#cross eyes drhdr

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Dokuga and his stupid jet pack thing that only gets used/mentioned ONCE then forgotten abt...

Weeeeeeeeee....!

[darticous]

kai 😶‍🌫️

[punkkrat]

[kaid0ku]

[nykadsha93]

context: they are talking about something serious here. What do you think it could be?

[utopikia]

season two finally announced!!! thank you q hayashida and mappa!

cr. dorohedoro official website

[plimchi]

heheh... sewer couple.

full picture here, NOT for minors!!

[technicolorxsn]

I wasn't imagining things!!!

[sheila--e]

"la squadra was so poor" they were gaining in the millions and complained about it so hard they got killed. badly. meanwhile my friends the cross eyed lived in a shack and didn't have t.p but they still managed to take over the entirety of the (sorcerors) world...

[doroinoue]

okay so i've been listening to the dorohedoro manga soundtrack for a while now, and my morning has been a little hectic so i decided to just ramble about all the songs and what/who i associate them with, and also which songs from the anime ost they remind me of (since the anime ost is very much inspired from the manga ost)

WARNING: DIABOLICAL LEVEL OF YAPPING BELLOW, PROCEED WITH CAUTION!!!!

you can listen to the songs Here if you haven't, and i'll be going by this order, since thats the official one

Redacted, Recalcitrant, Repressed - khost: this one in my head is literally curse/risu theme and you cannot convince me otherwise Ever. Man Inside The Mouth from the anime ost is im pretty sure inspired from this song too so it All just makes sense. also the title itself reminds me of risu and the way he is and whatnot (im so shit at explaining good lird) also this is me just being insane but i think the voice of the guy singing KINDA fits risu more (the deeper more monstrous voice sounds like curse in my head too), like i love his actual voice too but when i read the manga i definitely dont imagine him with it i expected something more raspy(?), meanwhile aikawa being the one with the smoother voice (his raspy voice fits too giving that Kaiman and yadda yadda) Dont ever let me talk abt risu drhdr bro i dont stfu

Blaka Smoko - VOODOOM: i love this song so much but kai's stupid fucking face pops up in my head when i listen to it and i DONT KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH IT!!! though yeah uh this is pretty much either his song or the cross eyes in general since the lyrics are "i sell black smoke"..though the deranged laugh really reminds me of him solely. imagine a version of the drhdr manga where black smoke is like weed and they smoke that shit and get high i Think thats rlly funny i dunno what else to say tbh i think me associating the song w kai is preventing me from having too many thoughts about it. However i hope when he like shows up fr (not just in flashbacks) the anime ost makes a remix of this song cuz it genuinely fits (also i just love how this song directly mentions nikaido and kaiman, although a bit nonsensical given the context)

Dorohedoro Zombie Slushi - Candie Hank: im so certain 1000手観音 and another song (i cant remember which one) from the anime ost sampled from this one lmfao. anyway this one just reminds me of zombie ebisu, or ebisu in general. not even like living dead day, literally just zombie ebisu. its probably the vocals tbh, someone in a youtube comment was complaining abt them and another person replied "just imagine ebisu singing it" and i cant get it out of my head now. i can totally see her sing this song, especially knowing shes canonically interested in the manga ost album  (you can see her read the songs of it while checking it out in like episode 4? i think? the one where they follow doll risu around and end up in some cheap clothing store)

Eating food and fighting Wizards - Shitwife: this one makes me very nostalgic, i like how its one of the few songs that isnt just pure nonsensical chaos. like i love those too, infact im bummed out the anime ost doesnt have more chaotic songs given the manga is literally incomprehensible sometimes, but i like how this song kinda shows the more coherent and cheerful side of the story. of course this is just kaiman theme to me, i mean the title and all. i think kaiman would really like this song, he would def listen to it. it also reminds me of that scene where him and nikaido are driving in their motorcycles, it gives the vibe of a drive in the middle of the night to me anyway, not much to say for this one too, i just think its really nice (also the drums go crazy hard)

Enter the Hole - NAH: lovely magic predecessor LOL. perfect for me honestly cuz lovely magic is my fav song from the anime soundtrack. This one just reminds me of hole, i dunno. the brief ethereal part reminds me of the past of the hole though, before the lake of refuse was created (i forgot what they called that shit in the official translation forgive me..lake of refuse sounds cooler either way). thats all tbh

She is a devil - Hanali: devil nikaido theme song what can i say...i literally want this song beat for beat to play at the scene where nikaido grows her devil tail and gets devil high (if they even animate season 2 that far) either that or when theyre selling gyoza at the department store and she goes devil high again and starts beating ass. its so perfect for those scenes also i like to think the distorted singing at the very beginning is like what humans hear when a devil sings, i know it should be more ear bleeding giving the reaction everyone has in canon but whateva!!! also also i like to imagine nikaido was probably hearing something similar while her tail was growing and she was going crazy, i think maybe hearing the singing of devils in your head while slowly turning into one is a cool idea

LIZARD HEAD - Dr. Das: i cant lie this ones...a little boring for me. like the beat is cool and all, but i think this is the one song i have the least to say abt. to reference another youtube comment, they said smth abt imagining kaiman fucking around in hole to this song, and yeah. i see it. i think if the anime animates that little bonus(?) comic abt how kaiman spends his day in hole, they should use smth similar to this song

Transformations - Shackleton: ok i lied this is the one i have to say least about. i dont mind 10+ minute songs, but damn this ones even more boring to me. the pissing sounds arent helping either LOL. though i think if they had to play this song somewhere, or a variation of it, maybe it fits best at the part where kawajiri is making nikaido do the devil exam in his house or whatever...idk....

Dorohedoro - Igorrr: ALRIGHT BACK TO YAPPING. this song is so fucking good, dare i say its my favorite of the whole ost. and im not the only one, everyone seems to love this one. its literally just TIC TOC predecessor but even better. the classical music and opera singing inserted into this absolute chaos is insane and i cant think of a song that fits shin more honestly. like this is literally shin theme. it perfectly mixes his calm and rational self with the deranged outbursts he has. ive heard people say shin is a boring character and i genuinely cant wrap my head around it like HELLO...not only is his design just cool as fuck, but he has such interesting personality? my boy went through absolute hell and grew up from an aggressive and snarky kid to a calm and if i may say, empathetic guy. like he cares about the people around him, he was carrying three guys (one with his fucking mouth mind you) that passed out because of the rain flooding the underground basement. he refuses to kill people who are weak with magic, and generally doesnt really like going on killing sprees unless its a life or death situation (which since kid has made him go crazy, i like to think its probably cuz it increases his heartbeat and being a human+sorcerer maybe doubles the adrenaline this way). also the way he has inhumanely high pain tolerance, he can have his guts splattered on the ground and still manage to walk, to the point it even weirds EN out. like you gotta be some freak to get en concerned for you (or be kikurage lol). sorry this turned into a shin rant more than the song itself, i just cant believe so many people dont see how cool shin is. like hes not even my most favorite character but i will protect all the drhdr characters i like (which is most of them). anyway moving on

The Hole - Ghengis: alot of ppl say they think of hole (the place) when they listen to this song, but me personally?this song screams hole the entity, and artificial devil kai. like this song FEELS like its oozing with the sludge and that feeling every sorcerer that gets in contact with hole "magic" feels. i like to think the headaches they get is equivalent to the beat of the song LOLL. like just super loud and painful pulsing headache that can leave you paralyzed on the ground. anyway, i dont have that much to say, i just want this song to play at the central department store arc, OR. when artificial devil kai is first shown thas all

Don't Think, Just Kill - Roly Porter: i lied again this is the one i have least to say about. sorry. literally my only thoughts are that one of the songs playing during the living dead day episode is inspired by it but i frogor which one

Kaimans Head - Dead Fader: to compensate the fact i mightve lied once again im gonna ramble about something mildly related. so the one youtube upload i found of this song uses this one fucking risu fanart that legit makes me shit my pants. its honest to god the scariest freaking fanart ive seen of a character i like. its not like Shiver me timbers scary, its just so unsettling to me, like WHO COOKED THIS UP. WHO DREW THIS. i know hayashida would love it. she wishes she made risu this scary and not the catboy babygirl beautiful princess with a disorder she created (/J). anyway uh, this song goes pretty hard, i like it, i just dont have much to way besides that i like the beat maybe. also heres link to the youtube upload with the picture if u wanna know what im talkin abt

Radio 538 - Dow Jones Brotherhood: because the first time i listened to the songs was on youtube, i found this song pretty much last and uh. i dunno its cool! for some reason it reminds me of the cross eyes? ive no clue why it just does. it reminds me specifically of how all of them are basically just worshipping some guy half (if not most) of them havent even seen the face of. i like how the whole thing is basically just a cult. people built statues of the boss, tattooed his face on their hands so they never forget it, And the elites...oh those poor little guys. closest to the boss and got psychologically tortured with killing thousands of sorcerers daily and left to deal with the incomprehensible shit their boss does, while slowly building suspicion and disgust towards him, but unable to do anything because of how far theyve gone into this. like can you imagine how miserable dokuga and tetsujo must feel knowing their devotion to kai led to all their friends killed. id just die bro this is so fucked... anyway, kewl song👍 i love the cross eye elites

Stay down zombies! - Ed Cox: i honestly love how lowkey dramatic this one is. ALSO the accordion tune from el corazon is im pretty sure taken from this one! which makes two shin references yippee!!! i like how this one kinda mixes calm music with breakcore (do not erm akshually me on this one i dont care), just like how igorrr does. i dunno its just a cool song, though PERSONALLY i dont think it fits living dead day, it reminds me more of that scene where shin remembers his mothers death, and then slowly turns into a zombie. it gives off that vibe giving how the song progresses from dramatic and a bit somber, while the beat starts creeping in, accompanied by the accordion that i literally will never not associate w shin in general

ANYWAY WOW THATS ALL!!!! if even one person bothered to read all this, thank you. i love yapping about dorohedoro i love silly manga about a bunch of freaks and freak stuff and i am obsessed with hayashidas taste in music, knowing she picked all those artists cuz she likes their music makes absolute sense considering the kind of art she makes. i love you q hayashida im your biggest fan. also if you notice any grammatical errors pls remember english is not only my second language, but i also barely slept last night so that's my excuse

[mothboypoison]

For the ask game: "drhdr blood and ink" or "drhdr car"😏♥

Sure!

drhdr blood and ink is gonna be my longfic, which probably won't see the light of day for months and months because I want to make sure I write a lot of chapters before I start publishing anything.

It's basically gonna be Dokuga's quest to fix everything post-canon. I have a really cool (if I do say so myself) villain who's gonna give him a bad time. And Tetsujo will save the day of course!! Here's an excerpt:

Dokuga scuffs the heel of his shoe against the dirt and thinks of the bones buried beneath. The people of Hole set up this cemetery after the battle, to remember the people who were killed. The gravestones are laid out in neat lines and chiselled with names, but there’s no way to know who’s really buried here. That swirling black sludge had trickled through to the world of magic users and seeped out of this pit, but as he looks down at the ground he wonders if there’s any of that hate still lingering in the earth here. A thousand years. More than that. Since the beginning of humanity, hate has been pooling here. Coagulating. Forming itself into a curse. Can it really be banished so easily?

'drhdr car' is a 5+1 things fic... where Dokuga and Tetsujo have sex in cars a bunch of times. It's fully abandoned now (I wrote like, 1.5 of the things) and I ended up using bits of what I did write for 'The Cross-Eyes' Guide to Committing Crimes'. Here's an excerpt (kinda NSFW):

“Let me drive, Dokuga.” Tetsujo grabs his hand and twines their fingers together. “I’ll go just as fast as you do.” “Okay,” Dokuga says slowly. “You can drive. And if you go fast, maybe I’ll reward you.” Tetsujo grins and Dokuga steps aside to let him into the driver’s seat, crossing over and seating himself in the passenger’s side, in Tetsujo’s blind spot. Tetsujo turns to smile at him before he starts the car. It comes to life with a sputter of black exhaust smoke and Tetsujo accelerates off with the wheels screeching. They leave the hideout behind and Tetsujo floors it around the winding corners of the forest road, the back of the car swinging as he takes them too fast. This is how Dokuga likes to drive, which is why Tetsujo’s doing it. The headlights are dim and the windshield is dirty. Tetsujo shifts up a gear and Dokuga reaches over to put his hand on his thigh. It’s a small car, and they’re up against each other with only the gearstick and the handbrake between them. “This is what you meant by a reward?” Tetsujo asks, turning his head to look at him and then quickly back to the road. “Yes.” Dokuga slides his hand up towards his crotch. Tetsujo touches the brakes gently to take a steep corner and slows down. The beams of the headlights swing over the trees and the car slows. Dokuga pulls his hand away. “Go faster,” he says. “It’s dark!” Protests Tetsujo. “There’s so many corners.” All the same he puts his foot to the accelerator again and Dokuga replaces his hand on his thigh.

I abandoned it because I could NOT think of six DIFFERENT ways to have car sex. I do remember that the last one was gonna be them crashing a car and having sex at the side of the road lmao

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I'm back in the building AGAIN!!!

[darticous]

did have this as a gif but the quality was bogus so I hope y'all don't mind a looped vidya

[chubbygrape]

Did people have any particular experiences reading drhdr for the first time ?

Mine that I can remember are the below:

I did NOT like Risu I think it was around volume 10 he started growing on me and I am a firm believer that his dumbass hairstyle at the beginning was a big reason why

I thought Ebisu would have a much bigger impact/role

Speaking of Ebisu when Risu reacted to her when Kaiman bit her head had me SCREAMING

Fucking baseball arc I skip it every time

Remember seeing the cover for volume 12 and Asu and thinking ???? Who tf??

No but him turning out to be a scrawny little twink sent me

Btw Nikaido trying to get Risu in En's mansion?? I was HYPED. Noone rid for Nikaido during those early volumes like I did

All that Devil stuff in early volumes gave me the CHILLS I thought it was the most eldritch shit ever

Devil Asu was a CUTIE I loved him

The FUNNIEST thing?? As a Chidaruma WHORE ?? HATED his guts at the beginning

[Might make this a separate post act cause it's funny]

I didn't realise who he was so I just thought he was just some Devil who was a bully and had an ego problem (I mean..) and I was riding for Asu so was like FUCK this guy

I thought it was some Devil vs Devil situation so was mad that Asu was so cautious of him, i was fully like -- Asu STAND UP‼️‼️‼️

No but genuinely he PISSED me off and I thought he looked DUMB

I think it was when I saw Asu get destroyed that I realised Chidaruma MAY be smth more -- Asu got slaughtered and I was like, oh.

The cross eyes bored me to death (I KNOW IM SORRY)

WHEN WE SAW AIKAWAS FACE ??? ARGHH I still remember SCREAMING

Kasukabes wife being a DEVIL !!!!!!!!!

KAI. KAI KAI KAI KAI KAI KKKKKKKKKAAA AJAUY AAKKA KAAIIIA AAAA KAI

I LOVED En and the En family moments especially early in the series frankly i was more into thay than anything

Deadass expected Nikaidos "sister" to make a comeback

Ebisu being "pursued" by a Devil had more impact on me than anything else I admit it

I could see Holey in the late covers but for some reason I never thought much about it

En dying was something I did NOT expect and it kinda fucked me up like that scene of his chopped off head hanging is ingrained in my memory

Also En coming back was a bit too exciting for me

Volume 21 SCARRED me

No cause when Chidaruma slaughtered the devils and house drained out their blood?? GAGGED

Chidaruma telling En to piss off when En was dying is actually going to be in my wedding vows one day

Risu kept getting hotter and hotter as the series went on and I was really feeling it

Devil Nikaido started getting boring for me after a certain point ngl

You couldn't ask me what that whole head thing with Kaiman was during my first read I'd literally just shrug

Idk what House was but I fucked with it hard

Loved Store you go bird

I fully thought Devils were being slaughtered and fed to other Devils in some horror fashion (I mean..) and I can't explain it but in my head it was horrifying and I love horrific shit

Chidaruma turning into a baby worked so well for my spirit

Took me embarrassingly too long to realise sorcerers had different doors

Was (am) crushing so hard on Noi

That's all I can remember for now but I'll prob add to it

I love first impressions vs what I actually ended up thinking/feeling

[kaid0ku]

kai redraw

[nykadsha93]

my dorohedoro contribution of the month