With this discovery, they develop a compound that will allow them to instantly revive others.

Over the next six months, Senku's friend Taiju Oki wakes up and Senku learns their revival was made possible with nitric acid. Senku sets up a base camp and begins to study the petrified humans in order to determine the cause of the event, as well as a cure. The human race frozen in stone for 3,700 years, until in April 5738, a 15-year-old prodigy named Senku Ishigami is suddenly revived to find himself in a world where all traces of human civilization have been eroded by time. In the year 2019 AD, a mysterious flash suddenly petrifies nearly all human life. Stone won the 64th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category. Stone: Ryusui premiered in July 2022.Īs of June 2022, the manga had over 14 million copies in circulation. A third season is set to premiere in April 2023.

A second season of the anime series focused on the 'Stone Wars' arc aired from January to March 2021. Shueisha began to simulpublish the series in English on the website and app Manga Plus in January 2019.Īn anime television series adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment, aired on Tokyo MX from July to December 2019. Viz Media licensed the manga in North America.

The story follows teenage scientific genius Senku Ishigami, who plans to rebuild civilization after humanity was mysteriously petrified for 3,700 years. It was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from March 2017 to March 2022, with its chapters collected in twenty-six tankōbon volumes. Stone (stylized as Dr.STONE) is a Japanese manga series written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by the South Korean artist Boichi.

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