Crunchyroll, the world’s most popular anime brand, is premiered “Behind the Scenes of Dr. STONE,” a documentary featuring creative producer Shusuke Katagiri and director Shinya Iino. The document will be premiered on Crunchyroll’s YouTube page and will premiere on the platform next week.
The documentary runs a little over 25 minutes and was shot onsite in Japan, following the pair and their team through the creative process to adapt the hit manga into the anime series.
“Dr. STONE” is based on the hit weekly Shonen Jump manga title of the same name written by Riichiro Inagaki and illustrated by Boichi. The series is being animated by TMS Studios. The series picks up thousands of years after a cataclysmic event petrifies the world’s population. Following two main characters who free themselves from stone, Senku Ishigami and Taiju Ōki, “Dr. STONE” is a story of science versus might in the quest to rebuild civilization.
The “Dr. STONE” manga has been a smash hit worldwide with more than 480,000 volumes sold since July 2017 in Japan alone.
New episodes of “Dr. STONE” premiere every Friday morning on Crunchyroll.
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