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Dorohedoro Season 3 Announced After Season 2 Finale

The swift renewal signals Toho's confidence in the franchise as a long-term streaming asset, even though Dorohedoro has remained a cult property rather than a mainstream hit like MAPPA's other titles.

Reporting from 6 sources: Anime News Network, The Hollywood Reporter Anime, Crunchyroll News, MyAnimeList, and 2 more.

Dorohedoro Season 3 Announced After Season 2 Finale

Toho confirmed a third season of the Dorohedoro anime on Wednesday, following the broadcast of the second season's 11th and final episode. Director Yuichiro Hayashi marked the announcement with a commemorative illustration featuring the demon Haru. Studio MAPPA will return to produce the new season. No release date or distribution partners have been disclosed. The second season premiered on April 1 with a simultaneous global rollout across Crunchyroll, Netflix, Animation Digital Network, and Ani-One Asia. The first season debuted on Netflix Japan in January 2020 and streamed worldwide that May. The Dorohedoro manga by Q Hayashida ran from 2000 to 2018 across 23 volumes. Viz Media publishes the English edition. The first season was nominated for Anime of the Year at the 2021 Crunchyroll Anime Awards. Toho also released a music video for the second season's opening theme "Zettai Must Danmen" by (K)NoW_NAME alongside the renewal announcement.

Hayashi directed the first season at MAPPA, with Hiroshi Seko handling series scripts and Tomohiro Kishi designing the characters. (K)NoW_NAME composed the music for both seasons. The second season added Ami Koshimizu to the voice cast, according to Crunchyroll News. The full cast includes Wataru Takagi as Caiman, Reina Kondo as Nikaido, Kenyu Horiuchi as En, Yoshimasa Hosoya as Shin, and Yu Kobayashi as Noi.

The second season was first announced in January 2024 and premiered on April 1, 2026, running for 11 episodes. It streamed on Crunchyroll, Netflix, Animation Digital Network, and Ani-One Asia ULTRA. The first season debuted on Netflix Japan in January 2020 with 12 episodes and six short OVA episodes bundled with the second Blu-ray release in June 2020. The OVAs later arrived on Netflix as a single episode labeled Episode 13.

The manga by Q Hayashida ran from November 2000 to September 2018 across 23 volumes. It was serialized in Monthly Ikki, then Hibana, and finally Monthly Shonen Sunday. A new one-shot was released on April 11 to commemorate the second season. Viz Media publishes the English edition, which began digitally on SigIkki in 2009 and physically under its Signature imprint in March 2010.

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