{"id":158262,"date":"2026-06-05T10:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T17:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=158262"},"modified":"2026-11-12T22:34:29","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T06:34:29","slug":"dorohedoro-season-2-gets-striking-animated-music-video-for-ending-song-return-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/06\/05\/dorohedoro-season-2-gets-striking-animated-music-video-for-ending-song-return-to-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Dorohedoro Season 2 Gets Striking Animated Music Video for Ending Song &#8220;Return to Head&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The <em>Dorohedoro<\/em> Season 2 ending song &#8220;Return to Head&#8221; (by <strong>(K)NoW_NAME<\/strong>) has been given an animated music video with a striking, high-contrast color palette. Artist team <strong>sankaku<\/strong> is credited with the visual direction and editing, while <strong>MAPPA<\/strong> has a cooperation credit.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u30a2\u30cb\u30e1\u300e\u30c9\u30ed\u30d8\u30c9\u30ed Season2\u300fED\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u300cReturn \u30c8\u30a5 \u982d\uff08\u30d8\u30c3\u30c9\uff09\u300dMusic Video\uff0f(K)NoW_NAME\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b0h2iRh7kPQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The season debuted on streaming services on April 1, years after the first season premiered in 2020, and will be followed by a recently announced <a href=\"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2026\/05\/27\/dorohedoro-anime-series-gets-3rd-season\/\">third season<\/a>. Crunchyroll describes <em>Dorohedoro<\/em>&#8216;s synopsis as such:<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"erc-series-description details-section-item\">\n<p class=\"text--gq6o- text--is-regular--M4487 text--is-l--iccTo\" style=\"padding-left: 40px\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">In the lawless district known as Hole, sorcerers from another world use its residents as guinea pigs for their twisted magic. Caiman is one of those victims\u2014left with a lizard head and no memory of his past, he\u2019s now on a brutal quest for answers. To reclaim his true face and forgotten past, he and his partner Nikaido hunt sorcerers, hoping to uncover the truth behind his transformation.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Yuichiro Hayashi<\/strong> (<em>Dorohedoro<\/em> Season 1, <em>Attack on Titan Final Season<\/em>) directed the anime at MAPPA, with returning names like series composer <strong>Hiroshi Seko<\/strong>\u00a0(<em>Attack on Titan Final Season<\/em>), 3DCG director <strong>Fuminori<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Nomoto<\/strong>, and world designer <strong>Shinji Kimura\u00a0<\/strong>(who was also background art director on Season 1). The cast includes <strong>Wataru Takagi<\/strong> as Caiman and\u00a0<strong>Reina Kondo<\/strong> as Nikaido.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\">The anime is based on the Shogakukan-published fantasy manga by <strong>Q Hayashida<\/strong>. The manga was serialized from 2000 to 2018 and has been collected into 23 tankobon volumes. Viz Media publishes it in English.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> TOHO animation channel<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dorohedoro Season 2 ending song &#8220;Return to Head&#8221; (by (K)NoW_NAME) has been given an animated music video with a striking, high-contrast color palette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":158265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1053,10],"tags":[14,10706,90,2941,12648],"class_list":["post-158262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-feature","category-anime","tag-anime","tag-dorohedoro","tag-mappa","tag-music-video","tag-sankaku"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Dorohedoro-Season-2-Return-to-Head-animated-music-video-screenshot.png?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-FaC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158262"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158266,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158262\/revisions\/158266"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}