a bottom-tier autistic experience is being told throughout your entire childhood that you are just an overthinker when it comes to social situations and later finding out that your friends did, in fact, hate being around you and tried to communicate that through weird little hints
I’m in no position to argue the validity of either translation, but while I miss the asexual implications of the scanlated version, Dimple’s comeback in the Dark Horse version is SENDING me
this single page summarizes the manga Dorohedoro so well
If you do want to know more about this manga though:
A manga that does not look like or feel like an anime and does not fall back on anime tropes. Entirely its own thing.
Grisly urban fantasy setting in which weird, masked “magic users” experiment upon the citizens of a decrepit city in service to “devils” they eventually hope to become.
Lots of surreal, dreamlike world building. The way magic works and where it comes from is completely original and wonderfully bizarre.
The main character has a big lizard head and his hunting for the magic user who cursed him with it.
Gory, dark and nightmarish on the surface but with a constant sense of humor and whimsy I can’t really liken to much else.
Characters who follow suit by ALL being goofball sweethearts, no matter how terrifying or malevolent they seem to be otherwise. No real “good guy” and “bad guy” divide.
This is the creator of the series:
This is what her art looks like in color:
The above demon is also a goofball sweetheart, they just all are.
Does contain nudity and some “sexy” characters but not in that….anime way. You probably know what I mean, if you don’t you’ll probably get what I mean should you read Dorohedoro.
The following one-off “monster” joins up with the protagonists for the rest of the series and his name is Jonson and he’s the best runner on their baseball team:
Because there’s an arc where they have a baseball team, okay?
