Shizzu

Stanley is the only one wearing a tuxedo.

The only other person wearing a tux is Taiju, and it's his wedding.

Why does Stan always need to be dressed one notch more formally than everyone else. Everyone else was in suits/business wear, and he rolls up in his Dress Blues???

Xeno: “I reject emotional attachments. Everything is pure logic, cause, and effect.”

​Stan: *just exists in the same room*

How to take care of your tired knight.

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I will always respect Inagaki for creating and writing the beauty that is DR.STONE. But every time he does an interview, I swear it's like he forgets everything he has written for his characters. He either says stuff that is contradictory or just doesn't make any sense at all. Such as Stanley's lips "just looking like that," like, excuse me? What do you mean his lips are just naturally purple, and it's not lipstick? This makes no sense because we have literally SEEN him as a child, and his lips were not purple.

What makes Stanley such a cool character is not only that he is an incredible fighter, with god-tier sniping skills that he literally caused the second world-wide petrifaction because that was the only way to stop him, but also because of the fact that he wore lipstick! In any other show, he would have been an overly masculine character, but in DR.STONE, he has prominent feminine features! He is a badass with a pretty face, and that just makes him so much cooler!

Also, "Xeno did not tell Stanley about Senku before the petrification" is such a lie. Before Stanley pulled the trigger, he made it a point to ask Xeno if he was 100% sure. Why would he ask that if he didn't know the prior relationship these two had? Sure, Xeno could have told him when he found out the enemy scientists were Senku, but we aren't SHOWN that. It just makes way more sense that Stanley recognized the name BECAUSE Xeno talked about him!

Also, the whole "they are childhood friends but aren't that close" comment is straight-up BS. Over the course of the arc, we are shown time and again how much trust Xeno places in Stanley. He isn't the least bit concerned when he is taken prisoner, cause he TRUSTS Stanley is going to save him. He calls him his "ultimate knight" multiple times! You don't trust someone that much if you aren't close to them. He also has to hide his excitement when they bring up the idea of reviving Stanley, not to mention he made cigarettes (despite hating his smoking habit) to make Stanley happy.

AND WE ALL KNOW HOW MUCH STANLEY CARES FOR XENO. He has never been shown to have a desire to rule the world; he is only doing this FOR XENO. If Xeno wants to be the leader of the new world, he will make it happen. HE chased the Kos to the ends of the earth to get Xeno back. And then proceeded to sacrifice himself so that Xeno could keep pursuing science. And Inagaki wants us to believe they are just "not that close"

(I am not even going to discuss the whole "stan being more into women than Xeno is" because that just gives me a headache)

I like listening to what authors have to say about their stuff, especially as a writer. But it's best when they talk about their intentions and what they were trying to do.

It's not just that I don't like what he says. Miyoshi says many things I like, but I still don't consider that YuuMori canon. I like hearing mostly about the process.

I think I might consider the fanbook canon. Yeah, it contradicts the manga and anime sometimes, but the manga and anime contradict themselves, too, sometimes. I think at the very least to be canon you have to commit it to publicly being media, to be part of the Greater [Specific Media] Universe, rather than just talking about the Greater [Specific Medida] Universe.

And on the topic of how Inagaki answers questions as, should you even listen to him as a Fan...

Inagaki answers questions like, "IDK, this is the vibe I get from it," basically all the time, admits to straight up not remembering a lot of stuff, and, critically, he is not the only creator of the canon.

(Especially regarding Stanley, whom he clearly does not actually find very interesting, and in fact much of whom's character actually came from Boichi anyway)

Everything he says in terms of This Is The Vibe I Get is not really any different than a particularly educated fan, except is even particularly educated when he cannot remember anything in canon. No.

Inagaki is not a character writer. His characters are plot devices at best to push the story he already wanted to tell forward. He has no interest in developing or growing them. That's fine. Dr. STONE, at least, doesn't really require that for the narrative.

But it does mean it's kind of stupid to ask him to have Character Thoughts. He has no Character Thoughts. For more examples, look at all of canon. His character thoughts are all explicitly, "This is the image/vibe I get." Sir???

Inagaki can't read. And is so painfully heterosexual he literally has gay blinders.

And maybe we should all be thankful for the gay blinders, because if he actually realized what was happening, maybe he would have tried to nix stuff.

NGL, he seemed kind of panicked this time, like it finally set in that people really think that, and it never occurred to him and it makes him kind of uncomfortable. Consider: early on, he actually said that Stanley and Xeno didn't really have any other friends friends. And then he was saying actually no they both totally have other friends Stanley makes friends like normal. They're not that close!!!

Sir, you wrote Stanley sacrificing his life and his identity for Xeno. That is meteoric love on a scale rivaling Byakuya's for Senku. Regardless of the tenor of it, you cannot say they are not deeply important to each other, on a personal level, beyond any ambitions or dictatorship. That is personal attachment.