NIPPOMANIA #5 : Dr. STONE (Manga, anime)

Do you remember starting a manga series that was so fascinating and original that you devoured it in record time, without even realizing how quickly the time had passed? I had a similar experience with Dr. STONE, a shōnen manga by Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi.

Since his early childhood, Senku Ishigami has been passionate about science, regardless of the field. He spends his time exploring the laboratories of his school in order to experiment and learn everything that has been discovered by humans in over 2000 years, making him a true genius.

One day, a mysterious green aura appears in the sky and the unimaginable happens; the radiation from the green light transforms humans from all over the Earth into unbreakable stone statues. It is then that Senku and all his friends fall into a sleep that will last more than 3500 years (3721 years, 2 months, 2 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes and 50 seconds, to be precise). Senku, from the moment he was petrified, refused to become unconscious and therefore counted every second without stopping during all that time, in order to have a good idea of the temporal context if he ever managed to get out of his trap.

Lost in the seconds, Senku feels the rock around him cracking thanks to a flow of nitric acid from bat guano. Freedom!

Some time passes and Senku settles into this new world with a mission in mind: to break the curse that has befallen over more than 7 billion humans. Using a nitric acid formula, he revives his best friend Taiju and a giant named Tsukasa. With their help, Senku marks the beginning of the Kingdom of Science, the savior of all humanity.