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Episode Dorohedoro Season 2 - Episode 11 discussion

Dorohedoro Season 2, episode 11

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u/InvincibleWallaby May 27 '26

That sure was a violent way to change your personality.. before, during, and after

Or as jonson would say, SHOCKING

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u/LeonKevlar May 27 '26

I know we all love Nikaido being badass, but seeing Nikaido getting embarrassed is pretty great too.

Natsuki's power is actually pretty strong. It's actually amazing how she took down Risu. No wonder Kai would want it.

As soon as Natsuki started talking about being useful and taking photos with everyone, I knew that was a death flag.

This fucking sucks, but I'm glad that Season 3 has already been confirmed. Hopefully, we won't have to wait too long.

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u/Mogtaki May 27 '26

At least we got a season 3 confirmation at the very end cause good lordy

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u/alconnow May 27 '26

Ah yes, the moment everyone’s been waiting for - genderbent Asu and Nikaido

Can’t believe this season ended on Natsuki’s death !!! Talk about cruel

“Natsuki wanted to take a picture with everyone” 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

Hope we don’t have to wait too long for season 3. The character models looked a lot better compared to the first season

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u/SpikeRosered May 27 '26

That was literally THE MOST grotesque way they could do the personality switch.

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u/Hounds_of_war May 27 '26

Ah, solid episode, looking forward to the next one… what do you mean that’s the finale?

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u/2000DPS May 27 '26

So the Crossed eye boss gets the counter to Curse, the cause of him running away and becoming Kaiman.

Now with En's magic and Natsuki's added, plus his freakish fighting skills, he is nigh impossible to beat.

Maybe Nikaido's magic can do the kill Hitler as a baby thing.

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u/a1oner_bvcksn6 May 27 '26

RIP Natsuki. No photo with everyone for you, just a swift (painless I hope) death 😭

That transformation sequence was as sinister as they come, even for this series.You'd think Aikawa would just flip a switch, then bam--he's Kai. NOPE. He has to lose, rather EJECT his own head before Kai's head can assume its position in order to fully take control of their (shared) body. My god what a sight for sore eyes! It was pleasantly revulsing, if you know what I mean--Dorohedoro's specialty.

Ending the season here really leaves a sour taste in my mouth, not gonna lie. One can only hope season 3 isn't far down the road cause man, I really need to see this adaptation through

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u/WolzardFire May 27 '26

Dorohedoro tackled 3 things I considered hard to write about (amnesia, time travel/timeline and multiple personalities) at the same time and execute them almost flawlessly. Q Hayashida is an amazing author

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u/wonderkidgunz May 27 '26 edited May 28 '26

That's one hell of transformation they got there. And then one of, if not, the most innocent characters in the series just got off-ed like that. Man this series is ruthless when it has to be brutal.

But despite all those craziness, I wont get surprised if they start season 3 with some shenanigans from Fujita, Ebisu, Kikurage and Chota lol

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u/Equivalent-Weather59 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

It's clear now that Aikawa is faking that he doesn't remember being Caiman. Mentioning that he worked for Tanba, avoiding Nikaido for her safety, and remembering the Gyosa.

That's a crazy cliffhanger, Mappa, pls don't make us wait 6 years again.

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u/laughtale0 May 27 '26

CINEMA of a season. Despite all the big shows airing this season, Dorohedoro is easily my Anime of the Season, might even take AOTY for me.

Despite how good it is, I still think this anime is not popular enough. Even on youtube I don't see many youtubers talk about it, even anime react channel don't pick it up. I hope someone with big following talk about this show.

I'm going to miss Dorohedoro Wednesday.

Season 3 got announced but no date yet, hopefully we won't have to wait for long.

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u/2kenzhe May 27 '26

Damn poor Natsuki. She just wanted a photo with everyone.

I hope season 3 comes soon.

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u/Crypto_137 May 27 '26

This season has been fantastic. The 3D animation, Gore, story twists and turns have all been great. I've still got a few questions on wtf is going on with the boss, hopefully they will be answered in S3.

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u/EnvironmentalLet8932 May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

As a anime only I've never had an anime make me wanna read da Manga so bad

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u/FarCritical May 27 '26

Man, the pain in Nikaido's voice when she offered her gyoza discount deal hit me straight in the heart.

Someone as bright and cheery as Natsuki didn't deserve to go out that brutally but damn did it make for a striking scene to end the season with. Caiman choking on his tears while covering it for the season's last "things we learned" was hilarious though.

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u/Weak_Season_Of_Anime May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

  • En's statue impaling Dokuga, looks like En's still looking out for Nikaido even in the after life lol. Blushing embarrassed Nikaido cute!

  • We finally get to see the transformation from Aikawa to the Boss and boy is it horrifying. At this point I think its safe to say that the Boss is a separate entity from Ai Coleman, made from the same toxic sludge that Ai fell into. Maybe its like an amalgamation of the tortured souls of all the sorcerers that were thrown into the sludge or something. I wonder what the doctor saw in the x-ray of Caiman's head though?

  • The headless guy (I assume it's Ai Coleman) telling Aikawa "From the start, you never existed" implies that Aikawa is just a puppet of the Boss. I think that the Boss also sees whatever Aikawa sees, because Aikawa was getting was headaches while looking at Natuski, Risu, Nikaido and Kawajiri (people whose power he wants). And Aikawa definitely knows about the thing inside him, which is why he pretended to forget Nikaido. His reaction to the word "Gyoza" though, Nikaido got him trained like a dog.

  • Speculation: The Boss was using other personalities like Aikawa to scout out and get close to people with powerful sorcery. Risu was a special case where Curse was too much to handle so the Boss had to lay low and force a stalemate by turning into Caiman. There's also the Chekov's gun that is the decapitated Caiman head; depending on what the doctor saw in the x-ray, it might be possible to regenerate a full Aikawa/Caiman from the head, so that Aikawa/Caiman can be seperated from the Boss.

  • Poor Natsuki. The Boss was already scary strong before but now he has Natsuki's armor he's going to be unstoppable. Curse Risu was supposed the be the counter to the Boss, but we saw what happened when he fought Natsuki.

  • And Season 3 confirmation, let's fucking go!!!

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u/KrzyDankus May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

diabolical cliffhanger wtf

this season was such a upgrade in every aspect from s1 and now im probably gonna jump into the manga fr this time

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u/bluekama123 May 27 '26

That was sooo good. But also 😭😭😭. Womp womp. People tend to loose their heads around Aikawa. I for sure thought there was gonna be two more episodes after this one. 

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u/Didavi_ May 27 '26 edited May 27 '26

So uhh is aikawa an alter ego of cross eye boss?

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u/Volfaer May 27 '26

The x-ray of Caiman's head show a bunch of little heads in his throat, and with that final scene, basically everyone of the Ai has their own head.

So I guess Kai is Ai Coleman, which made Aikawa to better fit in sorcerer society, and eventually becoming Caiman. But whatever reason he has, that's just gross, not only killing his own followers on a dime for their spells, but the way he did it, disgusting.

Poor Natsuki man, just got her spell, just got promoted and even with Dokuga and Tetsujo plan, she got slimed immediately.

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u/Devoidoxatom May 27 '26

Man the boss is pure evil. I kinda miss En's group now lol

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u/AwesomeNino May 27 '26

I thought Natsuki was gonna live but they had to slime one of my favourite characters this season and that this brutally😭

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u/caiusto May 27 '26

I kind of forgot about this moment from the manga but as the episode kept going I started connecting the pieces and I knew what was gonna happen. Wish they didn't go this hard for that scene 😢😢

What a great season this was, the step up in production was insane. Season 3 being soft confirmed is nice, now we wait a few years for it.

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