Dorohedoro Anime Confirms Season 3 After Season 2 Finale, Plus New Yuichiro Hayashi Illustration

We thought we were just closing the book on the second season. Then Dorohedoro did what it always does: it grinned, kicked the door in, and told us the story isn’t over. Right after the season 2 finale, the staff confirmed a third season is officially happening.

Season 3 is on the way, and we get a small farewell gift

The announcement came alongside a commemorative illustration shared by director Yuichiro Hayashi. It features Haru singing, like the show is waving at us from across the smoke and neon. We don’t get a date yet, but we do get a clear message: the project is moving forward.

And because Dorohedoro never just drops one thing, a music video also started streaming for season 2’s opening theme: “Zettai Must Danmen” by (K)NoW_NAME. It’s the kind of track that makes us want to walk dramatically down an alleyway… even if we’re just heading to the kitchen.

How we watched Season 2 (and how to catch up)

Season 2 debuted on April 1 at 11:00 p.m. and rolled out on multiple platforms “almost simultaneously worldwide.” If we’re hunting for the easiest path, here’s the practical map:

Streaming and language options

• Crunchyroll is streaming Season 2, and it also has Season 1 available.
• Season 1 is offered with dubs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Thai in many regions, and with Japanese audio plus subtitles widely available (with some regional exceptions).
• Netflix is also streaming the anime.
• Season 2 includes an English dub.

Season 2 had previously been slated to premiere in 2025, so seeing it land and wrap feels like watching a train actually arrive in a universe where trains are usually eaten by mushrooms.

A quick refresher: what Dorohedoro is really about

If we’ve been away for a while, the setup is still deliciously grimy. The story drops us into a city so bleak it’s only known as “the Hole”. Sorcerers come down from their world, grab people, and use them as test subjects for brutal magic “experiments.”

Then we meet the pair that keeps us glued to the screen:

• Nikaido, who finds someone she really shouldn’t have found in a dark alley.
• Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a nasty case of amnesia.

They’re trying to undo the spell on Caiman by doing the most reasonable thing imaginable (we’re being sarcastic, Madrid-style): they hunt and kill sorcerers until they find the right one. Naturally, that doesn’t stay quiet for long. When En, the head sorcerer, hears about a lizard-man tearing through his people, he sends “cleaners” into the Hole. And just like that, we’re in a war between two worlds.

We can call it dark fantasy. We can call it action. We can call it chaos with a side of comedy. The important part is this: it’s a world where every alley feels like a trap door to something worse… and we still want to explore it.

Who’s been shaping the anime

For the anime adaptation, Yuichiro Hayashi directed the first season at MAPPA. Scripts for the series were handled by Hiroshi Seko, character designs were by Tomohiro Kishi, and the music came from (K)NoW_NAME. Season 1 originally debuted on Netflix in Japan in January 2020 with 12 episodes, before reaching more viewers outside Japan later.

Now we wait for Season 3 details. How long will the wait be? What will they adapt next? And, most importantly, how many new ways will the Hole find to surprise us?

Call to action: if you haven’t jumped in yet, this is a good moment to start from Season 1, then roll straight into Season 2 while the finale is still fresh.

What do you want most from Dorohedoro Season 3: more answers about Caiman, more sorcerer-world mayhem, or just more time with the cast being weird in the best possible way?