If you’ve been patiently (or not so patiently) waiting for news regarding the next season of the hit shonen series Dr. Stone, get ready to be excited! Your wait has come to an end!
A wraparound jacket on the 16th volume of the manga has revealed that the second season of Dr. Stone will premiere in January 2021! The new season will cover the “Stone Wars” arc of the manga. No further details regarding cast or crew were revealed with the announcement, but the official website has uploaded a brand new promotional video and key visual which you can find below.
Originally a manga written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi, Dr. Stone first began serializing in the pages of Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2017. It would go on to win the shonen category at the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2019. In July 2019, an anime adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment began broadcasting.
The first anime season featured Shinya Iino as the director working off scripts written by Yuichiro Kido while the background music was a team effort between Tatsuya Kato, Hiroaki Tsutsumi, and Yuki Kanesaka.
Viz Media currently publishes the manga in English and they describe the plot of the first volume as:
One fateful day, all of humanity was petrified by a blinding flash of light. After several millennia, high schooler Taiju awakens and finds himself lost in a world of statues. However, he’s not alone! His science-loving friend Senku’s been up and running for a few months and he’s got a grand plan in mind — to kickstart civilization with the power of science!
This is very exciting news for fans of the franchise and a pretty stellar way to kick off the new year! Now we just have to hope that the world settles down enough within the next six months that we don’t have to write a follow-up article about the new season being delayed.
Source: Comic Natalie
