The hit manga series Dr. Stone by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi will officially come to a close, with the final chapter set to appear in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump.
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The latest issue, Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #14, will see Chapter 232 of Dr. Stone released, and with it ending a series that has run for five years, with the series set to come to a close almost exactly five years after it began, on March 7, 2022. Dr. Stone began in March 2017, and quickly became one of the most popular mangas in circulation. The series saw an anime adaptation produced, which is currently in production for its third season.
Dr. STONE by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi has officially ended with Chapter 232 in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #14, after 5 years of serialization.
— Shonen Jump News – Unofficial (@WSJ_manga) March 2, 2022
Since its inception, Dr. Stone has gone on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide and has also won the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award, which celebrates some of the best manga in Japan.
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“After five years of harboring unspoken feelings, high-schooler Taiju Ooki is finally ready to confess his love to Yuzuriha Ogawa. Just when Taiju begins his confession however, a blinding green light strikes the Earth and petrifies mankind around the world—turning every single human into stone,” reads the official synopsis for the manga. “Several millennia later, Taiju awakens to find the modern world completely nonexistent, as nature has flourished in the years humanity stood still.”