A short spin-off manga that will take place after the events of Dr. Stone will appear in Weekly Shonen Jump. It’ll start in Issue #49, which should come out on November 6, 2023. [Thanks, ryokutya2089!]
In total, there will be three chapters, and the first chapter will be 49 pages long. The spin-off will run on a condensed schedule, meaning that it will tell its story in shorter time but take up more pages in the magazine per week. It’s unclear if this will affect any of the existing works in Weekly Shonen Jump, or if readers will simply purchase a thicker volume for three weeks. Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi, who worked on the original Dr. Stone, will return to work on this spin-off.
As for the plot, the spin-off of Dr. Stone will show Senku working on a time machine. Due to how short the manga will be, it may focus on a what-if scenario in which Senku goes back in time to prevent the Stone World from happening. The plot of the main Dr. Stone series revolves on prodigy Senku Ishigami, who wakes up after a mysterious flash petrifies all humans on the planet. With his scientific expertise, he wakes up other petrified humans and work together to establish a new world order and civilization based on science.
The Dr. Stone spin-off manga will start in Issue #49 of Weekly Shonen Jump. You can also read the manga in English from Viz Media. The anime is also readily available on Crunchyroll.
Published: Oct 27, 2023 09:30 am