Crunchyroll on Wednesday tweeted a subtitled promo trailer to Summer anime, Dr. Stone. The trailer previews the background song “Stone World” by composer Tatsuya Kato.
This summer’s going to ROCK ?@DrSTONE_EN comes to Crunchyroll this July from @tmsanime!! pic.twitter.com/55d4GbKBR4
— Crunchyroll (@Crunchyroll) May 29, 2019
The tweet also announced that Crunchyroll will simultaneously stream Dr.Stone. Meanwhile, a recent tweet from @Spytrue confirmed 24 Episode count of the series. Dr. Stone anime will release on July 5th.
The adaptation was announced during November 2018’s WSJ issue 51.
Release Date
As stated above the anime will release on July 5th. July really seems to pack as shows like Fire Force, Vinland Saga will make their first appearance.
Studio
The anime adaption will be handled by TMS entertainment. TMS is known for its work on anime like ReLIFE, Detective Conan, Lupin, Skilled Teaser Takagi- San, Baki and much more.
Episode Count
Confirmed by @Spytrue the series will premiere on July 5th
Opening and Ending Theme
Opening theme “Good Morning World” by Burnout Syndromes. Ending theme by “Life” by Rude-A.
Cast
- Yūsuke Kobayashi as Senku
- Makoto Furukawa as Taiju Ōki
- Kana Ichinose as Yuzuriha Ogawa
- Yūichi Nakamura as Tsukasa Shishio
- Gen Sato as Chrome
- Manami Numakura as Kohaku
- Tomoaki Maeno as Kinro
- Ayumu Murase as Ginro
- Karin Takahashi as Suika (seen above)
- Reina Ueda as Ruri
- Kengo Kawanishi as Gen
- Mugihito as Kaseki
Synopsis
Typical student Taiju tells his science-loving friend Senku that he is finally about to announce to Yuzuriha, that he has secretly been in love with her for five years.
Meeting under a camphor tree on the school grounds, just as Taiju is about to confess, a bright light appears in the sky.
Taiju pushes Yuzuriha to the tree to protect her, but the light suddenly petrifies all of humanity, with every human on Earth turning into stone.
Most humans begin to lose their consciousness while all traces of civilization decay, but Taiju keeps his alive as the years progress by his motivation of freeing both himself and Yuzuriha.
Eventually, Taiju breaks free from the stone and finds a message carved into the tree that leads him to discover the Senku has also escaped from stone, keeping his consciousness alive by counting how long he has been petrified. Thus Taiju learns that the date is now October 5th, 5738.
The two boys struggle to revive humanity after a mysterious crisis has left everyone in the world turned to stone for several millennia.
Promo Trailers
The above 30- seconds trailer to which was revealed during the Dr.Stone Jump Festa 2019 consists of some manga panels and ends with a small animation sequence featuring Senku voiced by Yuusuke Kobayashi (Subaru from re: zero)
About Dr.Stone
Dr. Stone is a Japanese manga series written by Richiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi is known for his previous work Sun-Ken Rock serialized in Weekly Shōunen Jump since March 6, 2017.
