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Episode 28 – Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE
© Kome Studio, Boichi/SHUEISHA, Dr.STONE Project
Even though it’s now well into its eighth and final cour, Dr. Stone still surprises and delights with the sheer range of material it explores. While I’ll always love the show for bringing all kinds of science and engineering concepts into the popular entertainment sphere, I’ve come to appreciate its feel-good mix of loopy humor and heartfelt emotion. Every episode
is a gift for goofy reaction shots, as these colorful characters continually bounce off one another. The show is certainly never boring!
From a science perspective, Senku’s main project this episode is laying the groundwork for building the Stone World’s first computer. With the development of reliable semiconductors at least a decade away, how else can one build a diode, the fundamental unit for building logic gates? Why, with brutal, repetitive grunt work, of course! Wrapping tiny metal donuts in copper wire is good enough to regulate the flow of electrons in an electric circuit, and Senku demonstrates how logic gates perform simple arithmetic automatically. On the surface, it doesn’t seem that impressive for a circuit to be able to add
one to a previous value, but it’s that basic property upon which the most terrifyingly complex supercomputers are built. Now, with production underway on hundreds of thousands of these handmade diode-substitutes, Senku’s well on the way to building a Nintendo Famicom, upon which to play Dragon Quest! (And then, presumably, a supercomputer able to calculate orbital trajectories…)
While we spend most of this week with Senku’s group, we do get to glimpse a little of what Taiju gets up to after returning to Corn City: namely reviving his beloved Yuzuriha, and everyone else. Surprisingly, there’s little conflict between the Kingdom of Science people and Xeno’s military goons, courtesy of a detailed letter from their master. They’re building a moon rocket alliance! In order to maintain communication over long distance for such a complex project, Morse Code isn’t sufficient, so obviously now’s the time to invent the fax machine! (Though it seems that in the modern world, only Japan seems so rigidly attached to this obsolete technology… It seems par for the course for a story by a Japanese author to be so excited over the humble fax.)
The episode’s emotional core arises from the relationship between the overbearing Ryusui and his quieter mathematician brother Sai. Sai has spent most of his childhood, and subsequent adult life fleeing not only his family, but most of all Ryusui. It’s hard not to blame him – the flashbacks we see of child Ryusui show him to be uncontrollably energetic, and vocal about his desire to own everything and gain power. Yet with Sai, it wasn’t so much that he wanted another possession, he wanted a brother. Someone to play with, an intellectual equal. It takes an intervention from both Chelsea (in tone-deaf meddlesome mode) and Gen, plus a quiet moment playing chess together with his brother for Sai to finally accept Ryusui’s invitation to join him on his journey with Senku. The final moment when the ship is about to disembark and we see Ryusui’s expression switch from melancholy resignation to joy is surprisingly powerful. I may have wiped a tear or two away. After last cour‘s lonely Suika storyline, and now Ryusui and Sai’s brotherly reconciliation, I wonder what further emotional terrorism Dr. Stone may have in store for us
before the end?
Rating:
Dr. Stone: Science Future is currently streaming on
Crunchyroll on Thursdays.
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Anime
Monster Strike Franchise Gets New Mera×Death: Shinigami to Boku no Ijō na Koi TV Anime Starting on January 5 – News
MIXI announced on Sunday a new anime in the Monster Strike franchise titled Mera×Death: Shinigami to Boku no Ijō na Koi (Mera×Death: The Unusual Love Between Me and the Grim Reaper), which will debut in Japan on January 5, 2027 on TOKYO MX and 10 other channels, as well as on streaming services.
© MIXI
Kenta Kushitani (episode director for Birdie Wing -Golf Girls’ Story-, Shangri-La Frontier, Kaiju No. 8) is directing the anime at Qzil.la and studio keel. Daisuke Ōhigashi (As a Reincarnated Aristocrat, I’ll Use My Appraisal Skill TV 3, Fate/strange Fake, The Vermillion Mask) is overseeing and writing the series scripts, and Tadashi Sakazaki (Zoids Wild Zero, ZOIDS: Chaotic Century, Zoids/ZERO) is the character designer. Masaru Yokoyama (Arakawa Under the Bridge two seasons, Hana-Kimi, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans), Kana Hashiguchi (Classroom of the Elite, Young Ladies Don’t Play Fighting Games, Botan Kamiina Fully Blossoms When Drunk), and Natsuki Hamada (Always a Catch!, Even Though I’m a Super Timid Noble Girl) are composing the music.
Other staff members include:
Monster Strike: Deadverse Reloaded, the first anime series based on MIXI‘s Monster Strike mobile role-playing game franchise to premiere on broadcast television, debuted in October 2025, and it aired for one cours (quarter of a year) of 10 episodes. Amazon Prime Video added all 10 episodes of the anime in January with English subtitles.
MIXI launched the original game on iOS and Android devices in Japan in 2013, and then launched it in English the next year. However, the English version ended service in 2017. A game debuted on Nintendo 3DS in Japan in 2015.
The first 52-episode net anime season in the franchise, Monster Strike the Animation, premiered in October 2015. (This anime was initially announced for broadcast, but then premiered online.) The first part of the show’s second season premiered in April 2017, and ran until September 2017. The 13-episode second part of the second season, titled Monster Strike the Anime: The Fading Cosmos, premiered in October 2017.
The anime’s third season premiered in July 2018 and ran for 12 episodes. The franchise then ran five episodes in an Arthur spinoff series, seven episodes in a Lucifer spinoff series, and 13 episodes in a Solomon spinoff series (all of which are considered part of the overall third season of the anime). The Arthur Kishiō no Kakusei (Arthur (2nd)) anime premiered in May 2019 and ran for seven episodes, and the Noah Hakobune no Kyūseishu (The Savior of Noah’s Arc) anime premiered in July 2019 and ran for six episodes. Lucifer: The Final Arc (Lucifer Wedding Game) premiered with English subtitles in October 2020 and ran for seven episodes.
The net anime’s final arc, Monster Strike: End of the World, premiered in November 2019 on YouTube.
The Hareruya: Unmei no Sentaku (Hareruya: Fated Choice) anime streamed online in September 2020 on YouTube, Twitter Live, and Abema TV. The anime is the franchise’s first “interactive anime”: viewers were able to choose between two options to decide how the last 10 minutes of the anime would play out.
The first Monster Strike The Movie anime film opened in Japan in December 2016. Crunchyroll began streaming the film in May 2017. The second film in the franchise, Monster Strike The Movie: Sora no Kanata (Beyond the Sky), opened in Japan in October 2018. The Monster Strike the Movie: Lucifer Dawn of Despair (Monster Strike The Movie: Lucifer Zetsubō no Yoake) film opened in November 2020 after delays, and Crunchyroll streamed the film in August 2021.
Source: Press release
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Original manga also celebrates 10th anniversary in March 2027
The “DEVIL’S PARTY! 2” special event for the anime of Osamu Nishi‘s Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun (Mairimashita! Iruma-kun) manga announced in a promotional video on Sunday that the anime’s first film project is launching. The video teases that the film will tell a brand-new story. The video also celebrated the upcoming 10th anniversary of the original manga next year.
©西修 (秋田書店) ／魔入りました！入間くん第4シリーズ製作委員会
©西修 (秋田書店) ／魔入りました！入間くん製作委員会
The story of Mairimashita! Iruma-kun follows Iruma, a kind-hearted 14-year-old boy whose parents sell him to demons for their own selfish interests. However, the demon he is sold to has no grandson of his own, so he dotes on Iruma and sends him to demon school.
The anime’s fourth season premiered on April 4 on NHK Educational at 6:25 p.m. JST. The season ran for two cours (quarters of a year), and ended with its 24th episode on Saturday. The anime streamed in Japan starting on April 6. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, the CIS, and India.
The anime’s third season debuted in October 2022. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and also streamed an English dub.
The second season premiered in April 2021. Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired, and debuted an English dub in June 2021.
The anime’s first season premiered in October 2019 on NHK Educational, and had 23 episodes. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan under the title Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun, and also streamed an English dub.
Nishi launched the manga in Akita Shoten‘s Weekly Shōnen Champion magazine in March 2017.
Sources: Welcome to Demon School, Iruma-kun anime’s website, Mainichi Shimbun’s Mantan Web
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The Mairimashita! Iruma-kun (Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun) special event “Devils Party 2” announced an anime movie project for the franchise on Sunday. The official website also revealed an announcement image (pictured above) and announcement promo.
Produced by Bandai Namco Pictures, the first season aired in 23 episodes in Fall 2019. The second and third seasons ran for 21 episodes in Spring 2021 and Fall 2022, respectively. The 24-episode fourth season premiered on April 4 and concluded on September 26. Crunchyroll simulcast the television anime series with subtitles worldwide, excluding Asia.
A television anime adaptation of the spin-off manga Mairimashita! Iruma-kun: if Episode of Mafia was announced for a January 2027 premiere.
Mairimashita! Iruma-kun adapts Osamu Nishi‘s demon comedy manga, which began serializing in Weekly Shounen Champion in March 2017. Akita Shoten released the 50th volume on September 8. The series has over 20 million cumulative copies of its volumes in circulation.
Kodansha USA licensed the manga in English in July 2022 and published the 21th volume on August 4. The 22th volume is scheduled for an October 6 release.
Announcement
Official site: https://www.nhk-character.com/chara/iruma/
Official X: @nep_irumakun
Source: Moca News
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