Dr. Stone Finally Answers Its Biggest Mystery: Who Petrified Humanity
Warning: contains spoilers for Dr. STONE chapter #228!
After 228 chapters, Dr. STONE finally reveals the mystery behind the petrification of Planet Earth that kickstarted the science/adventure drama featured in the pages of Shonen Jump. The identity of the villainous Why-man and their connection with the petrifying devices called Medusas is finally unveiled.
Dr. STONE — written by Riichiro Inagaki with art by Boichi — begins with Earth struck by the greatest calamity in history. A «petrifying beam» traverses the length of the planet, encasing all living beings in stone, turning them into statues. The mysterious energy however also preserves people from aging or dying, so 3700 years after the event, scientific prodigy Senku Ishigami, the son of Japanese astronaut Byakuya, wakes up due to an accident and gets started on his mission to rebuild human civilization starting from the Stone Age, picking up friends and enemies along the way. Senku's group even discovers the source of the petrification beam; an advanced technological device they dub «Medusa.» Previously, it has been revealed that Medusa is activated through a vocal command, proving that the petrifying beam was not an accident, but the work of an unknown enemy of mankind.
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The «Kingdom of Science» founded by Senku and his friends first learns of the existence of this being when they activate a powerful radio tower, picking up a Morse code signal repeating over and over the same word: «Why?» They dub the source «Why-man» and confirm they are in fact an enemy when they try to use the group's radio devices to activate a Medusa, in order to petrify humanity once again. The Kingdom of Science
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