Dorohedoro author talks about the second anime season

Everyone was surprised when at the beginning of the week it was announced that 4 years after the first season, a continuation of the anime series adaptation of the manga is in production. Dorohedoro in Q Hayashida. The author took the opportunity to thank her fans and reveal that this second season has been in the works “for some time”.

Q Hayashida stated:

I’ve never been so happy to have a continuation of the Dorohedoro anime! I would like to thank everyone involved in this project. Production has been underway for some time now and I’m looking forward to seeing it.

The animation of the first season of Dorohedoro It was the studio’s responsibility MAPPA (Chainsaw Man, Jujutsu Kaisen, The God of High School, Dororo, Dorohedoro), but the staff for this second season has not yet been confirmed.

In Japan via streaming Dorohedoro It was an exclusive Netflix when it premiered on January 12, 2020.

With animation by the studio MAPPA (Dororo, Yuri!!! on Ice, In This Corner of the World, Rage of Bahamut Genesis), directed by Yuichiro Hayashi (Kakegurui XX, Garo the Animation, PES: Peace Eco Smile), the argument is Hiroshi Seko (Banana Fish, Mob Psycho 100, Vinland Saga) and the character design is by Tomohiro Kishi (My Little Monster, 91 Days). The music is by (K)NoW_NAME.

Among the staff we also find:

• Art direction: Shinji Kimura
• Layout: Yusuke Tannawa
• Color design: Tomoko Washida
• 3DCG Director: Yuki Nomoto
• Director of Photography: Hyo Gyu Park
• Editing: Masato Yoshitake
• Sound Director: Akiko Fujita

Dorohedoro began to be released in 1999 and the story takes place in a city so dark that it is known only as “the hole”. A clan of sorcerers kidnaps people to use them as guinea pigs in atrocious “experiments” in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido encounters Caiman, a man with a reptilian head and a severe case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they are hunting down and killing the town’s sorcerers, hoping that they will eventually kill the right one. But when En, the chief sorcerer, learns that a lizardman is preying on his people, he sends a “clean-up” team into the “hole”, thus giving rise to a war between two worlds.

Dorohedoro began to be published in Shogakukan’s Monthly Ikki, later passing after the end of the magazine to Hibana in 2015. Later Hibana also ended and the manga moved to Monthly Shōnen Sunday in November 2017, with the work ending in September 2017. 2018.

A Viz Media began digitally distributing the manga by Dorohedoro in 2009 when he launched the SigIKKIthe digital English version of Monthly Ikki from Shogakukan. He later began publishing the manga physically in 2010.

The manga Dorohedoro was part of list of mangas with so much Gore which would probably never be adapted into an anime.