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Episode Dr. Stone - Episode 16 discussion Spoiler

Dr. Stone, episode 16

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u/MillenniumKing x2myanimelist.net/profile/MillenniumKing Oct 18 '19

We Space Brothers now!

The 100th tale is Ishigami Senku?

PAPA SENKU~

Papa Senku wanted to be an astronaut? So Senku decided to goto space for his dad? Aw.

Its great to see George again too back when they were kids.

HAHHAHAHA So Senku made a suit to help his dad swim? Thats amazing xD

Dad Papa Senku passed the test! Thats awesome! I love how hes telling Jaxa about Senku too haha.

HIS DADS NAME IS BYAKUYA!?

So was he in space when the light happened?

That Diva looks just like Jane and Sis.

Connie looks like the Monkey and the blond boy looks like Kinro Ginro. So all these people are the ancestors of the village huh?

THIS ENGLISH! WOW WEE! A+!

Senku was up to date on the birddemic before the light huh?

Papa Senku was like a Papa for everyone on board. Hes a pretty great guy.

So a giant ball was also outside the planet before the stonning? Like something hit the earth? And yep the Astros were out of range...

Papa Senku wanted to go back to save humanity huh? the last 6 people....sooo they gonna start a new colony?

So if this was right when it happens then that village is very old huh? Im curious how it survived for all these years.

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u/megamisch Oct 18 '19

Ya, the village being ~3700 years is absolutely the biggest suspension of disbelief I have with this story. Still love it to all hell though.

But just considering how fast new languages appear in our history (old english ended around 1150 and middle english only lasted until about 1470).

Then there is the considration of new religions (Just looking at Christianity, the great schism occured between Orthodox Catholicism and Roman Catholicism at around 1054 and then the Protestant Reformation happened "shortly" after around 1500)

Just looking at how fast cultures change and given that Ishigami Village doesn't have any writing system it can be considered a miracle that they still speak anything even close to modern japanese (which itself is very young and has changed drastically over the last 1000 years).

Realistically we should expect the village to have under gone massive changes in both language and in the stories they tell. Looking at how fables change with time and new ones replace old ones there is no way there wouldn't be a change similar at least in scope to how Odin used to be called Wotan. Little changes like that would chip away at the 100 stories until they were unrecognizable. 3700 years is way to massive a time scale for human knowledge to pass unchanged.

Still, as far as it's unbelievable it still makes Dr Stone a fantastically entertaining story. :)

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u/NotGloomp Oct 18 '19

The priestess has to memorize the 100 stories verbatim. It's not like passed down folk tales.

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u/Veeron Oct 18 '19

"Verbatim" isn't that foolproof over long time periods. The words themselves change in both pronunciation and meaning over time.