Here at Kongbakpao we’re anxiously awaiting the new season of Dorohedoro. The new season confirmed six months ago, but even the studio making it remains shrouded in mystery.. or should that be chaos? This isn’t about S2 though. This is 5 reasons you should watch Dorohedoro right now, an appeal to any fan of darker and more grungy anime to improve your life by taking in this masterpiece. Here we’re aiming to sell it to you as best we can.
5 Reasons You Should Watch Dorohedoro Right Now
Okay, enough preamble, let’s get into the reasons.
5 – A Unique Protagonist
Anime and manga is a wide genre. It would be wrong to say the main characters are all the same. You might have something immediately in your mind when you think of a fantasy-based, combat-heavy anime. Caiman is not that. He’s a big ugly brute cursed with a lizard’s head who makes a mission of trying to find the sorcerer who cursed him with the reptilian features. He’s violent, he never pays for food, and he’s often not the sharpest tool in the shed… but you can’t help but root for him. Caiman is loyal, brave, and puts his own monstrous traits to good use.
4 – A Gritty Fantasy World With An Intriguing Magic System
Don’t expect your generic fantasy world here. Dorohedoro spreads mainly over two different worlds, inextricably tied together. First is the world of the Sorcerers, humanoids able to use magic by producing strange black smoke from their bodies that has magical effects. Many sorcerers are not, perhaps, the nicest people, and that’s where the far more poverty-ridden world of humans comes in. Sorcerers often transport themselves there exclusively to experiment on innocent people, leaving people hideously mutated or worse. It’s no wonder Caiman has a bone to pick with Sorcerers as a whole.
With the magic system come some really unique powers. Does ‘mushroom-based magic’ sound scary to you? Well, it SHOULD.
3 – Badass Female Characters
If you want girls who can and will kick ass then you will love what Dorohedoro has to offer. There’s Caiman’s partner in crime Nikaido, who splits her time between aiding with Sorcerer-hunting and running a gyoza restaurant..two things Caiman is also passionate about. Then there’s the towering Noi, enforcer to the Sorcerer godfather En and someone most people are rightfully terrified of.. despite her magic being healing-based.
What’s even better is they’re a big part of the story and drive plenty of the plot just the same as the dudes do.
2 –Â All The Characters Are Interesting
While Caiman might be the main character of Dorohedoro, he’s not the only one. It’s a story that manages to highlight a bigger cast of characters and give you room to get attached to them all. While you can root for Caiman and Nikaido, you soon find yourself empathizing with the people they’re out to hunt down. The henchpeople Shin and Noi, who you first meet murdering people in a grubby bathroom, or low-tier Sorcerer Fujita, who starts out as a punching bag for Caiman soon become fully fleshed-out people with hopes and dreams. You start feeling a little conflicted about who you want to win out. Oh no. Character development.
1 – It’s SO Weird
There’s no other way of saying it. Dorohedoro is super weird, and we love it that way. To give you some idea, we’ve included some of the things that absolutely happen in Season 1, without context.
- There is a man who appears inside Caiman’s mouth who tells him whether a Sorcerer is the one who cursed him.
- Someone finds a pig dog-pig that can resurrect the dead.
- Everyone gathers for a zombie-killing evening.
- There is a baseball game that several of the major characters end up playing in.
- There is a pie-making contest. It is connected to demons.
- They find a cockroach turned partly human in the sewer and tame him with a shock collar. He can only say the word ‘Shocking!’ He takes part in the baseball game. Of course he does.
If you’re sold, you can check out Dorohedoro on Netflix.
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