Dr. Stone: Science Future, the fourth and final season of sci-fi adventure anime, is coming next year and it's confirmed to air over three cours (quarters of a year). Today, TOHO Animation has released a "super teaser" and revealed that the first cour will begin broadcasting in January 2025. The trailer looks back at the adventures of Chisora 'Senku' Ishigami and his friends with a tiny bit of new footage at the end. In the final season, the team will set their sights on the moon, where they discover that the mastermind behind the petrification of the human race. Watch the new teaser trailer for Dr. Stone: Science Future below:
TMS Entertainment, which produced the animation for the first three seasons of Dr. Stone, will return to animate the final season, with Shuhei Matsushuita as director. Check out the key visual for Dr. Stone: Science Future here:
What is Dr. Stone about?
Dr. Stone TV anime is based on the sci-fi adventure manga series by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by South Korean artist Boichi. The series was serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from March 2017 to March 2022, with its chapters compiled in 27 tankōbon volumes.
The first season of the Dr. Stone anime premiered in 2019; Season 2 premiered in 2021, and Season 3 in 2023. Dr. Stone: Science Future was officially announced in December 2023, and at Anime Expo 2024, Crunchyroll announced that it will stream the series on the platform next year. Crunchyroll's plot description for Dr. Stone reads:
Several thousand years after a mysterious phenomenon that turns all of humanity to stone, the extraordinarily intelligent, science-driven boy, Senku Ishigami, awakens. Facing a world of stone and the total collapse of civilization, Senku makes up his mind to use science to rebuild the world. Starting with his super strong childhood friend Taiju Oki, who awakened at the same time, they will begin to rebuild civilization from nothing... Depicting two million years of scientific history from the Stone Age to present day, the unprecedented crafting adventure story is about to begin!
Dr. Stone: Science Future will be available to stream on Crunchyroll in Europe, North America, Central America, South America, Africa, the Middle East, Oceania, and CIS.
