New Delhi: Dr. STONE is a popular Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inigaki and illustrated by the South Korean artist Boichi. Its serialization began in March 2017 to March 2022. The chapters have been compiled into 27 volumes so far, as the story follows Senku Ishigami, a scientific genius who plans to rebuild civilization after humanity was mysteriously petrified for 3,700 years.
An anime television series adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment aired on Tokyo MX from July to December 2019. A second season, titled Dr. Stone: Stone Wars, aired from January to March 2021. A television special that takes place between the second and third seasons, titled Dr. Stone: Ryusui, aired in July 2022.
A third season, titled Dr. Stone: New World, aired for two split courses, the first one from April to June 2023, and the second from October to December 2023.
After earning massive love and attention for its incredible plot of science and fiction mixed with comedy, the anime is soon to release its 4th season in the oncoming winter of 2025 and will run in three split courses.
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Plot
In 2019, a mysterious flash suddenly petrifies ostensibly all humans. Therefore, The human race is frozen in stone for 3,700 years until in a twist of fate in the month of April 5738, when 16-year-old prodigy Senku Ishigami is suddenly revived to find himself in a world where all traces of human civilization have been eroded by time, leaving nothing but fragments of what once existed or could have been.
Therefore, Senku sets up a base camp, examining the bodies of the petrified humans, both to find a cause and a cure. Over the next six months, a successful revival of Senku’s friend Taiju Oki, Senku learns their revival was made possible with nitric acid. With this discovery, they are granted, therefore, the power to bring the petrified humans back to life.
Hence, they develop a compound that will allow them to instantly revive others. They begin by reviving a famous high school martial artist named Tsukasa Shishio and their classmate Yuzuriha Ogawa to rebuild civilization with a focus on science.
However, it seems things take a turn for the worse when Tsukara reveals that he doesn’t quite share the same ideologies as Senku does, believing the old world was tainted and should not be restored.
Instead, he desires to establish a new world order based on power and strength, going so far as to destroy any petrified adults he encounters in order to prevent them from interfering with his goals. The anime follows the travels of Senku, as he fulfills small aims to ultimately succeed in bringing a world where science is the utmost focus, into existence.