A nice start to the final season of Dr. Stone. This cour was very very nice it concluded on a very satisfying part which really makes you want to continue watching the next few parts personally since the first episode I found it to be quite fast which did impact my understanding of the characters a little bit as it felt like everything was going a bit fast and not leaving a lot of space for developing some of the characters shown for the first time in this season. For the content in itself I found it very fun to watch weekbyweek perhaps because this arc is wellwritten in the manga but I think that they adapted it nicely in the anime some of the flashbacks we got on top of the new developments between the characters made it a blast to watch especially compared to some of the older seasons which dragged on for a little bit too long such as the second part of season 3. Now for some of the bad parts sometimes they rushed over a lot of the things that were happening to get to a better part of the arc this in itself would be fine but I think they couldve handled the earlier episodes a lot better in terms of showing how the characters felt about certain events also sometimes the animation quality would drop this isnt VEEERY noticeable except for a few episodes but it did feel jarring sometimes. The second part of the anime also felt a little bit rushed in a way that its in your face a lot sometimes youre just watching and suddenly everything is highstakes out of nowhere but that can be excused because of how fast the pace was overall. In the end this seasons shaping up to be very storybased this doesnt mean that it wont have its action moments this is Dr. STONE after all but it feels like theyre trying to wrap things up neatly and fill in a lot of the holes left in the story as is the function of a final season lol. Compared to some of the past seasons I enjoyed this one a lot more than the last one it felt written way better had way more action parts the character interactions were fun the arc is engaging and really makes you want to keep watching binging this season might become something I do in the future later. To finalize This season feels like the essence of Dr. STONE it doesnt take itself TOO seriously focuses on Senkus development while also giving the rest of the guys like Chrome and the others a chance to shine which I found fun to see aswell as being action packed to the brim with content. truly a 9.5/10 Season in my eyes.