Dr. STONE Returns In January With Its Final Season

On the official site for the anime adaptation of the manga “Dr. STONE” the main promotional video for “Dr. STONE SCIENCE FUTURE“, the fourth and final season of the project. The video confirms that the first part, of a total of three, It will premiere on January 9, 2025 in Japanand lists a snippet of the musical themes, which include:

The band ALI will perform the opening theme titled “CASANOVA POSSE“, while BREIMEN will perform the closing theme titled “Rolling Stone“.

As previously reported, this final season will be divided into a total of three parts that will be broadcast separately. (that is, there will be at least three months of separation between them). According to a leak, this first part will have twelve episodes.

For its part, Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi They began publishing the manga in the magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from the publisher Shueisha in March 2017 and finished it in March 2022. The work inspired an anime adaptation of twenty-four episodes produced by the studios TMS Entertainment and released in Summer-2019 (July-September). A second season followed in Winter-2021 (January-March) and a third in Fall-2023 (October-December).

Production team

Shinya Iino (Black Fox) is in charge of directing the anime at the studios TMS Entertainment.
Yuuichirou Kido (Eizouken ni wa Te wo Dasu na!, Nanatsu no Taizai: Seisen no Shirushi) is in charge of writing and supervising the scripts.
Yuuko Iwasa (Yowamushi Pedal Movie) is in charge of character design and animation direction.
Tatsuya Katou (Buddy Complex, Comet Lucifer, Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya) is in charge of the composition of the soundtrack under the sound direction of Jin Aketagawa.

Synopsis of Dr. STONE

After five years of harboring unexpressed feelings, high school student Taiju Ooki is finally ready to confess his love to Yuzuriha Ogawa. However, just as Taiju begins his confession, a blinding green light hits the Earth and petrifies humanity across the globe, turning every human being into stone. Several millennia later, Taiju awakens to find the modern world completely non-existent, as nature has flourished in the years when humanity stood still.

Among a stone world of statues, Taiju encounters another living human being: his science-loving friend Senkuu, who has been active for a few months. Taiju learns that Senkuu has developed a grand plan: to launch the complete rebirth of civilization with science. Taiju's strength and Senkuu's brains combine to forge a formidable partnership, and they soon discover a method to revive the petrified. However, Senkuu's master plan is threatened when his ideologies are challenged by those who awaken. Meanwhile, the reason for the petrification of humanity is unknown.

Fountain: Comic Natalie