It has been announced that the third and final season of the fourth 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 April 2026. The third season will be the final chapter of the anime. A teaser trailer for the third season, "New Character SAI Appears Ver.", has also been released.
In the third season, Senku and Zeno team up to confront Whyman, with the revival of all humanity at stake, and the moon landing plan is launched. A new character, SAI, appears, who is said to be "the man with the strongest mathematical ability in humanity."
"Dr. Stone" is written by Inagaki Riichiro (Eyeshield 21) and illustrated by Boichi (San-Ken Rock and ORIGIN). It was serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" from March 2017 to March 2022. Thousands of years have passed since all of humanity was instantly turned to stone by a mysterious phenomenon. Senku Ishigami, a boy with a superhuman intellect and a natural scientist, awakens and, in a desperate situation, resolves to search for his allies and take back the world. Senku uses science to try to build a civilization from scratch. The comics have sold over 19 million copies in total.
The first season of the TV anime aired from July to December 2019, the second from January to March 2021, the TV special "Dr. Stone Ryusui" aired in July 2022, and the first cour of the third season aired from April to June 2023, with the second cour airing from October to December of the same year. The final season will be split into three cours, with the first cour airing from January to March and the second cour airing from July to September.
