I can't believe there is an anime that is sicker and more grotesque freakshow than the year 2020.

It starts with a 2-on-2 one-sided fight, where team A is wearing masks and getting beaten hard and Team B is a girl...AND A CROCODILE-MAN. He takes a guy from Team masks...AND PUTS HIM RIGHT INTO HIS MOUTH - Where he is greeted by another man at the end of the mouth which speaks to that poor victim.

The outro of each episodes goes likes this: And in this episode we learned...and what will happen in the next episode is engulfed in the mist of chaos!

And this is pretty fitting: The whole series is just a chaotic mess. It is CONSTANTLY topping itself into more and more of the extreme. Half the time you will thing "For real? Did this really just happen!?" and the other half "HOLY SHIT! OH FIRETRUCK"

Make no mistake. This anime is absolutely brutal, and introduced background characters barely make it past the one minute mark. On the contrary, you think some of the characters in the early are making the impression of quickly getting replaced or being unimportant, when surprisingly the anime is also spinning around them much throughout.

It is actually hard to say which side is even the protagonists. And it seems to be more important that things are happening than actually figuring out who the strongest guy is or how other parties getting defeated. It is even hard to say which group are the good guys, if there are even any in this anime.

And despite all this chaos which is spiraling out of control more and more each time, the anime is surprisingly consistent, reasoned, has a streamlined story line and creating tension and excitement to bingewatch all of it like I did.

Genre rating horror-thriller-gore: 10/10

I refuse to give a general rating for this, if you can't take gore or horror, this anime isn't for you. If you can take it but aren't too into it, I urge you to give this a try.

Be like: Blood Blockade Battlefront (maybe, didn't want past the first episode), Hellsing (Hellsing being more serious), Soul Eater (with SE being less bloody and likely even less random. Yes, Soul Eater is less random than Dorohedoro), One Punch Man (randomness, but surprisingly Dorohedoro is more serious and brutal), I think in terms of the kind of humor some Scandinavian live action movies might be fitting like Seven Psychopaths, in Bruges or Adam's Apples, this anime goes might be like some crazy DC supervillains such as Harley Quinn.

Fun fact: Dorohedoro means "mud-sludge".

Info: Season 2 announced roughly in May 2021. I can't wait for this!

Great moments of the anime and reactions of mine below (spoiler)

So, did you watch it? Let me know your thoughts on this anime!

[spoiler]I can't believe there is an anime boss that might beat Saitama.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]En. He turns enemies into mushrooms.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]When I opened my eyes for the first time, I was surrounded by mushrooms. I have turned my parents into mushrooms.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]I had to defeat him, he is my nemesis. Everything was covered in mushrooms. The whole city was turned into mushrooms. This is the truth behind the Day of the Mushroom of Doom.[/spoiler]



[spoiler]From the moment he was born, En was surrounded by mushrooms. He believes he transformed his parents into mushrooms, and survived by eating them[/spoiler]