{"id":38369,"date":"2021-02-06T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=38369"},"modified":"2025-12-13T22:19:25","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:19:25","slug":"dorohedoro-as-the-hunt-for-the-magi-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/cinema\/series\/dorohedoro-as-the-hunt-for-the-magi-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00abDorohedoro, let the magi hunt begin!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday movie platforms - Ivan Garcia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a convincing first season, the anime Dorohedoro<\/em> depicts a world divided between mages and non-mages, in which injustice reigns towards the latter. Against this backdrop of social criticism, a lizard-man sets out to recover his memory and the man who transformed him. A fascinating story.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

His name is Caiman. He has the head of a... caiman and superhuman strength. But this lizard face is not the one he originally had. Caiman was the victim of a curse, cast by a very powerful mage. Since then, he's been immune to magic, he's got that reptilian face and, in his mouth, a guy is hidden who shows up every time he swallows a mage. A subtle way of trying to find the man who transformed him...<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his quest to find the person responsible for his transformation, Caiman works as a duo with his friend Nika\u00efdo, who runs a restaurant, cooks delicious \u00abgyozas\u00bb, fights well and... is a mage - but that's something Caiman doesn't know at the start of season 1. Together, they roam the streets of Hole, a huge, dirty and miserable city that serves as a playground for mages from the world of mages, who take advantage of the opportunity to test their magic on the city's inhabitants... By dint of hunting the wizard, they attract the attention of En, the head of the \u00abEn Family\u00bb who rules the world of mages, and who sets out to do the dirty deed to this duo of mischief-makers...<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n

A dark and violent universe<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This first season of Dorohedoro <\/em>comprises twelve episodes - thirteen if you include a bonus episode - and unfolds before our very eyes a dark, violent universe. Unlike more \u00abclassic\u00bb anime, Dorohedoro<\/em> with darker tones and a more aesthetic look. punk<\/em> with an added touch of the grotesque. There are some rather disproportionate characters, with quite original and flashy looks, such as Turkey<\/em>, A magician who wears a mask in the shape of a roast turkey, making them easily recognizable to the viewer. The story's original treatment of magic is particularly noteworthy. The magicians\u00ab bodies are different from those of normal humans. The former have smoke \u00bbveins\u00ab that enable them to produce magic \u00bbsmoke\" and endow them with certain powers. Some magicians are so powerful that they even sell their smoke, which is used as a drug and\/or doping agent, to less powerful magicians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dorohedoro<\/em>, an anime adaptation of the manga of the same name, is a seinen (editor's note: manga for adults)<\/em> which doesn't hesitate to show violent scenes, such as when Caiman cuts off the fingers of a young mage, Ebisu, and rips off her face, or when Shin, one of the \u00abcleaners of En\u00bb, uses his magic and \u00abcuts up\u00bb his victims while keeping them alive. In this anime, violence is shown unfiltered, which is appreciable, and it's sometimes drugged with a little ridiculousness, as in episode 3, where the undead of Hole come back to life once a year due to the mages' smoke stagnating over the city, and the inhabitants are tasked with slaughtering them to win prizes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the hunt for \u00abCross-eyes\u00bb<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

At the same time, the story presented here is not lacking in piquancy and spring. Indeed, Caiman's personal quest and En's story seem to be linked. In the first season, we learn that a mysterious group of subordinate mages, \u00abLes Yeux-en-Croix\u00bb (The Cross-Eyes), manage the traffic in magical \u00absmoke\u00bb and are opposed to En and his group. Upon learning of their existence, we notice that Caiman has... cross-eyes. The trail of his transformation is therefore somehow linked to this group. Especially when we realize that the guy at the back of his mouth is none other than Risu, a member of the \u00abCross-Eyes\u00bb who was eliminated and was... brought back to life by En to help him find the person who transformed Caiman. With this new lease of life, Risu sets out to find out why the \u00abCross-Eyes\u00bb got rid of him in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The juxtaposition of characters, information and storylines in season 1 makes it difficult to keep track of everything, and most of the information that \u00abconnects the dots\u00bb between the various elements of the story can be found in episodes 11 and 12. In particular, episode 11 sees Chota, one of En's \u00abpartners\u00bb, show Nika\u00efdo a film that traces En's life story, from his origins to his (unfinished) struggle against the leader of the \u00abCross-Eyes\u00bb, thus clearing up some of the mystery surrounding En and this group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n