Review of Dorohedoro

Dorohedoro is a good show I like to have some sort of opening line because writing the "hook" is one of the hardest parts of writing something imo but the strange thing about this show is it's very good but I don't have much to say about it. Since I've been on record as disliking the other 3D animated shows I've seen (although, at least for one of them, that's not really the animation's fault, I don't think I would've liked it any more if it were traditionally animated), I was curious to see how that'd affect Dorohedoro. I actually quite liked it. It kinda fits the scrungy shitholeof a world (worlds?) Dorohedoro takes place in, which I'll touch on the worldbuilding a bit more in a second.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when an anime has like 200 EDs. Not only is it (as well as all idol shows) hell to play with during anime music quizzes, I feel it just makes them more unmemorable when you aren't hearing the repetition.

For example, Chainsaw Man.

I know Kick Back. I know a couple of the EDs (namely the ones I like, particularly the Queen Bee and Eve ones). But to be honest, I kind of forgot other artists I liked like Aimer and TK from Ling tosite sigure even did EDs for it, let alone what those EDs sounded like.

In a similar manner, Dorohedoro has 6 EDs over the course of 12 episodes and that's simply too many. I could pick out the OP and I imagine that'll be true in 6 months but how many EDs will I be able to pick out in 6 months? Probably not many.

Anyway, the worldbuilding.

For a world named Hole, it is quite fittingly a shithole. It's easy to make Bad Things happen in a world but I think the show nails the atmosphere of a crappy world too. Every corner feels like it's built from rusty junkyard scrap and it's really just the absolute filth scraped off of the sorcerer world's shoe. There's a baseball episode and it has a broken-down field with one team being geriatric doctors squabbling with the rival doctor and his ragtag group of people he could find including a Frankensteined corpse, a giant cockroach(?), multiple thugs, and a man with a lizard head.

The sorcerer world is, like, more cleaned up, but you can still tell it's not the greatest either. They spend a lot of time developing the antagonists going after the protagonists and I thought this was a curious choice but I thought it paid off well. They're also a pretty lovable cast, Ebisu in particular is a highlight. I was rooting for both Shin/Noi and Fujita/Ebisu to get closer. Shin/Noi is one thing but the fact that they can take a jabroni jobber and a rather... space case comic relief character and make a compelling dynamic out of it is something I was impressed with.

It's got some good mystery too. The way they build up to Caiman and the man in his mouth and how their destinies are linked and the mystery of why Caiman is the way he is, I was very compelled.

Even the little side missions they go on like the zombie killing episode, the pie competition, and the baseball episode were very entertaining.

Yup, it is a good show and I was entertained.