You still have time before the story ends.
In 2017, Weekly Shonen Jump published the first chapter of the title about an overly smart schoolboy by the still-unknown director Riichiro Inagaki and artist Boichi.
In 2025, Dr. Stone became the best-selling science manga in Japan, a shonen beloved by millions, and the basis for an equally successful anime.
In honor of the start of the final season of the adaptation, we find out why Senku Ishigami's story will make you finally open your textbooks and fall in love with science.
Dr. Stone Has a Very Intriguing Premise
It all starts with an unexpected cataclysm that hits the entire world: due to a strange green ray, humanity turns to stone and freezes for almost three thousand seven hundred years.
After all this time, brilliant high school student Senku Ishigami comes to his senses and decides to use only his wits and accumulated knowledge to restore not only his own life, but also the entire civilization that existed before the accident.
Using the astonishing amount of learned information, the former student makes allies, studies the changed yet familiar world around him, and invents mechanisms and technologies to leapfrog the steps of industrial progress.
Dr. Stone Is Full of Curious Inventions
As the story progresses, you can see amazing things appearing in Senku's hands: homemade gunpowder, an Edison bulb with a bamboo filament, a paper tank, and ramen made from the most ordinary foxtail.
With each season of the anime and each new volume of the manga, the level of discovery increases, fitting two billion years of human development into 27 volumes and several years of Senku's adventures.
Anime and Manga Do Not Forget About Character Development and an Exciting Plot
At the same time, the manga and the anime are not captivating because of unusual inventions, but because of the scriptwriter's brilliant work on the course of events.
The plot of Dr. Stone is not captivating because of battles against superior enemies, as is usually the case in shonen, but because of the constant need to find ways to survive through knowledge rather than fists and superpowers.
Of course, the story has "checkpoints" – there are antagonists of various stripes, and the main boss, the mention of which will be a huge spoiler for solving the cause of the catastrophe.
But the enemies, whatever they may be, are skillfully relegated to the background and serve rather as additional impetus for discovery.
Dr. Stone Promotes Desire for Knowledge
Sooner or later, each character becomes obsessed with science, not just as a way to make life more comfortable, but as a system of worldview that helps them see themselves and nature more broadly.
With the help of colorful characters and a gripping plot, Riichiro Inagaki was able to show how amazing the desire for knowledge can be, as well as the great reward that awaits every inventor.
Through detailed and clear explanations, the screenwriter takes the viewer step by step into the world of amazing scientific discoveries and shows that being curious is also a kind of superpower that makes life easier, more interesting, and more fun.
Where to Watch Dr. Stone?
Dr. Stone is available to stream on Crunchyroll.