The official website for the TV anime adaptation of Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro manga series confirmed an April 1 premiere for Dorohedoro Season 2. Dorohedoro Season 2 will “stream almost simultaneously worldwide on April 1 at 11:00 p.m. JST / 10:00 a.m. EST.
Yuichiro Hayashi is returning to direct the new season at MAPPA, and Tomohiro Kishi is returning as the character designer. Miho Sugiura is the art director, and Itsuku Onishi is the color key artist. Dorohedoro Season 2 was previously planned to premiere in 2025.
Hayashi directed the first anime season at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko was in charge of the series scripts, and Kishi designed the characters. [K]NoW_NAME composed the music. The first season of Dorohedoro is streaming right now on Netflix with 12 episodes.
VIZ Media publishes the manga series in English. Here’s a synopsis of the first volume, via VIZ Media:
In a city so dismal it’s known only as “the Hole,” a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious “experiments” in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they’re hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they’ll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of “cleaners” into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.
