History Heartwarming / DrStone

--> ''He wants everyone to be in the spotlight, and to own the glory that he spreads to them''.
* In Chapter 115, [[spoiler:Senku's group recovers the "treasure chest" that Byakuya had left for them, including a significant amount of platinum grains that he collected over the rest of his lifetime. When Senku reiterates that he wasn't blood-related to Byakuya, Suika says "So what? Wasn't he still your father?". Senku agrees with her by revealing that he knows the circumstances that brought them together (he was apparently Byakuya's best friend's son), but never pressed for further details because it didn't matter to him; they were family. Gen and Soyuz smile in agreement.]]

* In a meta sort of way, Senku's great appreciation for crafts and artisanship are very heartwarming. In a lot of series you might expect an intelligent, scientifically minded person like Senku to be dismissive of handcrafts and art and music. However, Senku ''thrives'' on them. Not only does he see the science in everything, he appreciates everything that science has helped make and which makes science possible. Art, music, clothing, food, glassware, and even more. Senku doesn't look down on any discipline nor the people who practice them. Because science and creativity simply go hand in hand to him.

** Despite being enemies with the Kingdom of Science, Hyoga ultimately decides to side with them because joining Moz would imply having to kill the group [[VillainRespect despite having respect for each of their individual talents]] and because, unlike Hyoga's goal to have a world full of the strongest and most talented people, Moz only wants to have a personal harem. This is sweet considering [[EqualOpportunityEvil how respectful he is to Homura and Nikki as his equals]].

* How they get Nikki to join them. At first Senku and Gen try to trick her by using a Lilian Weinberg impersonation, but they don't fool her since she is a big fangirl of Lilian. It's only when they play Lilian's last record on Earth that she is moved to tears and starts to have an honest conversation with Senku. He admits that Lilian is already gone, but he will do everything in his power to keep her last song. She even agrees to help coach Gen into talking more like Lilian to convince other members of the tribe.
** Nikki recalls that Lilian's songs helped her during her teens. As a big girl who often was picked on by bullies and got into fights, her only happy moments were whenever she could listen to a Lilian song, to the point she often says that Lilian Weinberg saved her life.
* Ukyo at first seems to have a hidden agenda by deliberately trying to catch Chrome without killing him, lying to Tsukasa about how he got him, and even helping him escape prison. It turns out that he already figured out that Senku and Yuzuriha were trying to revive everyone under Tsukasa's nose, even the statues Tsukasa broke. Ukyo agrees to help Senku's side as long as nobody dies, to the point he even cries a little, remembering that he used to work for the military to help save people and now he has the chance to do it again.

* A small moment when Yuzuriha is making clothing from cloth for the first time in the stone world. Kinro and Ginro are shocked by her going into a berserker mode over her craft, but Taiju cheerfully tells them she always gets like that when she’s passionate about a project. It’s a subtle moment that shows how Taiju loves and accepts Yuzuriha for all of her.
* Gen gives Chrome a major PetTheDog moment, when he uses Sleight of Hand to have Chrome win the lottery so he can go up in the first Hot-Air Balloon built by the Kingdom of Science. Once in the air, Chrome cries with joy and declares that he wants to see the entire world.

** Much later, Taiju reveals what motivates his seemingly-limitless stamina in plowing his wheat field - he was orphaned from a young age and keenly felt the loss of his parents, and while there is nothing he can ever do to bring them back, witnessing the reformed thug's reunion with his petrified father strengthened his determination to plant enough crops to feed everyone, so that no-one else would also have to experience the same heartache of losing their parents ever again.

* After the titular BattleOfWits between [[TheSocialExpert Gen]] and [[TheStarscream Mozu]] in chapter 123, Gen turns into a NervousWreck immediately after Mozu leaves, something perfectly understandable as Mozu could have easily [[BloodKnight killed him and the entirety of his party]] if Gen failed and negotiations had gone south. Senku, Suika, Chrome and the rest of the party offer Gen a collective SmackOnTheBack for saving their lives. Beats a GroupHug any day.
* Hyoga realizing that he ''trusts'' Senku and his friends to come through for him and find a way to properly adjust his simple spear back into his [[InfinityPlusOneSword ultimate weapon]] in chapter 132. Even [[HeroKiller he]] is surprised by that fact and starts having a GoodFeelsGood moment.
** And then he kicks Moz's butt and delivers a ReasonYouSuckSpeech to him, praising humanity's tendency to create something, and inheriting it to the next generation in order to hone it, polish it and perfect it. Yes, you read correctly, '''Hyoga''' the previous BigBad, the SocialDarwinist, is now delivering a PatrickStewartSpeech.

* Chapter 171: Senku and Dr. Xeno hold a joint conference, where they trade notes on the petrification wave, in order to find the exact location of its origin, with Chrome joining in. Despite Xeno having, not so long ago, ordered Senku killed by Stanley, there seems to be nary any hard feelings between them. In fact, several panels show that Senku is having the time of his life doing legitimate science with his mentor.
* Chapter 174: Gen offers Dr. Xeno a knife and asks if he wants to help too. Dr. Xeno questions this and asks why he would give a prisoner a weapon, however Gen is convinced that Xeno would never "taint science with lies" to which Xeno turns his face away with a genuine smile.

* How they get Nikki to join them. At first Senku and Gen try to trick her by using a Lilian Weinberg impersonation, but they don't fool her since she is a big fangirl of Lilian. It's only when they play Lilian's last record on earth that she is moved to tears and starts to have an honest conversation with Senku. He admits that Lilian is already gone, but he will do everything in his power to keep her last song. She even agrees to help coach Gen into talking more like Lilian to convince other members of the tribe.

* Chapter 232.1: This bonus chapter features a good chunk of the main cast getting into a plane crash and having to petrify themselves to survive. Senku is the first to revive out at sea(having the foresight to throw revival fluid in the air) and the first person he finds and revives is Kohaku. ShipTease abounds as she immediately glomps him and teases him over the fact that it would have been more logical to leave her petrified to keep her alive.

* After the battle for the source of nitric acid concludes in a stalemate, Senku proposes a cease-fire to Tsukasa. His leverage? He figured that Tsukasa wasn't the sort of person who cared about material things, which ran counter to his pre-petrification persona as a teenage celebrity who made tons of money winning prize fights. Therefore, all that money had to be for someone else's sake, and sure enough he had a little sister [[IllGirl who had been declared brain-dead]] and kept on life support for years. However, thanks to what Senku knows about the restoration process, he surmises that she could be healed by releasing her from her statue, which he offers to do in exchange for peace.

* While the scene itself is extremely tense in context, the fact that Senku and Tsukasa seem to genuinely think they could have been friends if they met earlier in their lives is somewhat touching. In particular, the flashback to Senku's rocket experiment shows a Tsukasa doll alongside the Senku, Taiju, and Yuzuriha dolls.