Dr. STONE will return with a 'triple final season'

A recent leak claimed that the final season of the anime adaptation of "Dr. STONE" will premiere during the Winter-2025 period (January-March) with the title "Dr: STONE SCIENCE FUTURE". However, it should be noted that the production previously confirmed that this final season will last three cours (i.e. three quarters), but that each one will be broadcast separately.

Although this means that this final season will last at least thirty-six episodes, the fact that it will be broadcast with three separate parts opens the dreaded possibility that "one part per year" will be released, so we could be seeing the animated finale of "Dr. STONE" until 2027. If that were the case, many wonder what the point of "splitting" it is.

Dr. STONE will return with a 'triple final season'

For their part, Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi began publishing the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in March 2017 and finished it in March 2022. The work inspired a twenty-four-episode anime adaptation produced by TMS Entertainment studios, under the direction of Shinya Iino and scripts written by Yuichiro Kido, released in Summer-2019 (July-September). It was followed by a second season in Winter-2021 (January-March) and a third in Autumn-2023 (October-December).

Dr. STONE Synopsis

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 all over the world, 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 meets 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 brain 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 humanity's petrification is unknown.

Source: SUGOI Lite