, but there's more headstones now than there were before.
I counted 45 in the original shot, 50 in the new one, not including any that Chelsea and Senku may be covering. Granted this is likely just an oversight.
(I should mention that in order for them to match bottom to bottom, the top image is flipped horizontally).
(omg look at the babiesss)
What Xeno is telling Chrome is that if whyman went and altered their own past, then what they are seeing currently is the result of that, since whatever changes they made, are in the past after all.
They already happened and they are part of the timeline that leads them to where they are now.
Assuming they actually found Byakuya (or a petrified time traveler) means that either whyman created some sort of causal loop that is self sustaining (ie, the ramifications of the changes in the past include whyman going back to do them in the first place), or more in line with the many worlds hypothesis, that going back to the past and changing it creates a new parallel timeline where the repercussions of that happen, with no effect in the first one.
In the latter case it means the timeline we see now was altered by the whyman from a parallel universe.
The stone axe is a bit dissonant with where they are, technologically speaking, yes?
Thing is, that's the one Senku took to the moon with him.
He's had it since chapter 1.
A few people I've seen mystified about this structure they unearthed at the cementery:
This is a collapsed building just like the structures that the Tsukasa empire occupied.
(shoutout to that guy about to die in the back)
Interestingly, this means that Ishigami Village is established on top of a once urban area.
I am always pumped for any extra bits of village lore I can get.
Did Suika's handwriting trigger your AI generated image senses? it did for me.
We were bamboozled again. If it ends up happening it's gonna be like the tale of the wolf. The moment we stop taking it seriously, Inagaki is gonna smack us across the head with it.
We were actually preparing for the poop on a stick to hit the f.a.a.n on discord.
What do I make about the ending? I don't know, I got no big analysis this time around but I believe it's very likely we'll see more at some point.
