Author: reubenroyk@gmail.com

An extremely well animated, well dubbed, well choreographed and well directed waste of my time.

It didn’t matter how well every other piece was crafted, at the end of the day the story was mediocre and was told poorly told. Almost every episode felt like a filler episode, only slightly aiding to progress the story. More focus was instead paid to making cool looking action sequences.

The series is still on-going. Maybe the next few episodes will make it all worth it. But presently I wouldn’t feel the need to recommend the series to anyone.

I can’t really figure out what’s wrong though. Something similar was done in John Wick, it was a splendid success, and I really loved it too. Maybe it was the feeling that the main characters were in no real risk of death or serious injury. I never felt much excitement or fear during the fights.

There was a sequence where a main character almost lost an arm, you would be shocked for a quick second, after which you would remember again that nothing serious would ever happen to the main characters. The crew would jump into dangerous situations left and right as if nothing could hurt them.

It was quite well animated though. All the background characters had were pretty well written too. It’s just that most of the episodes felt unnecessary.

Unique!

From the starting to the end Dorohedoro has been so unique in almost every way that you just want to keep watching and see what happens next.

The world is so different, so violent and so mysterious, but so believable. The world building in Dorohedoro is fantastic.

Caiman has a lizard head, why?

– Dunno.

There’s another person inside Caiman’s mouth, what’s that about?

– No clue.

What is happening?

– Sure hope we’ll find out.

There are so many things that aren’t explained in the story, but it all adds to the mystery element, only making us more engaged in the story. Seeing people live normal happy lives even as the whole world looks like it’s coming apart around them also adds character to the show.

Writing: Very good. The characters are so easy to like and world build around them so easy to believe.

World Building: While mysterious, brutal and chaotic, the world that been crafted is very well made. Caiman has spikes on his head so when he sleeps, the pillow sticks to his head. Caiman also brushes his lizard teeth just as normal people do. The main characters have normal jobs, hobbies and lives just as any normal person would have. The

Excitement: The main characters are not invulnerable at all. There is a very real risk of something really bad happening to one of them, and because of this there are no fights where you can just sit back and enjoy the show, something serious could happen in the next 30 minutes.

Sound: Excellent. Excellent dubbing too.

Music: Great. But some songs have meaningless lyrics with words thrown together seemingly at random.

Age Restricted: Yes. A guy dies a very gruesome death in the first 3 minutes of the show. It will give you an idea of what sort of violence to expect from the rest of the show.

Should you watch it?

– If you can stomach some blood and violence, then yes.

I believe this was the anime I recommended to the most number of people. Most didn’t really give it a shot though.

My main selling point was that the entire runtime was only around 3 hours. Only a little longer than a movie.

It can be quite disturbing though, perhaps I should recommend this less.