Back to ItaiSenpai's Profile ItaiSenpai's Profile

If you liked Dorohedoro add

...then you might like Chainsaw Man add

I’m aware that Chainsaw Man is a shonen manga & cannot reach the level of explicit content that Dorohedoro does as a seinen. That being said, there’s plenty of violence, gore, & dark humor in Chainsaw Man that make it similar in tone to Q Hayashida’s work. Both contain complicated characters with broken personalities. A simple outline of the leads would be that Dorohedoro features a short-fused and violent man-child with a lizard head, while the other is a short-fused and violent teen with a chainsaw devil dog in his heart. There’s also the fact that the protagonists work with female partners in crime who embody the ‘hunters of their own kind’ trope. Of course, Nikaido is a lot more down to earth than Denji’s partner, Power, who is a high maintenance, cat-loving narcissist. Also, there are side characters that come with their own baggage of issues. Of course, these are in the horror-action genre which means there needs to be a terrifying villain pulling the strings. To avoid spoilers, the big bad is a lot more compelling in Chainsaw Man. From their terrifying ability and skill with manipulation, it’s separate from the simple motivation driving Dorohedoro’s antagonist. To conclude, these works have surreal worldbuilding, morally-questionable characters, & similar themes of identity & alienation. For design and aesthetics Dorohedoro is superior whereas Chainsaw Man has a better plot and story.