Dr. Stone‘s anime adaptation is setting the Summer 2019 anime season abuzz, and given that Senku has gone beyond his first intense face-off with the mighty Tsukasa, fans are speculating over how the rest of the anime’s first season will be panning out. A smattering of new characters will be making their debut.
Teasing the new cast of characters entering the rest of the season, Dr. Stone shared a fresh new visual for the anime featuring Senku, teasing the new cast of characters entering the rest of the season
New & Exhilarating Dr. STONE Key Visual introduces exciting new characters! pic.twitter.com/Wb1d266vgB— Dr. STONE (@DrStone_EN) August 5, 2019
The remaining cast of characters for the series also show up when the series releases. After Senku parts ways with Taiju and Yuzuriha, he partners up with a few curious individuals on his mission to restarting civilization with science. The first order for the series is listed at 24 episodes. 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! These new characters also bring new cast members to the anime and include Gen Sato as Chrome, Manami Numakura as Kohaku, Tomoaki Maeno as Kinro, Ayumu Murase as Ginro, Karin Takahashi as Suika, Reina Ueda as Ruri, Kengo Kawanishi as Gen, and Mugihito as Kaseki.Dr. Stone was originally created by Riichiro Inagaki with illustrations provided by Boichi for Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 2017. The series follows two boys (initially) as they try and save a world that’s been completely petrified in stone, and has so far been collected into several volumes since it’s release, and Viz Media has licensed the series for an English language release.Dr. Stone streams on Crunchyroll and FunimationNow. “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!”
