What do y’all think about science anime (eg. Cells at Work, Dr Stone)?
I watched and really enjoyed the first season of Cells at Work and like the premise of Dr Stone. I also love biology so I’m definitely biased lol, but what do y’all think?
I liked cells at work at first, but weirdly it felt too heavily educational for me. Having studied biology I knew most of the stuff anyway. Feels like a great way of learning about the workings of the body while being entertained though. Cute but not entirely my cup of tea in the end
I liked Cells at work I didn't liked Dr. Stone and this are the only two I know as a science anime so If I would find more animes like Cells at work than I would watch them
Didn't like Cells at Work. Mostly because it's high-school levels of anatomy and physiology. It's fine for kids (although to be fair, even my graduate-level courses never talked about the primary cilium, and I learned about it by double-checking the show's depiction of neutrophils).
Dr. Stone I liked much more. It captured the feeling of science, even when it's generous with the capabilities of refining with primitive tools (e.g. getting access to pure ores is the only way to do anything they do in the show).
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Moyasimon: Tales of Agriculture. It is far more accurate to the science, is reasonably educational, and captures freshman-level college-life very well. I especially love how it will occasionally ditch tropes (e.g. the main character freaks out at the sexy dressed lady in the lab.... because she is swarming with ,microorganisms from not wearing PPE).
On the other hand, most other science in anime is complete and utter garbage. The rule of cool does not work with science; you have to be a crazy old guy with tenure to ever get the expertise to do dramatic things (like the guy who proved H. pylori caused ulcers by drinking a culture of it or the dude who invented PCR from an acid trip). Even then, science is littered with the bodies of people who did such things (the guy who discovered methylene blue, the Curies, the victim of the Devil's Core).
Most science in anime is some dude just hearing a cool word in english and using it in the vague way.
Dr. Stone is science? Honestly, I tried it because I thought it was going to be sciency and then it wasn't and honestly quite boring. I dropped it quickly.
I really enjoy these science anime that show our heroes creating and progressing on inventions slowly as part of the story.
Another one that doesn't really focus on science, but does involve science is Ascendance of a Bookworm. Where our protagonist Myne gets isekai'd to a medieval fantasy world and makes it her life goal to bring books to the masses cause she loves to read. We see her invent paper, ink as well as other modern conveniences like shampoo, that kind of stuff. It's more low key than most science anime, but our hero is not a genius like most others are.
I like Dr Stone’s premise a lot. I am hoping the second half of the season continues the energy of the first! It takes some artistic liberties but that’s fine by me. The manga was really enjoyable, if you don’t want to wait until October I highly recommend it!
Steins;Gate was great too. I liked their use of chaos theory. Also at least 2 of the top 10 saddest anime deaths.
I haven’t seen Cells at Work but I’ve heard it’s good.
I dropped Dr. Stone pretty quickly because the anthropological science was grating. It came about the same time I started reading Graeber & Wengrow's book The Dawn of Everything which laid out evidence of significantly advanced political development and cultures tens of thousands of years ago.
So the main character's plan to rebuild civilisation from tech first seemed pretty bad.
Then again, this is down to personal preferences. I prefer my post-apocalyptic sci-fi to be either quiet and contemplative like Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, or witty dismembering of humanity and tech like Humanity has Declined.
I like Cells at Work though. My biology background seeping through.
As a marine biology buff, I really enjoyed The Aquatope on White Sand. Yeah, there's a bit of a fantasy element to it, but the day-to-day running of the different aquariums rang true.
Cells at work Code Black literally got me reading manga again. I loved it, I liked cells at work, and was curious to keep reading the cells at work series. Something about that science mix got me hooked as I thought it was a refreshing and unique way to tell a story
@barnyard_noise hmm does the hero is op but... count? I learned a lot: like if you yell loud enough you can nuke a slime. And I learned that humans canto fly. In BASTAAAARD!!! I learned the deaper the voice the more scantly clad women are atracted to you, that you can survive falls from space, nuke entire towns with the literal wave of a hand, but only ever other day because it's a level 20 spell. Fists of the North Star taught me that with a high pitched squeal my legs can do mach 20.
lol surely that's all scientifically correct right? :P
Yeah it's a slice of life scifi show about android robots indistinguishable from humans, and does a dive into philosophical and societal implications of it. Gets into ai rights, demotivation due to automation, robot x human relationships, etc. It's very good. I'd highly recommend it.
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