The Summer 2019 anime series has officially begun, and one of the biggest new series leading the pack is the adaptation of Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi's Dr. Stone. Already standing out from other major series in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump for its focus on science and ingenuity over traditional action, this difference from other traditional Shonen magazine has not been lost on those who work on the series themselves.

Speaking with GameSpot, Dr. Stone Editor Hiroyuki Honda mentioned how the Shonen demographic has been shifting in the last few years as fans are beginning to like series they would not have necessarily enjoyed in the magazine a few years ago.

Honda explained how Weekly Shonen Jump changes to reflect the current interests of the Shonen demographic, which was traditionally toheadlined by major action titles like One Piece and My Hero Academia, but there's definitely a palpable interest in different kinds of series outside of traditional battle manga.

Dr. Stone was originally created by Riichiro Inagaki with illustrations provided by Boichi for Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in 2017. The series follows two boys (initially) as they try and save a world that's been completely petrified in stone, and has so far been collected into several volumes since it's release, and Viz Media has licensed the series for an English language release.

The anime series is currently listed with 24 episodes, and can currently be found streaming on Crunchyroll. Funimation will be offering the English dub at a later date, and they describe the series as such, "Several thousand years after