Shogakukan opened an official website for the television anime adaptation of Q Hayashida's adventure fantasy manga Dorohedoro on Friday, revealing staff, cast, two key visuals (pictured) and the first promotional video. The anime series will begin airing on January 13, 2020 at 12:00 a.m. on Tokyo MX. Netflix will also stream the series, and debut it before the television broadcast.

Staff
Director: Yuuichirou Hayashi (Garo: Honoo no Kokuin, Kakegurui)
Series Composition: Hiroshi Seko (Mob Psycho 100, Vinland Saga)
Character Design: Tomohiro Kishi (91 Days, Tonari no Kaibutsu-kun)
Worldview Design, Art Director: Shinji Kimura (Kekkai Sensen)
Layout Design: Yuusuke Tannowa (Yuri!!! on Ice:)
Color Design: Tomoko Washida (Mind Game)
3DCG Director: Yuki Nomoto (Banana Fish 3DCG)
Director of Photography: Hyo-Gyu Park (Girls & Panzer: Saishuushou)
Editing: Masato Yoshitake (Un-Go)
Sound Director: Akiko Fujita (Kokkoku)
Music: (K)NoW_NAME (Hai to Gensou no Grimgar, Fairy Gone)
Studio: MAPPA

Cast
Kaiman: Wataru Takagi (Great Teacher Onizuka)
Nikaidou: Reina Kondou (Slow Start)
Noi: Yuu Kobayashi (Fate/Grand Order: Zettai Majuu Sensen Babylonia)
Shin: Yoshimasa Hosoya (Saredo Tsumibito wa Ryuu to Odoru)
Fujita: Kengo Takanashi (Shichisei no Subaru)
En: Kenyuu Horiuchi (Joker Game)
Ebisu: Miyu Tomita (Made in Abyss)
Bauks: Hisao Egawa (Haikyuu!!: Karasuno Koukou vs. Shiratorizawa Gakuen Koukou)
Kasukabe: Mitsuhiro Ichiki (Boku no Kanojo ga Majimesugiru Sho-bitch na Ken)

Synopsis
Hole—a dark, decrepit, and disorderly district where the strong prey on the weak and death is an ordinary occurrence—is all but befitting of the name given to it. A realm separated from law and ethics, it is a testing ground to the magic users who dominate it. As a race occupying the highest rungs of their society, the magic users think of the denizens of Hole as no more than insects. Murdered, mutilated, and made experiments without a second thought, the powerless Hole dwellers litter the halls of Hole's hospital on a daily basis.

Possessing free access to and from the cesspool, and with little challenge to their authority, the magic users appear indomitable to most—aside for a few. Kaiman, more reptile than man, is one such individual. He hunts them on a heedless quest for answers with only a trusted pair of bayonets and his immunity to magic. Cursed by his appearance and tormented by nightmares, magic users are his only clue to restoring his life to normal. With his biggest obstacle being his stomach, his female companion Nikaidou, who runs the restaurant Hungry Bug, is his greatest ally.

Set in a gritty world of hellish design, Dorohedoro manages a healthy blend of comedy and lightheartedness with death and carnage. Taking plenty of twists and turns while following the lives of Hole's residents, it weaves a unique world of unearthly origin and dreary appearance not for the squeamish or easily disturbed. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

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Dorohedoro originally debuted in Monthly Ikki in 2000 before switching to HiBaNa in 2015 due to the former discontinuing its serialization. The manga then transferred to Gessan when HiBaNa ceased publishing in August 2017 and ended in the magazine's October issue on September 12 last year. Shogakukan shipped the 23rd and final compiled volume on November 12.

VIZ Media began publishing the manga digitally on its SigIkki website in 2009, the former online English edition of the Ikki magazine. Physical volumes have been published under the distributor's VIZ Signature imprint since 2010, and the 23rd and final volume went on sale on September 17.

Official site: https://dorohedoro.net/
Official Twitter: @dorohedoro_pr

Source: Comic Natalie