Dorohedoro Appreciation Thread - Guy with a lizard head murders wizards and eats gyoza

[Dom Cruise]

So, what say you all, start with the anime or skip straight to the manga?

I really hope there's a second season, but I don't know how likely it is. A lot of anime seem to just run for one then stop even when there's plenty of source material.

The vast, vast majority of anime leaves you hanging, with the great irony being even if it's not based on a manga, but an original work, odds are the ending is going to leave you wanting more.

The number of anime TV series that had definitive endings that I've seen is pretty small, with the main ones I can think of off the top of my head being Rahxephon and Cowboy Bebop (and it's not like Bebop didn't leave some characters' fates open), the vast majority either end on flat out cliff hangers or end in a way that there could obviously be more if the series was enough of a smash hit, but they almost never are to justify a second season and even if there is a second season you can be sure it's probably only going to end on an open note as well (The Big O and Maria Holic being two examples of animes that got 2 seasons, doesn't mean they have an ending though, but at least Maria Holic has the original manga, we'll probably never know what the fuck was supposed to be going on in The Big O)

One weird example is Trigun, which left a lot of questions unanswered but the final episode felt emotionally satisfying enough as an ending to me that I've still yet to go back and read the original manga.

This is such a common thing some animes even parody it, like Panty & Stocking's ending, which nope, not even over a decade later have we gotten any sort of follow up on, although they say that's the joke.

But then there's special kind of shitty situation where the anime is translated, but the original manga or light novels are not, not even fan translations.

As much as I love anime this is why I don't watch as much of it as I used to, it gets old getting invested in a story and characters only to be left hanging.

 

[Yukari Yakumo]

So, what say you all, start with the anime or skip straight to the manga?

In all honesty, I feel like the best idea (for me at least, it's my own opinion) is to start with the anime before continuing with the manga. With the anime, you get a good feel for how the characters sound and act, so while reading, you imagine those voices and get a pretty good experience.

 

[Dom Cruise]

In all honesty, I feel like the best idea (for me at least, it's my own opinion) is to start with the anime before continuing with the manga. With the anime, you get a good feel for how the characters sound and act, so while reading, you imagine those voices and get a pretty good experience.

This is often a good benefit for watching the anime first is having good voices to assign to characters.

 

[Johnny Treason]

The only thing that gives me hope really is that plenty of the anime that have been co-produced/funded/distributed by Netflix have gotten more than one season, which, like you say, is unusual.

 

[Atatata]

I remember finishing reading this while listening to the Igorrr song the author commissioned for the manga, some people had issue with how it ended, but I thought it was fun.

The whole manga ost is great to listen to, really. Sad to see that none of it could be used for the anime, but it makes sense and the anime ost was great too.
I hope she does it again for her new work Dai Dark. The thought of a more space-ish version sounds fantastic.