Dr. Stone season 4

Dr. Stone: Science Future
Season 4
Japanese cover art for the first home media disc box set of Dr. Stone: Science Future
No. of episodes	8
Release
Original network	Tokyo MX
Original release	January 9, 2025 (2025-01-09) – present
Season chronology

Dr. Stone is an anime television series produced by TMS Entertainment based on the manga series of the same name written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi. Set 3,700 years after a mysterious light turns every human on the planet into stone, genius boy Senku Ishigami emerges from his petrification into a "Stone World" and seeks to rebuild human civilization from the ground up.

Immediately following the conclusion of the third season, a fourth and final season titled Dr. Stone: Science Future was announced. The season premiered with its first cours on January 9, 2025, with a total of three split cours having been confirmed for it.

For the first cours, the opening theme song is "Casanova Posse" performed by ALI, while the ending theme song is "Rolling Stone" performed by Breimen.

Episodes

See also: List of Dr. Stone episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Storyboarded by	Original release date
Part 1
58	1	"Ryusui vs. Senku"	Nana Harada	Kurasumi Sunayama	Satoshi Shimizu	January 9, 2025 (2025-01-09)
Ryusui and Senku argue over which route to take to America. Ryusui believes that the voyage will take 70 days on the easiest route known as the rhumb line, while Senku believes that it will take 40 days on the quickest but hardest route known as the Great Circle Route. Senku wants to make it to America quickly in order to harvest the corn on time, otherwise if they arrive too late, it will already be winter, and they won't be able to make any revival fluid until next fall, which is a waste of time. In order to settle the dispute, Senku and Ryusui decide to play a game of poker where the winner will decide which route to take for the entire voyage. Gen joins Ryusui's side, causing Senku to believe that he's going to cheat to win, while Kohaku joins Senku's side so that she can use her eagle eye to prevent Gen from pulling off any tricks to cheat their way to victory. Senku and Ryusui become evenly matched in the game as Kohaku thwarts Gen's attempts at cheating. However, despite being fooled by a distraction caused by Gen in which he switched out Ryusui's cards, Senku manages to win the game with a royal straight flush at the cost of being affected by urushiol which he is allergic to. In order to improve conditions for the crew, Ryusui sets up a casino outside of the ship so that everyone can join in on the fun. In addition to that, including double food rations, Senku recreates beer as a last component for the crew.
59	2	"Science Journey"	Nana Fujiwara	Kurasumi Sunayama	Hideaki Oba	January 16, 2025 (2025-01-16)
Francois recreates non-alcoholic cocktails for Suika, Tsukasa, Gen, Kohaku, and Senku at Ryusui's request, much to their satisfaction. Matsukaze shares his story about his late master to a drunken Ginro. Senku revives Hyoga who agrees to train Matsukaze in modern fighting techniques at Tsukasa's request on the condition that he have the right to revive two people, and as a result, Moz and Homura are revived by Senku and reluctantly join the crew. Inspired by the story of the Vikings who sailed across the sea all the way to America, Chrome creates a sunstone with a piece of calcite that they can use to pinpoint the location of the sun in any type of weather condition. After days of sailing across the Pacific Ocean, the science crew finally arrives in America.
60	3	"Light Trap in the Darkness" Transliteration: "Kurayami no Yūgatō" (Japanese: 暗闇の誘蛾灯)	Tomomi Ikeda	Kazuto Kaneda	Satoshi Shimizu	January 23, 2025 (2025-01-23)
The science crew drops anchor in the San Francisco Bay. With their goal being to find corn as an ingredient to make endless revival fluid, Ryusui splits the crew into 2 teams, one to gather resources on the ship and the other to find corn nearby. Tsukasa and the other fighters are assigned to escort the corn scouting team while fighting off the wildlife along the way. While traveling up the Sacramento River, the team is suddenly ambushed by a large horde of crocodiles, but the battle team manage to kill them all easily and provide the group with fresh meat for burgers. After finding corn in the croc's stomach, the group continue their journey upstream where Kohaku discovers tiny corn pieces floating down the river, which fills Senku with suspicion. After contacting the team on the boat to look for corn in the Bay, Senku gathers a horde of bugs with a light trap and finds moths that eat corn, indicating that there is a large supply of corn nearby. However, Tsukasa senses a hostile presence and realizes that they've been lured into a trap as an unknown assailant starts attacking them with a machine gun, causing the group to flee. Ukyo deduces that someone revived on their own just like Senku and created their own settlement with corn fields nearby. This leads Senku to realize that they are dealing with another scientist with hostile intentions, raising his determination.
61	4	"Dr. X"	Kayona Yamada	Kurasumi Sunayama	Chie Nishizawa	January 30, 2025 (2025-01-30)
As the scouting team return to the ship, they are suddenly attacked by the unknown assailant who is flying a plane. Taking matters into his own hands, Senku creates an acetylene gas grenade and gives it to Kirisame to throw at the plane, disabling its engines in the process. Following that, the unknown assailant crashes nearby, but manages to escape. The scouting team finds the crashed plane, and Senku and Ryusui decide to commandeer it for themselves, thinking that it will give them a tactical advantage in their favor. While examining the plane, they discover corn kernels, indicating that the assailants are using a cornfield runway. Senku sends Gen, Chrome, and Kohaku to scout the area and find the cornfield. While following the assailants' footprints, Gen, using his mentalist abilities, believes that the enemy is attempting to lure them into a trap. In order to protect Chrome and Kohaku, Gen decides to continue the journey alone. He is soon confronted by the unknown assailant named Stanley Snider who takes Gen to see his leader. Upon arrival, Gen meets Dr. Xeno, the leader of the American colony and one of the smartest scientists in the world. Xeno begins interrogating Gen for information, including the name of his scientist leader, but Gen, wanting to protect Senku, lies to him and says that Taiju is their leader.
62	5	"Doctor vs. Doctor"	Chako Sato	Kazuto Kaneda	Daiki Koyama	February 6, 2025 (2025-02-06)
Chrome and Kohaku scout the enemy's base of operations from afar and realize Gen has infiltrated it. They contact the science crew to inform them of what they found, but Senku, not wanting to risk the enemy eavesdropping on their conversation, quickly ends the call. However, having found their radio frequency, they are contacted by Dr. Xeno who asks for Taiju's presence, still believing that he's their scientist. Using this deception to their advantage, Taiju calls out Xeno for putting everyone in danger with machine guns, but Xeno reveals that he had a Haber-Bosch plant built to mass produce limitless gunpowder. When asked for information on revival fluid, Taiju refuses to tell Xeno their secret, even at the risk of war, causing Xeno to end the call. They soon hear another plane flying nearby, flown by Stanley, indicating that Xeno knows their location. Knowing that they won't risk flying low following the river chase, Senku plans to turn the Perseus into an aircraft carrier, and that they deploy the plane that they commandeered. Simultaneously, the science crew form a plan to take control of the factory and their cornfield by deducing Chrome and Kohaku's location from the timing of their radio signal with the understanding that Xeno's base is nearby. At the suggestion of Hyoga, a battle team consisting of himself, Tsukasa, Ukyo, and Suika are deployed into the field in order to find Chrome and Kohaku and capture Xeno as well.
63	6	"Science Is Elegant"	Osamu Nabeshima	Kurasumi Sunayama	Osamu Nabeshima	February 13, 2025 (2025-02-13)
As part of Xeno's plan to eliminate the Kingdom of Science's leader, Stanley sends a young woman named Luna to infiltrate the science crew and find Taiju so that he can kill him once she lures him out in the open. Ryusui becomes suspicious of her, believing that she's a spy. Senku on the other hand secretly plans to extract as much information from Luna as possible about Xeno and his crew, that way, he’ll transmit the encrypted message to Tsukasa's special squad. Luna begins searching for Taiju, until she eventually finds him, but before she can attempt to give Stanley the signal, Senku appears and begins to charm her in an attempt to extract information from her about Xeno. He is suddenly interrupted by Ryusui and Francois as the former puts in a request to give her something desirable. Senku and Francois end up recreating ice cream for her to enjoy, much to her delight. In a surprising turn of events, Senku begins to realize who Dr. Xeno truly is and reveals that he is a former NASA scientist, as well as his old science mentor from his childhood who helped kickstart his passion of building advanced rockets for starters.
64	7	"The Two Scientists" Transliteration: "Futari no Kagaku-sha" (Japanese: 二人の科学者)	Shunji Yoshida	Kazuto Kaneda	Satoshi Shimizu	February 20, 2025 (2025-02-20)
As Senku realizes who Dr. Xeno is, he flashes back to when he was a child still attempting to build his first rocket with Taiju. A failed attempt had him reach out to NASA for assistance, where most of the scientists agreed to not give a child that kind of information. However, a 20 year old Xeno responds with instructions and materials he can use, allowing Senku to borrow his father Byakuya's government-supplied credit card to gather what he needs. At the same time, however, Xeno's own projects keep getting rejected at NASA, leaving him bitter. When approached with a hypothetical stone world scenario by Byakuya at NASA, Xeno says he would rule with an iron fist, destroying any who opposed him. On the eve of humanity's petrification, both Xeno and Senku analyze the petrified swallows, with Xeno realizing they're still alive and can maintain consciousness. As the petrification wave hits the planet, Xeno orders Stanley, Luna, and the others to remain conscious at all costs. Knowing they'd both need corn for their respective plans, Xeno and Senku strategize an eventual trip to California when they both suddenly break free of petrification.
65	8	"Lock On"	Chako Sato	Kurasumi Sunayama	Satoshi Shimizu	February 27, 2025 (2025-02-27)
Xeno breaks free from petrification and locates a nearby cave, deducing his freedom came because of bat manure-filled nitric acid. Using this compound, he awakens Stanley and the rest of his team, relocates to northern California, and establishes his Haber-Bosch base in order to set himself up for world dominance. Back in the present, aboard the Perseus, Luna feels conflicted about pointing out Taiju to Stanley nearby for him to snipe, so she mouths the name "Senku" into the nearby trees for Stanley and his team to relay to Xeno. Ryusui witnesses this, raising his suspicions even more, and as Stanley's team contacts Xeno, the radio signals aboard the ship show signs of scrambling, indicating a sniping team is nearby. As Ryusui announces this warning, Stanley is able to deduce who Senku truly is due to Xeno realizing that Senku is the true scientist upon calculating his height from an archive of voice recordings. With limited time, Senku takes cover and quickly combines starch and water in a bag to make a viscous bulletproof vest. Even while hiding, Senku's position on the Perseus is calculated by Stanley, allowing him to fire, striking Senku as he holds his bag.
66	9	"Light of Science" Transliteration: "Kagaku no Akari" (Japanese: 科学の灯)	TBA	TBA	TBA	March 6, 2025 (2025-03-06)

Home media release

Japanese

Toho Animation (Japan – Region 2/A)

Box			Discs	Episodes	Release date	Ref.
	4th Season	1	3	1–12	June 18, 2025

External links

• Official anime website (in Japanese)
• Dr. Stone: Science Future at IMDb
• Dr. Stone: Science Future (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia