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I love that they stuck Stanley in "aloof."

Yeah, man, he doesn't want to talk to you.

He's not shy. He just doesn't want to talk.

Stanley's good with people! He can communicate well, he's clearly very charismatic, and he has earned the trust everyone's placed in him and uses it well.

He just doesn't wanna hang out and get drinks later.

They only picked five of each out of an absolutely enormous cast, so really this seems the most reclusive of the bunch and the most sociable of the bunch.

(The fact that Stan and Ryusui are on such polar opposite ends of the spectrum here and are also friends remains hilarious)

Stan's primary jobs:

Pilot (alone, although would theoretically sometimes have a copilot, just never in this series)

Sniper (this is actually a team job IRL where people take turns and we do see a "sniper team" in the form of people who have to feed Stanley water, but still. Mostly sneaky quiet time)

A Rock (finally some peace)

Astronaut (sorry this one requires days of unavoidable close-quarters contact with other people with no privacy whatsoever, and one of them is Ryusui)

I haven't read it, although I have heard, of course, good things about it. I remember when it beat out The Goblin Emperor for the Hugo that year (although the Hugos are...what they are) and have read a little bit about the translation of it.

I actually have no idea what the heck it's about, now that I think about it.

That said, most of my sci-fi reading is short stories. A lot of the sci-fi short story writers I like also don't...translate the best to novels, I find. Different skill sets, etc.

I have a few things on my shelf that are more along the lines of "have a sci-fi setting" which really doesn't feel like they would remotely hit the mark here. And a few sci-fi disguised as fantasy, which I quite enjoy, but also doesn't feel like they'd hit the mark. And a few more that I have not read yet.

So I think all I'd really have to offer are anthologies (I really liked the "Year's Best SF" ones when that series was being compiled; one of the editors died and I'm unsure what happened after that) or like. Suuuuper old and kind of obscure that I either grabbed off my dad's shelves growing up, grabbed off a used bookstore growing up, or read in Sci-fi Lit in college quite some time ago now.

Mainly because he says Senku is 19.

But Senku isn't 19. He's 18.

Stan and Xeno have had their 4th birthdays after reviving already, but Senku's birthday is...earlier in the year, but because they revived in April, Senku's 4th birthday after revival hasn't quite happened yet; they're still about two months away.

So...Xeno doesn't know when Senku's birthday is, I guess.

Xeno is still kidnapped when Senku's 19th birthday actually happens, and you know that even their strike team isn't going to let Senku's birthday pass without acknowledgment whatever the situation. So kidnapped Xeno being forced to attend a Senku birthday party is actually hilarious. As a concept.

And that's gotta have been a deeply weird experience. Especially as Xeno did not know exact dates or years when he revived, so now it's time to realize the horrifying method via which the KoS has an accurate calendar, because in this one specific way, Xeno is less insane than Senku.

(I do think Xeno would have been able to cobble one together with knowledge of precession and constellation shifts, but it would have taken him a lot longer and I'm not sure he'd have ever quite gotten exact dates down)

But another detail from Xeno statement of Senkus age is:

Xeno knows how long Senku has been awake.

The series did that whole very cheesy, very emotional very Mirror Foils thing where they were petrified for the exact same amount of time and woke at the exact same date because the stone is worn away primarily by Brain Power and it indicates their intelligence/brain usage. So of course these two woke up first, and together, because they're Equals.

Like, Xeno and Senku don't know that (I think), but Xeno is not unaware of people waking up later. They put up a sign about it.

But Xeno just Knows Senku has been awake at least as long as he has, or really, exactly as long he has.