It has been announced that the third and final season of the fourth season of the TV anime "Dr. Stone," based on the manga serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" (Shueisha), "Dr. Stone Science Future," will be broadcast on TOKYO MX and other channels from 10 PM on April 2nd. The third season will be the final chapter of the anime.
Ahead of the broadcast, it was also announced that an advance screening of episodes 1 to 3 of the third season will be held at TOHO Cinemas Hibiya (Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo) on March 21. Kobayashi Yusuke, who plays Ishigami Senku, and Suzuki Ryota, who plays Nanami Ryusui, will be in attendance.
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" in July 2022, and 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. The final season will be split into three cours, with the first cour airing from January to March 2025 and the second cour airing from July to September of the same year.
