Dorohedoro

Description

From Viz:
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.

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Dorohedoro - Caccia allo stregone

Mud Sludge

Mud to Mud

Дорохедоро

สาปพันธุ์อสูร (TMCX - Tomorrow Comix)

ドロヘドロ

異獸魔都

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

v.1 c.5 by HELLGYOZA 2 years ago

v.1 c.4 by HELLGYOZA 2 years ago

v.1 c.1-3 by HELLGYOZA 2 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

23 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

Starts at Vol 1, Chap 1 (S1) / Vol 7, Chap 41 (S2)

Ends at Vol 7, Chap 41 (S1) Skips Chap 11, 32

User Reviews

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Forum

7 topics, 18 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.7 / 10.0 (1045 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.63 / 10.0

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Last Updated

April 29th, 2025 3:35pm PDT - 4 days ago

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Genre

Action Comedy Drama Horror Mature Mystery Psychological Seinen Supernatural
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Original Publisher

Shogakukan

Serialized In (magazine)

Ikki (Shogakukan)

Hibana (Shogakukan)

Gessan (Shogakukan)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Viz (23 Vols - Complete)

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Monthly Pos #1217

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3 Month Pos #1587

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6 Month Pos #1715

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Year Pos #1829

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Dorohedoro Anime gets sequel as streaming series

1 year ago

Netflix Streams Dorohedoro Anime Outside Japan on May 28

5 years ago

Dorohedoro Gets TV Anime

6 years ago

Q Hayashida's Dorohedoro Manga to End in Next Volume

7 years ago

So 16 is not the final volume?

13 years ago

User Comments [ Order by time added ]

Astounding Masterpiece for Gore-Shounen lovers

by whitespade
6 years ago

Rating: 9.9 / 10.0

If you love shounen, you will love this manga because at its core it is very wholesome and full of characters that try their very very best for their 'nakama'! Friendship is very central in the relationships between the characters, also loyalty and responsibility towards people who depend on you. There are also no overt romance but the deep bond between the male and female here is actually more profound. You could just have your own head cannon for some of the pairs here.

The characters are all strong in their prowess and their conviction. Even the weakest physically is the one that actually give the biggest impact. In the end, actually a character we never notice the one that deal a very heavy blow towards the Big Bad. You will love every single characters in this manga due their good points - including the Big Bad, in a way he is cute and noble due to his reason to live. And they are all comic in their own way, giving the readers great laugh at their individual unique antics. My favorite is Chidaruma, he always do whatever the heck he want to amuse himself, and I think he's the most pitiable of them all.

The gore here is beautiful, as with all the 'messy' art. If you cannot stand sketch-like art you may not like it but I find their messiness add dimension and depth towards the tone of the manga. However, if you really really like guro you might find its a bit lacking because blood and guts is not actually the center and the fetish for sensei unlike in other mangaka art like KAGO Shintaro.

If you love Franken Fran and any ITOU Junji you will love this.

... Last updated 6 years ago

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Dorohedoro's more than Mud Sludge

by nervcord
8 years ago

Rating: N/A

If you manage to read this on it's Japanese print or particularly good English localize print, you'll notice that the screentones aren't perfectly cut and pasted into the comic pages before publication. That thing just works with this manga even adds flavor to it. Q. Hayashida's art could be a good goal for up and coming female comic artists.

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By the end, I realized I had no idea what I read

by MLGSwag
3 years ago

Rating: 5.4 / 10.0

When I finished the manga, I realized I had no clue what was going on In the background of the manga, I only followed the characters and their relationship with eachothet, but it seems if I wanted to enjoy this manga more, I should have looked and noted what was the background of their world and such

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it's a masterpiece

by jehoshua42
4 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

that's it. that's the review. seriously, take it from me. all 23 volumes are s-tier. it has character. it has plot. it has setting. it's all so beautiful. (ಥ﹏ಥ)

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Sketchy art and pointless fanservice pulls it down.

by Shellshock
5 years ago

Rating: 8.0 / 10.0

NOTE: Dorohedoro a series best to go in blind. I Believe the author intends you to know as little as possible.It's an 8/10 series. This is a spoiler free review.

Dorohedoro is set in a dystopian universe filled with magic and devils. It is unique and gritty-ly crafted. Its the story about an lizard man who has lost his memories with his bestest female friend Nikado. He puts a sorcerers head in his mouth and the man inside of the lizard man says "you are not the one" which results in the Man's death. Sorcerers themselves live in another world however. An alternate dimension if you will. They come over to where the MC is living called the HOLE. Which is where the non sorcerers live and they experiment on them. This is created very large amount of animosity between the Sorcerers and the Non sorcerers. I think the author wanted to make like a racial stand point where neither are right or wrong.... kind of.

Dorohedoro Now i love the setting i really do. Its very dark and gritty giving a very vague and sad outlook on the life. The author lets you know this is a fucked up world very early on. Monsters and death are right around the corner. Every day is a gift. So why not live it via smiling. Now in that sense I'm a bit confused on the world. Like the food for example is top quality type stuff. Majority of the food and the food quality remains the same in the Hole. Which is weird because everything else is run down and distraught. So why did the food make it out? No one knows.... Easily the biggest mystery in this entire fucking series. The Magician's world is more different. and is more early 1900's. There are 2 hierarchy's essentially. People who excel at magic (the rich), and people who don't (the poor). They are basically like people from the HOLE but born as sorcerer. This contrast is very interesting to watch and unfold. I can't exactly reveal more on the details.

Dorohedoro story is completed insane. It is everything with slowly filling in the gaps. This is a series that gives answers and we are meant to think of the questions. It is complicated as it is gritty and confusing. There is also small details that you really need to look at or you'll miss. A lot of questions are actually given in the art you just need to focus on it. As far as mystery reveal goes besides a couple they haven't actually made me jump or shocked. Neither did Dorohedoro actually. But that doesn't change the facts that the twist were very well written and thoroughly enjoyable. I just thought they could be better. I do believe the author left some questions open. Whether its on purpose or not i don't care it feels like lazy writing. I hate this think of your own answers BS. Its stupid and honestly pulls down the quality of the author. Make me seem like the author couldn't think of answer themselves so they left it to the audience. Though the main reveals aren't falling in this I do think the author left some questions open ended. I'd rather she forgot them than make up your own stuff.

Dorohedoro Characters are easily my favorite part of the series. They are all very charismatic especially En. who is like the main villain. I really loved his character. I would say he carried the series but thats implying that everyone else sucked but they were fantastic too. Caiman is a great MMC and i loved his whole unraveling. He was so enjoyable to watch and even his comedy was mostly on point. I didn't Like ebisu though. She was a horrible character. She was boring unfunny and fucking lazy. I actually wished she would disappear. It is sad that she is a big side character because she pulled this series down. Another thing i didn't like was Nikado but not because of her exactly. Its how the author used her for so much fan service. and honestly it was boring. When draw nudity you draw it at a certain angle. There is no real sense of style or eroticism when it comes to nudity. Meaning that when they were naked it wasn't that entertaining. Some scenes were nice but mostly they were just drawn randomly naked. This is an issue for other characters as well. Another thing is that Nikado isn't utilized well. She cooks for the MMC and despite being very strong constantly is the damsel in distress. Its honestly upsetting.

Dorohedoro art is an issue for me. I get that people like sketchy art but i don't. It is a sorry excuse of a talent less author trying to draw. I didn't hate the artstyle most of the time but the art is just not that great. Especially backgrounds. Sometimes though it looked like the author put some ink on some paper and sneezed. In berserk you can clearly see whats what in that dark gritty world but Dorohedoro you can't make heads or tails sometimes. Which is why i really liked the anime for that part. It was good because you can tell the fucking difference. Nonetheless the characters are drawn well so i guess its not completely bad. I've also been told calling the author talent less is a bit excessive. Alot of people saying this is incredibly pretentious so let me see if i can put it in an another way. I think she's wasting her talent by drawing it sketchy like. If thats the point i don't care. It pulls down the series. When you look at series like berserk you can see how gritty and dark it is without it looking like someone sneezed a blotch of black ink. I absolutely think the author has talent. But just cause the reason is to draw sketchy like doesn't mean its good.

Dorohedoro Doesn't really have romance though i find that genuinely odd. there is loads of hints and potential doing and wanting to do one another wonder why the author never looked for more.

Dorohedoro TLDR I loved it i did but there are just too many issues for me to not knock down 2 points. Also there are open ended question which might annoy some people but overall i think this is a great read that everyone should experience. Especially people who love darkness and violence.

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Contradicted established narratives and conflicting stories spoiled the overall experince

by jomellyfish
4 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

I just don't know what to make out of it. It's a chaotic jumble of black humor, gore, gyoza, and romance that weren't followed through. Ebisu is accountable for the 2.5 I'll give.

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great potentialities!

by darkgenio
18 years ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

if it keeps the pace of the first volumes it can become a great manga. Interesting and original. I really like the art and the dark atmosphere. I'll wait for the next releases to update my comment.

I find myself changing my opinion over this manga pretty often, though more than it should be... if you are looking for an ORIGINAL piece of work, then give it a shot. There's a lot of unnnecessary pages in my opinion, it tends to get slow and to waste time on useless details. But its so wierd I cannot stop liking it.
My rating changes from 5 to 8. Today, after reading volume 10, it's a 7.

... Last updated 16 years ago

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Great characters, but very inconsistent tone

by MeisterKleister
11 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

The art is beautiful and I like how every character has a backstory - even the antagonists, who have motives and are likeable. "Villains" who aren't one-dimensional seem rare these days.

I started reading because of positive reviews and am ultimately left a bit disappointed. They can't seem to have a serious or touching moment in this manga. Many times something disturbing and/or sad seems to happen, and they almost always turn it into a joke, which often ruins it for me. Namely, characters treating the death and mortal injuries of others like mild annoyances. Doing that once in a while would be fine, I think, but they just overdo it. It might just not be my kind of humor. Though at other times they manage to be genuinely funny without resorting to this "black humor".

Another thing that bothers me is that the world the manga creates seems void of sex.
-I'm not criticizing the lack of ecchiness, but rather, all relationships in the manga appear almost completely platonic; no one ever kisses and no one seems to be sexually attracted to anyone else ever (except maybe Chota). I just have trouble buying into a world like that.

I'd say read the first volume and see whether the inconsistent tone bothers you.
I am currently 13 volumes in and I still cannot confirm the claims of "it gets really good later", but I'm intrigued enough by the characters to keep on reading.

... Last updated 11 years ago

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Real rating 7/10 or 4/10

by Akira Ryuji
3 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

Real rating 7/10

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Too convaluted

by cactuspunch
11 years ago

Rating: 5.0 / 10.0

I just want to say that I liked this at first, I really did. The city felt gritty and dark, the main character had a interesting mystery in his background, namely how did he come to have a lizards head. The art added to the grimness of it all, harsh lines and dark shadows can really affect the atmosphere of a comic. The manga did a good job relaying that magic users were evil a-holes and that the whole city was in the crapper because of them. The villains were all varying shade of evil, and some of them came out as sympathetic characters. The main character was a dick, but we routed for him because he stuck it to the d bag magic users. But as I read though the manga, I began noticing problems.

The first thing, is I cannot tell the difference between several characters and the main character, and while that might be part of the story, it is not always clear who is who in any given scene.
Then, characters who were established as not having magic power, (as said powers meant they were pray for the main characters curbside) start showing magical abilities. And I could deal with it if it was just one charter, but no, many character pulled this crap.

Another thing is the convoluted mess of the plot. I was struggling to understand what the heck was happening at volume 15. There were so many sub plots, I couldn’t keep up. And then they added time travel. I HATE time travel on a normal plot where I can tell who is who, bit this messed up everything. It was at that time that I realized I was on volume 19 and I still was unclear who exactly the main character was, why he was a lizard, and who is the main antagonist, because

they killed off the guy who I thought was going to be the main baddie . At that point I couldn’t do it anymore, I gave up.

This manga is to long for the amount of exposition it is giving me. We are almost 20 volumes in, and I have yet to figure out what is going on.
5/ 10 and only because I liked were this was going before the story ran itself into the labyrinth of convolution.

... Last updated 11 years ago

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