The second season of Dr Stone concludes today, but will the anime be renewed for season 3 and if so, what date could it theoretically release online?
This anime slate has not only been full of fantastic new (Jujutsu Kaisen) and ongoing (Black Clover) anime but also returning fan favourites (Attack on Titan, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime and Dr Stone).
The latter series, Dr Stone, debuted with its second season in mid-January and ‘The Stone Wars’ has easily met the high standards set by the first.
However, as fans around the world countdown to the season finale today, we breakdown whether Dr Stone has been officially renewed for season 3 and when it could potentially premiere.
Dr Stone season 3…
- It’s great news for fans of Dr Stone, the anime series has been officially renewed for season 3!
The announcement was made this morning, March 25th, via social media, only hours before the season 2 finale premieres.
However, not many fans will be shocked by the news. Anime renewals typically depend on two factors; popularity and availability of source material – thankfully, Senku has these in abundance.
Currently, Dr Stone is scoring an amazing 8.2/10 on IMDB, 8.33/10 on MyAnimeList and 4.7/5 on Crunchyroll – easily enough to merit a renewal for at least one more season.
There is also plenty of source material from the manga left to adapt into more anime seasons. According to Monsters and Critics, season 2 is expected to conclude with chapter 84 (Volume 10).
The good thing for fans is that, at the time of writing, 169 chapters of Dr Stone have been published, with Volume 20 scheduled to release on April 2nd.
Considering the amount of material there is left to adapt and the popularity of the series, it was always a “ten billion percent” guarantee that Dr Stone would be renewed for season 3.
Dr Stone season 3: Release date…
Whilst season 3 has been officially confirmed, there was no information announced as to when Dr Stone will return.
However, we can make some extremely scientific predictions based on the production schedule of prior seasons.
Assuming that season 3 would follow a similar production schedule of roughly 12 months (from S2 finale to S3 debut), fans could expect Dr Stone to return in April 2022; in accordance with the start of the Spring slate.
However, with the release of a teaser trailer today, March 25th, this would indicate that production may have already started on season 3!
This means that we could see Dr Stone return with season 3 as soon as October-2021 on the Fall slate.