Warning: Spoilers for Dorohedoro season oneThe Netflix Original Series Dorohedoro needs to return for a second season because its biggest mystery is still left unanswered: which sorcerer turned Caiman’s head into that of a giant lizard.
Of course, all of Dorohedoro is essentially one big mystery since the characters who have all the answers suffer from amnesia. For Dorohedoro‘s hero Caiman, all he remembers is the moment before the lizard spell was cast on him in an alleyway where a dark figure emerged from the shadows. Caiman doesn’t even remember his real name or what he looks like. Then there’s the eccentric sorcerer villain Ebisu who’s the number-one suspect since she uses lizard magic. Unfortunately, she’s not giving answers after Caiman tore her face off.
Although some of the many other mysteries that inundate Netflix’s severely underrated Dorohedoro adaptation have been answered within the span of season one, what viewers learned from them has just created more questions, one of which revolves around another oddity of Caiman. There’s a “man” living in his throat who emerges to speak to sorcerers whose faces Caiman shoves down there. The man tells the sorcerers that they’re either the one or not. After somehow learning that this actually happens inside of him, Caiman came to the conclusion that this man is either his old self before he got a lizard head or his assailant. And he believes that by saying “you’re the one” or “you’re not the one,” the man is identifying if the sorcerer he shoved in his mouth is the one who cast the spell on him. But things get complicated when later developments reveal the man’s identity. In actuality, he’s a sorcerer named Risu who was killed by a currently unidentified member of his own gang and brought back to life by Caiman’s enemy, the sorcerer En. But since Risu died he doesn’t remember much, just like Caiman and Ebisu. So viewers now know that the man obviously isn’t Caiman or his assailant since Risu is a weak magician and lizard magic is advanced. So now viewers are left wondering why he’s in Caiman’s throat, their only connection besides the obvious being that they are from the same gang.
Does Ebisu Know the Man in Caiman’s mouth?
In keeping with this theme of answers leading to more questions, Ebisu later remembers an important memory, which removes her from the top of Caiman’s suspect list. At the beginning of season one, Caiman shoves Ebisu’s head in his throat to speak with Risu, but one of her companions forcibly pulls her out, tearing off Ebisu’s face in the process, which messes with her mind. But then she remembers near the end of season one. The Risu in Caiman’s mouth told her she got in his way. He didn’t tell her that she was the one (which viewers still don’t know for sure what “the one” means, though, there are some interesting Dorohedoro fan theories out there). Regardless, now fans want to find out what she got in the way of and how that resulted in Caiman’s head getting transformed into a lizard face.
Besides the endless mysteries that permeate Dorohedoro, the series should get a second season on Netflix for a number of reasons. The show somehow masterfully brings a great deal of silly humor into the dark world of the macabre that’s both unsettling and highly creative. Dorohedoro also dedicates an equal amount of time to the series’ heroes and the villainous sorcerers who follow them. As a result, viewers can’t help but become invested in the antagonists’ journey, rejoining in their successes and lamenting their losses. Undoubtedly, Dorohedoro won’t end on a happy note, and viewers have been bracing themselves since season one ended.