Quite the first impression, no?
Series
- Kaiman and Nikaido manage to kick a magician's ass, only to learn that the magician was a little girl. They react appropriatelyKaiman: Y-you were a girl?
Nikaido: W-what should we do, Kaiman?
Kaiman: Eh... Wh-wh-what you say...?
(Kaiman cringes as he looks at the terrified girl)
Kaiman: Fuck it! Like I care!- Then, the magician wearing the long nose mask from before appears to rescue the girl... Only to be revealed that the struggle tore off her face.
- To add insult to injury, the picture that should have caught the man inside Kaimans mouth just has a pic of Kaiman with his tongue stuck out.
- Thanks to the goofy music and some rather abrupt editing
, En commissioning Shin and Noi to pursue Kaiman is elevated from a rather straightforward set-up scene to one of these.- Fujita arrives at the dinner by crashing his broom. The fact no one acknowledges this means it must happen very, very often.
- Noi being the only one bothered by the fact that Ebisu has a boob out.
- Fujita managing to unease Shin with his completely overdone handshake.
- The fact that for large parts of the conversation, Shin and Noi are completely distracted and not listening to anything En is saying.
- Noi throwing her fork instead of her steak knife at an intruder, earning her an exasperated reprimand from Shin.
- After turning a pair of assassins in the image of his restaurant's metamorphs into mushrooms, En tells one of the wait staff to look for the real ones:
En: If they're dead, use their bodies as substratum for the mushroom cultivation.
Noi: Wait... Then even the mushrooms we ate were...
En: Yes. I don't like to waste things.
[Noi and Shin vomit] - After killing a group of Cross Eyes for the first time in the series, Shin's gang goes back to En's mansion with the (still living) head of the leader of that group, Ebisu... being Ebisu, wants to see the head.Noi: Okay, but don't pour this, he's still alive.
Fujita: Be careful Ebisu.
[Ebisu vomits on the bag with the head]
Noi: Ugh, she vomited into the bag!
Shin: You're the best. - Kaiman murdering a flying carpet driver so he doesn’t have to pay... mid flight. The crash is spectacular.
- During Kaiman and Nikaido's fight with Shin and Noi, Ebisu gets bit by a zombie while no one was looking leading Fujita to help her out. Then Ebisu turns into a zombie and starts trying to bite Fujita while the fight was going on.
- After Nikaido escapes with Kaiman, Shin goes over having to investigate Kaiman more so they could find a way to kill him off for sure... then he tumbles over from a stab to the chest from Kaiman.
Noi: Senpai, that knife was still stuck in you!?
Zombified!Ebisu: (Moves over to Shin) I'M HUNGRY!
Fujita: Don't eat him! - Shin's backstory is absolutely tragic and horrifying in the first half, and hilarious in the second.
- After chopping his arms off to find the magic flowing through and being operated on by Kasukabe and Vaux, he requests that they sew the pieces back on. Vaux points out that they wouldn't do much for him and would just be inert rotting meat attached to him. But they do it anyway.
- Also a young Nikaido strolling across the street selling Gyoza just as Shin is walking out of the hospital. Shin snatches one out of her tray with his teeth and runs off.
- Fujita and Ebisu, in an effort to kill Kaiman, infiltrate a baseball game he's playing in and pose as members of the opposite team, the Peace Sharks. Ebisu becomes their mascot, wears a shark costume and does a cheerleading dance of her own.
- Also, she's somehow able to open and close the mouth of the costume.
- The fact that she still looks and sounds adorable while singing about sharks eating people.
- Shin's most cherished memory with Noi: getting drunk and racing off a cliff on the way home from their first job. He guesses.
- The mere image of teenaged!Noi. Who is a regular sized teenaged girl in a cute outfit with none of the muscle that current Noi has. And she was still as immensely strong as she is now.
- Out of sheer coincidence, Kaiman and Tanba's meat-pie crew getting into a fight with a duo of sorcerers who were in the middle of kidnapping Shin (Who they put in a body bag after tranquilizing him).
- How did this start? One of them ran Kaiman over on a flying motorcycle. Twice. The first time he bent one of the spikes on Kaiman's head and the lizard went after him. By the time Kaiman's anger fizzled out and he was in the middle of ordering a large-sized Gyoza, he gets run over the second time, dropping his Gyoza on the ground and really pissing him off. Then Tanba's crew joined in just to help out their co-worker.
- Fukuyama demonstrates his magic by turning one of the men into a giant meat-pie. The same meat pie gets eaten by Ebisu and Shin's dog later. She regrets it later...
- The same sorcerers had also captured Noi, having blown her to bits and stored her in a locker to keep her from reforming. By even more sheer coincidence, Risu opens the locker and accidentally frees her, allowing her to heal herself.Noi: Noi is back!
- There is also the fact that Noi is wearing her high heels in this scene, but when we last saw her she was removing them. It surely a mistake from the author but you can imagine that before taking her, Baku puts back the shoes to her feet.
- Risu, who was stuck as a head on a robot body at the time, gets the rest of his body back from the output of Noi's smoke.
- Dorohedoro is no stranger to Fanservice, but Nikaido making herself an ass-exposing outfit out of oven mitts, pans, and an apron while under the influence of devil transformation goes firmly into "funny" territory, especially given Asu and Risu's reactions. Nikaido later comes to her senses and realizes that that outfit is no good for fighting at all.Risu: She's not so different from usual.Nikaido turns aroundRisu, looking shocked: A unique outfit...
- Haru helps out a friend of a friend of a friend by killing a devil that's trying to abduct Shin to wear his head on a necklace. Her reason for agreeing to help? The other devil gave her album a bad review. To top it off, Chidaruma was perfectly fine with lending Haru the one weapon that can kill devils just so she could murder one of her coworkers.
- After Aikawa comes back to his senses, he wants to resume his friendship with Risu, who's still not comfortable with the idea of being friends again, and save everyone. Therefore, Risu swears to Curse him again if something goes wrong. The dialogue is gold.Aikawa, with a jolly smile: Yeah, I know, when it's all over you can curse me to death if you want, but, I guess we're back to being partners for now'''Meanwhile, Curse!Risu has an expression (and probably is) of:"I'm getting real tired of your shit, Aikawa"
- A manga omake gives us a look at TV created by devils for devils, most of which is self-indulgent, overdramatic and overall hilariously strange to non-devil viewers.
Opening and Endings
- The opening seems basically out of the series since it looks like you are about to watch an anime about cooking since we just saw Nikaido making gyozas, with a psychopathic look on her face while she is cutting the meat.
- During the opening, she took a mushroom but threw it away. Since we know what En is doing with the people he turned into mushroom, that seems reasonable, even if it is a real one...
- While the first ending is pretty simple and kind of classic, the second takes another approach. You can watch Kaiman and Nikaido happily walking in the streets (nothing for now), but then Shin and Noi appear and are following them with the same walking animation, with weapons in their hands.
- Near the end of the opening, Fujita and Ebisu are also walking around in the streets during the night, the same way than the previous duos, but they are followed by an army of zombies. The best part? They seem to not even notice the monsters behind them.
OVA
- The fourth OVA centers around an invisible gyoza fairy who helps people properly enjoy gyoza by cooling their beer, adding some spice... or stabbing them in the face if they do something to displease him. It's as ridiculous as it sounds.
- Fujita asking someone to the dance.
- The entirety of the usually reserved En's bizarre dancing. Also the fact that he was being entirely literal about a devil stabbing you in the ass if you don't dance.
