TOHO has announced that a third season of the Dorohedoro anime series is in production. A premiere date for the third season was not revealed, as of the time of writing.
Series director Yuichiro Hayashi (Season 1 director, Attack on Titan Final Season) shared a special commemorative illustration featuring the demon, Haru, to celebrate the third season announcement.
Additionally, an animated music video for the second season’s opening theme “Zettai Must Danmen” by (K)NoW_NAME has also been released.
The second season of Dorohedoro premiered worldwide via streaming on April 1, 2026 and was simulcast on Netflix, Crunchyroll, and Animation Digital Network. It aired in Japan for a total of 11 episodes until May 27, 2026. The sequel was first announced in January 2024.
The first season aired in 2020 and is also streaming on Netflix and Crunchyroll in several countries and territories.
Other season two staff include Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan Final Season) as series composer, Tomohiro Kishi (Attack on Titan: The Last Attack) as character designer, and Fuminori Nomoto as 3DCG director. MAPPA is handling the animation production after working on the first season.
The anime’s main voice cast include:
- • Wataru Takagi as Caiman
- • Reina Kondo as Nikaido
- • Kenyu Horiuchi as En
- • Yoshimasa Hosoya as Shin
- • Yu Kobayashi as Noi
- • Koki Uchiyama as Dokuga
- • Daiki Hamano as Tetsujo
- • Yuichi Koshimura as Saji
- • Katsuhito Nomura as Ton
- • Atsushi Imaruoka as Ushishimada
- • Sara Matsumoto as Natsuki
The dark fantasy action manga series by Q Hayashida debuted in the now-defunct Monthly IKKI magazine on November 30, 2000 and was serialized there until September 25, 2014. It was later moved to the magazine Hibana, where it ran from March 6, 2015 to August 7, 2017, when it also ceased publication. The series then transferred to Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday on November 10, 2017, where it ran until September 12, 2018. Twenty-three total tankobon volumes were released in Japan.
VIZ Media licensed the Dorohedoro manga for English release, describing the main synopsis as:
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.
Source: press release
