Dr. STONE (Dr.STONE)

That water is gushing like crazy!

I can't believe how big and bad it is!

It's incredible.

We actually pulled it off.

Our own hydro power plant.

This thing's making electricity for us?

That definitely beats Ginro and Kinro spinning those wheels like madmen.

Yeah, we have Ruri's team to thank.

They've been working themselves to the bone while we've been away.

We're lucky to have their help.

But if this is going to work,

we're going to need a lot more manpower.

And that's exactly why we're about to revive

a crap ton of fresh workers.

Enjoy some maguro sushi.

Eetingsgray.

Hello to the newly revived people of Japan.

You've probably seen me on television,

but hold your applause.

A lot's happened since you were turned to stone.

Allow me to fill you in.

In short, we got our hands on the mysterious device that petrified humanity

then found out Why Man, the creep who sent it, is on the moon.

And now we plan to blast off into space

to stop him before he tries to launch another nefarious attack.

But to do that, we need the materials

to build a rocket, paired with the know how to get it done.

I guess it tracks that they all look super duper dazed.

We just massively increased our population,

so we need a way to get everybody on the same page.

I want entertainment media!

You want what?

Entertainment media?

Ha ha! That's right!

The more people there are in a group,

the harder it is to maintain order.

Conflicting interests are inevitable.

We need unity.

And nothing can bring people together like a solid piece of entertainment!

Really? The power of funsies?

Yes, he's right.

Never underestimate it.

Without a source of joy, life can be unbearable.

When I felt trapped and frustrated,

video games were my escape.

That's just a bonus, not the real angle.

Whoever controls the media, controls the whole world.

Am I wrong?

The old world had television, then the internet,

then a sea of streaming sites!

And now the new world is finally ready to return to that stage of absolute influence!

You two may be brothers, but you clearly couldn't be any more different.

We finished making the big box, but I don't see how this will help.

Television acquired!!

We already had cathode ray tubes from our radar-crafting adventure.

If we give the scan lines vertical motion,

the after image creates a picture.

The first TV receiver was produced in Japan.

It's quite fitting.

History has a way of repeating itself.

Let me at it.

How many channels does this baby have anyway?

Yeah, about that.

Forgot we don't have TV stations in the Stone World.

Nooooo!

I don't buy it. Pretty sure you knew that the whole time you were making it.

Yep, and we're not gonna use it to watch some sitcom.

Then what did you have in mind?

You'll see when our scheduled shipment arrives

from the US of A.

Sai, it's something special I know you've been wanting.

All right!

We built some kind of big machine that's gonna help everyone!

You did real good work, you big oaf.

That's bad!

There are too many wires to even count them all!

I think it has somewhere around 10,000 donuts

and hundreds of thousands of magnets!

Probably.

The CPU, its brain, is 16-bit and runs at 60 kilohertz.

It has 129 memory core units, giving 512 kilobits of memory and a 16-kilobit bank,

which isn't bad for SRAM.

Uh, somehow things only get more confusing when you explain them.

That means it's basically

a Nintendo NES.

Computer acquired!!

Writing programs for it can get ridiculously nasty.

This is called a punch card.

It has holes the computer reads as code.

So that's a video game, not just some holey paper?

From where I'm standing, it's a lame piece of paper.

It's ready!

Already?

It's time.

Execute.

Holy hell!

You actually made a frickin' video game in the Stone World!

Falling block games are simple.

You only need a single line of code

for a limitless supply of joy.

I can crank out a ton of these games in no time flat.

I knew you were the right man for the job.

Of course, I wasn't wrong.

Oh, high score!

I lose.

It's a good program.

The AI is solid.

It's already managed to surpass my human limitations.

A long time ago, there was a chess grandmaster, Kasparov.

He played against an AI called Deep Blue.

Human versus computer, the match of the century.

In the now legendary 36th move, the AI's obvious best option was to attack with its queen.

But it was a trap set by Kasparov,

humanity's best chess player.

The AI hesitated.

Deep Blue was deep in thought.

After that, it moved just a single pawn.

It seemed like a bad move at first,

but it was genius, a move that no one in the world could have thought of, not a human anyway.

In that very moment, science birthed an unknown,

something beyond human comprehension.

Ha ha! I want it!

If something's unknowable and beyond my reach,

I want it more!

Nothing less will do.

The only thing greedier than yours truly is science itself.

It wouldn't settle for anything less than the forbidden power of Why Man's petrification device!

What is that for?

Trying to keep the Medusa minty fresh?

Well, we know these little buggers don't work if they get too weathered

so we're trying to prevent that.

Yo, aren't you worried?

Someone could yell the magic words from outside the case and screw us all over.

That wouldn't work from this distance.

I don't know if that was a good sound.

Right?

We should check and see if something weird's going on.

Where's the key?

You heard that click, didn't you?

Yeah.

What the hell, man?

Nobody said anything.

The hell could this happen?

The damn Medusa fired up all on its own!

That light.

Not again!

But I don't understand how!