A first key visual, staff, cast, character designs for the upcoming action, comedy, fantasy Dorohedoro anime has been revealed. The show will air on January 12th, 2020.
Doroherdoro is a manga series by Q Hayashida which was published in Monthly Ikki which had its final issue serialized in September 2014. The manga then moved to HiBaNa on March 6, 2015 (volume 1) and continued until its discontinuance on August 8, 2017, and then to shounen magazine Gessan starting with the December 2017 issue. The manga series was received very positively by the anime community and have average user ratings of 8.47 on MAL. The anime adaptation of the manga was announced on 9 November 2018. The first key visual, staff and cast details, character designs have been released which you can check right down below.
Dorohedoro Anime Details
In case you’re not familiar with Dorohedoro anime, MAL describes the synopsis of the manga as:
Hole—a dark, decrepit, and disorderly district where the strong prey on the weak and death is an ordinary occurrence—is all but befitting of the name given to it. A realm separated from law and ethics, it is a testing ground to the magic users who dominate it. As a race occupying the highest rungs of their society, the magic users think of the denizens of Hole as no more than insects. Murdered, mutilated, and made experiments without a second thought, the powerless Hole dwellers litter the halls of Hole’s hospital on a daily basis.
Possessing free access to and from the cesspool, and with little challenge to their authority, the magic users appear indomitable to most—aside for a few. Kaiman, more reptile than man, is one such individual. He hunts them on a heedless quest for answers with only a trusted pair of bayonets and his immunity to magic. Cursed by his appearance and tormented by nightmares, magic users are his only clue to restoring his life to normal. With his biggest obstacle being his stomach, his female companion Nikaidou, who runs the restaurant Hungry Bug, is his greatest ally.
Set in a gritty world of hellish design, Dorohedoro manages a healthy blend of comedy and lightheartedness with death and carnage. Taking plenty of twists and turns while following the lives of Hole’s residents, it weaves a unique world of unearthly origin and dreary appearance not for the squeamish or easily disturbed.
Staff
- Director: Yuichiro Hayashi
- Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
- Character Design: Tomohiro Kishi
- Music Producer: (K)NoW_NAME
- Studio: MAPPA
Cast
- Reina Kondou
- Wataru Takagi
- Yuu Kobayashi
- Yoshimasa Hosoya
- Kengo Takanashi
- Kenyu Horiuchi
- Miyu Tomita
Key Visual
Character Designs
Dorohedoro Air Date
The show will start airing on January 12, 2020. Are you looking forward to this show?
[Via Moetron News]