After Two Years, Dorohedoro Season 2 Air Date Now Confirmed
After so much waiting around, Dorohedoro Season 2 finally has an official date, with all the Season 1 returning with more experience after 6 years.
On February 8, 2026, the official release date for Dorohedor Season 2 has been revealed.
After 6 years, the anime will return on April 1, 2026.
Along with the announcement came a new key visual.
Previously, a screening of Season 1 in Japan took place for the anime’s 6th anniversary on January 13th but no teaser came out of it
Only now do we have the official release date.
If following the 12-episode format like the first, the second season will adapt Chapter 43: “Horror! Bloody Mansion Murder Dance”, the end of Volume 7, all the way to the end of Volume 14 or Chapter 79: “Question and Answer” that would reveal the truth behind Kaiman’s identity.
As Dorohedoro Season 2 is set to be released in Spring 2026 (April), we will likely get a trailer soon after this announcement.
First confirmed on January 9, 2024 during the anime’s 4th anniversary, fans have waited on a supposed 2025 release before it was announced to be moved to Quarter 2 of 2026.
Of note, this will not be a Netflix exclusive but will be available on more platforms.
Season 1 will be available for release in other platforms outside Netflix on March 8 to commemorate Dorohedoro’s long-awaited return.
Staff
Director: Yuichiro Hayashi
Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko
Original creator: Q Hayashida
Character Design: Tomohiro Kishi
Art Director: Miho Sugiura
3D Director: Yuki Nomoto
Sound Director: Akiko Fujita
Director of Photography: Hyo Gyu Park
Color design: Itsuku Onishi
Creative Producer: Yusuke Tannawa
Editing: Masato Yoshitake
Music Production: [K]NoW_NAME
World Visual Design: Shinji Kimura
Most of the staff is returning from season 1, but Miho Sugiura is the art director for the new season, replacing Shinji Kimura, who is left to only do “World Visual Design”, which he did in the previous season as well, meaning Kimura will be supervising Sugiura’s work as the overall art director.
It is unknown if Dorohedoro will acquire more studios to help with background art as the backgrounds have been one of the strongest points for the previous season.
Itsuku Onishi has been promoted to the color key artist rather than as color check assistant, replacing Tomoko Washida.
Yuichiro Hayashi, the original series director, is slated to return to handle the show alongside most of the original staff, including character designer, Tomohiro Kishi.
Both were also director anc character designer respectively for the Final Season of Attack on Titan, also produced by MAPPA.
Their experience with Attack on Titan will bear fruit with this renewed season of Dorohedoro, which is arguably Hayashi’s passion project.
Question is, will [K]NoW_NAME and Yuichiro Hayashi produce multiple endings, a trend they started with Season 1 and followed up by Chainsaw Man Season 1?
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” Season 2 will officially start April 1st, 2026!
New Visual!
Image © Hayashida Q, Shogakukan, “Dorohedoro” Production Committee pic.twitter.com/NsKp81XR5r
— Manga Mogura RE (Anime & Manga News) (@MangaMoguraRE) February 8, 2026
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