The official website of Dorohedoro announced that the anime’s long-awaited season 2 will begin streaming on April 1, airing every Wednesday at 11 p.m. JST across multiple platforms worldwide “almost simultaneously”.
The announcement was accompanied by a newly released key visual.
The visual was illustrated by character designer Tomohiro Kishi and features Kaiman, Nikaido, and members of the En Family at the center. It also includes figures associated with the Cross-Eyes organization.
Several main cast members also shared comments expressing enthusiasm about returning to the series after a lengthy hiatus.
Wataru Takagi, who voices Caiman, reflected on the six-year gap since season 1, describing his excitement at stepping back into the recording booth and reuniting with the cast. He joked that the experience felt just as chaotic as the world of Dorohedoro itself.
To everyone who has been eagerly waiting for the new Dorohedoro series—thank you for your patience! The sequel is finally starting!
It’s been six years… I’m so happy to be able to dive back into that chaotic world and reunite with those familiar faces. On the first day of recording, I felt incredibly excited as memories came flooding back.
Everyone is just as they were—still wonderfully strange people (laughs). Wait… do I even remember? Did I actually go to the recording session…? Huh? Maybe that’s still part of the chaos. And that is Dorohedoro!
Reina Kondo, who plays Nikaido, said she had been personally looking forward to season 2 as a fan of the series. She praised the atmosphere of the recording sessions, noting that it retained the same excitement as before while also introducing new characters that shift the overall tone of the story.
The long-awaited Season 2 is finally here! As a Dorohedoro fan myself, I’ve been looking forward to this just as much as everyone else.
The atmosphere in the Season 2 recording sessions felt just as exciting and unique as in Season 1, and I was deeply grateful to once again be able to voice Nikaido.
There are also new characters introduced this season, and the overall tone feels quite different in some ways. There are so many unmissable scenes that each episode feels like it ends in the blink of an eye because you get so immersed.
I can’t wait for everyone to watch it. Please look forward to it!
Yuichiro Hayashi will be returning to direct the sequel at MAPPA. The remaining staff members, too, will be reprising their roles for the anime’s second season.
The anime’s first season, produced by MAPPA, initially broadcast on Tokyo MX in Japan from January to March 2020, before launching globally on Netflix in May that year.
Dorohedoro is a manga written and illustrated by Q Hayashida. The series ran across multiple Shogakukan magazines, starting in Monthly Ikki (November 2000–September 2014), then moving to Hibana (March 2015–August 2017), and finally concluding in Monthly Shonen Sunday (November 2017–September 2018). The manga was collected into 23 tankobon volumes in total.
Source: Official Website, Comic Natalie