Review of Dorohedoro
To put it simply, Dorohedoro lacks common sense, it's insane, chaotic, and over the top, this gives it room for creativity and style, which it has a lot of. The story is basically about two worlds, Hole, a place where humans live, and the magic world, a place where magic users live, and apparently there's conflict between the two. In Hole they used to hunt magic users (like in the medieval era), and magic users used to experiment on humans, it seems like that's in the past, but honestly it's still hard for me to tell how much the relationship between the two sides have changed, theworld building is kinda lacking in this aspect.
Aside from the stylish setting, the selling point of this show are the characters, we have Kaiman, a man with a lizard face and no memories of his past, apparently he turned that way by a magic user and is looking for him to turn himself back to normal, he goes around looking for magic users to bite their heads and have the man inside his mouth talk to them, he only says one thing though "you are not the one", supposedly until someday he finds "the one".
What's that? This doesn't make sense? Well get used to it.
Next we have Nikaido, she's Kaiman's close friend, she cooks for him and helps him look for magic users, she's also pretty strong.
These two are the main characters from Hole, there are a few other side characters as well, but instead let's talk about the rest of main characters from the magic world.
Despite seeming like antagonists at first (since they're Kaiman's enemies) this group of magic users get the treatment of main characters, the most interesting member is Shin, a magic user who has the ability to chop people up to pieces while keeping them alive (you'll see all kinds of crazy magic here).
There's also Noi, Shin's partner, a huge muscular woman who has the ability to heal wounds.
En, the boss of some organization of magic users, he has the ability to turn people into mushrooms.
Fujita and Ebisu, the weaklings of the group.
The show is made of CGI but looks really good, the pale colors and dirty look on the characters make them look like they're in 2D and fit with the steampunk setting, only when the characters start moving you can tell from their fluid movement that it's CGI, also the backgrounds look beautiful.
The music is fitting for the show's chaotic nature, especially the OP, however my favorite is the second ED, it's very funny.
That's all I have to say about this show, it's an action/comedy series that doesn't take itself seriously, although it does care enough to flesh out its characters.
Dorohedoro is not a masterpiece but it's a fun watch, especially if you're a fan of steampunk settings and stylish designs, also if you're having trouble understanding what's going on in early episodes, don't worry, just give it time.