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ドロヘドロ [Dorohedoro] #11
Dorohedoro, Vol. 11
A blood-spattered battle between diabolical sorcerers and the monsters they created.
In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers has 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.
Caiman finds his true face, and the person who cursed him is revealed, shaking the world to its foundation! The severely injured Nikaido's heath is draining perilously. Meanwhile, En may just possibly have met his match. What drives him? A dark secret known to none save En himself...
Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for mature audiences.
In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers has 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.
Caiman finds his true face, and the person who cursed him is revealed, shaking the world to its foundation! The severely injured Nikaido's heath is draining perilously. Meanwhile, En may just possibly have met his match. What drives him? A dark secret known to none save En himself...
Reads R to L (Japanese Style) for mature audiences.
178 pages, Paperback
First published February 29, 2008
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About the author
Q. Hayashida
81 books604 followersQ Hayashida (林田球, Hayashida Kyu) is a manga author from Tokyo.
Hayashida studied oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has discussed her childhood and artistic inspirations in interviews but maintains a high level of privacy about her personal life, to the point that her true name and face are unknown.
Hayashida's first major manga was Maken X Another (1999-2001), a comic book adaptation of a video game.
Her most famous work is the 23-volumes long Dorohedoro (2000-2018). It was originally serialised in the alternative manga magazine 'Monthly Ikki', but it was later moved to 'Hibana' when Ikki ceased publication, and finally transferred to 'Monthly Shōnen Sunday'. Dorohedoro has been partially adapted into an anime on Netflix in 2018.
Hayashida's most recent manga series Dai Dark began serialisation in 2019 in the pages of Monthly Shōnen Sunday.
Hayashida studied oil painting at Tokyo University of the Arts. She has discussed her childhood and artistic inspirations in interviews but maintains a high level of privacy about her personal life, to the point that her true name and face are unknown.
Hayashida's first major manga was Maken X Another (1999-2001), a comic book adaptation of a video game.
Her most famous work is the 23-volumes long Dorohedoro (2000-2018). It was originally serialised in the alternative manga magazine 'Monthly Ikki', but it was later moved to 'Hibana' when Ikki ceased publication, and finally transferred to 'Monthly Shōnen Sunday'. Dorohedoro has been partially adapted into an anime on Netflix in 2018.
Hayashida's most recent manga series Dai Dark began serialisation in 2019 in the pages of Monthly Shōnen Sunday.
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October 11, 2020
My actual, real-life, audible reaction to that ending:
*Gasp* Nooooo. How. Dare. You.
So yeah, good stuff.
*Gasp* Nooooo. How. Dare. You.
So yeah, good stuff.
December 7, 2021
Cómico, bizarro y grotesco, aderezado con un dibujo magnífico. No digo nada que no sepan ya todos los que conocen este manga.
En este tomo en particular se profundiza más en el misterio de Caimán y aparece por primera vez Aikawa (no por nada aparece en la portada). Por eso y más motivos creo que es un tomo que merece ser destacado. Marca un punto de inflexión en la trama y a partir de aquí miraremos a Caimán con verdadero interés por saber qué se supone que es.
Y no diré nada más porque difícilmente podría especificar más sin revelar ningún aspecto fundamental de la historia.
En este tomo en particular se profundiza más en el misterio de Caimán y aparece por primera vez Aikawa (no por nada aparece en la portada). Por eso y más motivos creo que es un tomo que merece ser destacado. Marca un punto de inflexión en la trama y a partir de aquí miraremos a Caimán con verdadero interés por saber qué se supone que es.
Y no diré nada más porque difícilmente podría especificar más sin revelar ningún aspecto fundamental de la historia.
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October 16, 2021The way this series rots my brain in the best way possible. Literally this mangaka is insane, adore her. The ending I shrieked on the train
March 16, 2022
Me ha salido un *gasp* en voz alta. Madre mía cómo se está poniendo esto. Qué maravilla.
April 23, 2020
Four and a half. This is a general review of volumes 10 and 11.
This week I'm working from home because of the whole people dying stuff, but I'm still swamped with tasks and with no break in sight, given that I'll likely be working through the summer as well. At home ironically I have more issues concentrating enough to read even when I get the chance, and I can't focus enough to write the reviews. So I just remember general stuff about what happened in these great couple of volumes, but I still felt compelled to write something about them.
We left Ebisu, the skull-masked, previously half-retarded magician with the ability to turn herself or others into reptiles, as she had recovered her previous mental state and realized that she had parents. She abandons the mafia-like family that had sheltered her, leaving her best friend behind as well, and marches towards the isolated house of her parents. Her friend likes her and worries enough to follow her against her wishes. She tricks him into following her into a shady club only to leave unseen, and the guy almost gets killed by the local gang. It made me lose quite a few sympathy points for this weird girl.
When she arrives at her parents', she ends up facing her own face. Her parents, bereaved after her only daughter had disappeared mysteriously, had made a pact with some shady magician, who had created a sort of demonic clone of her daughter. But as these things go, the clone ended up being a hardcore psychopath, and the parents fled never to be seen again. The only adult remaining is Ebisu's grandmother. As the old woman explains the crazy situation to Ebisu, the psychopathic clone bursts into the room and caves the grandmother's skull in with a tray of cookies, because the woman had burned the cookies or whatever. Ebisu doesn't like that her grandmother was murdered, so she takes some powdered magic essence, the local version of cocaine, to power up and destroy this bitch. Memorably, she turns into a dinosaur and begins tearing her clone apart. As the clone laid almost in pieces, Ebisu's friend comes in and sees her in trouble. That distracts Ebisu enough so that the clone attacks with her morphing arm turned into sharp stuff, and rips through a quarter of Ebisu's torso and her skull. The friend, shocked but having to fight for his life as well, gobbles up the magic cocaine and becomes the kind of powerful he always wanted to be. He destroys the clone. However, Ebisu is dying: the friend attempts frantically to keep together the separated halves of her brain. She ends up dying in his arms. However, this is a world in which people can revive if they know the right person (usually a magician), so he does what others had before him: he carries the rotting corpse of his friend towards home.
Regarding our beloved alligator head dude and his restaurant woman/time magician best friend, they had been fleeing from the main bad guy as well as trying to find out who alligator dude was in his previous life, pre amnesia, and also to run into the breathing version of the gang member that alligator fella has in his magical mouth. It's hard to summarize anything for this series, because little of it makes sense unless you've been following it. In any case, I don't remember much of this sequence except that the big bad guy, mushroom fellow, who can turn entire towns into mushrooms if needed, has found their position and teletransports right in front of them. The mushroom guy had intended to forcefully turn Nikaido, the time magician, into his partner because that would allow him to go back in time and figure out if he actually killed the serial killer of magicians who had almost killed him. Alligator head dude won't allow his beloved to slip away from his non-clawed hands, and he confronts the terrifying magician. Nikaido is stunned at her best friend's decision to throw away his existence to save her. Although alligator head dude is immune to magic, he isn't immune to breathing spores and then having those mushrooms explode-grow through his stomach, which is what happens. Even though his intestines are falling through the hole in his torso, he faces the mushroom dude and breaks his mouth with a punch. In the grand scheme of things, though, that doesn't accomplish much, and mushroom dude ends up leaving through a portal with Nikaido. The alligator head dude lays dying, and actually dies or something. The "or something" is important in this series. In the middle of all this, alligator head dude turned magically into regular human head dude. Nikaido had a glimpse of this stranger's face shortly before she was kidnapped.
Along the way we learn more about who the protagonist was before his head got transmogrified into a reptile's. He used to live in the Hole, the world of the non-magic users, as a sort of orphan. Angry and bitter, he sought the way to become powerful and fight back against the system, I don't recall if just out of general powerlessness or because some magician killed his parents or whatever. The doctor character, who looked back then as if he were in his forties (a contraposition to how he looks in the present of this story, when he appears to be in his early twenties. This is a world full of magic, so almost anything could have happened to turn him younger), took pity on this guy and let him into his experiments to figure out how magic users operate. After the kid risks his life to save a magic user and lays dying, he begs the doctor to operate on him and test his theory about how to turn non-magic users into magicians. The doctor proceeds with the operation, which I suppose involves a transplant (maybe he transplanted from a corpse the literal little demon that all magic users have lodged inside their brains). The kid survived. Although his mood got darker and darker, maybe an obvious consequence of having a little demon inside his brain, he claimed that the operation was a success and he was now a magic user. However, some days after, the doctor finds the kid's corpse. Sad, the doctor leaves the whole thing be, but in the present he has realized that it was that kid's face, but grown, the one he had seen in the statues of the big boss of the gang our protagonist alligator head dude was pursuing. All the threads are coming together: the protagonist used to be this kid, who got sort of killed but survived and somehow ended up as a legendary, hardcore serial killer of magicians, only to be transformed into a reptile after some encounter, which erased his memories of his previous life.
We find out that the former demon, and childhood mentor of Nikaido, who had gotten ripped out of his demonic form and flayed, had teletransported to where the dead protagonist was lying. He then fled with his corpse. However, the next thing the former demon knows is that he woke up next to a very alive person wearing the clothes of the protagonist. He's wearing a mask, yet he clearly doesn't have an alligator head anymore. In a nice twist, this reborn version of the protagonist, now called Aikawa, lacks the memories of his years long stint as a partial member of the reptile genus, and more tragically he has no clue about who this Nikaido person is, although she used to be his very best friend in the whole world. The former demon is confused, but they both end up teletransporting to mushroom fellow's mansion and visiting Nikaido. The poor woman has been resisting the forceful partnership, and as a result her body is wasting away. Mushrooms are growing out of one of her eyes and also presumably growing through her insides, and she needs to use a cane to move when she gets enough energy to leave the bed. She's only kept together by Noi's restoration magic hooked to her veins. In any case, she gets the sense that this big fella is her best friend, although he has no clue what she's talking about. She asks to see his face. When he refuses, she attacks him, frantically trying to figure out if he has the same face she saw back when the former alligator head dude was fighting for her life. He defeats her rather abruptly (he wraps his legs around her torso and crashes her head against a wall), but he's moved by this heavily injured babe's dedication, so he shows her his face. She isn't sure, however, if he looks like she expected him to.
At some point Ebisu, the reptile magician, gets revived. However, she had been wearing a "cheer inducing" charm as a hair clip, given to her corpse by the gay henchman who now walks around with a mushroom instead of a head, and in the process of sealing her brain into a whole, the charm fell inside. As a result Ebisu is alive and finds everything extremely hilarious, to the disgrace of the moody people around her, who get annoyed and tired of the constant mockery.
I didn't mention that when alligator head dude died, the gang member's ghost or whatever that was living inside of him leaves his body, and laments out loud that he wasn't the one to kill the protagonist. He then flies away to find the living version of his body, who hangs tied in a gang hideout. Despite the gang member's reluctance, the spectre climbs inside him through his mouth, and he transforms into a sort of superpowered living curse. He injures a couple of gang members rather bad, which afterwards will force the remaining members, even though they are broke, to focus their efforts on acquiring medicines, and the living curse flees. What I can gather about this presence is that maybe he's the evil that had been lodged inside the protagonist and that had "forced" him to become a serial killer of magicians. Now that the otherworldly force lives inside another host, he beelines towards his nemesis: the mushroom fellow.
Mushroom guy had spent the last few years obsessing over the monster who almost killed him, and endures the nightmares to this day. His recent efforts had been focused on getting access to a time magician in order to travel to that moment in the past when he could certify whether he actually killed his nemesis. In a sudden turn of events, the living curse appears in the mushroom guy's mansion with clear intent to murder him. The mushroom guy, uncharacteristically terrified, faces the monster. Although we've seen this guy destroy anyone he wanted, he gets slaughtered: we see one of the main gang members as he witnesses how the living curse carries away the mushroom guy's decapitated head. I hope the guy doesn't remain dead; despite how much he's fucked things up for the protagonists, he's a very compelling character with a sympathetic edge to him.
I suspect that other important stuff happens that has fallen through the many holes in my tired brain, but what can you do.
This week I'm working from home because of the whole people dying stuff, but I'm still swamped with tasks and with no break in sight, given that I'll likely be working through the summer as well. At home ironically I have more issues concentrating enough to read even when I get the chance, and I can't focus enough to write the reviews. So I just remember general stuff about what happened in these great couple of volumes, but I still felt compelled to write something about them.
We left Ebisu, the skull-masked, previously half-retarded magician with the ability to turn herself or others into reptiles, as she had recovered her previous mental state and realized that she had parents. She abandons the mafia-like family that had sheltered her, leaving her best friend behind as well, and marches towards the isolated house of her parents. Her friend likes her and worries enough to follow her against her wishes. She tricks him into following her into a shady club only to leave unseen, and the guy almost gets killed by the local gang. It made me lose quite a few sympathy points for this weird girl.
When she arrives at her parents', she ends up facing her own face. Her parents, bereaved after her only daughter had disappeared mysteriously, had made a pact with some shady magician, who had created a sort of demonic clone of her daughter. But as these things go, the clone ended up being a hardcore psychopath, and the parents fled never to be seen again. The only adult remaining is Ebisu's grandmother. As the old woman explains the crazy situation to Ebisu, the psychopathic clone bursts into the room and caves the grandmother's skull in with a tray of cookies, because the woman had burned the cookies or whatever. Ebisu doesn't like that her grandmother was murdered, so she takes some powdered magic essence, the local version of cocaine, to power up and destroy this bitch. Memorably, she turns into a dinosaur and begins tearing her clone apart. As the clone laid almost in pieces, Ebisu's friend comes in and sees her in trouble. That distracts Ebisu enough so that the clone attacks with her morphing arm turned into sharp stuff, and rips through a quarter of Ebisu's torso and her skull. The friend, shocked but having to fight for his life as well, gobbles up the magic cocaine and becomes the kind of powerful he always wanted to be. He destroys the clone. However, Ebisu is dying: the friend attempts frantically to keep together the separated halves of her brain. She ends up dying in his arms. However, this is a world in which people can revive if they know the right person (usually a magician), so he does what others had before him: he carries the rotting corpse of his friend towards home.
Regarding our beloved alligator head dude and his restaurant woman/time magician best friend, they had been fleeing from the main bad guy as well as trying to find out who alligator dude was in his previous life, pre amnesia, and also to run into the breathing version of the gang member that alligator fella has in his magical mouth. It's hard to summarize anything for this series, because little of it makes sense unless you've been following it. In any case, I don't remember much of this sequence except that the big bad guy, mushroom fellow, who can turn entire towns into mushrooms if needed, has found their position and teletransports right in front of them. The mushroom guy had intended to forcefully turn Nikaido, the time magician, into his partner because that would allow him to go back in time and figure out if he actually killed the serial killer of magicians who had almost killed him. Alligator head dude won't allow his beloved to slip away from his non-clawed hands, and he confronts the terrifying magician. Nikaido is stunned at her best friend's decision to throw away his existence to save her. Although alligator head dude is immune to magic, he isn't immune to breathing spores and then having those mushrooms explode-grow through his stomach, which is what happens. Even though his intestines are falling through the hole in his torso, he faces the mushroom dude and breaks his mouth with a punch. In the grand scheme of things, though, that doesn't accomplish much, and mushroom dude ends up leaving through a portal with Nikaido. The alligator head dude lays dying, and actually dies or something. The "or something" is important in this series. In the middle of all this, alligator head dude turned magically into regular human head dude. Nikaido had a glimpse of this stranger's face shortly before she was kidnapped.
Along the way we learn more about who the protagonist was before his head got transmogrified into a reptile's. He used to live in the Hole, the world of the non-magic users, as a sort of orphan. Angry and bitter, he sought the way to become powerful and fight back against the system, I don't recall if just out of general powerlessness or because some magician killed his parents or whatever. The doctor character, who looked back then as if he were in his forties (a contraposition to how he looks in the present of this story, when he appears to be in his early twenties. This is a world full of magic, so almost anything could have happened to turn him younger), took pity on this guy and let him into his experiments to figure out how magic users operate. After the kid risks his life to save a magic user and lays dying, he begs the doctor to operate on him and test his theory about how to turn non-magic users into magicians. The doctor proceeds with the operation, which I suppose involves a transplant (maybe he transplanted from a corpse the literal little demon that all magic users have lodged inside their brains). The kid survived. Although his mood got darker and darker, maybe an obvious consequence of having a little demon inside his brain, he claimed that the operation was a success and he was now a magic user. However, some days after, the doctor finds the kid's corpse. Sad, the doctor leaves the whole thing be, but in the present he has realized that it was that kid's face, but grown, the one he had seen in the statues of the big boss of the gang our protagonist alligator head dude was pursuing. All the threads are coming together: the protagonist used to be this kid, who got sort of killed but survived and somehow ended up as a legendary, hardcore serial killer of magicians, only to be transformed into a reptile after some encounter, which erased his memories of his previous life.
We find out that the former demon, and childhood mentor of Nikaido, who had gotten ripped out of his demonic form and flayed, had teletransported to where the dead protagonist was lying. He then fled with his corpse. However, the next thing the former demon knows is that he woke up next to a very alive person wearing the clothes of the protagonist. He's wearing a mask, yet he clearly doesn't have an alligator head anymore. In a nice twist, this reborn version of the protagonist, now called Aikawa, lacks the memories of his years long stint as a partial member of the reptile genus, and more tragically he has no clue about who this Nikaido person is, although she used to be his very best friend in the whole world. The former demon is confused, but they both end up teletransporting to mushroom fellow's mansion and visiting Nikaido. The poor woman has been resisting the forceful partnership, and as a result her body is wasting away. Mushrooms are growing out of one of her eyes and also presumably growing through her insides, and she needs to use a cane to move when she gets enough energy to leave the bed. She's only kept together by Noi's restoration magic hooked to her veins. In any case, she gets the sense that this big fella is her best friend, although he has no clue what she's talking about. She asks to see his face. When he refuses, she attacks him, frantically trying to figure out if he has the same face she saw back when the former alligator head dude was fighting for her life. He defeats her rather abruptly (he wraps his legs around her torso and crashes her head against a wall), but he's moved by this heavily injured babe's dedication, so he shows her his face. She isn't sure, however, if he looks like she expected him to.
At some point Ebisu, the reptile magician, gets revived. However, she had been wearing a "cheer inducing" charm as a hair clip, given to her corpse by the gay henchman who now walks around with a mushroom instead of a head, and in the process of sealing her brain into a whole, the charm fell inside. As a result Ebisu is alive and finds everything extremely hilarious, to the disgrace of the moody people around her, who get annoyed and tired of the constant mockery.
I didn't mention that when alligator head dude died, the gang member's ghost or whatever that was living inside of him leaves his body, and laments out loud that he wasn't the one to kill the protagonist. He then flies away to find the living version of his body, who hangs tied in a gang hideout. Despite the gang member's reluctance, the spectre climbs inside him through his mouth, and he transforms into a sort of superpowered living curse. He injures a couple of gang members rather bad, which afterwards will force the remaining members, even though they are broke, to focus their efforts on acquiring medicines, and the living curse flees. What I can gather about this presence is that maybe he's the evil that had been lodged inside the protagonist and that had "forced" him to become a serial killer of magicians. Now that the otherworldly force lives inside another host, he beelines towards his nemesis: the mushroom fellow.
Mushroom guy had spent the last few years obsessing over the monster who almost killed him, and endures the nightmares to this day. His recent efforts had been focused on getting access to a time magician in order to travel to that moment in the past when he could certify whether he actually killed his nemesis. In a sudden turn of events, the living curse appears in the mushroom guy's mansion with clear intent to murder him. The mushroom guy, uncharacteristically terrified, faces the monster. Although we've seen this guy destroy anyone he wanted, he gets slaughtered: we see one of the main gang members as he witnesses how the living curse carries away the mushroom guy's decapitated head. I hope the guy doesn't remain dead; despite how much he's fucked things up for the protagonists, he's a very compelling character with a sympathetic edge to him.
I suspect that other important stuff happens that has fallen through the many holes in my tired brain, but what can you do.
September 18, 2021
( I am currently re-reading the series, my review will be edited later! I enjoyed all of the volumes though! :D)
All of my Dorohedoro reviews are actually a summary of what I've read & some thoughts!
I have the memory of a goldfish.
[RE-READ] SEPTEMBER 2021
TW: Strong language, blood & gore, graphic violence, body horror, decapitated bodies, bullying, suicidal tendencies, nudity
Rating: 5 stars
The book starts with Fujita rushing Ebisu to En's mansion. En is seen relaxing in a hot bath. Shin shares that although they couldn't find Caiman's body, they found his head. Meanwhile, Noi is in another part of the mansion healing Nikaido. However, something is blocking her magic. The only thing that can do that is the devil. Nikaido seems to be suppressing the contract from the very beginning. As Noi couldn't do anything, Nikaido's fate seems unclear.
The soul or curse of Risu from Caiman's body found its true owner and proceeded to enter Risu. His body dramatically changed and is seen having 4 pair of eyes. When the cross-eyes gang arrived at their hide-out (now with Natsuki), we see Risu introducing himself as 'Curse'. Remember in volume 8 when the teacher mentioned the curse? It's a rare ability. It looks like our friend Risu is not a low-rank sorcerer, after all. Risu is now strong and going ballistic. The gang tries to stop him. A few of them got injured.
Meanwhile, we finally see Asu/ Kawajiri in a dark corner of a forest. Still weak, apparently he was able to save Caiman from the ruins. Caiman seems to be dead. Kawajiri blacks out.
We see Caiman reuniting with Nikaido at the Hole. Apparently, it's one of his nightmares again. This time he is seen hurting Nikaido. As it rains in Hole, everyone is seen without heads. One of the headless bodies arrives at a building. The room is filled with coffins. It seems to be filled with sludge. The headless body entered a hole in the wall. The hole turns out to be inside someone's mouth. We then see Caiman (Aikawa?) rising from one of the coffins filled with sludge. He shares with the headless body that he had a nightmare where he killed someone he loved (NIKAIDOOOOO??????). He mentions that his has happened before.
We see flashbacks of Dokuga offering someone a bag of smoke, Risu sharing a secret and Nikaido...To be honest, I am confused by this part. We just know that Caiman (Aikawa) wants to die and be freed of all this headache. There's more of the sludge thing and smoke. Then we see a hand, which I presumed to be Caiman's at the forest, moves slightly showing signs of life.
Back at En's mansion, we see Nikaido on bedrest and is visited by Shin, Noi and Prof Kasukabe. They showed her Caiman's reptile head. Meanwhile, Fujita asks permission from En to use Judas's Ear to revive Ebisu. En seems unfazed by her death (I know she is not a registered member of the family, but still! Have some compassion, man!) En revealed that he has never given orders for Judas's Ear. Reviving Ebisu is all up to the dog. Fujita tries to lure Judas's Ear but to no avail.
Prof Kasukabe mentions that the reptile head has already been autopsied. Apparently, it's the head that someone had stolen from volume 2. The sorcerers seem to be cooperating with the humans. Even Shin refused to tell En that there were hammer marks on the neck of the head when he chopped it off back in Hole. Nikaido revealed to Prof that Caiman got his face back.
We see Fujita entering the room with Ebisu's corpse. Judas's Ears runs from him yet again. He mentions that if Caiman's back to normal, that means the one who cast the spell has to be Ebisu. Prof checks out Ebisu's devil tumour and it seems to be intact. Shin advice him to go to Noi to heal her injuries first before resurrecting the body. Again, nobody seems unfazed about her death. Fujita picks up on this too. He ran into Chota. Chota is still alive and kicking but with a mushroom head. Fujita asks why Chota won't reverse the magic himself (He's so quick thinking!). Chota revealed that he can. He still wants to enjoy En's mushroom scent (This man, I swear. His obsession is getting out of hand). Chota learns about Ebisu's death and gave her a charm that was given to him by a devil. If you wear it in your hair, it guarantees eternal happiness. We see the corpse smiling (PLEASE REVIVE HER, POOR BABY!).
Fujita left Chota's room and finds Noi training with En's mushroom dolls. She healed Ebisu's injury. The charm got accidentally sealed into her skull. He proceeded to carry Ebisu and search for Judas's Ear once more. En had installed a security system in Judas's Ear collar which spits out knives when provoked. Fujita lays Ebisu in her bed and plans to try again the next day. We see the dog entering her room asking for treats. She doesn't seem to be moving and we see her finally getting resurrected.
En woke up with a nightmare. It's a memory from six years ago. He intends to force Nikaido to use her magic. A month has passed since Nikaido's kidnapping. Chota still keeps his mushroom head and Ebisu got a new mask. Thanks to the charm, she seems to be happy all the time. I miss loud and loopy Ebisu!! Welcome back, girl! She will never return to her original state, isn't she?
Nikaido on the other hand is in poor shape. With En's contract stuck inside her, she gets weaker every day. She lost one of her legs and an eye is sprouting mushrooms. She continues to be bullied by Chota.
Meanwhile, at Berith, we see Dokuga working hard to pay for Ton's and Tetsujo's treatments to cure their injuries caused by "Curse". Natsuki is also seen coming home from her job of waitressing. After working hard for a month, it's still isn't enough to help Ton and Tetsujo. Saji and Ushishimada came up with the idea to pawn their Boss's knife. Dokuga is opposed to the idea. He intends to give the knife back to the boss and promised to get money by tomorrow.
We see Dokuga disguising as a girl by borrowing (steal, more like) Natsuki's waitress outfit. He arrives at the Shy-Tang clan building. Apparently, they deal in recovery magic. They're all sorcerers with rare medical abilities. The only way to get medical smoke is from one of their shops. It's impossible to sneak in. However, they call girls every day to party. Dokuga managed to blend in with the other girls. Using his spit, he poisons the punch. Everyone died except for the Shy-Tang members. Dokuga manages to fight them all without any magic! He proceeds to steal the healing magic.
In another part of the realm, we see a badly injured Asu and healthy Aikawa (Quit playing, you're Caiman!). Aikawa woke up next to Kawajiri in the forest (so it is Caiman!) and brought him to a hut.
We see him installing the 'bandage mask' for facial injuries (the one Natsuki put on Caiman back in volume 9) on Asu/Kawajiri and covered his entire body in gauges! He looks cute!
Somehow, he doesn't know anything about En's mansion or the lizard head. He seems to not know who Nikaido is too.
Kawajiri thought that he had confused Aikawa with Caiman when he was in Berith. IT IS CAIMAN, DAMN IT. RIGHT? Although still badly injured and healing, Asu transports to En's mansion with his magic. Aikawa proceeds to come along.
En found out about the Shy-Tang clan murder. He knew that they were killed by a single attacker with knives. Knives = Cross-eyes. En suspects it's the Cross-Eyes Boss doing. He sent his cleaners out to kill him. Shin and Noi seem relaxed about leaving Prof alone this time. He has gained their trust, for sure! Prof asked Shin about meeting a devil.
En and Chota have tea together. I'm surprised that En agrees to this? He shares with Chota that he is getting impatient. He is getting nervous about the cross-eyes boss. Chota is weirded out by this because why is someone as powerful as En is afraid of the cross-eyes boss? He revealed to him that he actually was almost killed. His mushroom magic engulfing the whole area was the reason why he survived.
We see Kawajiri and Aikawa arriving at En's mansion. Aikawa is impressed by Kawajiri's magic. They search for Nikaido's room. Kawajiri finally reunited with Nikaido, who is in very poor shape.
Kawajiri asked Nikaido to leave with him. She notices Aikawa. She recognises his voice and asks him to take off his mask! ASDFGHJKL! ITS CAIMAN DEFINITELYYYYY
Aikawa flees. Nikaido ran after him. The two fights. Nikaido got a hold of him and he takes off his mask!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THISSCENEHASMYHEART OKICANDIEINPEACENOWBYE ACTUALLYNOIWANTTHEMTOBETOGETHERATHUNGRYBUGAGAIN PLEASETURNITINTOACOOKINGSHOWONCEMOREIMISSTHECOOKINGANDEATING
After revealing his face, he runs off.
Nikaido plans to go after him. As she was disconnected from the IV (filled with Noi's healing powers), she became weaker and mushrooms start sprouting out of her body. We see Aikawa wandering inside the mansion and getting another headache. We see 'Curse' on a tree doing God knows what. On a hunt to kill Aikawa?
Fujita is annoyed by Ebisu's new personality. As they walk to see En, the corridor begins to distort. He sees a headless body on the opposite corridor but nobody is there.
En walks with Chota to see Nikaido. He seems desperate to use her magic. They found a terrified Judas's Ear hiding. His colour defence system was activated and there's blood on him. The room began to distort and we see Aikawa/Caiman (with cross-eyes? Cross-eyes BOSS?) on the other side of the corridor. En didn't hesitate to send Chota away with Judas's Ear. He trusts him in keeping the dog safe. As Chota is being teleported away with Judas's Ear in his arms, Aikawa/Caiman and En begins to fight. Despite being a powerful sorcerer, the cross-eyes was able to outsmart him. Just like that, En was killed. Since En died, his magic wears off. Chota's mushroom head disappears. He calls out to him upon learning his demise.
Fujita finds En's head being taken away. Meanwhile, at Shy-Tang's shop, Shin and Noi look over Berith Hot Springs in shock. They watch as En's mushroom magic slowly disappears and learns of his death.
Extra chapter: Focuses on the cross-eyes the day Curse attacked them. Since Dokuga's spit is deadly, he got his own toothbrush, plates, silverware, he can't laugh or raise his voice. HAHAHAHA. They all prepare for Evil Night. It's when devils roam Berith to grant the wishes of the people of their hometown. They all made their wishes. Natsuki wishes to make Dokuga laugh and he did! So cute.
All of my Dorohedoro reviews are actually a summary of what I've read & some thoughts!
I have the memory of a goldfish.
[RE-READ] SEPTEMBER 2021
TW: Strong language, blood & gore, graphic violence, body horror, decapitated bodies, bullying, suicidal tendencies, nudity
Rating: 5 stars
The book starts with Fujita rushing Ebisu to En's mansion. En is seen relaxing in a hot bath. Shin shares that although they couldn't find Caiman's body, they found his head. Meanwhile, Noi is in another part of the mansion healing Nikaido. However, something is blocking her magic. The only thing that can do that is the devil. Nikaido seems to be suppressing the contract from the very beginning. As Noi couldn't do anything, Nikaido's fate seems unclear.
The soul or curse of Risu from Caiman's body found its true owner and proceeded to enter Risu. His body dramatically changed and is seen having 4 pair of eyes. When the cross-eyes gang arrived at their hide-out (now with Natsuki), we see Risu introducing himself as 'Curse'. Remember in volume 8 when the teacher mentioned the curse? It's a rare ability. It looks like our friend Risu is not a low-rank sorcerer, after all. Risu is now strong and going ballistic. The gang tries to stop him. A few of them got injured.
Meanwhile, we finally see Asu/ Kawajiri in a dark corner of a forest. Still weak, apparently he was able to save Caiman from the ruins. Caiman seems to be dead. Kawajiri blacks out.
We see Caiman reuniting with Nikaido at the Hole. Apparently, it's one of his nightmares again. This time he is seen hurting Nikaido. As it rains in Hole, everyone is seen without heads. One of the headless bodies arrives at a building. The room is filled with coffins. It seems to be filled with sludge. The headless body entered a hole in the wall. The hole turns out to be inside someone's mouth. We then see Caiman (Aikawa?) rising from one of the coffins filled with sludge. He shares with the headless body that he had a nightmare where he killed someone he loved (NIKAIDOOOOO??????). He mentions that his has happened before.
We see flashbacks of Dokuga offering someone a bag of smoke, Risu sharing a secret and Nikaido...To be honest, I am confused by this part. We just know that Caiman (Aikawa) wants to die and be freed of all this headache. There's more of the sludge thing and smoke. Then we see a hand, which I presumed to be Caiman's at the forest, moves slightly showing signs of life.
Back at En's mansion, we see Nikaido on bedrest and is visited by Shin, Noi and Prof Kasukabe. They showed her Caiman's reptile head. Meanwhile, Fujita asks permission from En to use Judas's Ear to revive Ebisu. En seems unfazed by her death (I know she is not a registered member of the family, but still! Have some compassion, man!) En revealed that he has never given orders for Judas's Ear. Reviving Ebisu is all up to the dog. Fujita tries to lure Judas's Ear but to no avail.
Prof Kasukabe mentions that the reptile head has already been autopsied. Apparently, it's the head that someone had stolen from volume 2. The sorcerers seem to be cooperating with the humans. Even Shin refused to tell En that there were hammer marks on the neck of the head when he chopped it off back in Hole. Nikaido revealed to Prof that Caiman got his face back.
We see Fujita entering the room with Ebisu's corpse. Judas's Ears runs from him yet again. He mentions that if Caiman's back to normal, that means the one who cast the spell has to be Ebisu. Prof checks out Ebisu's devil tumour and it seems to be intact. Shin advice him to go to Noi to heal her injuries first before resurrecting the body. Again, nobody seems unfazed about her death. Fujita picks up on this too. He ran into Chota. Chota is still alive and kicking but with a mushroom head. Fujita asks why Chota won't reverse the magic himself (He's so quick thinking!). Chota revealed that he can. He still wants to enjoy En's mushroom scent (This man, I swear. His obsession is getting out of hand). Chota learns about Ebisu's death and gave her a charm that was given to him by a devil. If you wear it in your hair, it guarantees eternal happiness. We see the corpse smiling (PLEASE REVIVE HER, POOR BABY!).
Fujita left Chota's room and finds Noi training with En's mushroom dolls. She healed Ebisu's injury. The charm got accidentally sealed into her skull. He proceeded to carry Ebisu and search for Judas's Ear once more. En had installed a security system in Judas's Ear collar which spits out knives when provoked. Fujita lays Ebisu in her bed and plans to try again the next day. We see the dog entering her room asking for treats. She doesn't seem to be moving and we see her finally getting resurrected.
En woke up with a nightmare. It's a memory from six years ago. He intends to force Nikaido to use her magic. A month has passed since Nikaido's kidnapping. Chota still keeps his mushroom head and Ebisu got a new mask. Thanks to the charm, she seems to be happy all the time. I miss loud and loopy Ebisu!! Welcome back, girl! She will never return to her original state, isn't she?
Nikaido on the other hand is in poor shape. With En's contract stuck inside her, she gets weaker every day. She lost one of her legs and an eye is sprouting mushrooms. She continues to be bullied by Chota.
Meanwhile, at Berith, we see Dokuga working hard to pay for Ton's and Tetsujo's treatments to cure their injuries caused by "Curse". Natsuki is also seen coming home from her job of waitressing. After working hard for a month, it's still isn't enough to help Ton and Tetsujo. Saji and Ushishimada came up with the idea to pawn their Boss's knife. Dokuga is opposed to the idea. He intends to give the knife back to the boss and promised to get money by tomorrow.
We see Dokuga disguising as a girl by borrowing (steal, more like) Natsuki's waitress outfit. He arrives at the Shy-Tang clan building. Apparently, they deal in recovery magic. They're all sorcerers with rare medical abilities. The only way to get medical smoke is from one of their shops. It's impossible to sneak in. However, they call girls every day to party. Dokuga managed to blend in with the other girls. Using his spit, he poisons the punch. Everyone died except for the Shy-Tang members. Dokuga manages to fight them all without any magic! He proceeds to steal the healing magic.
In another part of the realm, we see a badly injured Asu and healthy Aikawa (Quit playing, you're Caiman!). Aikawa woke up next to Kawajiri in the forest (so it is Caiman!) and brought him to a hut.
We see him installing the 'bandage mask' for facial injuries (the one Natsuki put on Caiman back in volume 9) on Asu/Kawajiri and covered his entire body in gauges! He looks cute!
Somehow, he doesn't know anything about En's mansion or the lizard head. He seems to not know who Nikaido is too.
Kawajiri thought that he had confused Aikawa with Caiman when he was in Berith. IT IS CAIMAN, DAMN IT. RIGHT? Although still badly injured and healing, Asu transports to En's mansion with his magic. Aikawa proceeds to come along.
En found out about the Shy-Tang clan murder. He knew that they were killed by a single attacker with knives. Knives = Cross-eyes. En suspects it's the Cross-Eyes Boss doing. He sent his cleaners out to kill him. Shin and Noi seem relaxed about leaving Prof alone this time. He has gained their trust, for sure! Prof asked Shin about meeting a devil.
En and Chota have tea together. I'm surprised that En agrees to this? He shares with Chota that he is getting impatient. He is getting nervous about the cross-eyes boss. Chota is weirded out by this because why is someone as powerful as En is afraid of the cross-eyes boss? He revealed to him that he actually was almost killed. His mushroom magic engulfing the whole area was the reason why he survived.
We see Kawajiri and Aikawa arriving at En's mansion. Aikawa is impressed by Kawajiri's magic. They search for Nikaido's room. Kawajiri finally reunited with Nikaido, who is in very poor shape.
Kawajiri asked Nikaido to leave with him. She notices Aikawa. She recognises his voice and asks him to take off his mask! ASDFGHJKL! ITS CAIMAN DEFINITELYYYYY
Aikawa flees. Nikaido ran after him. The two fights. Nikaido got a hold of him and he takes off his mask!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA THISSCENEHASMYHEART OKICANDIEINPEACENOWBYE ACTUALLYNOIWANTTHEMTOBETOGETHERATHUNGRYBUGAGAIN PLEASETURNITINTOACOOKINGSHOWONCEMOREIMISSTHECOOKINGANDEATING
After revealing his face, he runs off.
Nikaido plans to go after him. As she was disconnected from the IV (filled with Noi's healing powers), she became weaker and mushrooms start sprouting out of her body. We see Aikawa wandering inside the mansion and getting another headache. We see 'Curse' on a tree doing God knows what. On a hunt to kill Aikawa?
Fujita is annoyed by Ebisu's new personality. As they walk to see En, the corridor begins to distort. He sees a headless body on the opposite corridor but nobody is there.
En walks with Chota to see Nikaido. He seems desperate to use her magic. They found a terrified Judas's Ear hiding. His colour defence system was activated and there's blood on him. The room began to distort and we see Aikawa/Caiman (with cross-eyes? Cross-eyes BOSS?) on the other side of the corridor. En didn't hesitate to send Chota away with Judas's Ear. He trusts him in keeping the dog safe. As Chota is being teleported away with Judas's Ear in his arms, Aikawa/Caiman and En begins to fight. Despite being a powerful sorcerer, the cross-eyes was able to outsmart him. Just like that, En was killed. Since En died, his magic wears off. Chota's mushroom head disappears. He calls out to him upon learning his demise.
Fujita finds En's head being taken away. Meanwhile, at Shy-Tang's shop, Shin and Noi look over Berith Hot Springs in shock. They watch as En's mushroom magic slowly disappears and learns of his death.
Extra chapter: Focuses on the cross-eyes the day Curse attacked them. Since Dokuga's spit is deadly, he got his own toothbrush, plates, silverware, he can't laugh or raise his voice. HAHAHAHA. They all prepare for Evil Night. It's when devils roam Berith to grant the wishes of the people of their hometown. They all made their wishes. Natsuki wishes to make Dokuga laugh and he did! So cute.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
June 1, 2024
Yazarın anlatım yeteneği ve görsel sunum yine göz dolduruyor. Caiman'ın gizemi çözülüyor gibi dururken işler yine karışıyor. Serinin başından beri hikayede yer alan bir karakterin "şimdilik" sonunu görüyoruz. Halihazırda serinin içerisinde bolca şiddet ve gerilim unsurları bulunsa da karakterin yaşadığı bu son epey etkileyiciydi. Sanırım şu ana kadar okuduklarımdan komedinin en az yer kapladığı sayı bu olabilir.
June 26, 2023
HOLY FUCKING FUCK!
September 18, 2017
Q Hayashida has a wickedly twisted imagination, and she outdoes herself in this volume. I'm still not sure I really understand what exactly happened with the transformation into Curse, but it was gloriously gory and bizarre. And then what's going on with the walking corpse missing it's shoulders and head, casually having tea with one of the crosseyes. The chapter in which we get to see Judas's Ear's subtitled thoughts was a nice dose of humor mixed into the tension of wondering if Ebisu would successfully be brought back. The climactic events around En were unexpected and sudden, so Hayashida continues to be able to surprise me.
November 15, 2016
The first couple chapters here are really weird. Really weird. Thankfully, that wasn't the tone for the rest of this volume, but it is the reason it's not another five-star installment. It didn't go quite where I thought it would, after the huge development at the end of Volume 10, but I still thoroughly enjoyed Volume 11. Long story short, if you've liked the series thus far, you won't be disappointed here.
November 20, 2019
kaiman can like get it
October 31, 2021
Simplemente W T F?!
December 10, 2023
El nivel de Dorohedoro se mantiene alto con un tomo en el que transcurren momentos deseados como otros absolutamente sorprendentes que dudo que nadie se esperara que ocurrieran tan de repente y de esa manera.
January 30, 2020
I'm going to revisit this when its not 2 in the morning because I'll not sure what happened in the last two chapters.
February 16, 2020
the chapters 66 & 67... I love dying and being dead.
February 8, 2021
HOLY SHIT
That's all I got...
HOLY SHIT!
...also why is Caiman/Aikawa so hot!? 😭
That's all I got...
HOLY SHIT!
...also why is Caiman/Aikawa so hot!? 😭
June 13, 2022
STOP PLAYING WITH MY HEART!
Each volume causes me a lot of anxiety, and I can't believe we're only halfway there!
Fujita and Ebisu! Nikaido and Kaiman! Chota! The ever-puzzling cross-eyes!
Each volume causes me a lot of anxiety, and I can't believe we're only halfway there!
Fujita and Ebisu! Nikaido and Kaiman! Chota! The ever-puzzling cross-eyes!
March 2, 2024
Very cool dream scene with Caiman, and Curse is metal as hell.
Not many laughs in this volume, which spends most of its time setting up events to unfold later. For those reasons I’m rating this one lower than usual for the series. Still a great read - Nikaido seeing Caiman’s face up close brought tears to my eyes!
Not many laughs in this volume, which spends most of its time setting up events to unfold later. For those reasons I’m rating this one lower than usual for the series. Still a great read - Nikaido seeing Caiman’s face up close brought tears to my eyes!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
April 28, 2025
Man I felt bad for all of the characters in this. The Curse was wild, Nikaido and Ebisu are having a rough time and En is getting haunted by the past. What a cliffhanger.
November 22, 2025
9/10
Oh I’m truly in the horrors now. I’m so upset and having the absolute best time it’s so fun these might be my sillies fr!
Oh I’m truly in the horrors now. I’m so upset and having the absolute best time it’s so fun these might be my sillies fr!
January 15, 2026
idk what the fuck is going on but im having fun
October 3, 2020
Whaaaaaat
April 15, 2022
I felt like I've lost the thread a bit in Dorohedoro, Tome 11. Although there are a couple of notable events clearly related to the ongoing plot arcs, there are a lot of confusing scenes the relevance of which are not clear and some that come across as filler. That wouldn't be so bad if they enticed further reading, or were humorous respectively, but they were neither.
This volume lacks the pizzazz and verve of previous volumes. Hopefully it's a temporary slip.
This volume lacks the pizzazz and verve of previous volumes. Hopefully it's a temporary slip.
December 31, 2021
Creo que la historia toma otro rumbo, se rompen estructuras y cosas volviéndola hacer interesante. Te sigue dando informacion acerca de quien es Caiman pero siempre a cuenta gotas para tenerte expectante. El tomo que mas me ha gustado hasta ahora
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October 1, 2025『 Cʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ Lɪsᴛ - Lɪsᴛᴀ ᴅᴇ Cᴀᴘíᴛᴜʟᴏs 』
Curse 62 - Burning Heart
Curse 63 - Memory Bubble
Curse 64 - My Secret Plan
Curse 65 - Cross-Eye Expedition
Curse 66 - Deformed Reunion
Curse 67 - Skill of the Moment
Bonus Curse - Bonus Curse 11
Curse 62 - Burning Heart
Curse 63 - Memory Bubble
Curse 64 - My Secret Plan
Curse 65 - Cross-Eye Expedition
Curse 66 - Deformed Reunion
Curse 67 - Skill of the Moment
Bonus Curse - Bonus Curse 11
February 13, 2019
Is it terrible that I found the entire situation between Ebisu and Fujita hilarious?
December 13, 2018
5/5 stars ~
1/1 for plot
1/1 for characters and character development
1/1 for art
1/1 for pace
1/1 for world-building
1/1 for plot
1/1 for characters and character development
1/1 for art
1/1 for pace
1/1 for world-building
November 24, 2019
We're going on another step here, many changes are happening to characters, new teams, new enemies.
April 16, 2020
My mind is literally blown. I'm literally screaming at this pages like WTF IS GOING ON 🤯😅 I need to stop binging this and enjoy it slowly. I don't want it to ever end.
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