It has been announced that the first season of the fourth and final season of the TV anime series "Dr. Stone," based on the manga serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha), "Dr. Stone Science Future," will begin airing in January 2025. The final season will be split into three seasons.
A super teaser PV for the final season was also released on YouTube. New footage from the first season was used, and while the song "One Small Step" plays, Senku and his friends, who have overcome many difficulties and grown in the Stone World, appear. At the end, Senku shows a strong gaze, with his determination in his heart to save all 7.8 billion people who have been turned to stone.
"Dr. Stone" is written by Inagaki Riichiro, who also wrote "Eyeshield 21," and illustrated by Boichi, who also wrote "San-Ken Rock" and "Origin." It was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" from March 2017 to March 2022. The story is about how a mysterious phenomenon turns all of humanity to stone in an instant, and thousands of years later, a young boy with a superhuman intellect and a natural scientist, Senku Ishigami, awakens and, in a desperate situation, decides to search for his friends and take the world back. Senku uses science to try to build civilization from scratch. The comics have sold over 18 million copies in total.
The first season of the TV anime aired from July to December 2019, the second season from January to March 2021, the TV special "Dr. Stone Ryusui" in July 2022, the first cour of the third season aired from April to June 2023, and the second cour from October to December of the same year.
