Dorohedoro Short Story Incoming

To commemorate the return of the Dorohedoro anime after 6 years, on March 12, 2026, it was announced that Dorohedoro will be getting a new one-shot on April 11, 2026 in Shogakukan’s Monthly Shonen Sunday.

This is similar to how Kotoyama, the author of Call of the Night, wrote a short sequel volume for the release of Season 2 on July 2, 2025.

One key difference is that the manga only recently ended on January 24, 2024 while Dorohedoro had concluded on September 12, 2018, two years before the release of the Dorohedoro anime.

Season 2 will be released on April 1, 2026.

About Dorohedoro

Dorohedoro was a manga written and illustrated by Q Hayashida from November 30, 2000 to September 12, 2018 across three Shogakukan magazines, Monthly Ikki, Hibana, and Monthly Shōnen Sunday.

The series reached 23 volumes.

The manga would be adapted into an anime produced by MAPPA (Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Jujutsu Kaisen, Chainsaw Man) directed by Yuichiro Hayashi (Garo: The Vanishing, Attack on Titan: The Final Season) on January 12, 2025 to March 29, 2020.

Season 1 was comprised of 12 episodes and six 5-minute-long original video animation (OVA) episodes bundled with the series’ second Blu-ray release on June 17, 2020.

The series was notable for having 6 ending songs from the same band, ((K)now Name), which also handled the soundtrack.

Dorohedoro is set in a bleak world called the Hole, where humans are targeted by Sorcerers for target practice and one of these humans, Caiman, is cursed for having a giant lizard head. Together with his friend, a gyoza shop owner named Nikaido, Caiman hunts down the sorcerers responsible for his curse.

Source: Twitter

“Dorohedoro” Manga by Hayashida Q will return with a new Short Story on April 11, 2026

Anime Season 2 will start April 1st pic.twitter.com/059Uddurgq

— Manga Mogura RE (Anime & Manga News) (@MangaMoguraRE) March 12, 2026

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