A sentimental new Dr. Stone video looks back at Senku's adventures.
The retrospective was posted to Shonen Jump's official Japanese YouTube channel, and features motion-comic style clips of key moments from the series. The video was released to commemorate the conclusion of the popular manga's five-year long serialization. The final chapter of Senku's scientific journey through the far future was published on March 7 and is now available in English through VIZ Media's Manga Plus website.
The series began with a manga created by Riichiro Inagaki and artist Boichi in 2017. Prior to Dr. Stone, Inagaki was best known as the creator of the popular Eyeshield 21 sports manga. The series has been a success, both in terms of commercial and critical reception, achieving a circulation of over 10 million copies worldwide and winning the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award. The manga has been lauded for Boichi's art and Inagaki's writing, with many critics praising the series' clever integration of scientifically-accurate facts about chemistry, biology and engineering into the story.
While the manga may have come to an end, Dr. Stone fans still have more of the anime to look forward to. An animated special, entitled Dr. Stone: Ryusui, is scheduled to premiere in Japan this summer. A third season of the anime series has been confirmed to be in production and is currently planned to be released sometime during 2023.
The anime adaptation of the story originally premiered in 2019. The show is produced by one of Japan's oldest anime studios, TMS Japan, which also produced the anime adaptations of Detective Conan (Case Closed) and Lupin the Third. The anime has been similarly well-received and was listed by Netflix as the 8th most streamed anime of 2019. The series aired its second season in early 2021, which adapted the "Stone Wars" arc from the manga.
The story of Dr. Stone begins in the year 2019, when every human in the world is struck by a mysterious flash of light that turns them all into stone. More than 3000 years later, teenage genius Senku Ishigami suddenly awakens to discover that he is the first human being to be freed from his rocky prison. Using his immense knowledge of science, Senku begins to cure others from the curse of petrification and establishes a new society, but humanity's new start is threatened by a group of hostile survivors, as well as the mysterious source of petrification itself.
The anime series is available for streaming on Crunchyroll, Funimation and HBO Max. Inagaki and Boichi's original manga series is available in English in both print and digital formats from VIZ Media.
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