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Caiman was not lucky. A sorcerer cursed him with a reptile head and left him with no memory of his life before the transformation. Adding to the mystery, there's a spectre of a man living inside him. But Caiman has one key advantage: he's now completely immune to magic. Along…

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Dorohedoro is an odd fish. It’s a manga about two parallel worlds.

One is full of sorcerers, where magic is biological. It can be supplemented with drugs or by making a pact with one of the devils who rule that world. The other world is much more like ours, except the sorcerers visit so often to practice on the people there (with horrible but funny results), that even the rain has a magical residue that can corrupt a human body.

Into this already strange scenario, Hayashida throws an amnesiac, lizard-headed man trying to discover his true identity and his best…

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