History Manga / Dorohedoro

* BodyHorror: Kai, what with his multiple heads and all (some of which are rotting).

* {{Foreshadowing}} - [[spoiler: That Nikaido is a magic-user: she "gets sick" when it rains in Hole in chpt. 4, and all magic-users are weakened by rain.]]

* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Magic-users can become devils if they can survive TrainingFromHell that includes not using their powers for a time. [[spoiler: Noi failed because she used her powers at the last minute to save Shin; Nikaido is turning into a devil because Asu's helping her relearn to use magic and she's accustomed to not using her powers. Other magic-users-turned-devils are Asu, who was literally stripped of his powers after it was discovered he was helping Nikaido, and Kasukabe's wife, who can get out of her devil "body-suit" for a limited time.]]

* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld - Not quite, but Professor Kasukabe is well over sixty, and looks maybe sixteen.
** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as he used MagiTek to make himself appear younger.

* TrainingFromHell: The Devil Exam, which involves wearing massively heavy armor and carrying around giant bats.

* KilledOffForReal - [[spoiler: En.]] Or, maybe not, if his friends can recover the devil-shape from [[spoiler: the Cross-Eyes Boss]] and put it back into his head.

* BadassAbnormal: Kai typically uses his knives in combat, which is bad enough. But, when using stolen power to devastating effect or regrowing his own head, he becomes this.

* RefugeInAudacity - Killings are usually over the top, which makes it hard to take them too seriously. Once things [[DarkerAndEdgier start getting more serious]], deaths are less comedic (though the black comedy remains).

* KillEmAll - When the Cross-Eyes start hunting down Magic Users. Any that fight get slaughtered and have their heads taken. This results in a truly horrendous amount of heads lying around.
** In a milder example, [[HeroicSociopath Kaiman]] considers doing this when he arrives in the Magic Users' world. [[OnlySaneMan Nikaido]] convinces him not to.

* WitchSpecies - The Magic Users

* HumanoidAbomination - [[spoiler:Kai.]] Whenever he appears, everything seems to twist around, Magic Users feel ill, and see the headless/neckless man that [[spoiler: Kaiman/Aikawa]] meets in his dreams. [[spoiler: When he changes from Aikawa to Kai, his head explodes off of his body.]]

* ActionGirl - Most prominently Nikaido and Noi.
* AffablyEvil - Devils, when they aren't randomly killing people [[ForTheEvulz for fun]].
* AlienBlood - Magic-users can be identified by black particles in their blood.

* AntiMagic - A few variations: Kaiman, being hexed [[spoiler: by Risu's Curse and Ebisu's smoke]] is immune to smoke. Chota's smoke reverses the effects of magic. And Noi can restore a body to its normal state (healing Shin's arm after a Magic User starts to melt it). [[spoiler: And, if the Cross-Eyes are well informed, Noi's smoke could have undone Kai's transformation into a pie.]]
* AssholeVictim - Why most of the {{Gorn}} is PlayedForLaughs.
* AsskickingEqualsAuthority - Why En is in charge of the Magic Users world.
* AvengingTheVillain - The main plot gets started when Kaiman kills Fujita's partner Matsumura. Which gets [[AFatherToHisMen En]] after him, which gets [[AxCrazy Shin and Noi]] after him.
* AxCrazy - Shin during work, even if he actually uses an hammer.
* BadassInANiceSuit - En's family, being vaguely mafia/yakuza-like, embraces this, although there does seem to be a degree of leniency, as Shin and Noi seem to wear T-shirts or hoodies under their jackets quite a bit.

* BadassAbnormal - Kai typically uses his knives in combat, which is bad enough. But, when using stolen power to devastating effect or regrowing his own head, he becomes this.
* BadassNormal - The Cross-Eyes. In theory, at least. Only Dokuga is consistently able to stand up to the stronger Magic-Users.
* BarbieDollAnatomy- Subverted; the series uses an extremely gritty, but comparatively realistic style.
* BareYourMidriff - Haru in her human form.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor - [[spoiler: Happens with Ebisu's parents. After Ebisu leaves home, they ask a shady magic user to create an exact replica of Ebisu to replace her. At first looking like a perfect copy, the fake Ebisu is actually a dangerous demon who goes berserk for very petty things, making Ebisu's parents flee their own home terrified]].

* BelatedBackstory - The earliest backstory we get is Shin's, and that's in volume 4.
* BenevolentBoss - En is terrifying, but seems to take good care of his men.

* BewareTheSuperman - Magic users experiment on humans, with humans for the most part unable to do anything about it. High class magic users like En also appear like this to weaker Magic Users, like the Cross Eyes.

* BigCreepyCrawlies - Johnson.
* BlobMonster - Natsuki's magic.
* BodyHorror - Kai, what with his multiple heads and all (some of which are rotting).
* BoisterousBruiser - Kaiman and Noi. It gets [[DissonantSerenity really creepy]] when they act like this while killing people.
* {{Brainwashed}} - Making a contract to be someone's partner doesn't seem to require the consent of both parties. [[spoiler: Nikaido becomes loyal to En due to the contract En made between them by force.]]
* BreakTheCutie - Subverted with Ebisu in the first volumes since the author made it look [[TheChewToy hilarious]].
* BroughtDownToBadass - Shin's smoke doesn't work on Kaiman, but then Kaiman makes the mistake of thinking that Shin is a SquishyWizard, and [[CurbStompBattle gets stomped on.]]

* BullyingADragon - When a pair of bullies pick on Fujita and Ebisu, knowing full well that they work for [[AFatherToHisMen En.]] Now, this would be fine, seeing as Fujita is a weakling... but his friends, [[AxCrazy Shin and Noi]] are not.
* BunnyEarsLawyer - Mushroom-happy En. He lives in an enormous estate filled with statues of himself, sells mushroom items (including some that, when in the trial stage, attach themselves to people and refuse to let go), and decides that [[MushroomSamba testing dream mushrooms on himself and his subordinates is a good idea.]] With all of these quirks, which are PlayedForLaughs, it is easy to forget that he basically rules the Magic Users' world.
* ButtMonkey - Fujita. Upon hearing that he will be sent on a dangerous mission, the other members of En's Family, somewhat surprised that they were not chosen, conclude that he was chosen because he is expendable.
* TheCaligula - Kai. Erratic, homicidal and prone to [[SplitPersonality switching personalities]], he takes to sending his men out to collect the heads of as many Magic Users as possible. Which he uses to [[spoiler: create and [[OneWingedAngel fuse with]] some sort of [[BodyHorror flesh monster]]]] for no apparent sane reason.
* CharlesAtlasSuperpower - Most of the main cast can [[MadeOfPlasticine slice and dice]] their opponents quite easily, with their bare hands if need be. They also happen to be fast enough to deal with guns.
* ClothingDamage - Generous amounts of it, especially for the ladies.
* CloudCuckooLander - Ebisu, though it is due to brain damage caused by Kaiman.
* CloudCuckooLand - The Magic Users' world, full stop. Strange fashions, stranger masks, odd architecture, a restaurant whose main attraction is a toilet connected to Hell...
* CombatMedic - Noi
* CrapsackWorld - Oh boy. You could end up living in a [[WretchedHive filthy, crime-filled slum]] and die by way of criminals or Magic Users, who think that [[BodyHorror turning you into something awful]] is a really good time. Or you could be a Magic User, living in a similarly bad world [[FantasticCasteSystem with skilled Magic Users running the whole show.]] And when you die, you go to hell.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass - [[spoiler: Ebisu]] of all people. When using black powder, she turns into a giant lizard.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath - Anyone on the receiving end of Shin's vivisection ability.

* TrainingFromHell - The Devil Exam, which involves wearing massively heavy armor and carrying around giant bats.

* MeaningfulName: The Cross-Eyes have a few. Dokuga, a PoisonousPerson, is the name of a poison moth. Ton, a fatty, is the name of a pig. Lampshaded during their part-time jobs, where they each where costumes related to their names.

* PersonOfMassDestruction - En, whose mushroom power covers an entire village with mushrooms during his battle with Kai.

* KilledOffForReal - [[spoiler: En.]]

* TrueCompanions - The En family, Kaiman and Nikaido.

* ShoutOut - Ebisu has a poster of [[Film/FridayThe13th Jason Vorhees]] in her room.

* ActionGirl - Most prominently Nikaido.

* BigCreepyCrawlies - Jonson.

** Most Cross-Eyes use knives because they're easy to hide and precise enough to [[spoiler: stab the smoke generating organs in magic-user's bodies]].

* PunyHumans - Haru thinks of humans this way.

!!This manga contains examples of:

** [[spoiler: Subverted so hard with Kai. Given that the Cross-Eyes idolize him and he gave them a reason to live, one would expect him to be AFatherToHisMen. If he finds out that one of his comrades have magic he wants, he will kill them just like anybody else.]]

* KillEmAll - When the Cross-Eyes start hunting down Magic Users. Any that fight get slaughtered and have their heads taken. This results in a [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel truly horrendous]] amount of heads lying around.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized - The Cross Eyes, who started out as the oppressed in Magic User society, stigmatized, tormented and forced to live overall sucky lives because they lacked magic power. Once they gain political power, [[TheCaligula Kai]] decides that it is time to begin the slaughter. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Mountains of corpses result.]]

* DropTheHammer - Shin. [[BeyondTheImpossible He can even cut off your head with it.]]

* AnimeAnatomy - Subverted; the series uses an extremely gritty, but comparatively realistic style.

* FaceOfAThug - Both played straight and averted. When masked all the cast look like it's [[EverythingTryingToKillYou out to get you]] (it probably is actually...), when unmasked they're all [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished pretty cute]]. En even ventures into CuteShotaroBoy territory in a flashback.

* BeyondTheImpossible - Just when you thought the {{Gorn}} couldn't get any worse, the Cross Eyes begin collecting heads...

* StalkerWithACrush - [[HoYay Chota is unashamedly gay for En]]. The feeling is '''''[[BigNo NOT]]''''' mutual.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold - Applies to many characters, but Tanba is possibly the most notable example. Despite beating his employees for incompetence and constantly insulting them, he actually shows concern for them. He is also the one who helps Kaiman after he comes alone to the world of the Magic Users to rescue Nikaido when she is kidnapped by En's gang.

[[Characters/{{Dorohedoro}} A character sheet is under construction]]. Feel free to apport your contribution.

* SurrealHorror - It gets particularly blatant in dream sequences, when it gets harder and harder to tell who is speaking to who, or when it was supposed to take place, or [[{{Gorn what the hell that actually is.]] The author's art style makes a good part of the main story have this feel to it as well.

** Devils in general (at least those who used to be Magic Users).

* AMillionIsAStatistic - This and that the victims decided to fight is the reason that the [[KillEmAll wholesale slaughter]] unleashed by the Cross-Eyes isn't treated as a MoralEventHorizon.