Japanese leisure big Toho is shifting forward with a 3rd season of Dorohedoro, the cult dark-fantasy anime tailored from Q Hayashida’s long-running manga, the studio revealed Wednesday.
The renewal arrives alongside the season-two finale, with returning director Yuichiro Hayashi marking the second with a commemorative illustration (full picture). MAPPA — the powerhouse studio behind Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man and Assault on Titan: The Last Season — may also return to provide the brand new season.
Dorohedoro follows Caiman, an amnesiac man whose head has been remodeled into that of a lizard, as he searches for the sorcerer liable for the curse alongside his companion Nikaido. Hayashida’s manga ran for 18 years throughout 23 volumes beginning in 2000, constructing an international cult readership on the energy of its grotesque physique horror, deadpan humor and bleak surrealist worldbuilding.
Director Yuichiro Hayashi’s illustration celebrating the Season 2 finale and Season 3 renewal.
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The anime adaptation’s first season debuted on Netflix Japan in January 2020 as a streaming unique, earlier than rolling out globally on the platform that Might. It remained a Netflix-only title outdoors Japan for practically six years. In March, Toho inked offers for the title throughout platforms. Dorohedoro‘s first and second seasons at the moment are streaming in North America on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu/Disney+ and Rakuten Viki. Season two premiered April 1 in a simultaneous world rollout.
The primary season was nominated for Anime of the Yr on the 2021 Crunchyroll Anime Awards, dropping the highest prize to fellow MAPPA title Jujutsu Kaisen. Essential reception was sturdy throughout each runs, although the franchise has remained area of interest relative to MAPPA’s bigger business properties.
Toho has not but revealed a launch date or distribution companions for the third season.
