Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE is not slowing down. Episodes 25 to 27 push the series deeper into its space-race arc, with Senku and Dr. Xeno turning the Amazon Basin into a giant science playground while the Kingdom of Science prepares for one of its biggest leaps yet.
The big shift here is that Senku and Xeno are finally working together instead of trying to outplay each other. That does not make things any less chaotic. Xeno throws himself into building creepy-looking refinery plants that pump out dangerous gases, while Senku focuses on making explosive-shaped fuel tanks and a petrochemical substitute sourced from, yes, poop. It is peak Dr. STONE, ridiculous on paper but somehow still very fun to watch.
That teamwork leads to a major payoff. The group develops new metal alloys, builds a powerful rocket engine, and upgrades the Perseus into a much more advanced ship. The new version is said to be fast enough to cross the Atlantic in seven days, a massive jump from the forty days the earlier ship needed to cross the Pacific. After that, the crew splits into three groups to keep the larger mission moving.
These episodes also open with a new theme song by Asian Kung-Fu Generation, and the season launched with a same-day English dub. That is good news for fans following the simulcast on Crunchyroll in Malaysia and the rest of SEA. But there is one important catch. According to the review, the English dub still does not properly translate on-screen text, which is a real problem for a series like Dr. STONE where diagrams, labels, and visual explanations matter a lot. For local viewers deciding between dub and sub, the sub may be the safer choice if you do not want to miss key science gags and details.
Episode 26 keeps the crazy momentum going with a stop in Spain, where Senku's team searches for fluorite, an important mineral for advanced technology. In classic Dr. STONE fashion, the visit gets very weird very fast. The crew revives some locals, helps them get settled, serves them seafood with olive oil, and lets Ryusui put on a bullfighting performance. It is random, but in that charming way the series has always handled its stranger moments.
There is also a major logistics breakthrough. A blockage at the Suez Canal gets blasted open using explosives and a guided missile, reopening a huge shortcut for sea travel. That route cuts around 11,000km off the journey to India and saves roughly a year that would otherwise have gone into fuel production and transport. For a show obsessed with rebuilding civilisation step by step, this is one of the biggest progress moments in the arc.
India then becomes the next key destination, because Senku needs a human computer for the calculations required in a space mission. That brings in Sai Nanami, a gifted mathematician and Ryusui's brother. It is a bold late-series addition, but it fits Dr. STONE well, since the series has always loved solving problems by introducing one more specialist into the crew.
Sai's backstory makes him instantly easy to understand. He just wants to code and make games, but his family pressure pushes him in the opposite direction. After waking up in the Stone World without modern technology, he ends up covering walls with machine code. Senku's answer is absolutely unhinged in the best way possible: build a Nintendo Famicom. That punchline gives episode 27 its most memorable moment and turns what could have been a dry math setup into something much more playful.
For Malaysian and SEA anime fans, this run of episodes is a reminder of why Dr. STONE still hits. It moves fast, throws out big science ideas, and mixes them with the kind of nerdy chaos that makes weekly viewing fun. And if you grew up around old-school console culture, the Famicom turn is the kind of wild flex that lands even harder.
Source: Anime News Network