ドロヘドロ Season2

So okay Caiman is Aikawa, Risu’s friend who killed him for some reason and got cursed by Risu’s magic. But Aikawa has a split personality named Kai, the boss of the Cross Eyes who seems less like an actual leader and more like a serial killer some guys built a cult around. And Kai is actually Ai Coleman, a human from the hole that Doctor Kasukabe did some experiments to turn into a sorcerer who seemingly died afterwards but his body wasn’t in that grave. …Caiman’s line at the end of S1 about how “The name Caiman feels nostalgic, maybe it’s close to my actual name” is now kinda funny because he in fact had *three* names that were all kinda close to “Caiman”.

"I wonder what happened to Caiman?" And as if to answer it right away, the scene changes and pans to Kai's eyes. And speaking of Kai, that's got to be one of the most badass reveal I've seen in a long time, with Kaneda's bike slide being the only sequence I can think of rn that tops it. Sheathing his knives while the whole gang gazes at his back, kneeling--Kai just oozes with no-nonsense aura which I just can't say for the other two personalities. Aikawa and Caiman are basically the same "goofy" individual whose only difference is that one has a reptilia for a head. Similarly, Risu to Aikawa is basically what Nikaido is to Caiman--the dearest of friend/partner.

We're about to find out Natsuki is a really powerfull sorcerer. Nikaido yet to make a move. Risu thinks Aikawa killed him, but the curse won't do anything while it's Aikawa and not the boss. Do we know why the curse doesn't like devils singing? lol And I ask again, what happened to Caiman? Aikawa isn't him. The boss isn't him. He's fully dead until Nikaido goes back in time or revival is used on his lizard head. Edit: I just read another comment and oh yeah, there''s also Ai Coleman. I don't know anymore

To get the picture of what we understand of the boss now it is. The boss is Kai who besides his insane abilities he can give himself more by implant the devils that give a person their magic onto himself and we can assume have multiple abilities. He took En’s mushroom powers and in the past he took Risu’s curse power which we can also assume he has now lost. For some reason Kai gets amnesia and loses his memories and becomes Aikawa who doesn’t remember anything. And then theres his third alter ego our main character Caiman who I rn can’t decipher how he happened because I felt that Kai ended up in the hole after his battle with En where En turned that city into mushrooms when he escaped through that door and then Nikaido found him but that doesn’t explain when or how Ebisu turned him into a lizard. What can be confirmed is that Curse is what was inside Caiman’s head all along but how it was able to leave Kai and return to Risu I can’t explain from what we have seen but the main thought I have is Kai + Curse = Caiman. also Dorohedoro is a series with no good guys but just a bunch of bastards so I just root for the bastards I like the most. That mainly goes down to whoever Caiman is aligned with but between the En Family and the Cross-Eyes I will root for the En Family because Shin and Noi are the best and they are badass and adorable together at the same time. The one downer is knowing we only have 2 episodes left. I don’t want the ride to end.

Anyone else feel after mid episode op drop that suddenly everything felt plot relevant in it rather than just being psychedelic visuals lol? With the brain surgery part and the Ai family of personas that head switching part stood out and then also with curse being scared of devil music suddenly the concert at the end doesn’t seem random anymore. There’s more stuff but I just felt everything click watching it this time in a way I didn’t before. This season is so dang good!

Not sure how this fits in everything, but in Risu's flashback Curse was the one who took the Caiman head (decapitated by Shin) in the hospital, and presumably also dropped it near the lava when Aikawa died fighting En and Curse left his body to return to the real Risu. So that's one mystery solved regarding the random Caiman head. Now I wonder why Kai wanted Risu's power, doesn't seem that useful when its activation condition is someone killing you. Unless Risu's magic also has something else special about it, like he implied with the magic testing machine?

My assumptions so far: Aikawa/Kai are the split personality of the reincarnated Ai. Kai retains Aikawa's memories, and that's how he knew about Risu's curse magic (since Risu told Aikawa). Kai is the one who killed Risu in an attempt to steal Risu's magic like how he eventually did with En, but he messed up & got attacked by Curse. However, in Risu's flashing memories, we hear Curse say "you're not a sorcerer, you imposter" to who I assume was Aikawa, meaning Kai went dormant. Since Aikawa's not "really" the killer, Curse instead attached itself to his body until Kai reemerged. In doing so, Aikawa lost his memories & became "Caiman."

Oh god, not Natsuki basically killing the two best fighters of the cross eye because she stopped like a deer in headlights. Okay, I guess that explains why the boss, or rather Kai, is so dangerous. Unlike sorcerers who have their brains hardwired into their sorceries, normal human brains can adapt to sorcery tumors and probably hold more than one spell. The boss probably also went through other surgery to implant the smoke generating organs on him, or they started to grow naturally after the tumor implant. Now Aikawa is the big unknown factor, just how the hell does he intersect with Kai? The story is making it look like they are the same person using alteregos and living two lives, especially since Aikawa is a lot closer to Ai Cooleman than Kai in demeanor. Is Kai the personality of the sorcerer that Ai stole the tumor from? Noi and Shin are literally more than a married couple, he just need to be honest with it.

Well well well, how the turn tables. The Cross-Eyes were scattered in the wind with no boss and getting just decimated by En. And now En’s gone and the boys are scraping what’s left of his gang off the walls. The king is dead. Long live the king! The guys are living the good life now. Look at all those rolls of tp! I’m kind of curious to see what’s next for the gang and Aikawa. Dude’s not all there which could be a real problem considering he just destabilized their little society.

So from what I can gather Kai was planning on stealing Risu’s brain the same way he did En’s but something went wrong leading to the events of the story so far. I wonder if En’s magic tool just reveals how strong the ability is rather than what it is and that’s why curse fucked Kai up because otherwise it doesn’t make sense considering how op Kai has been portrayed so far. Also is anyone else not accepting that En is dead? He was such a central character and it happened so suddenly that I’m still expecting him to pop out of a mushroom or something. Well, as long as Kikurage is alive never say never!

Looks like Risu has finally realized Aikawa was the one that killed him, but I wonder if it was really the Aikawa he knows.  It feels like it's been shown/hinted that Aikawa takes other sorcerer's heads so that he can use their magic and he performs the surgery on his own, so maybe a certain head/brain/persona of his decided to kill Risu. But with how he reacted to Nikaidou, maybe he's always present and his personality is just altered depending on who's head/brain he has. Aikawa is a character of too much mystery lol.  I was worried for Dokuga's group so I'm glad Natsuki was able to revive/repair them all. It was messed up seeing they were still alive in their dismembered state.  Noi doing magic CPR to Shin was sweet, she didn't care for her own condition. It was funny to see Shin reacting all embarrassed, but I'm glad he let the moment continue seeing how happy Noi was.

[](/u/KendotsX) - Absolutely *brutal*, damn. - An elevator… for no one…? - Ouch. - …Aikawa(?) had En’s devil tumor put into his head, didn’t he? - I guess he’s just Kai now. - Ah fuck… - Curse is weak to devil music? - I suppose they’d still be concerned about that. - I hope Shin and Noi are alright, wherever they are. - Hahahaha - He’s acting like Caiman now. - Huh, neat. - Oh, so *that’s* how Shin and Noi got away. - Shin… - Ganbare, Noi! - Y’know what, I’ll take it.

The continual heartbreak of Dorohedoro is that you will fall in love with all the characters, and then they will try and kill each other in absolutely horrifying ways. The hallway fight was brutal, and you know Shin means business when he puts on his mask correctly. Everyone ended the episode better than I expected, at least! Shou and Natsuki putting in the work there. And welcome, Shou! Who has been in the end credits all along, whoops. I've seen so few shows in general manage the dark comedy tonal whiplash like Dorohedoro, and I can't wait to catch up with the manga, too. The opening of the episode was ruthless, but then Haru showed up, hysterically expressing her feelings in song, and then peaces out, unknowingly delaying the Boss vs. Curse fight for another day. (I genuinely started in surprise when the Boss spotted Curse at the window.) Seeing the horror of the En mansion getting torn apart was so devastating, too, but then there was joy of Aikawa gleefully running away from cafeteria. I know Aikawa and Kaiman aren't the same, but I still felt nostalgic for Kaiman for a moment. Ai. Aikawa. Kai. Kaiman. And now we now the specifics with Risu and his curse, and what must have happened on that faithful day. The Ebisu element along with the journey from Ai to Aikawa to Kai is still hidden in the chaos. (I think.) Poor Aikawa is going to be really confused when Risu attacks him, though at least Curse knows it wasn't Aikawa who killed Risu. It's intriguing that a Devil's Song can nullify a curse. Haru could be very helpful if she could be bothered, lol. As other comments have talked about, it's interesting which of the four Ai variations have access/awareness of each other. Kaiman did figure out that he had a connection to Aikawa, but for me it is currently ambiguous whether Aikawa has any of Kaiman's memories. Kai seems to have access to Aikawa's consciousness and/or memories, but not the reverse. I'm still amused that Aikawa and Kai seem to change their pants when they switch from cream to black respectively. I'm curious if Kai/Kaiman's bone jacket is under Aikawa's hoodie, or whether that gets swapped out as well. One fun attention to detail from the S2 opening is the '96925' that is sung is the number shown on Ai's ID in his backstory episode.

My working theory after this episode: Ai Coleman grows up wanting to become a sorcerer. He nearly dies, and Kasukabe saves him with a surgery that turns him into a sorcerer. Later on, Ai seems to develop split personalities - Aikawa and Kai. Kai uses En's smoke detection machine and realizes that Risu has a ton of magical energy. Kai kills Risu, with the goal of using surgery to enhance his own magical abilities, but he doesn't realize that killing Risu releases Risu's Magic Curse. Curse is then fixated on getting revenge against Kai specifically, but not necessarily Aikawa. Then something involving Ebisu's magic transforms Kai/Aikawa into Caiman, who loses all his memories. This episode also shows Kai doing some surgery and then having En's mushroom powers. So the overall plot might be: Kai is trying to accumulate sorcerer abilities, and Curse is hunting him for killing Risu.