The story revolves around Kaiman, who does not remember who he was before he was transfigured by a Magic user. This transformation left him with a reptile's head, and a desire to find out the truth about who he really is. Accompanied by Nikaido, his female companion, he tracks down Magic Users in "The Hole" and unceremoniously chomps down on their head, hoping to find out who it was that put him in this state. One by one, they witness this "second man" inside the head of Kaiman, and after pulling them back out of his mouth he asks them all a question... "What did the guy inside my head say?"
Japanese study overview
Dorohedoro is a Japanese anime of 62,416 characters, with 3,595 unique words and 1,025 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.9 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 3,595 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 煙smoke×360
- 心mind×269
- 能井Noui×267
- 恵比寿Ebisu×255
- 魔法使いmagician×149
- 藤田Touda×148
- お前you×145
- 魔法magic×131
- 男man×108
- 奴fellow×83
- 目eye×81
- 十字cross×78
- 丹波Tanba×73
- 栗鼠squirrel (any mammal of family Sciuridae)×68
- 福山Fukuyama×53
- 松村Shouson×41
- 会川Aikawa×26
- 茸mushroom×16
- 坊さんBuddhist priest×12
- 主審chief umpire×9