Senku Ishigami
Senku Ishigami is a male anime and manga character who features in Dr. Stone.
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Biography
Senku Ishigami (Japanese: 石いし神がみ千せん空くう, Hepburn: Ishigami Senkū) was a Japanese male human born in the modern age who came to be adopted by Byakuya Ishigami who was the best friend of one of his biological parents. Senku was adopted by Byakuya Ishigami. One of his birth parents was allegedly Byakuya's best friend, but the circumstances that led to the adoption are unknown. During Senku's childhood, he always had an interest in science ever since he dreamed about going into space in first grade. Ever since that moment, he had fallen in love with science and started fighting for his dream by reading many books and trying many different experiments and inventions. Overtime, with the help of his adoptive-father, Senku would gain the means he needed. Senku would later befriend Taiju and Yuzuriha, where their friendship becomes unparalleled as they assisted with Senku's experiments. Part of their experiments involved deploying light objects into orbit with a self-made rocket. The handicrafts club member, Yuzuriha, made knitted stuffed toys of herself, Senku, and Taiju. The rocket did not make it all the ways to outer space, but it shot the stuffed toys out into space. To help Byakuya pass the swimming exam of the JAXA Astronaut Program, Senku built a special swimsuit. When he was 10 years old, Senku and Taiju conducted more experiments but failed. Senku then realized he needed professional help, so he sent an email to NASA and told him of his exploits. A scientist called Dr. Xeno replied and tells Senku what he would need to conduct his experiment. Senku and Taiju are stunned by the price and Senku decides to get the money. Senku flew out to America and met with his father who is overjoyed to see him again but becomes disappointed when it turns out that Senku takes his credit card and flies back to Japan. Senku then buys his item and starts experimenting. Sometime later, an older Senku decided that he has a lot to learn. To that end, Senku decides to travelled to Africa to learn about ebola while Taiju is shocked by his action. During his time there, Senku ate lion meat. Senku later visited his father at NASA, where he admired a monument of a ship before being approached by Xeno who silently stood next to him, both obviously knowing each other. An excited Byakuya greets his son and ask why he seems spaced out, as Senku watches Xeno walking away and Senku tells his father nothing. Prior to the petrification, Senku watched a televised report of Byakuya on his phone. He was amused when Byakuya told him on the live interview that he was going to bring him back space souvenirs. This would be the last time Senku ever saw his father.
At school, Senku was present in the lab when Taiju declared that he was going to confess to Yuzuriha. Senku offered Taiju a 'potion' he proclaims will give Taiju a ten billion percent chance of success. Taiju refuses it, saying he wants to confess and receive a genuine answer from Yuzuriha. Senku then reveals to the other classmate that the potion was actually made of gasoline and would kill Taiju if he drank it. However, he was ten billion percent sure that Taiju would have refused it. When his classmates begin making bets on how Yuzuriha will react to Taiju's confession, with all of them believing she will reject him, Senku bets ten thousand yen that Yuzuriha has feelings for Taiju as well. Afterwards, the Petrification takes place and Senku, along with everyone else, is turned to stone. While petrified, Senku, who was still conscious, began to count the time of his petrification. Senku also planned to keep track of the season, so he could possibly revive before winter. At some point, his statue wound up in a cave, where the droplets freed him from his stone. Upon reviving, Senku has counted up to 117,354,893,870 seconds, meaning that he's been petrified for 3719 years and 249 days. Senku emerged on April 1, 5738, Stone Day. Senku marked the day on a tree outside the cave. Freed from his petrification, Senku begins to plan and build towards sustaining himself. After creating clothing and a makeshift house, Senku realized that he would need help in his ventures. That's when he came upon a petrified Taiju and decided to find a way to depetrify people. He tries theorizing what caused the initial petrification, choosing between an alien invasion, a human mistake or a new strain of virus. He concludes that the petrification targets only swallows and humans and that there has to be some logic behind it, no matter how much it resembles fiction. He then goes on to discuss how the revival works - pondering over whether he revived by his body being shifted into a cellular form since the petrified statues are completely made of stone, and whether the degraded surface of his body has to repair itself. He comes to a realization that since only the surface part of the statues degrades, it was the only part that turns into a stone shell and doesn't turn to a cellular form. He goes back to the spot where he was depetrified and discovers that nitric acid was the cause of his depetrification. Thus, he begins to test his theory out by applying nitric acid on petrified birds and Taiju, but to no avail. Senku states that the brain uses 400 calories a day to stay alive, which means something in the stone must have fueled enough energy for him to think for over 3700 years. He surmises that adding alcohol, which comprises of ethanol, will turn nitric acid into nital and might help with the depetrification. However, he did not have any alcohol and didn't have the means to obtain it, thus he came to a dead end. Knowing that Taiju might revive soon, he carved a message on the tree Yuzuriha was at and tells him to meet him. It was then that Taiju depetrified on his own and met up with Senku. With Senku as the brain and Taiju as the brawn, they began to work together in order to survive and find a way to depetrify other people. That is when Taiju comes upon some wild grapes in the forest and suggests the idea of creating alcohol through the wild grapes. After creating alcohol using the wild grapes, Senku was ready to test out his theory on nitric acid and ethanol by testing it out on the petrified birds. To their surprise, nital is the Revival Fluid that can depetrify people. Thus, they finally came up with the formula of depetrification. And being the one who found the wild grapes, Taiju decides that the first person they should de-petrify was Yuzuriha.
As they attempt to depetrify Yuzuriha, they are attacked by lions and are forced to free the petrified Tsukasa, the strongest primate high-schooler. Upon being freed, Tsukasa displays his unbelievable level of adaptation and strength when he quickly understands the situation and proceeds to kill the leader of the lions with a single punch. Freed from danger and having run out of nital, they all return to their hideout with a petrified Yuzuriha. While at their hideout, Senku begins to talk about his plans to revive humanity to the modern age through the four uses of calcium carbonate in seashells. But as Tsukasa begins to show displeasure about Senku's plan of reviving modern humanity, Senku decides to only reveal three of its uses, which are agriculture, architecture, and medicine. On their way to procure sea shells, Senku gradually begins to notice Tsukasa's desire to maintain the status quo as he destroys petrified statues of old people and suspects that Tsukasa will betray them. For precaution, Senku sends Tsukasa to procure more nitric acid as a ploy to buy them time on what to do. With Tsukasa leaving, Senku quickly tells Taiju to free Yuzuriha with the nital he procures. Afterwards, he explains to Taiju and the depetrified Yuzuriha that they only have two choices: either stand and fight Tsukasa or run. But before they can decide, they are stopped by Tsukasa, who intends to preserve a primitive world. Tsukasa believes that it would be better for humanity if the world remains primitive where nobody owns anything and everything is free for grabs. With his intentions clear, Tsukasa begins to attack Senku and the others in an attempt to force them to surrender. But with no idea what the formula for depetrification is, Tsukasa decides to retreat in order to give them time to surrender.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Senku Ishigami scrawny and physically weak young human man of average height with pale skin. He has white hair that fades to green towards the ends, spiking up naturally into soft tips. Two locks of hair drape over his face. He has sharp red eyes, slim eyebrows, a small nose, and a mouth that tends to curl into an evil grin.
He had said that he was a technology kid that was excited by mecha, space and Doraemon.
Senku claimed that he would save all of humanity without exception through the power of science.
Senku regularly bends the rules, withholds information, and manipulates others to get what he wants. He often acts as if he builds inventions and uses people for his own interest, while actually creating for the betterment of others. Beneath Senku's outward arrogance and manipulative actions lies a genuinely selfless and kind heart. During their decisive battle, Tsukasa notes that despite Senku's apparent cold rationale, his greatest weakness is his inability to abandon his friends, having witnessed his kindness firsthand with Yuzuriha taken hostage.
Powers and abilities
While Senku lacks in physical ability, he more than makes up for with his determination and persistence.
Though arrogant and eccentric, Senku seems to have a good understanding of people and how they think. He uses his many creations to charm those who were suspicious of him.
A prodigy, he excelled in multiple fields of science with a special love of astronomy and space exploration. He possessed an encyclopaedic knowledge of scientific knowledge with him being well versed in chemistry, physics, engineering, geology, biology and mathematics.
As a child, he designed and built a functioning miniature rocket ship, alongside many other advanced and experimental machines.
In the Stone World, he came to be responsible for creating the state known as the Kingdom of Science (科学の王国 Kagaku no Ōkoku). With it, he looked to restore human civilisation through the use of science.
Notes
- Senku Ishigami was created by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi where he featured in the setting of the Dr. Stone universe.
In other media
Television
Appearances
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