Dorohedoro Chapter 128 Discussion

Brighty said:
Anyone knows which volume does this chapter belong to, and how many chapters are there left till the end of the series?

Neiru2013 said:

This is the first chapter in volume 20. Q usually put 8 chapters per volume, but volume 19 had 10 chapters. I'm thinking volume 20 will go above 8 too to properly wrap things up.

deadoptimist said:
I can't remember, when they returned the devil tumor to En... Did the Ebisu puppet do it off-screen in this chapter or was it earlier?..

Neiru2013 said:
The Ebisu doll did it when it got into the body bag. Or, rather, the devil tumor probably crawled back to En on its own once the Ebisu doll got in the body bag.

deadoptimist said:
Nonetheless I don't like where it is going at the moment. I dislike that they resurrected Kaiman from long ago already. While I understand that the best ending for the MCs, probably, is to go back to the way it was at the beginning, I wanted to see how they would deal with the complicated history of Ai. As of now it looks like they'll simply kill the emergent demon and let the ressurected Kaiman live.

Satie said:
Sorry for the rant, I just really wanted to share my thoughts and this fandom isn't exactly large, so... XD

Satie said:
Yeah, I agree with you about the resurrected Kaiman, it always seemed suspicious to me that he just came back from nowhere (we still haven't got any explanation about this, have we ?)
When I read those recent chapters for the first time, I also assumed that Ai/the new devil entity would get killed and the new Kaiman is the one who will get to live, but on second thoughts it just doesn't fit.

Satie said:
In my headcanon, it is probable she will also stab herself with the knife so she can become human again. And because she will probably have used all her magic shots by the end of the battle, it means she can go full human again without having to worry anymore about her powers.

Satie said:
This is very big foreshadowing that enclines me to think it is Aikawa that will make it in the end. Plus, if we consider Aikawa himself, he clearly is the most tragic and conflicted character of this story, being persuaded by Ai he never really existed in the first place, having killed his best friend and other people he cared about (Natsuki...). I mean, it would really be sad if he just disappeared along Kai/Ai/whatever the thing he has become is ^^" (I also personally think what Ai really wanted was not power (=> Kai) but happiness (=> Aikawa), but this isn't the point so I'll go no further about it).

Satie said:
Concerning chapter 128, I loved it. Never totally realized until now how much a pillar En is in this manga, it's good to have him around again. Also loved the fact Dokuga seems to have regained his memories.

deadoptimist said:
As far as I remember, it was mentioned at some point that this Kaiman grew from the severed had in the jar.

deadoptimist said:
I certainly hope that more light wil be shed on Kaiman's personalities' story - he (I will omit the others for simplicity ><) is the most complicated character, and I absolutely loved Aikawa's interactions with Nikaido as well as the scary moments, when he changed heads.

deadoptimist said:
The thing I worry about is that not many chapters are left, and the story doesn't go that way in the slightest.
As for now, I really don't see other satisfactory endings besides returning to the status quo of the beginning. En's family will come back to governing their world, maybe the cross-eyes will be resurrected too. Kaiman and Nikaido will come back to The Hungry Bug.
The only things that can change, I guess, are Kaiman's face and, maybe, the status of The Hole (because of the demonic lake). Maybe Aikawa will be left as dominating personality in the end, but even this doesn't seem likely, because there is not much time for him bonding with Nikaido.

deadoptimist said:
Yep, Aikawa is the most sympathetic of the Ai's personalities. Though we need to face Ai himself at least once before the end. After all, he started all of this.
It seems that you have an interesting theory about what different personalities represent, am I right? *hint, hint* :)

Satie said:
Yeah, thanks for the reminder, I had actually forgotten about it. But even this doesn't really explain how he came back (he simply regrew his body from the head ? It seems quite weird, he could have done it before considering how long it's been laying around...) nor where (last time I remember the location of the head, it was it En's mansion, on Nikaido's bedside table). Perhaps is it a trap ?

Satie said:
It seems impossible to me, but I hope I am wrong, or that perhaps she will make one or two additional volumes so the ending is not rushed.

Satie said:
Well, Aikawa is my favourite character, so I really hope for him to stay. We know he's got Kaiman's memories, so his feelings towards Nikaido are pretty much the same. On her side, given her reactions when they previously met, it seems she still consider him as the Kaiman she knew (she kept calling him like this, which upset him a little :)) So I don't really think they have to bond more now, it can be done after the battle, since they really need to talk to each other either way.

Satie said:
There's also this panel where Ai looks at Aikawa through a door/mirror and says he's the magic user he has always wanted to become (which seems like a lie to me since Aikawa can barely use magic).

Satie said:
And of course, we need to see Ai himself. Now that I think about it, Nikaido, Kasukabe, Risu and Dokuga are probably the closest people to him (each of his personalities), and they're probably going to be all gathered very soon (Nikaido and Kasukabe are already with him), which would lead to some awesome moments, I think >-<

Satie said:
Yeah, I agree with you about the resurrected Kaiman, it always seemed suspicious to me that he just came back from nowhere (we still haven't got any explanation about this, have we ?)

deadoptimist said:
I've just remembered that there was also a rogue demon, who told Nikaido to find the kitchen knife... We still do not know anything about him, and he seemed interesting.

Klimat said:
I'm pretty sure that rogue demon is actually time travelling devil Nikaido from the future where things went so wrong that certain adjustments had to be made through time manipulations. You can go back to chapter 118 and have a good look at the devil, its face looks just like Nikaido's mask, also it wields a familiar box on its shoulder. Chapter 117 also features a mysterious devil with a box hiding from Nikaido right before Kaiman appears.