Dorohedoro (Original Soundtrack)

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Dorohedoro (Original Soundtrack)

Dorohedoro (Original Soundtrack)

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The first episode of Dorohedoro begins in darkness. Specifically, inside the mouth of a towering, lizard-headed man named Caiman, whose jaws are clamped around a sorcerer’s head. Nearby, Caiman’s friend Nikaido restrains a gangly second sorcerer, who squirms against her grasp. So you’re useless,” Caiman says, slashing the sorcerer’s body into stylized pieces that fly apart in a slow-motion mist of blood. As one dismembered hand spins through the air, its finger releases a blast of smoke, creating a trapdoor in the pavement that drops the living sorcerer safely into another dimension. By the time the weather grew colder, my obsession with Dorohedoro had petered out, replaced by new distractions. In particular, holiday shopping brought an unexpected relief.

I love Dorohedoro and I would gladly pay these prices for the actual anime's OST, but I can't do it for the other one. As a piece of Dorohedoro media it would be dope to have (would be a nice addition to my Mud & Sludge artbook) but I cannot in good conscience justify that expense. Dorohedoro is being adapted by Netflix,” he mentioned one night, and though the premise sounded bizarre, I joined him. After all, I had nowhere else to be. The show immediately grabbed me. I found Caiman and Nikaido’s intimate friendship—told through oddball events like an annual zombie extermination contest—every bit as compelling as their quest for answers. After exhausting the only available season, I plunged into the manga it was based on, which first appeared in a Japanese magazine called Monthly Ikki in 1999. These serialized installments ran for eighteen years, before being collected into twenty-three book-length volumes. Pseudonymous author Q Hayashida’s worldbuilding is steeped in originality, sending Caiman and Nikaido on a winding journey from their home in the crumbling, human-occupied slum of Hole through magical doors that open into the sorcerers’ glittering cityscapes. Though Dorohedoro is often gory, Hayashida’s goofy sense of humor treads a careful path between playful banter and darker themes—providing an escape from reality, where the capacity for injustice seems bottomless. When I put together the first volume, I made it a little too bumpy and they told me they couldn’t print it,” she said. “They also told me that I had to stop making it so glossy because it doesn’t photograph properly, but I just kept on doing it anyway.” The interviewer explained that manga artists—who typically work on grueling monthly deadlines—rarely churn out such elaborate offerings. “This work is important for me,” Hayashida said. “Only doing the manga would be too monotonous.” For months, Dorohedoro’s chaotic, creative world captivated me and helped me reframe quarantine’s isolation.Fiction has always been a natural exit when my reality becomes a little too painful. As an adoptee, I often feel as if I’ve woken up in the midst of a narrative that isn’t quite familiar or entirely my own—not unlike Dorohedoro ’s Caiman, who must puzzle out his origin story. Growing up, I learned to not ask questions about my adoption, instead seeking refuge in the fragmented families I encountered in novels and TV shows. On vacations with my adoptive parents, I thought of the stories while studying the faces of passing strangers. If I could be anyone’s child, then imagining myself into fantastic stories about witches and dragons, or devils and lizard-headed amnesiacs, was nothing more than a tantalizingly short leap. Fiction has always been a natural exit when my reality becomes a little too painful. As the virus spread, the very air around us began to feel threatening. One night when the fire alarm woke us, we stayed on the couch waiting for the clanging to end instead of evacuating. The unlikely possibility of an inferno in our apartment building felt safer than crowding into the stairwell with neighbors who regularly gathered for maskless klatches. Dismayed, Caiman buries his scaly head in his hands, while Nikaido comforts him. It’s no big deal, she tells him. They’ll find “the one” someday.

Insert: Liner notes based on an interview with the author of Dorohedoro, Dr. Kyu Hayashida (Yuta Umegaya, Murder Channel President)



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