The April 2026 issue of Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday magazine confirmed that Q Hayashida’s Dorohedoro manga is getting a new one-shot story in the May 2026 issue, which releases on April 11. The one-shot manga releases 10 days after the premiere of Dorohedoro Season 2, which begins streaming on April 1 at 11:00 p.m. JST / 10:00 a.m. EDT on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
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. (K)NoW_NAME performs both the opening theme song “Zettai Must Danmen” and the ending theme song “Return to Head.”
New cast members for the second season include:
- Kōki Uchiyama as Dokuga
- Daiki Hamano as Tetsujō
- Tomokazu Koshimura as Saji
- Katsuhito Nomura as Ton
- Atsushi Imaruoka as Ushishimada
- Sara Matsumoto as Natsuki
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.
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.
