Dorohedoro Season 3 Teaser Trailer Debuts at MAPPA 15th Anniversary Event
The teaser confirms that MAPPA is actively producing the third season while the second season is still airing, a rare overlap that suggests the studio is maintaining momentum on a series that had a four-year gap between its first and second seasons.
Reporting from 4 sources: Anime News Network, Comic Natalie, Denfaminicogamer, Anime Corner.
MAPPA released a teaser trailer for the third season of the Dorohedoro anime during its 15th anniversary lineup livestream on June 19. The teaser opens with footage transitioning from the final scene of Season 2, episode 11, into a scene at a Chinese restaurant, where character Aikawa searches for "something interesting." Storyboard footage hinting at the start of Season 3 production is shown. The second season of Dorohedoro premiered on April 1, 2026, and streamed through May 27, 2026, on platforms including Crunchyroll and Netflix. Season 1 debuted on Netflix in Japan in January 2020 and later streamed worldwide. The anime adapts Q Hayashida's manga, which ran from 2000 to 2018 across multiple magazines and was compiled into 23 volumes. Viz Media publishes the English edition. Alongside the trailer, a "Best Pair Grand Prize 2026" voting campaign opened, running from June 19 to July 2. The winning character pair will receive an illustration by Hayashida.
The teaser was shown during MAPPA's 15th anniversary lineup livestream on the studio's official YouTube channel. The footage starts with the final scene of Season 2, episode 11, then transitions to a Chinese restaurant where character Aikawa is seen leaving and searching for "something interesting," according to Comic Natalie. Storyboard footage hinting at the start of Season 3 production is included.
Season 2 premiered on April 1 at 11:00 p.m. JST (10:00 a.m. EDT) on various platforms "almost simultaneously worldwide," Anime News Network reported. Crunchyroll and Netflix are both streaming the second season. Season 1 is available with English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Thai dubs worldwide, and with Japanese audio with subtitles in all regions except Japan and China. Season 2 also has an English dub. The second season was previously scheduled to debut in 2025.
MAPPA is again handling animation production, with Yuichiro Hayashi returning as director. The Season 2 staff also included series composer Hiroshi Seko, character designer Tomohiro Kishi, and music production by (K)NoW_NAME. The voice cast includes Wataru Takagi as Caiman, Reina Kondo as Nikaido, Kenyu Horiuchi as En, and Subaru Kimura as Aikawa.
The "Best Pair Grand Prize 2026" voting campaign opened on June 19 and runs until July 2 at 23:59 JST. The winning character pair will receive an illustration by Q Hayashida.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 4 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- Comic Natalie 「ドロヘドロ Season3」コンテ映像流れる特報公開、ベストコンビの投票も
- Denfaminicogamer アニメ『ドロヘドロ』Season3の最新映像が公開。カイマン、ニカイドウたちの物語はまだまだ混沌の先へ
- Anime Corner Dorohedoro Season 3 Special Teaser Trailer Revealed