Volume 25

The suits worn during space launches aren't just the well-known EVA ones-they're actually pressurized.

I realized the pressurized suits used by Senku and his fellow astronauts had to serve several purposes. First, they needed to minimize damage in case of an accident while the astronauts were petrified. The suits would potentially need to keep every stone fragment contained to reassemble later. Having them made out of hard metal lets them be filled with water while the astronauts are petrified.

Once the astronauts are revived, it would be a disaster if any broken fragments were to float off in zero gravity inside the ship. To prevent that, the suits are equipped with a vacuum-like feature to suck up fragments and keep everything contained.

After considering all of that, I decided to make the suits an homage to Robby the Robot from 1956's Forbidden Planet. I'm sure that Senku or Xeno would appreciate that, right? And so, the design came to be. I love coming up with these sorts of designs, ideas, and homages in the course of working on Dr. Stone chapters.

I snapped this great pic of the lunar eclipse with my phone! It looked so small in the night sky, though...

If the Earth were a basketball, the moon would be a tennis ball, sizewise. And in this analogy, the moon is as far away as you'd need to throw the basketball Earth to make a three-pointer.

Farther than you might think, right?

That's where Senku and the gang are hoping to get to!