The five-year wait for Dorohedoro fans will soon come to an end. Following an initial tease, a new visual for the second season of the cult anime has been revealed, alongside a 2025 release window.
🦎🥟ただいま、混沌中。🥟🦎
— TVアニメ『ドロヘドロ』 (@dorohedoro_PR) January 12, 2025
本日で、TVアニメ放送から5年🎉
5周年を記念し、続編シリーズのティザービジュアル第2弾を公開‼️
このビジュアルからわかること。
💻2025年配信予定
📢監督は前作に続き林祐一郎監督
🎞アニメーション制作も引き続きMAPPA#それがドロヘドロhttps://t.co/iyushBxuhF pic.twitter.com/j1A1dbOcQ1
Per the storyboard-filled image, Yuichiro Hayashi, best known for his work on Attack on Titan Final Season, is yet again set to helm the adaptation at studio MAPPA. Not much else is known about it, but it’s expected to pick up after the events of Season 1, which Viz Media describes as follows:
“In a city so dismal it’s known only as ‘the Hole’, a clan of Sorcerers has been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious ‘experiments’ in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they’re hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they’ll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of “cleaners” into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.”

Key staff for the first outing include Attack on Titan Final Season alumni Hiroshi Seko and Tomohiro Kishi as series composer and character designer, respectively, as well as Yuki Nomoto as the 3DCG director. Wataru Takagi (Great Teacher Onizuka) voiced protagonist Caimon, joining Kenyu Horiuchi (Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ) as En, Yoshimasa Hosoya (Attack on Titan) as Shin, and Yuu Hayashi (Tokyo Revengers) as Noi.
Based on Q Hayashida’s manga of the same name, Dorohedoro ran from 2010 to 2019 and spanned 23 volumes. It received an anime adaptation in January 2020, with a second season currently slated for 2025.