Dr. Stone follows Taiju Ōki and Senku as they try to figure out what happened with the light that turned everyone and some animals to stone 3,700 years prior to the events of the narrative. The pair of friends do their best to use their knowledge of a civilized world and science to race through the ages, starting from the stone age, to rebuild civilization.

Episode 1 has aired but as of now there will be 24 Episodes for the season according to the Dr.Stone Website and will be available on Blu-Ray and DVD later on. Episode 1 can be found at Crunchy Roll and will soon be on FUNimation. An English Dub is not out at this time, but if it keeps it’s popularity up, there will assuredly be some dubbed episodes out in the near future.

So what is Dr. Stone Episode 1 about? Well to get that out, I should probably say that the remainder of this article will be pretty spoiler heavy.

Dr Stone starts off in modern day Japan with Taiju Ōki and Senku talking about Taiju confessing his love to his childhood friend Yuzuriha Ogawa. Senku and his classmates place bets on if he really will confess after five years of not doing so when a bright light shines over the sky and begins to turn everyone to stone. Once everyone has been petrified, it is revealed that Taiju is still conscious inside of the stone and is fighting however he can to break out.

The show then breaks into a montage of the world changing around him and civilization becoming overgrown with vegetation. Taiju is then shown in a cave breaking free from his stone shell and realizes that many, many years have passed. He stays true to his reason for fighting and goes to find Yuzuriha first thing. He finds her being protected by the tree they were talking under as the light engulfed the world in stone. He finally confesses his love and swears to save her only to find a message from Senku telling him to go downstream.

The pair meet up and begin working on their survival situation so they can start researching how to save everyone. Senku Tells Taiju that they will race through the eras starting from the stone age to rebuild civilization with Taiju using his muscle and stamina, and Senku using his intelligence.